Whoah. That changed everything. It's the show's most important season, even including subsequent ones.

The first half is just another supervillain battle. The show's been building up to this attack from the Paranormal Liberation Front and it's one hell of a fight. They have a Titan, c.f. Attack on Titan. albeit one that doesn't eat people. Key characters return from previous seasons, giving us interesting insights into them. Himiko Toga is a psychopath, but she loved Jin like a brother and she has things she loves and cares about. However, she'll kill at the drop of a hat and enjoys doing so.

It occurs to me that Momo Yaoyorozu is theoretically a parody of fanservice-friendly superheroines, including a superpower that needs exposed skin and almost 100% cleavage... yet, somehow, her character design seems almost wholesome. Even Tsuyu Asui is hotter. The sexiest heroine is Mount Lady, who doesn't show skin at all.

Anyway, that battle has a revelation from the villains that's... wow. Also, it has an even greater effect on society than it does on the audience.

Public trust in superheroes collapses. Civilisation doesn't collapse, but it takes big strides in that direction. Civilians are rejecting heroes, while still expecting to be spoon-fed by them. People can be selfish entitled bastards. Heroes quit the profession. It feels like the end. This could easily have killed the system outright and guillotined the series on a downer ending. Midoriya turns Lone Dark Knight. One villain was an official assassin employed by the hero authorities, which is a new level of darkness. All this can stir powerful emotions. I loved Midoriya vs. the rest of Class 1A, which was a complete about-turn from the previous episode with All Might and Hero Killer Stain. "She's the last person All Might saved."

At its best, I loved it. This show's strongest episodes are among the best superhero stories I've seen, in English or Japanese. Mind you, its OVA episodes are comedy standalones, e.g. the silly baseball.

I'm lumping these together because they're basically one long battle. This is a shounen series. It was guaranteed to end up like that. The horrors of Season 6 were basically setting up the mother of all battles. There's something after the fighting, mind you. The last few episodes are an epilogue. Civilisation returns. There's a timeskip and the survivors grow up, choose careers and build new lives. There's even a relationship bit at the end for Midoriya and Uraraka (which doesn't go far enough, but it's nice).

But it's mostly about the battles. This is, in fairness, pretty cool. There's a heroic petrifying disintegration. That was emotionally stirring (and, in this show, death is permanent). A traitor is the only person who might be able to trick All For One. There are serious family issues with Endeavour and his children who hate him and might kill him. There's society-wide racism against heteromorphs (i.e. visibly non-human superheroes) and a baddie who's trying to start riots and put back social progress by 30 years. I love the characters they chose for the Season 7 finale climax. That's great work there. One of my favourite things, though, is all the minor characters who return from nice but minor story arcs that you might have forgotten. I was delighted to see these apparently one-off people getting major roles, including one that's extremely surprising. (A serial killer and a former Big Bad won't do what you'd expect.)

There's still absolutely no fanservice, of course. Deku is pathetically, comedically innocent. "B-B-By boyfriend, you mean you want to go to the amusement park and hold hands and share a crepe, right?" (And, yes, Uravity is listening.)

Everyone's important. We see Invisible Girl! Literally, because there's a loophole in her invisibility. Bakugo's final big return is pretty damn cool and I love how they use Midoriya's idealism. It's stirring and scary, but it also made me laugh. (Bakugo can be funny just with his intense facial expressions.) I don't imagine I'll ever rewatch all 171 episodes + specials + movies of this show, because there's so damn much of it, but it's strong enough that I could imagine doing so. There's a My Hero Academia: Vigilantes spin-off TV series (aired its second season this year) and a just-announced special called I Am A Hero Too that'll focus on the support character of Eri. I'll be watching those too.