Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 165

 Izuku risks it all to save the world but also just one sad, angry, broken child. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 164

 Izuku has to give up something big to save the day.

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 163

 Like so many villains, AFO's origin is sad and petty.

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 162

 Bakugo is shifting into Turbo. 

Last time on My Hero Academia Stain tried helping for once. He used Blood Curdle to paralyze AFO and rushed him with All Might to try to finish off the Demon Lord. Unfortunately, AFO anticipated Stain trying to get involved and made sure he had a quirk that let him expel his blood and then also to change his antigens, giving him a different blood type. AFO lays the beatdown on Stain, thanking the psycho for all that he did to help develop the League of Villains and Shigaraki, but say that the only thing he has left to contribute is his Quirk. He pops Stain like a blood balloon and steals his Quirk. All Might is badly hurt in this tussle, but visions of Nana and his old apprentice Nighteye get him to keep going. Bored with this, AFO tries to Sludge Warp Tomura Shigaraki to him so he could transfer his quirks and re-possess Tomura. Tomura refuses to go, though, and tells the old man to back off. AFO grabs All Might and flies to the Flying Coffin to show off the defeat of All Might to Izuku and the world. Young Midoriya’s attention is torn between battling Tomura and trying to think of something he could do to help his mentor. AFO lifted All Might overhead and began to slowly rip him in half. Izuku reached out to his mentor, and Tsukauchi begged someone, anyone to save All Might. To everyone’s surprise, this seemed to have worked, as it was at this exact moment that Bakugo’s heart kicked back on and Katsuki “Dynamite” Bakugo is looking to save the day. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

We open with AFO slowly ripping All Might in half as everyone watches in horror. We’re shown how people around the world are reacting, some are horrified, some are treating it’s not their business, some are interested but in a ‘I’m not scared just curious’ sort of way, and so on. Meryl, the weather girl that tried to speak out about what was happening in Japan, is noticing a weird cloud causing weird changes to the weather. Bakugo gets up and starts breathing hard. We shift to showing various people praying for intervention for All Might. We get the final line from Meryl’s broadcast, ‘One person has the power to change the world.’ As that line is spoken, Izuku and Bakugo make eye contact, nod, and both lock into their assigned task. Izuku must beat Tomura Shigaraki, and Bakugo must save All Might. Bakugo leaps from the Flying Coffin and rockets toward Izuku. Izuku spins himself and Tomura around and catches Bakugo by the wrist. He keeps spinning, build momentum. Kudo manifests to Izuku and warns against using Gear Shift so soon, he says that his body will get hit with serious recoil and he should save the attack for when he has a clear path to victory. Kudo looks over and sees that All Might’s energy Vestige has started shifting to look more like the actual man and goes quite. Izuku used Second Gear and Bakugo fires off an explosion to rocket at AFO. Tomura mocks Izuku, saying Bakugo will never make it in time. He knows about the Vestige in Izuku’s head and says that it’s starting to gain definition because All Might is about to die. He predicts with All Might’s death, it’ll show the world the future of peace he promised was a lie and that will break them. We then see that the tailwind blowing behind Bakugo is increasing. Izuku remembers Nighteye’s last words to All Might, how Izuku changed the future when he couldn’t. He felt like maybe, somehow, people’s thoughts can alter fate. If enough people believe something with their whole being, maybe that’s enough to change the future. Bakugo rockets forward, faster and faster, remembering how he felt when he realized All Might lost his power because of him. He collides with AFO, grabs All Might and breaks him free of AFO.

 

The second he’s out of AFO’s hands, the Vestige of him returns to a yellow cloud All Might asks what Bakugo is doing here and he screams ‘Let’s win this!’ All Might seems to pass out and sees a vision of Sir Nighteye. He asks if this was supposed to be the end. Nighteye confirms that, yep, if things had gone like he’d seen, All Might should have been ripped in half. But somehow, fate has been rewritten. Nighteye says that All Might’s dream is over, but he hasn’t been beaten yet. He needs to do all he can to fulfill his promise to Izuku and the world. All Might laughs and says that he thought that the mentor was supposed to die when they pass the baton. Nighteye shrugs and says that this is life, not a comic book. All Might asks what is he even supposed to do with this hallucination, what’s the point. Nighteye tells him that he is a person, but he’s a hero too, so he doesn’t get to die so easily.

