My Hero Academia Finale — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "Armored Deku Is the Perfect Answer to Episode 1"
ヒロアカ アニメ最終話、日本のファンの反応
“Armored Deku is the perfect answer to Episode 1's "Can someone Quirkless still become a hero?" — that's what I love about it.”
アーマードデクは１話の「無個性でもヒーローになれますか？」対するアンサーとして完璧で好きなんだ
My Hero Academia's anime finale aired in Japan, and the most-liked Japanese reactions barely touched the action — they read the ending like a thesis defense. The comment that rose to the top frames Armored Deku, the suit that lets a now-Quirkless Izuku Midoriya keep being a hero, as the perfect closing answer to the question he asks All Might in Episode 1: "Can someone without a Quirk still become a hero?" From there the thread becomes a love letter to the anime-original ("anime-ori") direction the studio added on top of the manga: longtime fans clock that the final scene returns Deku to the exact spot where he first met All Might to mark him as the One For All bearer; that the finale frame-rhymes Deku donning his suit with the very first episode and reuses the Season 1 opening; and a popular reading that the ninth-and-final holder is the "turn" in the story's structure, not its full stop. The recurring theme was reverence — for a staff whose love for the source read as deep as the readers' own — and grief that a decade-long Shonen Jump pillar is actually over. It closes on the kind of one-line verdict only a fan who watched the whole run could land.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 252)
- @吉生-o7r👍 2,447
Honestly, I was satisfied right to the end — the only complaint I had was that it's over. (…) Edit: scratch that, I had no complaints.
まじで最後まで満足やった不満といえば終わってしまうことくらい（…）追記不満なんてなかった
- @Sukonanda👍 342
My Hero Academia's one and only flaw is that it ends.
ヒロアカの唯一の欠点はそれが終わってしまうことだ
- @りょっぺ08👍 9
The way it ends, too — Deku sees One For All through to the end and reverts to being Quirkless, and the line from Episode 1, "Can someone become a hero without a Quirk?", gets answered in the finale by him being a hero with no Quirk. That's what makes it land.
終わり方もデクはOFAを完遂させて無個性に戻ったのを、1話の『個性が無くても、ヒーローになれますか？』って言って最終話で無個性でヒーローになったのが良いんだよね。
- @勇成加藤👍 1,420
I think the final scene returns to the place where he first talked with All Might in order to mark him as the last bearer of One For All.
最後のOFAの継承者という事を示す為にオールマイトと話していた始まりの場所を表したのかな
- @おてらchan👍 351
The ninth-and-final bearer is the "turn" of the story's structure, not the conclusion. He destroyed the past, tilled fresh soil, and bore fruit — and I think the others came back to see the result of all that.
10代目継承者は、起承転結の転であり、結末ではない 過去を破壊して、新たな土壌を作って実を結んだ その結果の様子を見に来てくれたと思ってる
- @yukino0422👍 39
No but that genuinely convinced me… Right, he's a bearer too, of course. Reading everyone's theories on this is a blast.
いや私はすごく納得してしまった、、そうだよね継承者でもあるもんね 皆さんの考察見るの楽しい
- @diild7586👍 872
I've never seen anime-original content this overflowing with love for the source material…
ここまで原作愛に満ちたアニオリなんか見たことないよ…
- @Nanafushi01👍 103
You can tell the production team loves the manga, and that's just so good.
制作が原作を愛している事がわかってとてもよい
- @AIU-あ👍 1
When the staff has love and respect on the level of a devoted reader — or beyond — the work really does reach an incredible level of polish.
製作人が愛読者レベルあるいはそれ以上の愛やリスペクトを持ってる作品はほんとに凄い完成度になるんだよ
- @ジェイ-x8u👍 323
The scene where Deku suits up looked like Superman...
デクがヒーロースーツを纏うシーンがスーパーマンみたいだったよ...
- @パンダマンたろう👍 16
If anything it's more Iron Man, surely.
どちらかと言うとアイアンマンでしょ
- @わわわ-w5p👍 53
I had no idea it was a self-homage to the Season 1 opening.
一期のo pのセルフオマージュなんて知らんかった。
- @ホイップクリームC👍 1
The spot where All Might and Deku talked had actually been repaired — nice touch.
オールマイトとデクが話してたとこちゃんと直ってたんだ
- @くろま3594👍 146
In the finale, All Might is so full of life — I love it.
