Together with Shoji (しょーじくんといっしょ。 Shōji-kun to Issho.?) is the one hundred and fifty-second episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the fourteenth episode of the seventh season.
Summary[]
Chaos breaks out in the city streets.
Back when Dabi was defeated the first time by Shoto, the fight between the Heroes and Spinner's heteromoprh army began turning into a full-scale riot. The Heroes and the Police Force struggle to contain the upset, as their small group of approximately 200 is massively outflanked by the roughly 15,000 people being led by Spinner to take Kurogiri back from Central Hospital.
The situation worsens as the mob uncharacteristically begins strategically splitting their opponents up, and their long-held anger against being discriminated against by regular-looking people begins to erupt and motivate them to fight harder.
The Hooded Adviser preaches about the discrimination suffered by the heteromorphs.
From the ledge of a building, an arachnid-like man, one of the executives of the Paranormal Liberation Front, fans the flame of his allies' rage in the name of liberation. He tells them that things like modern-day Quirk counselling, education, and current generational remorse and rectification of past atrocities, are shams for what most regular-looking people truly and still think of them and cites events like the "6/6 Incident" and the "Great Jeda Purge" as proof.
He also doesn't think progress and acceptance in melting pot communities like major cities count as true change, and that there's still plenty of active heteromorph discrimination in places outside of that. The man says now is the time for everyone here to illuminate themselves in the same way that Heroes do with other people, and that their leader, Spinner, will be the person to help them realize that.
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Spinner knocked back by Tentacole's Octoblow.
While the Villain is intent on sticking by "his people" and seeing his rescue mission to the end, Spinner's mostly moving out of blind instinct for the orders he was given instead of nuanced purpose, since his mental state is continuously degrading from the extra Quirks All For One implanted into his body. Spinner is about to take a giant swing of his new makeshift sword, before he's repelled by an incoming Tentacole's Octoblow. This only angers the mob more, as several people try to pin down and restrain Tentacole while calling him a wannabe Hero and traitor to his own kind.
Ironically, the treatment he's getting from the heteromorphs at the moment is identical to the type he got as a kid from non-heteromorphs. The memory of it makes Tentacole stay strong, as he asks the rioters what their actions, feelings, and words, have to do with their attack on Central Hospital. He tells them that back in the first war, even when the Heroes were tasked with locating and taking down Tomura inside the Jaku General Hospital, the first thing they did was evacuate all the patients and staff before making any big moves.
Due to the Quirks received, Spinner's mind begins to deteriorate.
Tentacole then rises off the ground and swats back the protestors, which rips off his mask and exposes his face. Baring his heteromorphic features and the scars that line it to everyone against him and his allies, Tentacole asks them if they have an actual plan to follow in pursuit of their goals and says that he'll never forgive them if they say otherwise.
Spinner and the rioters step back at Tentacole's display and inquiry, before the group starts frantically asking their leader to reaffirm their beliefs. Spinner's mind gets further overwhelmed by all the questioning and yelling, and the only thing he has to offer them is a brainless assertion that he doesn't even care about whatever's currently going on. The Liberation Executive then spins it to mean that Spinner is pointing out that sacrifices and bloodshed in the name of their cause is justified, which is just enough to spring the mob back into action.
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Spinner's body begins to transform.
As the other heteromorphs move on, Tentacole blocks Spinner's path and warns him that what he's doing right now will set their reputation in society back thirty years. The Villain shouts at the boy mindlessly, as a layer of blood red scales begin haphazardly jutting out of his skin; in addition to his Body Bulk Quirk, All For One gave him Scalemail, in order to both further bolster his combat capabilities and to make him "look like a true leader". As his thoughts grow fuzzier by the second, his mind flashes to brief moment of him and Tomura bonding over their shared passion for League of Legends.
Spinner lunges forward and takes a mighty swing at Tentacole with his sword and manages to catch the boy in the air and slice one of his duplicated hands off. Anima begins getting frustrated at the mob, the Liberation Executive's words, and his friend now getting mutilated by Spinner, as his forehead begins to crack open. His stress further piles on as Tentacole's fight reminds him of the first time his friend opened up to the others about his abuse as a heteromorph.
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Mezo hugged by his classmates after hearing his harsh past.
Mezo told his classmates that he was born different from his parents in the village he grew up in, and the villagers would often gang up on and beat him in the name of correcting the boy's "pollution of their blood". The class is horrified and give their sympathies, with Minoru frantically apologizing for calling Mezo a "muscly octopus" on the first day of school, assuring him that he never found his appearance off-putting back then.
Mezo knows that his classmate's comment wasn't born out of malice, since its natural to come to that comparison thanks to his arms, which partially inspired him to use "Tentacole" as his Hero name. His asks his friends to not dance around the subject when he's around or treat him like he's made of glass, and then tells him that he wears his mask because he doesn't want certain people to think he's trying to get revenge for his discrimination thanks to his appearance and scars.
Tentacole continues fighting against Spinner physically and ideologically.
Even through all the torment he's had growing up thanks to his body, Mezo chose to cherish the one good memory he gained because of it, when he saved a girl in his village from drowning in a raging waterfall. Despite getting scarred by the villagers shortly after this from misunderstanding his intentions, the little girl thanking him and blaming herself for her savior being hurt, inspired him to become a Hero, and provide a prevalent sense of hope for people just like him. The class group hugs their classmate with the promise to make more good memories together, as Koji looks up silently while tearing up at his friend's story.