 

The world reacts in confusion to Bakugo’s sudden save, some recognizing him as the crazy kid that made a ruckus at the sports festival, some remember that he was kidnapped by the League of Villains, but Maharo Shimano (older sister from Heroes Rising) remembers the hero, Bakugo! Bakugo and All Might hit a building and roll to the other side. Bakugo drags himself upward and stands between All Might and AFO. All Might asks if he’s alright, and Bakugo says he should ask him the same. Edgeshot comes from Bakugo’s chest, warning that Bakugo’s body was royally screwed up. He did the best he could to sew him up and wrap up his bones, but Bakugo did straight up die. Edgeshot drops to the ground, exhausted and used up from making himself so thin and doing all that work to get Bakugo up again. He says that Bakugo shouldn’t be moving right now and that every breath will be agony for a while. Bakugo thanks him for saving his life. Edgeshot tells him not to, as he only stitched him up. He tried to use his special technique to get Bakugo’s heart beating again, but it wasn’t working. He hit the point where he was going to have to choose between trying to save Bakugo or saving himself, when some of Bakugo’s explosive sweat somehow got into Bakugo’s blood stream and the mini-explosions from that got his heart going again. Edgeshot says that what saved Bakugo was his mastery over his quirk. I’m calling bullshit on the science of that, but let’s move on. Bakugo goes back to his bombastic self, asking who this young idiot with an actual face is, as he thought he was going to fight AFO. All Might says that is AFO and calls Bakugo over. He says that his suit is basically out of power, but the gauntlet he has should work as a splint. He transfers the gauntlet to Bakugo’s right arm, which gets it back in working condition. Bakugo starts tearing up at having received a gift from All Might.

 

AFO looks incredibly torn on what to do. He thinks about going after All Might to finish him off, but decides against it. He has to transfer himself to Tomura ASAP or risk de-aging into nothing. He decides to take OFA and his brother first. He flies over, intent on transferring his Quirk and mind into Tomura’s body. He curses that Tomura resisted his other self when he tried to teleport the boy to him. He thought he’d accounted for every variable. To which I say, bro, if you didn’t think Tomura Shigaraki was going to be a stubborn, willful child, you didn’t account for crap. He flashes back to his boast to the League that he plans every route carefully with contingency plans, so if the optimal route is blocked, he’ll just switch to a new one. He’s visibly infuriated that he’s been foiled so many times today. He knows he’s powerful enough to handle any one of the heroes that has stood against him today, but they just keep getting in his way. He mentally shrieks, asking “why does it feel like the gears are slipping out of place! The Winds should be blowing in MY favor!” And its at that moment that Bakugo all but teleports to his side. He screams, “I’m the final boss, got it?! All For One!” and grabs AFO’s face and blasts him to kingdom come. He boasts that because He, not sure if he means All Might or Izuku, can’t beat AFO, he’s going to be the to end AFO.

 

The cops at HQ take a moment to celebrate Bakugo saving All Might before Tsukauchi asks for a status update. The big fights are mostly over at this point. They’ve got Skeptic and Spinner in custody, the Nomus have all been defeated on the island, and they’re freeing the heroes that Kunieda captured. There’s still fighting at the stadium, but that was like 5^th on the list of battles so that’s acceptable. They’ve evacuated everyone from UA to Shiketsu high. The only folks unaccounted for at the moment are Kurogiri, Present Mic and Aizawa. Which isn’t great but isn’t terrible either. We return to the rooftop that Lady Nagant passed out on. She woke up in time to see Bakugo blast AFO.

 

All Might is impressed with his other protegees extreme speed. The still tiny Edgeshot says that Bakugo, despite his injuries, was able to move so fast that not even Tomura Shigaraki could keep up with him earlier. He thinks Bakugo is on the cusp of learning something important.

 

Bakugo thinks to himself that using his Quirk hurts right now, but he’s going to keep fighting. AFO drags himself out of the crater Bakugo blasted him into, infuriated and swearing he’s going to finish this.

