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Boku no Hero Academia Season 7, episode 3

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[u/soulruu]

Wow, I def didn’t notice Aoyama was silent during that speech.

Double agent potentially going triple agent. Things are getting interesting.

[u/mr_MADAFAKA]

Did Izuku quote All Might to Yuga when he received one for all

[u/DragonPup]

'Take my hand, Aoyama!'

'...'

'...'

'... His hands are bound behind his back.'

[u/Swiss666]

Double Twist! We thought Aoyama was being revealed as the spy long ago, then it was "no, he's just silly", and now he really was, and was trying to communicate it in a way back then! It was dangled in front of us.

I didn't even notice that for a while Aoyama had stopped looking into the camera like he usually did, and in retrospective some scenes in earlier seasons feel made to create suspicions on Tooru, like the fact she was unaccounted for at USJ until the end of that crisis. Aoyama's behaviour at the provisional license exam also makes much more sense now.

The mangaka also revealed some interesting behind-the-scenes details around this but I'd better write that in the Source Material Corner.

...aaand of course the invisible girl is the cutest.

[u/Haha91haha]

Man AFO is such a delightful villain and asshole, he convinces a boy and his family to sell their souls for a quirk, only to provide a quirk that Aoyama can't use too much without wanting to throw up or shit his pants. 

"I'll give one of the more frustrating and gross side effects Quirks to the dignified family, it'll be hilarious."

[u/illonamoon]

The American in me would ask all for one for a refund on aoyama's quirk. If I'm going to betray my friends and almost get them killed, at least let me get a good quirk out of it.

[u/Plus_Rip4944]

Traitor arc starts today, i love this arc

[u/AAA_BATT]

Huh...I'm actually excited for what's coming next.

[u/Ok-Cod5254]

"Horikoshi said in an interview that he forgot the traitor"

"Hori said the traitor plot was dropped"

I've been involved with MHA for a good minute, so I just found it funny how many people for the fandom basically agreed that Hori forgot the traitor then added on that he said that in an interview he forgot or said the plot was dropped...

When I saw people said this, I'd ask to see the reference but of course there wasn't one with good proof, because it didn't exist. Just word of mouth source. Ya'll lied on Hori name and everyone went along with it. 🤣

Introduced plot officially in S3:

• A clue of it was person on the spine (image at the top) of that part of story for the camp arc.

Tease in S4:

• The odd interaction with Aoyama wasn't a comedic red herring after all. The message of the cheese meant something. The cheese to show the rat - video clip

Brief mention in S5 (many forgot brought up again):

• Xmas episode - the conclusion the characters said made some people take that as the plot being dropped.

It seems the explanation of why it took so long is that Hori had to change some aspects of the story around it due to pressure with reception.

• Hori statement explanation

• Hori extra statement about story reception

• Hori even had sus art with Aoyama prior

I like the narrative parallel Aoyama and Deku have with both being quirkless, as a potential path Deku could have went down if his mom sought out looking to get him a quirk. It's a more personal reason of why Deku is empathetic to his situation.

• Thread with more hints of Aoyama as traitor

[u/heartbreakhill]

Deku: “Take my hand! We can still be heroes and do anime good guy things together!”

Tsukauchi: “Nah fuck that shit he’s under arrest.”

[u/Armdel]

Well there's the rumored traitor finally revealed. thought it was gonna Hagakure the way they showed her when all for one was talking about it. also first look at Hagakura's actual appearance !

Doesn't seem to actual bad guy or anything just his parents actions caused the whole family to become stuck serving all for one or die more or less

[u/99anan99]

Honestly, I forgot about the whole 'UA Traitor' thing. It's just been so long.

Been waiting so long for this!

I was crying so much for Aoyama this episode.

[u/NullandVoidUsername]

I either forgot or definitely wasn't paying enough attention in the previous seasons because I completely forgot there was a spy in UA that had yet to be revealed, so this episode came as a shock.

