Episode 85

School Festival Start!! (開催文化祭!!) is the eighty-fifth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the twenty-second episode of the fourth season.

Summary
At U.A., everyone is ready for the Cultural Festival. Itsuka, Nejire and Bibimi prepare for the beauty pageant, each thinking they are going to win the competition. On the highway, Mirio, Eri and Shota are on their way to the festival. At Department of Support, Power Loader tells Mei Hatsune to fix herself before the event. Meanwhile, Midnight greets All Might before noticing Midoriya's permission slip to leave the grounds. All Might explains Izuku needed to buy a few things for the festival and Midnight wonder whether Midoriya will make it back to the school in time. For the time being, at the construction yard where Izuku and Gentle Criminal fought, Izuku puts down the steel beam that was holding and chase the villains, using the same elasticized crane's hook that Gentle and La Brava used to sling shots himself in their direction. He also notices that the invisible barriers Gentle leaves behind don't disappear immediately but stick around for a while and he needs to remember where he places them.

Holding La Brava, Gentle uses his Quirk to create invisible trampolines to control his fall and land safely in the forest area that surrounds the school. Seeing that Izuku is on their tail, La Brava advises Gentle to use her Quirk, otherwise he will fail in his mission. Gentle looks up and is surprised to see Izuku approaching from the sky at full speed. ready to shoot him another air blast blast, so he raises an elastic invisible barrier in front of him and La Brava.

Remembering the positions of the elastic aerial trampolines Gentle created, Izuku bounces on them to navigates through the trees and gets behind Gentle and his barrier, ready to shoot. The villain quickly cover himself with another barrier to intercept the blast, but Deku saim precisely to shoot at his barriers to ricochet his attack right at Gentle. La Brava goes to help Gentle, but Izuku apprehends both of them, ordering them to surrender.

Despite his efforts, Danjuro cannot break free of Izuku's grasp. Seeing this, Manami begins to remember her past. In middle school, she wrote a love letter to a boy she had admired from afar. However, that boy mocked her and ridiculed her as a stalker. After that, she could’t believe in anyone or anything, and became a reclusive adolescent with no goals or aspirations, gluing herself to her computer all day long, even contemplating suicide. That’s when she found Gentle's video about him on the web. It was his words about changing the world together inspired her to see a new light in her life.

Quirks

 * One For All
 * Delaware Smash Air Force
 * St. Louis Smash
 * Elasticity
 * Gently Sandwich
 * Love
 * Lover Mode
 * Dog
 * Clones

Locations

 * U.A. High School
 * U.A.'s Development Studio
 * School Grounds: Forested Area

Battles & Events

 * U.A. School Festival
 * Deku vs. Gentle Criminal (Concluded)

Anime and Manga Differences

 * The anime cuts Hound Dog and Ectoplasm being informed of the Gentle and La Brava intrusion.
 * After being enhanced by Lover Mode, Gentle chops Izuku. In the manga Izuku blocks the blow, while in the anime he receives the blow but recovers immediately.
 * Some of Izuku and Gentle's attacks are done in Mid-air instead of on the ground.
 * In the manga, Danjuro was trying to physically approach to the civilian, while in the anime he simply put up a barrier.

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