Overview:
After reinforcements finally arrive, the tide is just starting to turn in the heroes’ favor when Shigaraki wakes up.
Our Take:
So here we are, this is it, this is when these poor kids have to grow up and see how awful the world can be. This is when My Hero Academia starts getting dark and I feel bad for these kids. Tokoyami had to come face to face with the fact that being a “hero” means doing some things that aren’t necessarily heroic. This anime has been a little darker than some of your other shonen but lives are actually lost here. Sure some of them are minor characters we barely know but it still sets the stakes in their proper place.
Deku can tell something is wrong and that most of this destruction is probably at the hands of a newly awakened Shigaraki. We’re moving closer and closer to their eventual showdown. This is going to really test the heroes, being a hero has been a pretty cushy job up till now but things are about to get bad. Just how many heroes will stick around once things start to get truly horrible?