最終話、オールマイトが生き生きしてて大好き
- @miyukik8258👍 8
All Might's voice has turned into an old man's, and it just made me cry 🥹
オールマイトがお爺ちゃん声になってるのに泣けてしまった🥹
- @ボッツボット👍 2
But I'm just happy he's alive and well — I was honestly worried he'd never even live to be an old man.
でも元気に生きてるのが嬉しいよ おじいちゃんにもなれるか心配だったもの
- @かすみん-v9y👍 8
Seeing All Might there had me ugly-crying 😭 My Hero Academia handled these little anime-original touches so well — you really feel the love from the staff.
オールマイトいるの見て号泣しました😭 ヒロアカはこういう細かいアニオリがすごく上手にやってくれてて 製作陣からの愛もすごく感じる作品だった
- @おお-n5g👍 0
All Might is the one who said "you can't be a hero without a Quirk" and also the one who disproved it — he's history itself, basically.
個性がなかったらヒーローになれないを自分で言って自分で解決したオールマイトが歴史そのものすぎる
- @daedae0p👍 3
Destroying All For One is the duty of the One For All bearer, and yet he hands One For All over TO All For One — that goes so hard. The whole "pass on One For All to destroy it from the inside" setup paying off right here was just *chef's kiss*.
オールフォーワンを倒すのがワンフォーオールの持ち主の使命なのにそのオールフォーワンにワンフォーオールを譲渡するの熱すぎる ワンフォーオールを譲渡して内部破壊する設定がここで活きてくるのか！ってなって最高やったな
- @かつどんel👍 84
Yeah, Shigaraki really is cool.
やっぱ死柄木かっこいいな
- @Lily_t_0916👍 20
Shigaraki's whole "do your best out there, hero" energy was just so good…
死柄木の「せいぜいがんばれよ、ヒーロー」って感じほんとよかった…
- @shimamu-1000👍 1
Tomura Shigaraki's "do your best, then" feeling toward Izuku Midoriya was the best.
志村転弧の緑谷出久への「せいぜい頑張れ」の気持ちは最高だった
- @翠水竜👍 12
I really like that it's not just "peace returns, the end" — it refuses to let you forget that Shigaraki existed.
平和になってはい終わりだけじゃなくて死柄木の存在を忘れさせない所が結構好き
- @Itsuki-masaru👍 3
Tomura's gentle expression at the end, like he's smiling from the heart — honestly the best.
弔が最後心から笑ってそうな穏やかな表情なのほんと最高
- @kanjanmooo👍 603
Above all, the sheer beauty of the visuals has climbed way too high. The power of science is incredible.
何より映像の美しさが上がりすぎている 科学の力ってすげえ
- @oueumkha👍 18
It's almost all done by hand… This only happened because the level of anime staff has gotten so absurdly high right now.
ほぼ人力です…アニメスタッフのレベルが高くなり過ぎている今だからこそ出来た
- @strong7692👍 74
Ugh, I've got so many goosebumps I'm basically a plucked chicken — and it all makes total sense.
うっわ鳥肌立ちすぎて普通にコケコッコーやねんけど 納得すぎる
- @あまおう-d6m👍 135
The way everything they built up brick by brick gets folded away so cleanly is amazing… It's sad that it's ending, but precisely because I love it, I'm nothing but grateful I got to see it all the way through.
コツコツ積み上げてきたものがキレイに畳まれるのスゴイな.. 終わるのは寂しいけど好きだからこそ最後まで見届けられた事に感謝しかない。
- @武威象たけいぞう👍 44
It's been a while since a quintessential Shonen Jump series made me sad to see it end… thank you.
久々に、終わるのがさみしくなるジャンプの王道漫画だった…ありがとう
- @熊侍-x8j👍 0
It's genuinely sad that it's really over. I came in through the manga over ten years ago — thank you for all the fired-up moments, the music, the emotion.
本当に終わったのが悲しいよな。コミックから入って10年以上、本当に熱い展開や音楽、感動をありがとうございました
- @タキオン流子👍 47
Smashing through the "The End" card to get to this.
「完」をぶっ壊してのこれ
- @フレイム0815👍 1
What got me was that they made a point of crushing the "The End" in their fist.
俺はしっかり完を握りつぶしてくれたとこに感動してる
- @イカサマタマゴ-i4u👍 70
Tomura, probably: "Hurry up and get back to hero work already. I can't rest in peace like this."
転孤「はよヒーロー復帰してや。成仏できひんやん。」
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