It took an extra week thanks to the Olympics, but we’re back! And with the Todoroki family drama concluded (for now, anyway) it’s at last time for MHA to dive back into the fun, super-powered fantasy of…confronting intense personal trauma and half a lifetime’s worth of survivor’s guilt. Well then.
To be fair, we do get a tiny morsel of normal school life, even if it’s just Class 1-A getting suited up for another training exercise, and any episode featuring All Might’s painfully forced puns can’t be all that depressing, especially when he keeps repeating them until somebody laughs. But after that, this episode focuses its sights solely on Shota “Eraserhead” Aizawa, and uncovering a secret he’s kept buried for the entire show. What follows is a story I’m still of two minds on, as it represents an unusually messy and awkward moment in MHA‘s ongoing narrative, even as its…
