‘My Hero Academia’ Final Season, Episode 1 is All Gas, No Breaks

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Welcome back to the stage of history. The final season of the runaway juggernaut shonen, My Hero Academia, is underway and maaaaaaan, this first episode came out swinging! Every shonen hinges on one thing: ideology. There is always some idea so ubiquitous that it spawns two philosophies. Each philosophy is a reflection of the other, and the audience gets to watch as those philosophies ebb and flow in strength. Until they are both so strong, so resolute that they battle to see which is “right”. We were introduced to the Quirk Doomsday Theory in Season Four, Episode Sixteen. Not since Star Wars and its contrasting philosophies of the ‘light’ and ‘dark’ side of the Force have so many of us been locked into an ideological piece of fiction. The heroes and villains of My Hero are in their final battle to decide how to address the Quirk Doomsday Theory. It’s either All For One or One For All. If episode one is any indicator of the tone of season eight, not only is it the end of an era, but it’s going out in a blaze of glory. Just imagine, a full episode with no filler, just hands. I have never been…