It ALL Goes Back To All For One, Doesn’t It? My Hero Academia Chapter 418 BREAKDOWN PREVIEW

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Ah………….. This makes 2- 2 POSTS that I have had to restart. I think I’m losing my “edge” with all these “Short Reviews” and “Anthologies;” I think I’m losing my “knack for delivery.” The first time around, I made a really long joke about how All For One has had his hands so deep in this story that he MIGHT AS WELL be the father Kotaro Shimura, Endeavor, and Deku. And…………… I stand by it. Just not the way it came out. Though, looking at it on the document I save back ups of my posts on- I don’t see what I thought was so bad. Oh well, too late now. I’ll start by telling you that the original name for this post was “It Was All For One All Along” as a reference to that song from the season finale of Disney Plus’ Wanda-Vision, but it sounded cliche and outdated. And that led into the joke about him being Tenko’s and Shoto’s grandfather, as well as Izuku’s father and the one responsible for giving Best Girl Himiko chan and Twice the quirks that made their lives miserable. You get the point: I’m not enthused about this at all- even though, admittedly, I was a supporter of the idea. 

But after seeing what happened to Dabi after the Fre@kin’ Awesome Reveal, I……….. kind of stopped hoping that would be the case. In  fact, I was more rooting for him to just be a “late bloomer” than yet another way to make him an All For One Victim. Like, of the 2 things I can say about Tomura; 1 of them is that he’s “Such An All For One Victim!!” I don’t think that something I should be able to say about someone- Hero or Villain! It’s…………… it feels like “All For One’s Puppet” is becoming his “Defining Trait.” And I don’t like it. I don’t know why Horikoshi has decided to make All For One the only True Villain in this story- after all the work he’s done to “blur the line” between both concepts- but I hope he’s thought this through. I’m gonna start the post because I’ve wasted a lot of the time I had to make it prior to the official release, but we’ll talk about this later- TRUST. My Hero Academia Chapter 418: “Meek Spirits.” This was also the title for chapter 383– the Machia Containment Battle chapter. The Japanese/Fan Translations for both chapter’s were “A Small Heart.” 

There was a little bit of “discourse” around it, since Horikoshi had already used the chapter title before. I feel like it was somewhat intentional, but twisted to a Negative light; it represented Ashido’s growth in chapter 383, but here………… well, we’ll get to that later…………….

Overview

Picking Up From The Last Chapter: It’s The Night Tenko Shimura Destroyed His Family. Deku recalls this feeling from their bout in Jaku– the feeling of a “Crying child.” And before he can move to extend his hand to Tenko- he sees it: The Awakening Of “Decay.” And it becomes PAINFULLY CLEAR in that moment what this night is, so Kid Deku gets in front of Tenko, blocking him from turning Hana to dust. Seeing as they’re in a “Memory Space,” he figures the best way to hold out is to keep “Remembering” that his hands are there- as Tenko starts turning his arms to dust. He tries to reach Tenko, telling him he came here because he saw him crying all alone in this pit. But Tenko fights back, claiming he meant for all of this to happen- because it’s the only explanation as to why he was gifted those hands of his. Deku’s starting to lose ground, even against this “weak spot” in Tomura’s head. But……….. in that moment………….. Tomura’s Hate and this…………. “Catharsis” became balanced with a sense of sorrow and perplexity. Tenko’s “Hate” and “Will To Destroy-“ it’s shaking. 

Remembering the f*ckwipes that walked by him on the street, and Izuku remembering what he told the other holders- all while that Seething Hate threatens to BREAK him. But he says that he felt “at ease” when someone grabbed his hand– so he felt that Tenko might have needed that same comfort. The 2 kids butt heads, as Tenko’s hate starts to break him, too. And then– we see what happened before he was brought home on that day: He was pretending to be a Hero with his friends, who tell him he should play All Might!! He’s Super Excited, but……… it starts to fade as he looks at the clock. It is at that moment that he realizes: He’s A Villain- pure and simple. And even if……… even though Izuku has managed to quell his anger- to finally take his hand and make him feel even a little bit better– even if it means that he’s now just an “Empty Shell-” 

The Villains Still Need A Hero.

