My Hero Academia's Traitor Arc is Ignoring a Massive Conflict - Screen Rant

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 338!

Class 1-A is about to undergo a new mysterious mission involving the traitor Yuga Aoyama at the expense of an earlier undertaking that My Hero Academia has seemingly forgotten about completely.

After learning about Yuga and his family's betrayal in My Hero Academia's traitor arc, the vast majority of class 1-A's students as well as their teacher Shota Aizawa decide they can use them to their advantage to somehow deceive All For One. Unfortunately for readers, the capacity at which U.A. High will utilize the Aoyama family is completely unknown as of this moment. Not wanting to risk All For One discovering his plan, Aizawa plugs Yuga and his parents' ears so he can safely explain the plan to his students. This apparently included readers' ears as well because fans could only see, not hear, everyone's reaction to Aizawa's scheme in chapter 338. The plan is ostensibly so involved that class 1-A later decides they need to get their costumes upgraded. Deku even seeks out Mei Hatsume who's constructed various gadgets for him in the past including his Iron Soles.

While My Hero Academia is setting up what looks to be an exciting and action-packed mission, mangaka Kohei Horikoshi seems to have completely forgotten about class 1-A's original plan to help win over the angry mob that had been willing to sacrifice a boy like Deku for their own safety. The public's anger towards Deku was the culmination of one of My Hero Academia's few long-running conflicts that began when All Might retired as the number-one hero and the villain Dabi exposed the truth about All Might's replacement Endeavor. Trust in hero society had been in freefall ever since, and when citizens were forced to leave their homes to live in the sanctity of U.A. High, their patience snapped when they learned that the boy All For One was targeting was seeking protection in the same place they were forced to reside. They already didn't trust heroes and blamed them for their current predicament, so why should they put themselves in more danger for another hero?

It was crucial that My Hero Academia tackled this issue head-on because the series had been suffering from a bout of ineffective writing up until that point, which involved introducing random new conflicts and resolving them too quickly so the more pressing problems could finally be addressed. A perfect example of this was Star and Stripe, the first foreign hero to appear in the main series who just happened to show up at the 11th hour before getting killed just a few short chapters later. While a dynamic character, her introduction felt wholly ambivalent, especially since she had never been mentioned up until that moment. This current traitor arc feels exactly the same way. Class 1-A had already decided to try and connect with the angry mob living at U.A. High like how they did with their fellow classmates during the annual school festival. But then, all of a sudden, there was apparently a traitor living amongst them, and that had to be dealt with immediately at the expense of addressing the tensions between hero society and the public that had already been rising steadily for quite some time.

It's just odd that mangaka Kohei Horikoshi has been saying that he plans on this being My Hero Academia's final arc and yet keeps on adding these ambivalent new conflicts at random intervals, which only serve to dilute the series' conclusion. Either Horikoshi will just ignore class 1-A's plan on trying to connect with the public or just quickly wrap it up once their current mission with Yuga Aoyama ends.

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