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Horikoshi is the goat for making this arc the second internship arc, and having it air during the first internship arc in Season 4.

Hawks says all the pieces are in place & we see the path to Ujiko’s lab where Shigaraki is.

Shirakumo’s Clue was “Hospital”.

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So, not only are we in an arc that mirrors the original arc in a few ways

So far, there being a long set up for the main conflict of the arc, the students interning under various heroes, dark developments in the villain world going on as our students gain new experience, etc 2/

But could we also be in an arc that continues this trend of being a bigger, grander version of the original internship arc with Overhaul and Eri?

Let’s discuss ~ 3/

Only a matter of time until the heroes locate which hospital Ujiko is hiding out in. He operated in public for a long time as a public doctor, he had to have been involved in how Shirakumo’s body was stolen, and more obviously he’s how AFO survived and escaped AM prestory 4/

But what happens when they do?

Well, much like we saw in this season, they could send out a request for multiple agencies to work together and conduct a raid on the facility in question, literally leading us to Shigaraki’s version of the Overhaul arc. 5/

Remember Hawks isn’t trying to wait the 4 months. He’s known for being too fast for his own good, he’s trying to get all of this handled and wrapped up IMMEDIATELY. As he’s said, the pieces are all in place. If the heroes raid Ujiko’s base, would Hawks join in? Could he? 6/

Regardless, at the beginning of this arc, we got to see all of our beloved students alongside various heroes, INCLUDING, some of them the top 10 heroes.

Earlier in the arc it seems like the focus was for them all to train this generation of students as fast as they can 7/

So could we see the various hero teams and agencies that we saw at the beginning of the arc in those amazing spreads, teaming up together?

A full force attack on Ujiko’s base to prevent whatever’s be happening in 4 months... they could even retrieve the quirk erasing serum 8/

IF this is the case though, this is actually making me believe this arc isn’t LEADING UP to MHA’s big war arc, it might actually BE MHA’s war arc.

If the heroes raid the Ujiko’s base, they have to deal with the High End Nomu which I’m sure are finished by now, F I R S T. 9/

Let’s say the combined force of all of the heroes and students can take down whichever high end Nomu ARE finished.

They’d THEN likely have to contend with whichever members of the Villain Alliance that Ujiko wants to teleport using John Chan. How many CAN he teleport? 10/

Imagine a large force of Liberation Army members along with the generals arriving on the scene, and the boss battles of this arc (like Kiri v Rappa or Mirio v Overhaul) are the heroes fight High Ends + ReDestro, Geten, Giganto, Dabi and the literally thousands of others? 11/

Will save what I’m thinking for a video as far as how they’d win or survive that fight, but retrieving the key to saving Mirio’s future, along with massively weakening the army by taking out the high ends and Ujiko + his lab would be a BIG W even if Shiggy still evolves 12/

And keep in mind that Eri’s horn has been recharging since the first Internship arc, and it COINCIDENTALLY happens to be ready for another use as we reach the second Internship arc. Could she play a role? Liberation Front Raid time? WAR TIME!?!? 13/

Always enjoy when the ongoing manga links back to the current anime season. Isayama does this and it makes me smile, but seeing Hori do it a bit more and with such a potentially MASSIVE arc which is a sequel to one of his most popular arcs and most hyped up anime season, is

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