My Hero Academia season 4 episode 11 recap: “Unforeseen Hope”
My Hero Academia’s latest gut-wrenching episode yanks us closer to the climax of the Shie Hassaikai raid.
My Hero Academia’s latest gut-wrenching episode yanks us closer to the climax of the Shie Hassaikai raid. While in a rage after being taunted by Himiko Toga and Twice, Shie Hassaikai’s unwilling allies from the League of Villains, the wall-manipulating member of Shie Hassaikai flies into a fit of rage and begins twisting and turning the walls of the compound with wild abandon, leaving himself open to an attack from Deku.
After his capture, the heroes are unsure about how to proceed with so many injured and separated from the main group. Plus, Eraserhead has said that if the League was found to be involved, he would make the U.A. students pull out of the operation. This time, it’s Rock Lock, stabbed by Himiko, who spurs them on. It turns out that Rock Lock’s reason for rejecting the young heroes initially was because he’s a new dad and was unwilling to see children on the battlefield. Having witnessed Deku, Suneater, and Lemillion’s tenacity and strength, even he can’t deny them anymore.
Meanwhile, Lemillion, having managed to wrest Eri from the arms of the villains, has taken out Overhaul’s two underlings, at the price of his own quirk, thank to the newest variation of Overhaul’s quirk-erasing bullet. Lemillion persists, though, and is on his last leg and fighting what looks like it’s about to be a losing battle against Overhaul when Deku comes smashing through the wall. Deku, Eraserhead, and Sir Nighteye come racing to the rescue. Eraserhead renders Overhaul powerless with his quirk, and that should have been the end of that.
Still, it’s too early to breathe a sigh of relief. Overhaul’s cronies are tenacious. The villain, Kurono lashes out at Deku and Eraserhead, and Eraserhead is struck by his quirk, chronostasis. Kurono drags Eraserhead into another area to torment and toy with him, admitting that Shie Hassaikai referenced Eraserhead’s data quite often while they were experimenting on Eri to develop the quirk-erasing bullet.
Deku and Sir Nighteye have their hands full and can’t even look away, much less ascertain Eraserhead’s status or assist. Overwhelmed by the heroic pair, Overhaul resorts to merging with Shin of the Eight Bullets. Using Shin’s mind-control quirk, Overhaul taunts the heroes and torments Eri, saying that hers is a cursed existence and that people are always dying because of her. He also brags about his torturous methods of extracting Eri’s quirk by making her suffer to the point of death, then reconstructing her body and doing the same things to her all over again.
Sir Nighteye orders Lemillion and Deku to get the child away from that place and leave Overhaul to him. As they step through the exit that Deku smashed through the wall, Sir Nighteye fails to avoid Overhaul’s next attack. The young heroes are dismayed and can only look helplessly at Sir Nighteye, who’s been speared, apparently fatally, all the way through by a massive spike. Deku turns back, urging Lemillion to keep going with Eri.
Deku, though, refuses to give in. His arms guard is smashed, and the strain on his body is almost unbearable, but he still summons every ounce of strength that he possibly can. Lemillion is barely able to walk anymore, and when he completely loses the ability to keep going, her urges Eri to hide, reassuring her that there are dozens of heroes on the way to save her.
Realizing that getting past Deku won’t be so easy, Overhaul uses Shin’s mind control quirk again to verbally torment Eri. He tells her that everything happening is her fault, that she knows what to do if she wants all these people to stop getting hurt and dying for her sake. She acquiesces, and even though Deku tell her to go back to Lemillion, Eri wails that she doesn’t want it. She doesn’t want anyone to get hurt because of her anymore. She is naïve enough to think that Overhaul reconstructing everyone in exchange for her return is a promise he would keep.
Deku, though, is not so naïve. He stands between Eri and Overhaul and refuses to back down. While still conscious, Sir Nighteye desperately tries to envision a future where Overhaul doesn’t kill them all. The only future he can envision is his and Deku’s bloody deaths, so he silently urges Deku to back down.
Deku is injured and at the end of his rope, but he absolutely refuses to give in. Just as Overhaul is about to launch another attack, there’s a loud rumble and the ceiling comes crashing down. Pro hero Ryukyu and Rikiya from Shie Hassaikai’s Eight Bullets, still engaged in combat, come tumbling down right between Deku and Overhaul. That’s where this week’s episode of My Hero Academia leaves off, and we’ll have to wait to see whether things work out in Deku’s favor next time.
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