Iron Might is Here for MHA Season Finale
My Hero Academia S7 Ep 21 Review
It’s official now: the seventh season of My Hero Academia will not be the last. Nor will the series be completed in the form of a series of movies. Instead, the final season will air sometime in 2025. However, before the final season begins, the seventh season needs to clear away the board for the final battle. Thus, this season finale feels less like a finale and more like a cliffhanger for the second act for something. In this case, we finally get to see the thing that I’ve been wanting to see: Armored All Might, or as I call him, Iron Might.
Before the episode gets to the big moment, though, it takes the time to focus on bringing a close to the story of Uraraka and Toga. And, in all honesty, I’m glad that it did.
Toga’s Final Sacrifice
Uravity managed to finally get through to Toga, but it might have cost her her life. The stab wound she got from Toga is making her lose too much blood, and there’s no time to get her to a doctor. It looked like Uraraka might actually die at this point.
I’m sure that I said it before, but I was fully expecting one of the supporting characters to die before the final war came to an end. It looked like Bakugo might not make it, and now it looks like Uraraka might be the one to bite the proverbial bullet. However neither of them didn’t, and while I won’t debate who got the better save, I do think I like Uraraka’s more.
Toga’s decision to sacrifice herself performing a transfusion on Uraraka was a moment that really resonated with me in the manga. All her life, Toga had only cared about taking from others. It was a misguided attempt to find love and acceptance that led down the path to becoming a villain. Toga even admits to herself that if someone had reached out and helped her sooner, she might have found a better way. Her decision to sacrifice herself for Uraraka is a heartbreaking one, but it also serves to complete the pair’s character arcs. In addition, Toga chooses this ending because she knows she would spend the rest of her life in prison. Rather than let that happen, she wants to go out on her own terms. In a way, I can’t help but respect that.
I also like Hawks small moment with Toga, as he admits that Twice was a good person. I’ve always felt that he’s regretted having to kill Twice, because villain or not, he was a genuinely good guy. He didn’t deserve what happened to him.
Iron Might Sounds Way Cooler Than Armored All Might
And now, we get to the big moment: the reveal of Iron Might.
When I first saw this moment in the manga, I feared that All Might was going to sacrifice himself to stall All for One. Without his Quirk, what chance did he have? However, one of the main lessons of My Hero Academia is that one doesn’t need powers to be a hero. Deku chose to save Bakugo when he didn’t have a Quirk, so why can’t All Might do the same?
Plus, I remembered that not every superhero in comics has superpowers. Case in point, Iron Man just has his suits of armor, and as we’ve seen in the MCU, he could fight alongside gods and wizards. With his suit of armor, Iron Might (man that sounds cool) is able to copy the powers of all of his students. And he manages to pressure his long-hated enemy for a bit!
If Deku is an example of not needing powers to be a hero, then Iron Might is the culmination of that notion. With science and technology, someone without powers can hold their own against someone with them. And powers or not, All Might has always been a hero.
Next Year is the Endgame
As the season comes to a close, we’re left with the parting image of the final battles underway. Master fighting master, student fighting student. I don’t know when the final season will come out next year, but in hindsight, I’m glad that it’s not being made into a movie. I want My Hero Academia to give itself the finale that it deserves. So, 2025, we’ll get to say it one last time: Go Beyond, PLUS ULTRA!
Here’s hoping the animation gets even better.
I Give “Battle Without a Quirk” a 4/5
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