MHA Season 7 Final Moments, Explained (2024)

My Hero Academia's 7th anime season has just concluded, with the final episode featuring two noteworthy battles between the heroes and villains. Interestingly, neither fight involved Deku himself, meaning the fated showdown of Deku vs Tomura Shigaraki must wait for the 8th and final season. For now, My Hero Academia's anime is getting fans pumped with other character arcs and battles, both of which trace back to the anime's earliest seasons.

Season 7 ended with All Might fighting the symbol of evil one more time as a delaying action, while Ochaco Uraraka concluded her battle against villainous counterpart, Himiko Toga. One of those fights concluded, while the other ended on a cliffhanger. The season's final moments were a masterful blend of high-stakes action and resonant themes to make viewers care why All Might and Ochaco are fighting so hard.

Ochaco Won the Personal Battle to Redeem Himiko Toga

All Himiko Ever Wanted Was For Someone to Love Her True Self

Season 7's final episode began with the conclusion of Ochaco Uraraka/Uravity's final battle against Himiko Toga. The immediate stakes involved Ochaco's desperate bid to defeat Himiko and put an end to the destructive Sad Man's Death Parade/Sad Man's Legion attack, but battle was also incredibly personal. The two have been feuding since they first crossed paths in Season 3, meaning the final fight wasn't just Ochaco fighting out of duty as a student pro hero -- she was fighting to conclude her intertwined personal arc with Himiko. Their final showdown was a long time coming, and it ended in the best way possible.

Ever since Himiko and Ochaco met, Himiko openly acknowledged that they are both maidens in love who should understand each other. Himiko had a theme of personal authenticity, while paradoxically trying to stalk and emulate other people to show her love for them. That helped make Himiko Toga both the most unnerving and one of the best villains in My Hero Academia. Himiko wanted to be like Deku and Ochaco, just the way Ochaco wanted to be more like Deku, and deep down, Ochaco knew it. That's why she started trying to make personal appeals to Himiko, aiming to understand and redeem her. Himiko pushed Ochaco away during their rematch in Season 6, but Season 7 was a different matter.

By that point, Himiko had reached the apex of her internal conflict of being her true self or emulating other people. She fought hard by imitating Twice with her awakened Transform Quirk, but that brought no happiness, and Himiko still lacked what she wanted most: acknowledgment. Himiko was desperate for someone to recognize and appreciate her true self, and at the last moment, Ochaco delivered. No matter the physical blows those girls traded with their awakened Quirks, Ochaco knew what the fight was really about, and she knew the game-winning move. Ochaco set aside her hero status and Himiko's villain label to reduce the fight to a debate between two human beings who empathized with each other, creating a mental battlefield where Ochaco was in a position to win.

Ochaco won the physical battle when her awakened Zero-Gravity levitated the army of Himiko clones, right before the Transform Quirk wore off. Then, Ochaco landed heavily on the ground, dying of a stab wound in her chest, and no one could save her -- except for the villain who was already there. Ochaco had finally won the emotional battle when she praised Himiko's cute smile, meaning Himiko had everything she wanted and was inspired to repay the favor. At the cost of her own life, Himiko used her equipment to perform a blood transfusion, flipping the script on her blood-based strategies to save Ochaco's life. Although Himiko Toga's personal journey was a miserable one defined by societal rejection and struggling with her own identity, Himiko managed to die happy, reveling in self-authenticity and a newer, more selfless kind of love that she always needed.

Toshinori Yagi Fought All For One as Armored All Might

He Honored Class 1-A With His Armor Suit's Features

The other major battle that defined Season 7's closing moments was also a bitter clash of a hero and villain whose feud traced back a long way, but it wasn't quite as personal as Uravity's battle to redeem Himiko Toga. All Might stood his ground against the supervillain All For One entirely for duty's sake, too stubborn to stay in retirement and let the younger heroes save the day alone. By this point, All Might has faded as the symbol of peace and is now just Toshinori Yagi, a Quirkless man who has no business putting the cape back on. He spent Seasons 6 and 7 watching the final battle from afar while providing token aid off the battlefield, but as Season 7 ended, Toshinori Yagi decided that enough was enough. He fell back on old habits and did the one thing he ever knew: fight villainy.

The problem was that while Deku was strong enough to fight either Tomura Shigaraki or All For One, he couldn't possibly handle both at the same time. As of the final episode in Season 7, Deku was already locked in combat with Tomura, and the other pro heroes had failed to keep All For One occupied. All For One had bought himself some time with Eri's Rewind Quirk to become younger and stronger, becoming a monster Hawks and Endeavor could never defeat. All Might couldn't let All For One reinforce Tomura on the battlefield, so he donned a suit of high-tech armor and dared All For One to face him once again. Fortunately for the heroes, All For One took the bait, unable to pass up a chance to fight his hated nemesis.

All Might issued that challenge knowing that he could not possibly defeat All For One as a skinny, Quirkless civilian in a suit of power armor, but he could at least delay All For One and give Deku more time to defeat Tomura before All For One could reach that battlefield. That, and All Might was probably trying to satisfy his own desire to be a pro hero anytime the world needed him. He was no doubt intensely frustrated being sidelined as his Quirkless self, so perhaps for benignly selfish reasons, All Might felt ready to confront his nemesis despite being retired, determined to feel good about fighting as a hero yet again.

All Might didn't need to win, nor did he expect to. All he needed was to hold back All For One with his suit's impressive variety of weapons and features. All Might inspired and mentored the Class 1-A students, so in Season 7's closing scenes, class 1-A unwittingly repaid the favor by inspiring Armored All Might's best gadgets. He fought like a one-man team as he emulated heroes like Sugarman, Chargebolt, Pinky, and Cellophane with his many devices. All Might bound All For One with cables, electrified him, kicked him with rocket-boosted boots, and even injected him with a powerful acid to further weaken All For One's body.

Season 7 ended before the final fight between the symbols of peace and evil could be resolved, allowing the anime to save something for next time. That created even more anticipation and tension for viewers, since Season 7 already ended with some cliffhangers regarding Deku's battle against Tomura Shigaraki and whether Edgeshot's emergency Quirk stragegy would save Katsuki Bakugo from certain death. Understandably, some viewers may be disappointed that they didn't see the explosive conclusion to Armored All Might's fight, but this final war is an epic and lengthy affair. Only so much can be crammed into Season 7, so the anime needs to save something for Season 8. The after-credits scene may provide a hint, though, with a tattered All Might trading card lying near the ruined UA campus, an ominous sign for Armored All Might's fate.

My Hero Academia (2016)

Action

Superhero

Animation

Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.

Release Date

April 3, 2016

Cast

Aoi Yuki , Ayane Sakura , Christopher R. Sabat , Yûki Kaji , Nobuhiko Okamoto , Luci Christian , David Matranga , Justin Briner , Kenta Miyake , Clifford Chapin , Daiki Yamashita

Rating

Seasons

7

Website

https://www.funimation.com/shows/my-hero-academia/

Franchise

My Hero Academia

Characters By

Kohei Horikoshi

Distributor

FUNimation Entertainment

Main Characters

Tsuyu Asui, Katsuki Bakugo, Ochaco Uraraka, Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, All Might

Production Company

Bones

Story By

Kōhei Horikoshi, Yōsuke Kuroda

Number of Episodes

113

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu , Crunchyroll