Tentacole tells Spinner that even though he was unfairly persecuted like he was, senseless violence isn't going to solve any of the problems heteromorphs like them are suffering under. Before the Liberation Executive can goad the mob into more violence, a flock of pigeons begins to swarm around him thanks to Anima, who now has a glowing, crystal-like growth where his crack was and tells the man not to mock Tentacole.
Anima manages to silence the preacher.
As his students fight on, Present Mic remembers when Mezo requested All Might and Eraser Head to assign him and Koji for the mission to protect Central Hospital, as the giant woman Deku saved tipped them off about the call to action sent out by Skeptic for the heteromorphs. Mezo, with Koji right behind him, says he can't call himself a Hero if he were to turn a blind eye to what might happen there. The man, who was asked by Eraser Head to back them up on their new post, is amazed at how strong their students and the current generation of Quirk users have become.
Tentacole keeps trading blows with the rampaging Spinner, while Koji controls the pigeons without verbal commands thanks to the new formation on his skull, which his mother told him about when he was little, and that they'll allow him to let animals understand his feelings once they grow him. After telling him about the time his father stood up for her after she was frequently harassed for her horns, she told her son to always get mad and be strong for the people he cares about whenever they're laughed at.
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Tentacole unleashes Octospansion on Spinner.
Anima uses Hitchcock Birds to drag the Liberation Executive back to the road, and after Present Mic uses his voice to break Spinner's sword, Tentacole knocks down Spinner with an Octospansion. He screams to the Villain and his allies that they should be using their abnormal bodies to actually protect something, instead of being people who use it for the revenge just the likes the types who discriminated against them.
Spinner tries to shut down Tentacole's words and tells his group that if the Heroes win then nothing will change for them, and they should keep following him to truly see their goal and promises of worldwide liberation come to fruition. All of the Heroes' work goes down the gutter as the mob pushes onward again and keeps them occupied. Spinner then reaches Central Hospital and crashes through the front door on all fours, with the mission to retrieve Kurogiri, and his "grand destiny" as a leader, being a few paces away from being fully realized.
Characters In Order of Appearance[]
- Tentacole
- Spinner
- Dabi (Mentioned)
- Support Regiment Advisers
- Eraser Head (Flashback)
- Nomu (U.S.J.) (Flashback)
- Hood (Flashback)
- Nomu (Hosu) (Flashback)
- Deku (Flashback)
- Robot (Flashback)
- Eleph (Flashback)
- Woman (Flashback)
- Ribby (Flashback)
- Kurogiri (Flashback)
- Present Mic
- Rock Lock
- Oboro Shirakumo (Mentioned)
- Anima
- Gori
- Nezu (Fantasy)
- Kenji Tsuragamae (Fantasy)
- Skeptic (Flashback)
- Re-Destro (Mentioned)
- All For One (Flashback)
- Endeavor (Flashback)
- Ryukyu (Flashback)
- Ectoplasm (Flashback)
- Wash (Flashback)
- Pixie-Bob (Flashback)
- Mandalay (Flashback)
- Takeshita (Flashback)
- Tiger (Flashback)
- Tomura Shigaraki (Flashback)
- Red Riot (Flashback)
- Chargebolt (Flashback)
- Tsukuyomi (Flashback)
- Froppy (Flashback)
- Creati (Flashback)
- Invisible Girl (Flashback)
- Pinky (Flashback)
- Uravity (Flashback)
- Earphone Jack (Flashback)
- Tailman (Flashback)
- Grape Juice (Flashback)
- Shoto (Flashback)
- Cellophane (Flashback)
- Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight (Flashback)
- Kota Izumi (Flashback)
- Ordinary Woman (Flashback)
- All Might (Flashback)
- Sludge Villain (Fantasy)
- Koji Koda's parents (Flashback)
- Can't Stop Twinkling (Flashback)
Quirks[]
Locations[]
- Mezo Shoji's Home (Flashback)
- Central Hospital
- Makeshift Fortress: Troy (Mentioned, Screen)
- U.A. High School
- Coffin in the Sky (Mentioned, Screen)
- Unforeseen Simulation Joint (Flashback)
- Heights Alliance (Flashback)
- A.V. Room (Flashback)
- Takoba National Stadium (Mentioned, Screen)
- Gunga Mountain Villa (Mentioned, Screen)
- Ground Zero (Mentioned, Screen)
- Okuto Island (Mentioned, Screen)
- Fukuoka (Flashback)
- Hosu City (Flashback)
- Jaku General Hospital (Flashback)
- League of Villains Cave Hideout (Flashback)
- Shuichi Iguchi's Home (Flashback)
Battles & Events[]
Anime & Manga Differences[]
- Steel Bulwark briefly appeared as one of the rioters in the manga.[1] However, he was replaced by a different heteromorph in the anime.
- In the flashback to the little girl thanking Mezo for saving her, the anime shows his state after he was scarred and beaten by the other villagers for it.
- When Anima's forehead begins to transform, the cracks on it are more noticeable in the anime compared to the manga.
- When Mezo and Koji ask All Might and Eraser Head to aid the Central Hospital Team against the mob of heteromorphs, the manga depicts All Might wearing Deku's backpack, while the backpack is absent in the anime.
- When Spinner breaks into the front doors of Central Hospital, the manga shows some of the rioters right next to him when the smoke clears.
Trivia[]
References[]
- ↑ My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 370.