 

Tomura is annoyed that Bakugo refuses to die. He thinks Bakugo is a gnat or a cockroach that he intends to keep squishing until it takes. He breaks free of Black Whip and starts scratching his neck again. Izuku assesses the situation. He’s been able to keep Shigaraki at bay with his quirks, specifically Black Whip and Danger Sense, but he just doesn’t know how he’ll finish off someone that can 1. Regenerate endlessly and 2. Kill him in one hit. He knows that he needs to use Gear Shift to do it, but that using that Quirk will render him immobile when the power runs out or he switches it off. It’s all or nothing. He prepares the Shift. Izuku and Bakugo mentally scream that it’s time to go beyond as the fighting resumes.

 

AFO rockets past Bakugo, intent on stealing OFA. Bakugo screams after him “Do you think I’m an extra?” AFO assesses that Bakugo’s power is middling at best and he’s not on the level of All Might, Endeavor or even Dark Shadow in terms of intimidation. He’s just got a schedule to keep. That’s why he’s running like a coward. He’s running because he doesn’t want to risk having to use Rewind again just in case this pissant gets a good hit in. Bakugo meanwhile has had an epiphany about his explosions. He’s figured out how to time them, to use them to their maximum effect. This seems to essentially give him access to the Speed Force from DC comics as he rockets like the Flash after AFO and blasts him out of the sky. He’s coughing up blood as he goes too far, passing AFO, and cackling that he went too fast. AFO tries to keep flying but Bakugo dogs him the whole way. Bakugo remembers asking if he could ever hope to catch up to Izuku, and realizes that maybe, just maybe, he’ll be able to surpass Izuku.

 

At Shiketsu, Mitsuki Bakugo shakes her husband’s shoulder and makes Masaru watch their son go apeshit on AFO. He’s scared for his son. Mitsuki tells him to suck it up, for Katsuki, because despite everything she knows he still has a grin on his face.

 

The woman knows her boy well.

 

A grinning Bakugo is scaring the piss out of AFO. He’s baffled as to why Bakugo is making him react so passionately, even more so than when he faced All Might. He flashes back to when he killed Kudo. He had the man by the throat as Kudo told him that his brother, Yoichi was dead, and the ‘demon lord’ himself killed him. AFO actually started to cry upon hearing that. He realizes the hate he feels toward Bakugo is the same as he felt towards Kudo. Kudo, who ruined everything. Kudo that even ruined Yoichi. He shrieks that Kudo ruined everything when he reached out his hand to Yoichi. He realizes that the same thing happened again when Izuku grabbed Bakugo’s hand and this whole fight started going against him. Everyone watching the fight cheers as Bakugo blasts AFO into the side of a building again. AFO drags himself from the latest crater, shrieking that the person he hates most in the world, the one who ruined everything, the source of his hate was Kudo. Bakugo laughs at this, asks if he’s gone senile and proudly proclaims that his name is Kacchan Bakugo! Way to own your best frenemies childhood nickname for you, Katsuki.

 

On the one hand… Bakugo coming back to life and then using a newfound understanding of his explosions to essentially enter the Speed Force is silly, cheese, and kind of dumb if you think about it for more than a minute. Still… hype as hell. I knew that Bakugo would get back up, but I underestimated how much aura the boy would farm once he got into fight mode against AFO. There are few scenes that are as cool as when a hero locks in against someone that they or their allies were struggling with and suddenly they make the villain flee. AFO doing his best to rationalize why he was afraid and running just added to the moment. On paper, this fight should still be one sided, but because of his dwindling time and the destructive force of Bakugo’s power, I get why AFO is starting to panic that maybe Bakugo will do enough damage that he’ll have to Rewind more. He’s definitely hitting the limits of what time he can spare. The reveal that Kudo earned a special bit of enmity from AFO due to whatever part he played in Yoichi Shigaraki’s life and death was interesting. I’d assumed that while AFO hates the OFA users, it was in a more clinical, detached sense. They are the ones that hold power he wants and continue to defy him, obviously he hates the OFA wielders. But… the idea that it might be a lingering resentment towards the second wielder is a… not shocking twist exactly but an interesting development. Makes everything that happened before this much more personal. It was cool to see how Nighteye’s vision was supposed to go. I totally get why Sir Nighteye was so dead set on trying to prevent what would have been an incredibly graphic death. Seeing the Symbol of Piece get split like Jazz in Michael Bay’s Transformers would have been a hell of a blow to moral worldwide. And I like the explanation that Izuku kind of… manifested this change. I like this idea that while yes, by in large a lot of what happens to people is ultimately too big to change even with foreknowledge, there are ways to shift things even if doing so is insanely rare. The power of positive thinking is silly in a lot of ways, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think there was merit to it. And if anything is going to change fate, it might as well be a nearly planet wide desire to save someone that spent decades trying to be Superman. Izuku struggling with Tomura is a little lame just because they didn’t do much besides get prepared to start fighting… but their struggle is the main event and we’ve got like six episodes left, so I get trying to tease it out a little. Guess we’ll see next time how it starts… oh, and I liked Bakugo owning the name Kacchan. His best Frenemy has called him that for years and he’s just now accepting it, it’s sweet. See you later. Have a good night and stay safe. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 161

