My Hero Academia Season 8 Ep. 1. Toshinori Yagi: Rising/Origin

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The final season opens back up with the long awaited and climatic finale of this battle which was left on a cliffhanger from the previous season. This third rematch continues as the former Symbol of Peace, Toshinori Yagi aka All Might continues his desperate struggle to hold back the self proclaimed Demon Lord: All For One, from reaching his destination where Tomura Shigaraki and Izuku Midoriya face off in there own battle of good and evil.

All Might makes use of tech and support items created with help from his friend overseas in America; Melissa Shield, based off of his students Quirks and techniques forming the “Armored All Might” suit allowing his quirk less body to keep up with the overwhelming power, speed and abilities of the rapidly rewinding body of his arch-enemy. Using his wits and intellect to manipulate the Demon Lord, using his hatred of All Might to goad him further and further until he is completely and solely focused on ending the former Symbol of Peace no matter the cost.

However, it’s clear that even with his new tech and suit, All Might is fighting a losing battle, the sheer number of different quirks All For One has is overwhelming everything that’s thrown at him. However he is causing just as many injuries to All For Ones ever rewinding and and regenerating body, slowly de-aging him which strike. All For Ones creepy obsession over All Might is on full display as he ignores any injuries he takes only focused on destroying his annoying heroic counterpart becoming more deranged, angry and desperate to wipe that iconic smile from All Might’s face.

All the while All Might grins and laughs through the immense pain from this battle taunting him further and cackling like a maniac, each of them landing blows on the other causing just as much damage to each other as the surrounding cityscape.

However, as the battle rages on, All Mights suit continues to warn him about loss of power and damage to his own body. He slowly keeps chipping away bit by bit doing whatever he can to survive and keep fighting. As he coughs up blood and laughs in the face of certain death, the world watches through there TV screens with bated breath cheering on the former Symbol of Peace, All For One de-ages back into a teen after taking so much damage to his body, seemingly making him much stronger and faster than he was previously as lands a devastating blow breaking All Mights suit almost completely.

All For One taunts and degrades his enemy slowly walking up to him his eyes blank and cold as he grins wickedly but before he can strike and end his long time arch-enermy he freezes in place unable to move his body, as the Hero Killer: Stain arrives to save All Might and finish this battle once and for all.

Final Thoughts

This was such a phenomenal opening episode for this final season, from its stellar almost movie quality animation and fight scenes, to the music and remixes of previous OST’s and especially the voice acting which is out of this world with All Mights emotional speeches! This season is shaping up to be one of if not the best My Hero Academia has to offer

Overall Grade – 9/10

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