Tomura Shigaraki returns- beginning to turn to dust in the wind. As all around the world– there are some- however few- rooting for him to Destroy The World. And yet the Finger Cocoon has to started to disintegrate. Looks like a “Happily Ever After,” right? MEMORY CLIPS- First Person Perspective: Kotaro Shimura is talking to someone from this “Koga Construction” company. Something isn’t right here. Apparently, Kotaro is suffering from lower back pains, but declines to take a doctor’s appointment. Then another clip: Something is being mentioned to be “a lot of work,” and he tells whoever’s perspective we’re seeing that his “quirk hasn’t manifested yet.” Neither of them know WHAT’S going on or WHOSE memories these are, but…………….. well……………… Who Do Ya Think? In his…………….. eh, we’ll call it “Triumphant-” return after…………. 8 chapters or not hogging the spotlight from a better Villain(objectively speaking at this point)- Ol’ Nutsack Face Shigaraki comes back in full force, revealing to his “foolish vessel” that he’s never made a single decision on his own. And now has evidence to back up that claim. It All Goes Back To All For One- just as his name would imply. My Hero Academia Chapter 418 END. So I guess All For One is gonna “spit out” Tenko and use this original body to mutate into that Demon from the first ED of season 2. 

REVIEW

Don’t feel bad, Tenko– not a single thing in this story is yours or Himiko chan’s or Dabi’s or even Twice’s fault– It’s All All For One’s Fault. Nana Shimura only let your father go because of All For One; she was protecting him from his father- your Grandfather– because she saw what happened to that Enji Todoroki. Yeah, she knew he was cheating on her and had a number of b@stards, but he was just so persuasive that she decided to stick out. But she saw that how Enji was being neglected, and didn’t want that for you. So he talked her into giving him up!! And yeah; your cousins are Enji’s own neglected children- never good enough for Endeavor just like he was never good for All For One. But that’s not even the craziest part. You see that little green nerd you’ve been battling? He’s your Uncle- rather than stay and neglect him like he did for Kotaro and Enji, he just decided to leave under the guise of “going over seas.” But now he’s back to teach Dear Ol’ Dad what happens when mess with his family. And I don’t really have a joke for it, but he’s also the one who gave Himiko chan and Twice their quirks and drove them to this life- so that you would have friends when you went all “Destroy the world.” He even had a hand in making Touya and Spinner the way they were. And Compress? Ouji Harima is another of his alias’. 

That was pretty much the original joke I opened with. I’m only somewhat exaggerating by adding Himiko chan and Twice in the mix, but he did manage to put his hands in Spinner and Dabi’s stories somewhere down the line. Didn’t care for Spinner’s thing; he was only there to explain how Dabi survived that day at Sakoto peak; he probably didn’t give Himiko chan and Twice their quirks, but I don’t put it past the story anymore. Like- Actually he might be Izuku’s dad. Horikoshi might just be going 3-For-3 on these Fan Theories. It’s not even like this wasn’t expected; we don’t know what his Mother’s quirk was, but Kotaro likely had some variant of Nana’s “Float” quirk. I don’t know what combination that involves “floating” creates “Decay.“ This wasn’t that much of a surprise in the way of storytelling- it was kind of obvious. My Problem comes from the fact that he- after going FULL MUZAN- is back. He TRULY IS some type of Parasite, isn’t he? Went out in one of the worst ways a Villain could- and he just keeps on coming. He’s a Tenacious Little Nothing, I’ll give him that……………….

But even with this happening; I can’t say we didn’t see this coming, either. He said as much back when he rewound to Nothingness: “He still had that.” Tomura’s Intense Anger was enough to force the Vestige All For One into submission back in chapter 379, but Crybaby Izuku Midoriya went and did what they said couldn’t be done and Quelled It- saving Tenko from himself(in a quazi-literal sense). But with that Wrath no longer bogging him down– All For One’s Vestige Is Back For A Second Try.Man, it SURE IS a good thing Izuku went and smashed all the Vestige’s preventing him from stealing “One For All” all this time.It’s just him now.And he no LIKELY doesn’t have the willpower to prevent that. He doesn’t even need Tenko’s to be p!ssed off anymore- he’s strong enough to take One For All himself.And as we know- those who offernothing to his life- have no place in the world meant for He, Himself, And He Alone. Meaning…………………………

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