Stain and All Might try to finish this fight with AFO once and for all. 

Last time on My Hero Academia All Might tried his Hail Mary. Using his Hercules battle system and a suit of power armor that could mimic his students Quirks, All Might led AFO on a merry chase through the ruins of Kamino Ward. He took a serious hit from AFO, but that was a calculated risk to force AFO into position. He trapped the self-proclaimed demon lord in mechanical tentacles and with ice so that he could be blasted by his Hercules cannon that floated above them. The laser was named after Aoyama’s hero name, Can’t Stop Twinkling, for dramatic purposes. The sustained burst from the cannon and a sonic attack based on Earphone Jack kept AFO pinned for a while, but eventually the cannon overloaded and AFO freed himself. The attack forced AFO to heal more using Rewind which, unbeknownst to him, has de-aged him to a young teen. Pissed off and just so done with All Might, AFO prepared to finish him off, but suddenly frozen in place. Why? Because Stain decided to intervene. The former hero killer licked up some of the blood AFO spilled and used his Quirk to paralyze the Demon Lord. He leaps in to help All Might attempt to finish AFO off once and for all. At the same time, Aoyama and Hagakure combine their powers to stop Kunieda, a Jailbreaker serial killer. Aoyama unleashed his naval laser without his control belt and Hagakure refracted the laser to increase its power.  Aoyama’s power seemingly increased, as a weird side effect of refracting his attack caused Hagakure to become semi-visible. He doesn’t care much about that, though, as he wants to save the heroes still caught in Kunieda’s killer plants as his last act as a UA student. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

We open with a flashback to a very young Toshinori Yagi singing a Japanese song while reading a book with his mother. Mrs. Yagi is a bright, smiling woman that cuddles her young son and encourages him to keep singing. It’s a genuinely sweet moment. Adult All Might is surprised to think that this memory is a part of him. He thinks about the choices that led him to this moment, fighting AFO, and how his life turned out this way. He walks a metaphorical path in his mind and picks up one of a dozen lights that formed behind him and wonders what comes next.

 

After that we return to the fight as it ended last time. All Might injured and running low on resources, gets attacked by an extremely young AFO who mocks him as best he can. He is saved at the last moment by Stain, who encourages All Might to destroy him.

 

We jump back a few minutes to Stain watching Shoto and Iida just before their mad dash to stop Toya and save the rest of the House of Todoroki. All Might radios them and tells them to make that mad dash. They prepare to make their run, and Stain dubs them ‘selfless and bold.’ Stain in his narrator voice tells us that he figured out what was happening via the context clues he got from eavesdropping on that conversation. He followed All Might and AFO across the ruins from a distance, their trail of destruction being incredibly easy to follow. He found blood smears as he went and tried to figure out if they were All Might’s or AFO’s. He claims to have a supernatural sense of smell even with his nose basically being sliced off. That’s some Tanjiro level of sniffing if he was able to figure out the owner by smell… but that’s far from the craziest thing I’ve written about this show over the years so let’s just roll with it.

