My Hero Academia Recap: Let it Flow! School Festival!

Season: 4 / Episode: 23 If last episode was the action-oriented, combat-heavy climax of the back half of the season, this episode is the cathartic, emotional climax of not just the second ohur, but really of the entire fourth season as a whole. But before we can get to the scene that made me weep openly on an early Saturday morning, we have a little bit of administrative work to recap first.

Gentle Criminal voluntarily throws himself under the bus for the sake of both Midoriya and La Brava to have some sort of mitigation of consequence. Gentle views Midoriya as an exceedingly worthy rival because damn right he is, beating his villain all on his own without having to break any of his bones or anything. Midoriya however steps in with a story about how Gentle was just going to play a practical joke and they had a “small” disagreement. Hound Dog covers for Midoriya so the school festival can continue without too much of a hitch, and now it’s a race against the clock to get back before Class 1-A’s performance starts, although honestly, has anyone ever attended an event that has actually started on time? But I digress.

At 9:25, Midoriya goes off with Ectoplasm to retrieve his supplies and manages to pick everything up at 9:35 and barely makes it backstage in time after cleaning himself at 9:50 to make sure that no one is distracted by his light injuries. Eri worries about her friend not being able to make it, but Mirio assures her that everything’s going to be fine and they go fi…