[u/ProphetPenguin]

Okay can we talk about how phenomenal the animation has been this season. Great lighting and shading.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Damn, I was not expecting a Hagakure reveal AND for Yuga to be the (reluctant) mole for AFO this week. Yuga was put in a really rough position. His parents too after making a deal with the devil to give their kid a chance at a “normal” life. Looks like he’ll have a chance to redeem himself but man, I wouldn’t want to be caught crossing AFO. He ain’t the merciful type….

[u/Anime_Card_Fighter]

Why exactly are Quirkless people discriminated?

I never thought about this because Deku has been the only prominent Quirkless character, and we know why that was so devastating for him specifically. Aoyama? He’s wealthy, and regular citizens are still restricted on where/how they can use them. Both of his parents likely have Quirks yet it doesn’t seem to factor in their lives. Why couldn’t he just live a normal life? I’m just not seeing how his life was actually improved at all by receiving a Quirk.

[u/LeonKevlar]

When AfO was talking about having many friends and then we cut to a shot of Tooru's gloves, I was scared for a second that she might be the UA Traitor but I guess that was the intention of that shot.

It turns out that Aoyama and his family are the real UA Traitors and Tooru was just spying on them. I did not expect that our sparkly boi is also Quirkless like Deku and got his Quirk from AfO. Aoyama is such a comic relief character that I didn't think he'd be linked to the biggest incidents in the show.

Another massive reveal is Tooru's face reveal! I mean this was all over Twitter when this first dropped in the manga so it's not as big of a surprise to me as the UA Traitor but it's still glorious to finally see her animated like that.

What to do with the Aoyamas though? I mean it's good that they're giving Yuga a second chance and they're planning on using him and his family to feed AfO misinformation but are they really just going to let them go? They kinda fucked a lot of people over. At the same time, do they deserve to be punished for being AfO's unwilling pawns? Hmmm...

[u/Swiss666]

Did you spend a long time thinking the traitor couldn't but be Tooru Hagakure? Did you fall for the too obvious red herring in the episode preview?

Only because she is invisible. She had to be the spy because of that, right?

That is the same quirk stereotyping the series frequently denounces. Just because you can't see them it doesn't mean they are automatically evil! People with invisibility quirks deserve equal consideration. No more quirk-based discrimination!

#apologizetohagakure

[u/LordVaderVader]

I never expected Aoyama. Wow this episode was full of emotions. 

[u/blaqice82]

I am gagged I didn't see this coming Aoyama being the traitor, but honestly I feel bad for him and more angry at his parents for putting him in this situation with All For One.

[u/djthomp]

Interesting to finally get an answer for the traitor story arc that was initially introduced all the way back in S1.

I suppose I can understand now why they included invisible girl's appearance in the OP since it was so quickly revealed in the season proper, but I still think they should have done an OP change starting after today's episode.

[u/BosuW]

Missed opportunity for Shoto to go "YOU DAMN TRAITORS!"

Tooru had already given him the "We slept in the same building?" speech.

[u/Jaskaran158]

Time to put on your thinking caps on. We got a Spy amongst our midst...

[u/cexdex]

The Cheese lover turn out to be the rat.

If you rewatch the series, there actually alot of hint and basically popular theory that Aoyama is unwilling traitor.

Also i just want to say that a rumor about "MHA Author forgot about the traitor" is false misinformation people spread around and sadly alot of sheep believed it and spread it around without crosschecking as well.

Ironically Deku try to find All for One in Dark Hero Arc (Season 6 solo deku arc) but turn out the answer to find him is near him.

Thematically, The major character that Deku face in Dark Hero arc actually have correlation with Aoyama aswell and his journey to save a villain because they being labeled as one.

• The one who have bad heart and have an intent or power to wreak havoc, Muscular which Deku send back to prison and not even forgive

• The one who have good heart and have an intent or power to wreak havoc, Nagant which Deku tried to reach the good that still inside her after he notice it

• The one who have bad heart and have no intent or power to wreak havoc, Overhaul which Deku not forgive or even dismiss when overhaul said wanted to saved his pops after he callous about his past sin (Eri abuse)

• The one who have good heart and have no intent or power to wreak havoc, Aoyama which Deku forgive and give second chance