![]() Given what lies ahead now, and that one of their teachers is dead, Class 1-A deserved some time to just be high school kids, to have some joy. (The Joint Training Arc, too, I guess, but it was just long.) In the scope of the full series’ tone, that juxtaposition feels necessary. Where My Hero Academia currently stands, I can look back at the School Festival arc and feel the full extent of the purposefulness of its inclusion. The tantalizing, exciting thing about long-awaited final sagas is that those early-series promises, which seemed so far-fetched, feel like an actual point on the visible horizon. Obviously, that’s not going to be the case. When Deku said, way back in episode one, that he would become the greatest hero, I assumed I’d be watching him grow throughout all three of his high school years. Some are annoyed when the series takes a long break from the big battles. ![]() Others love when all the UA students just get to hang out. Some people are down for the whole smorgasbord of feels. This dual tone of My Hero Academia-the escalating high-stakes shounen vs the high school (almost) slice-of-life-has basically become an easy “anime debate”-starter. An arc in which Midoriya is able to “artificially” use 100% of One For All for the first time to beat a terrifying, formidable villain is immediately followed by an arc focusing on a school festival. This is notable because the series’ tone has, at times, fluctuated. ![]() ![]() In that fifth episode, My Hero Academia committed to its increasingly dark tone with a single, heretofore unthinkable action. By the end of that fifth episode, “Izuku Midoriya and Tomura Shigaraki,” it was very clear where that plunge has been leading us: into the final saga of My Hero Academia. I mean, the title of the first episode of cour 2 is best translated as “Hellish Hell.” The exact extent of that hellish plunge has been explored in the second half’s first five episodes. It was clear from the outset of the season’s second half that events would keep getting darker. Season six of My Hero Academia has been one hell of a ride. ![]()
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