 

He found a chunk of rock with AFO’s blood on it, licked it, and gloats that his power works on anyone so long as he tastes their blood. They rush AFO together; All Might prepares to strike AFO with his fist and Stain with his sword. He encourages All Might to endure, so they can defeat AFO together and so that All Might can ultimately find and end him, putting an end to Stain once and for all. Just before they hit, AFO activates a Quirk that lets him expel blood. The two combatants are soaked in red fluid as AFO starts to gloat. He knew that Stain would eventually try to interfere with this fight, so he had a contingency plan put in place. He saw Stain escape Tartarus that night and because Stain was the only Tartarus inmate to not join him, he knew he had to prepare. Stain tries to cut him anyway, saying that it’s still the same blood, but AFO catches him in a giant set of monster jaws he grew from his back. He has a quirk that let him change the antigens in his blood, making him effectively immune to Stain’s paralysis. He says that a trick to ruling from the shadows is to leave as few traces as possible. All Might tries to help Stain, but AFO whips Stain around to knock him back. He throws Stain across the city and into a building.

 

AFO and All Might chase him. AFO takes a moment to thank Stain, as his initial message about purging hero society was extremely useful in forging the League of Villains and Tomura Shigaraki into an effective force for him. But, alas, his usefulness has ended. Other than maybe his Quirk, which AFO thinks will be a very nice addition to his collection. An incredibly badly injured Stain says that his role isn’t done yet. All Might races to them, but he’s too slow. Stain raises his hands overhead, thinking that All Might was his mentor even if he’d not been a proper student. He wills All Might to fight on. And AFO pops him like a balloon. He then whips around and fires a plasma blast at All Might. The attack is too quick for All Might to react to, but Hercule’s rushes over and uses the last built of metal from the cannon to take the hit. The explosion still knocks All Might back.

 

He wakes up to a woman calling out to him by his real name, Toshinori. He wakes up to see Nana standing over him. His master tells him that she has to keep fighting, the story isn’t over just yet. She fades out and Nighteye fades in. He doesn’t say anything but stares at All Might. He says that he’s out of it, he can’t use his support items or his legs anymore. He remembers both Inko and Izuku Midoriya encouraging him to keep fighting because Izuku needs him as a mentor. He flips over and drags himself forward, saying that he’s not done yet and tells AFO to come get him. We see the swirling storm of energy surrounding Izuku’s fight with Tomura. AFO smiles as his body’s glow starts to dim.

 

At the Flying Coffin, we see that the Duplication of Twices breaking down into dust. Hatsume says that the weight of the Flying Coffin is dropping drastically and that they should be able to right themselves. We see a Yaoyorozu for just a moment, and she looks like she got her ass kicked keeping the Twices off them. At HQ, they’ve determined that AFO has reached the maximum distance for Sludge Warp to work and he can teleport to Izuku at any time. Tsukauchi is starting to panic now. He says that Izuku has been able to keep up with Tomura Shigaraki this whole time and that he’d been able to lure Shigaraki away from UA to reduce the risk to the others, but AFO can now teleport them whenever he wants. The balance of Power Izuku has maintained is about to break.

 

Shigaraki looks to the storm and lets us know his plan. Since activating Rewind, his main goal has been to get to this point. He’s going to reach Tomura and transfer his copy of AFO the Quirk to him. When the duplicated Quirk is absorbed, it’ll allow him to take control of Shigaraki again and make him even more powerful. All Might drags himself forward and tries to call AFO to pay attention to him again. AFO ignores him. He tries to Sludge Warp Tomura to him, as he needs to get Tomura away from Izuku for a few minutes to ensure the transfer goes smoothly. Tomura, grappling with Izuku, starts to barf up the sludge that will force him to his master’s side, but he bites down, breaking the sludge and thinks at AFO to not interfere. AFO says that it’s what he suspected that Tomura has absorbed AFO’s consciousness into him. It doesn’t matter, though, according to AFO, he’ll just go to them. He flies down to All Might, intent on finishing him off.

 

The business course students are still filming everything. They look up in time to see AFO dragging All Might’s limp body through the sky. He mocks All Might, asking if his countenance is so tragic because he led these children to their deaths.

 

Tomura mocks Izuku, saying that he really should rush over to save All Might. He promises to keep himself busy by murdering all the heroes that fought him earlier, and that they’ll all be dead by the time Izuku gets back. Izuku looks over and sees the limp All Might hanging from AFO’s grip. He remembers their promise to work together to fight fate. Narrator Present Mic lets us know that Izuku wants to be a good apprentice and that he’s ‘mastered’ his tears, but he’s once again holding them back as he dithers on what to do. Worst, inside Izuku’s mind palace, he feels All Might’s Vestige starting to fade. Which doesn’t make complete sense as he’s the only vestige of a living person. Surely the Vestige should get stronger as the real All Might dies, right?

