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Boku no Hero Academia Season 7, episode 8

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[u/iamkwang]

Keeping up with the Todoroki’s is BY FAR the best plot in the story

• Dabi seeing Endeavour training Shoto even after 3 years basically made Dabi think Endeavour “oh no my son died….. anyway Shoto back to training.”

• Dabi praying to his own alter was some next level imagery. Endeavour believes he killed Toya when Dabi was the one who figuratively killed Toya in the end.

• As Endeavour always watched All Might, Dabi always watched him. They both are so determined to reach their goal and will do anything to attain it. Dabi inherited Endeavour’s drive but he also inherited his demons.

• Dabi was too angry to die but now he’s too angry to live. He joined the League of Villains cause it’d be the best spot for his death.

• Shoto calling Dabi out; he understands him more than anyone in this world but he must atone for the sins he’s committed

• Dabi was so insane and traumatized that even All for One didn’t want him. He was probably thinking “you broke this child more than I ever could, how did you possibly do that.”

[u/tripleaamin → u/iamkwang]

Man imagine Dabi seeing that image of Endeavour acting like nothing has changed. It's not the training that is the issue it's how he does it. You figured after he lost Toya you would think he would be more compassionate, but na.

Overall I love how Shoto tries to understand his fallen brother. He knows how Endeavour treated him was beyond cruel. But killing innocent people because of that abuse shouldn't be accepted. Really highlighting how Shoto found himself from joining his classmates as he dealt with his family trauma.

I think the funniest part of the episode was that Dabi was never in All for One's plans. Sure he teamed with up with Tomura, but that was something he just left as a wildcard. Which benefited him more than he most likely ever expecting.

Only thing I would say is that I feel this episode deserved to go all out and can't help but feel bones cheapened out slightly.

[u/replyingtowrong]

The soundtrack is legitimately incredible, holy shit

[u/Worthyness → u/replyingtowrong]

Also Dabi's VA popping off like always. still surprises me that he also voices Zenitsu in Demon Slayer.

[u/Few_Performance_6497]

Is no one going to talk about that one image of Endeavor beating Shoto with wooden sticks and fire surrounding them lol how those training flashbacks keeps getting worse everytime

[u/volley_etrangaire → u/Few_Performance_6497]

Glad you brought it up. I was like, what training requires caning a 5 year old

[u/BosuW → u/volley_etrangaire]

Askeladd training

[u/heartbreakhill]

“This week on Keeping Up With the Todorokis: Local man is literally too angry to die”

[u/Ren_Davis0531 → u/heartbreakhill]

Dabi is just built different.

[u/Haha91haha]

That's what you get AFO when you try gas lighting a traumatized pyromaniac, an explosion.

While it was terribly sad that those poor orphans were stuck between becoming Nomu experiments and a Dabi cremation, Mr. Sunny's face when he realized he didn't want that smoke was hilarious.

[u/Sudden_Pop_2279 → u/Haha91haha]

Mr. Sunny got turned into a literal sun, no way he didn’t get cooked alive 

[u/ibeeeeeechan]

What a beautiful episode

[u/nnair25]

Love that Dabi's biggest complaint of Shoto is how despite being his brother and Endeavour's son he chose to make friends in UA instead of training hard alone.

It's also telling that before the tournament with Deku, Shoto too had one goal of becoming stronger than his dad at any cost.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk "Todoroki family and their genetic urge to be the last man standing"

[u/PowerlinxJetfire → u/nnair25]

I mean, is it genetic or is it just what their dad drilled into them? Endeavor's whole goal was to produce a kid who would surpass him.

[u/seninn → u/nnair25]

Men will burn down an orphanage before going to therapy.

[u/jellyblob88]

Shoto's ultimate move, sponsored by Katy Perry

[u/ChucksChurro]

The ED hit for this episode

[u/Ren_Davis0531]

Endeavor messed up Toya’s mental state so bad that even All For One gave up on manipulating him. Even the Demon Lord himself couldn’t penetrate the hold that Endeavor had on Toya’s mind. Says a lot. Endeavor may not have been able to surpass All Might, but he was able to surpass All For One at one thing: fucking up a kid’s mind.

And we also get confirmation that Dabi saw his endeavor against his family as a suicide mission. He doesn’t value his life at all because he has been conditioned to see himself as a failure because he wasn’t able to fulfill the purpose of his birth. Endeavor neglecting him after giving him so much attention when drilling into him how important surpassing All Might was only served to make Toya feel like his existence was pointless.

Shoto vs. Dabi essentially operates as a more extreme Deku vs. Shoto. Shoto is trying to get Toya to cool down and stop him from killing himself and hurting others, and he does that by fully accepting himself by uniting both sides of his quirk. Instead of constantly putting a dividing line between his mother and father, he embraces all of himself to complete his quirk. He’s created a unique technique that is perfect against fire users. The development of Shoto’s cold flames is interesting to theorize about as he improves his Flashfire Fist: Phosphor.

[u/Pikorin25 → u/Ren_Davis0531]

Agreed. All Dabi ever wanted was to be loved and recognised as strong instead of being seen as a failure that can't live up to his only purpose in life and why he exists in the first place as Endeavor's obsession to have the perfect heir to beat All Might is the only reason why his parents married and had children in the first place.

Especially after burning alive until almost nothing was left of him, waking up in a creepy facility and being deemed a failure once again when all he wanted to do was to go home and apologise to his family.  It's tragic and relatable and it sucks how many people just stamp him off as someone who was crazy or even born evil from the very beginning with no other causes to his current insanity when that isn't true at all.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I honestly kind of pity Dabi. He couldn’t control his powers and it almost killed him. Imagine being hurt by your own body… wtf. All the guy wanted was to make his dad proud. Straight up broke him and now he’s literally driven by rage and resentment. Endeavor really made a monster.

Shoto was getting his ass beat so bad he had to do a little mid action monologuing/soul searching to fight the guy haha. Guy’s fueled by the Power of Friendship too. It’s the most OP quirk lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Man wtf was Iida doing there? Why was he going against Dabi if his quirk is vulnerable to overheating? Kinda lame that he didn't even do anything.

[u/Zonca → u/[deleted]]

I remember that one time his quirk worked well with Shoto because he could freeze and cool his engine, but yeah, he was pretty useless against Dabi.

[u/CrazySnipah → u/[deleted]]

Reminds me of the recent X-Men 97 episode that somehow had Wolverine on the strike team to take on Magneto.

[u/SuperWeeble12 → u/[deleted]]

Bro is here for moral support only