you can even pair the 8x13 (the finale) with the two short episodes that dropped afterwards and wrap it up that way. It’ll make sense trust me you’ll get why🙏🏾

but you might prefer to use it cause it has a skip intro and skip credits button

just to let you know there’s actually only two more episodes left and then the remaining episodes are random filler so you can skip those probably!

In Japan, the school year starts in Spring, not late Summer/early Autumn like in the States. Their school year starts in early April and ends in late March. This lines up with their fiscal year as well as the blooming of their cherry blossom trees. 

So, their first term is April - late July, with a 6 week summer vacation. Their second term runs September to late December, with a 2 week Winter break. Third term is January - late March, with a 2 week Spring break. So 10 weeks of break time in total. Which is significantly less than the 14 - 17 weeks American students get.

As an aside, their Jr and High school grades are slightly different as well. They break both up into 3, rather than our typical 2 and 4. Jr high is 7th - 9th grade (12 - 15... which is why you often have 15 year old anime characters in Jr high rather than High school.) High school is 10th - 12th. Their high school application process is also different - it's almost like applying to college here. It is extremely competitive and you can be denied on even small matters. So students typically apply to more than one. They have to go through a formal application process as well as Entrance Exams. It also seems that they are expected to know what colleges they want to apply to and their career goals fairly quickly after entering high school. Unlike here though, high school really isn't mandatory in Japan.  

As an additional aside because this came up when we saw that Ochaco has her own apartment - minors who are legal citizens actually can live alone in Japan. They just have to have written parental consent, a parental financial guarantor, and a legal adult cosigner. This is another thing I noticed in a lot of the anime I've seen... teens and even children living alone, usually in small apartments. One of the benefits of this is that kids who get into schools far away from where they live, or are in rural areas with no high school, can live on their own near whatever school that they're accepted to. And I think they tend to go home on weekends and during school breaks.  

My answer: yes.

I see it as quirks having 2 main aspects, with some having both and some only having one or the other. Physical mutation, and ability. Example, shoto’s ability is to create fire and ice at will, his hair being half white half red is a latent physical mutation tied into that. He was born with his hair half-half, but his abilities didn’t manifest until he was four.

I apply the same logic to people like gang orca, shoji, selkie, tsuyu, mutant types in general. They were born with whatever physical mutations they have but certain abilities tied into their physical mutations developed later. For selkie that probably means he was born a seal, but he developed his echolocation later. Gang orca was born an orca but developed his ability to use hypersonic waves later. Some I think are even subtler, like bakugou’s sweat functioning similarly to nitroglycerin. Physical mutation: his sweat has a different chemical makeup. Ability: he can consciously ignite his sweat to create explosions at will. Without the latter, his quirk would just be nitroglycerin sweat and wouldn’t be useful for much.

At the same time some people only have one of those aspects. Like how ojiro has a tail, but no extra abilities with that. Or how momo has her creation, ability to convert lipids into other atoms, but there isnt a physical mutation along with that.

So in short: yes he was born a seal. And yes his parents had to teach a seal japanese.