 

Anyway, All Might remembers Izuku’s question about being a hero without a Quirk. He finally answers “yes,” and remembers all of the times that Izuku proved himself a hero since the start of the series, punching the robot in the entrance exam, battling his friends and the League of Villains and so on. He says that Izuku can’t give up on his dreams and neither can he. He wraps his arm around AFO’s neck. For some reason, this triggers a memory in AFO. We see the final moments of the battle between Nana Shimura and AFO. Nana sacrificed herself to hold AFO back, giving Gran Torino enough time to escape with young Toshinori. She asks her friend to see Toshinori’s training through and to help him become the symbol of piece. AFO says that she stuck to her convictions but lacked the power to see them through. He held Nana by the neck as the Seventh Wielder told him that Toshinori will beat him, as Toshinori is even crazier than AFO. In the present, the arm band around All Might’s forearm starts to glow. He says that he hopes that this explosion will be intense enough to revert AFO back to a toddler. AFO realizes in a panic that All Might intends to kill them both. All Might realized looking back on his life something important… but we don’t get to hear what that is. Why? AFO grew spines that pierced the arm band, breaking it before it could go off. He then licks All Might’s blood up and uses Blood Curdle to freeze him. He knows how dangerous a wounded hero can be, so he’s not taking any risk that All Might will find another way to foil him. He refuses to let All Might go out in a blaze of glory. He gives a full mouth ripping Joker grin when he sees All Might’s face and realizes that it is the look of ultimate despair he was hoping for.

 

At HQ, La Brava encourages Gentle to intervene. Gentle prepares to leap over since UA has stabilized, but then AFO unleashes a plasma blast and destroys UA’s engines again. Gentle scrambles to keep the Coffin afloat. AFO says that he got distracted and missed Gentle, but it doesn’t matter as his aspirations will crush him anyway. The Star brigade fly in and start firing on AFO. He barely cares, flicking a wrist and cutting their ships down.

 

The world watches as All Might is raised over AFO’s head. Everyone is panicking as they realize that they’re going to witness the death of All Might. We see Melissa Shield start to cry, as well as random citizens across Japan and the world process what they’re about to see. Someone says that the death of All Might, regardless of how it happens, will be the end of an era. AFO starts to pull, intending on ripping All Might’s legs from his body. Izuku reaches out to his mentor, and Tomura starts to struggle free of Izuku’s bonds. Tsukauchi begs someone, anyone to save All Might. There’s a MASSIVE explosion on the Flying Coffin, and who should struggle to his feet but Katsuki Bakugo.

 

All Might on his mental road sees child sized Izuku and Bakugo running and giggling while holding the balls of light he visualized earlier. The balls of light morph into All Might trading cards. One light ball flashes and travels to the ‘real’ world and into Bakugo’s hand, taking on the form of his burnt and broken All Might card. The episode ends with the words “The End of an Era, and the Beginning.”

 

Well, I wasn’t expecting Stain to go out like that. I’m not sure he deserved to go out like that, dying in the line of duty, trying to protect All Might. The man was a deeply disturbed person, responsible for the deaths of 40 heroes and the crippling of more, including Idia’s brother. He was a zealot for the ideal of All Might that didn’t understand All Might, beyond the basic notion that heroes need to be selfless. He hurt people that absolutely didn’t deserve it because they, in his eyes, didn’t meet All Might’s impossible standards. That is the sort of person that shouldn’t get what he wanted. But… I suppose since he wanted All Might to be the one to kill him, I guess he was still denied. I give him props for hurling himself at AFO, though. The man could have just stood back and just let his Blood Curdle and All Might do the work, but no, he leaps in there and tries to get a swing in. Shame AFO just threw up all his blood on them. I’d say that felt like an ex machina… but, I suppose AFO has been shown to be enough of a planner that the idea that he got a Quirk specifically to counter Blood Curdle isn’t farfetched. Given the fight that they’re in, the fact that he can now freeze people by licking their blood is probably horrible. That final shot, of AFO preparing to rip All Might in half while the whole world watches impotently was really well done. I knew Bakugo was going to survive, I knew that he would probably factor into the final battle more than he’d already had… but it was still hyped to see him get up and be ready to throw down with the Demon King. Bakugo is perhaps the best student left standing other than Izuku to face off against AFO. He’s incredibly fast, he is a ranged specialist that can fly (more or less), and he’s a lunatic that just came back from the dead. AFO is going to regret not blowing up the top half of the Flying Coffin is all I’m saying. We’ll see how well he does… next time. See you then. Have a good night! And stay safe. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 160

 All Might's got a Hail Mary attack that might just work. 

