Ochako Steals the Show at Last in My Hero Academia Final Season Episode 10 Review

Spoiler alert: major spoilers for My Hero Academia Final Season Episode 10.

Episode 10 is the show going all-in on fallout and feelings. It ties off a bunch of character threads, lets the grief hang heavy, and still circles back to why this series works. It also gets a little preachy, but the hit rate is high enough that I didn’t mind.

The war is over, but everyone’s wrecked

The episode lives in the aftermath, and that’s where it’s at its best. Heroes, villains, and anyone caught in between are dealing with guilt, anger, and the kind of damage you can’t punch away. Honestly, this stretch of the story shines before the narrative does its rushed timeskip thing.

Who gets closure (and who can’t take it yet)

• Lady Nagant turns down freedom. Hawks shows up to tell her she’s been pardoned, and she basically says: I’m not stepping out until I see if Deku’s big ideals actually change anything. She’s still scared of Hero Society, and the show lets that land.
• Overhaul pops back up, stripped of the menace: no mask, no glare, just a wreck. He tries to face his former boss and gets shut down, hard, for what he did to Eri. Watching him break is brutal and, frankly, satisfying.
• Deku confronts Spinner. Spinner calls him a murderer, and Deku doesn’t deny it. He’s carrying Shigaraki’s memory whether he likes it or not, and you can feel Spinner’s grief in that moment. It’s messy in a good way.
• Ochako Uraraka takes the spotlight. She hasn’t recovered from Toga’s death, and the episode sits with her guilt. Alone, spiraling, convinced it’s on her. Then Deku uses the last of his embers to find her and just be there. The montage of all the times she saved him is a lovely flipping of the usual script: she’s not just the cheerleader for Deku and Bakugo; she’s a hero who has carried others, repeatedly.

Performance and craft

Bones continues to show off. The animation has that polished, sensitive touch you want in an episode built on faces and silence as much as action. The voice work matters too: Daiki Yamashita and Ayane Sakura pull every ounce of tenderness and pain out of those scenes. It’s gentle, and it hurts.

Heavy, but not joyless

Yes, the episode makes you sit with grief. It also makes room for gratitude and a couple of well-timed jokes. Bakugo’s chaos returns in small but welcome hits, and the eager underclassmen gawking at the OG Class 1-A is sweet without getting syrupy. Ochako finally gets recognized as the great hero she is, and it’s not just Deku who notices something’s off with her — the whole class and Aizawa step up. Eri and Jiro singing together near the end isn’t fully developed, but it’s warm enough to leave a mark.

What the show is saying (out loud)

The episode isn’t subtle about it: the hero world is broken when it treats vulnerability like a defect. Deku’s whole deal is that he didn’t, and that’s why he’s the guy. The nice adjustment here is spreading that spotlight — others deserve the credit too, and Episode 10 actually delivers on that.

Stick around after the credits

If you watched past the memory reel, you saw it: a boy climbing out of a wrecked house. The image immediately echoes Shigaraki. The episode keeps his identity vague on purpose, but he’s clearly important next week.

Bottom line: this season hasn’t missed. It keeps taking the manga’s big beats and polishing them. Episode 10, especially, is the series distilled — bruised, earnest, occasionally sermon-y, and very effective.

My Hero Academia is streaming on Crunchyroll. What did you think of Episode 10?