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My Hero Academia Anime Finale: Armored Deku Answers Izuku's Episode 1 Question

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.