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 the 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 slingshot 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 covers 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 couldn’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.

With Gentle as her new hope, Manami found the place where he lived, eager to help him. After spending time with him, Manami becoming attracted to him. She thought Gentle would say something about the dark rings under her eyes but he didn't. In fact, when he realized her concerns, he uses a permanent marker to gives himself dark circles around his eyes so they could match her's. He accepted her for who she was. and when he decided to team up with her he gave her the name of La Brava.

Back to the present, La Brava whispers "I love you" to Gentle, activating her quirk Love, which gives Gentle a massive power boost, giving him enough strength to throw Deku off of them and lands a chop to the back of Izuku's neck. Believing they have defeated Izuku, Gentle and La Brava begin to walk away, but he doesn't lose consciousness. Izuku tells Gentle he's fought stronger and faster people that him and he haven’t lost yet and prepares to attack gentle.

It's 9:00 AM, and Present Mic announces the start of the U.A. School Festival.

Gentle dodges Deku's air blast, shocked to see the young hero continue to fight despite La Brava giving him a massive power boost with the Lover Mode. Deku and Gentle clash ferociously, with Izuku pleading Gentle to stop his attack on UA while a sobbing La Brava apologizes to Gentle saying her love wasn't enough but, as he landing on a three, Gentle replies her no one can say her feelings weren't enough.

Izuku attacks Gentle again, but he launches a Gently Sandwich, creating numerous elastic aerial barriers and stacking them on top of his opponent. Deku is pinned underneath the attack while Gentle explains he still intends to invade U.A. no matter what. Gentle begins to think of his past and explains to the young hero why he must continue: his dream is no longer just his own. Izuku manages to pull himself away from the Gently Sandwich and attacks Gentle, asking him if he understands that UA's students have dreams as well, why he would choose to trample on everyone’s hopes. Gentle replies this is how it is, and he will do whatever it takes to make his dream come true.

Danjuro recalls his past, when he was an idealistic young man who dreamed of becoming a famous hero. He with his mother in the principal's office of his high school. The principal urged Danjuro to drop out in his endeavor since couldn't make the grade and kept failing the provisional license exams no matter how hard he tried. Despite his harsh words, Danjuro told his mom that he will continue to work for his dream of becoming a hero no matter what. As he prepared to leaves, he saw his classmate Takeshita, who already has his license and many Hero agencies are asking for him.

One day, while he was enjoying a cup of tea in a coffeehouse, he heard screams for help. Upon reaching the place where the screaming came from, he saw a man falling from a window cleaning rig. He went to save the man and used his quirk to create an air trampoline to save him with. Unfortunately, the trampoline got in the way of a pro hero who was already on the scene. As a result, the victim hit the ground and needs six months to recover. The police give Gentle a strike for obstructing justice. His parents ended up deep in debt paying reparations to the victim and fines for hindering a hero and unlicensed use of a Quirk. During this time, he was finally expelled from school, which caused his parents to disown him and violently throw him out of the house.

Four years later, Danjuro had already forgotten his dream and was barely making a living off part-time jobs. One day, he sees his old classmate Takeshita, who had made it as a independent pro hero. Danjuro run into him to congratulate him, but he found that his classmate didn't even remember his name. Anguished, Danjuro headed home and picks up a book on the history of supervillains, setting him on that dark path. Anguished by the fact someone he knew had already accomplished his dream while he life a miserable life, Danjuro went to his house and took a book about the history of the supervillains. If he could never become a famous hero, then he would make a name for himself as a villain.

Back to the fight, Gentle continues his assault towards Izuku, with the brava observing the combat with concern at the fact that Gentle uses the Lover Mode to fight for the sake of his dream instead of retreat. Gentle yells at Izuku he doesn't care if he mocks him. When they clash once more with Izuku blocking Gentle's enhanced punch. Izuku replies that he is not laughing at him.

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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