My Hero Academia Final Season Episode 10 Teases Shigaraki’s Return — Are the Heroes Out of Time?

My Hero Academia Final Season episode 10 mostly wrapped on a hopeful note… and then the post-credits scene dropped like a brick. If you saw a tied-up figure in a wrecked building with inky tendrils curling around his fingers and thought, wait, is Shigaraki back? — you were not alone. Short answer: no. Long answer: it is setting up a very specific epilogue beat the anime is only now teasing.

Quick spoiler heads-up

This dives into the manga epilogue material the show is sliding toward. If you want to stay purely anime-blind, bail now.

About that post-credits stinger

The mysterious guy is Koki Terumoto, a new character, not a resurrected Shigaraki. The confusion makes sense: those shadowy tendrils are part of his Quirk, and the scene deliberately frames him like a lurking threat. But the season has already made Shigaraki’s fate pretty explicit. Deku even delivered Shigaraki’s final words to Spinner earlier in the episode. So, no tricks — this isn’t a backdoor revival.

Who Koki is, and why he matters

Koki’s backstory is rough. His family decided his Quirk was a freak anomaly — it didn’t match anyone else’s in the bloodline — and turned on him. Abuse led to imprisonment; they tied him up and locked him in the basement. When his screaming wouldn’t stop, they literally sewed his mouth shut. Then things got even more grotesque: convinced the country was finished, his family abandoned him with a stash of food and water and vanished.

What finally freed him wasn’t kindness — it was collateral damage. The big final battle destroyed his house, letting him claw his way out. That’s the moment we see in the post-credits: a shell-shocked kid blinking into daylight for the first time in forever while dark energy curls around his fingers.

So what is his Quirk?

It’s called Darkness. The full power set hasn’t been laid out yet in the anime, but we know enough to read the scene: he’s overwhelmed, sees people celebrating, and snaps. He’s inches from lashing out at random civilians when someone stops him — and this is the clever, slightly deep-cut part.

The woman who changes everything

An older woman grabs Koki and checks on him. She’s the same person who once crossed paths with a young Shigaraki and has carried the guilt of not helping him. This time, she does the opposite: she actually reaches out. That small act breaks Koki’s spiral, and he bursts into tears. It’s not subtle, but it hits: same city, same kind of kid, different choice. Different outcome.

Where this is heading

• Post-credits of episode 10: Koki escapes the basement wreckage; tendrils suggest Darkness, not a Shigaraki comeback.
• Immediate aftermath: he’s furious at a world that kept turning while he suffered; an older woman intervenes before he attacks.
• Epilogue (time skip): eight years later, Koki enrolls at U.A. and ends up as one of Midoriya’s students.

The point the story is making

This isn’t teasing a new Big Bad; it’s showing the world trying to make sure there isn’t another Shigaraki. When people are quicker to help — and when there aren’t literal monsters stoking chaos — kids like Koki get saved instead of weaponized. It’s blunt, but effective, and honestly a smarter way to close the loop than rolling out yet another doom-prophet with hand motifs.

Final thought

As teases go, it’s a good misdirect with a decent gut punch at the end. Curious how far the anime will go with Koki’s Darkness and that eight-year jump, but the intent is clear: same crossroads, better choices.

My Hero Academia is streaming on Crunchyroll in the US.