Last time on My Hero Academia All Might busted out his new toy. His de facto niece and confidant Melissa Shield build him a battle suit and the Hercules System to allow All Might the chance to slug it out with AFO one last time. The suit has weapons and powerups all based on the Quirks of Class 1A and coupled with his years long obsession with AFO and how he fights, the retired hero was able to last more than thirty seconds against All For One. Which is something basically no one thought a Quirkless person could do. He’s doing his best to slowdown AFO in the hopes that Izuku can beat Tomura before AFO could reach him. It’s a stall, everyone knows it, and it’s only working because the connection AFO created between himself and Tomura is basically causing Tomura’s irrationally intense hatred of All Might to funnel back into AFO and make him sloppy. All Might notices that AFO is getting even younger as they fight and realizes that the more AFO uses Rewind to heal, the younger he gets. Which gives him a win condition when his previous one was just ‘survive as long as you can.’ Izuku senses All Might’s fight through the Toshinori Vestige in his mind and they agree to finish this once and for all. Oh, and Uraraka was bleeding out from the stomach wound that Toga gave her, but Toga drank her blood, sealed the wound and then gave her a blood transfusion in Uraraka’s form to save her life at the cost of Toga’s own. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

Most of this episode is in fact a recap of the previous episode. I think really the only thing they cut was the opening with Uraraka and Toga and some of the cutaways to the police station.

 

We begin with a recap of the fight thus far. We hit the big moments, All Might’s opening charge, the Red Riot shield, followed by the Black Whip/Chargebolt combo to keep AFO from regenerating. He vows to use everything that he was ever given to take AFO one and for all. Sugar Man enhanced Shoot-style kick, Tsukuyomi shield, followed by Pinky acid stab. Flashback to his vow to be the Symbol of Peace to Nana Shimura, and then to Izuku asking if he could be a hero without a Quirk, followed by Stain saying that All Might was a hero even without his power. All Might realizing that Rewind is de-aging AFO at a faster rate and that he now has a real win condition. He activates his Uravity and Ingenium thrusters, and begs his students to keep giving him their strength.

 

Now onto the new stuff.

 

He uses mechanical Tentacole tentacles that have Froppy’s suction to pick up speed and maneuver between buildings. He plans to keep running, but in a way that’ll keep AFO from getting bored and realizing he needs to rush to get Izuku. He activates Shoto and Tailman protocols and prepares his trap. He knows that he’s got the perfect artificial quirk to use against AFO in order to force him to rewind himself even further, but he needs time to build up energy and get into position. He sends off his Anima, a pair of robotic drones in shaped like birds. He gets cut off by AFO. AFO points out how odd it is that All Might laughed like a lunatic before trying to run. He claims to know what All Might is trying to do, and that’s he’s prepared for it. He claims it’ll be easy to kill All Might even in “Power Save” mode and that he’ll enjoy All Might’s screams. He touches the walls and creates a network of spikes to launch from the walls in a net. All Might rockets upward and tries to fly away. He’s cut off by a pair of tentacles with huge chomping mouths waiting above him. All Might flies off and dodges the chomping mouths. AFO mocks All Might, saying that he’s using technology to copy the quirks of much younger heroes. He mocks All Might’s attempts to try to stay relevant when everyone knows he’s just an old man with half his guts missing. He calls All Might pathetic and that he’s going to kill All Might on national television, indicating the camera recording all this.

 

AFO leaps through a wall, cutting All Might off and slamming him into the ground. He screams that the Light of Justice will be snuffed out. All Might flashes back to that mental image of him trying to keep the metaphorical embers of OFA burning despite bitter, freezing cold. He says that AFO still doesn’t understand him. He wraps AFO in a tentacle, rams another into his mouth and fires off a freezing ray that starts to freeze him solid. All Might says that the thing about light is, even if his flickers and dies, it’ll ignite other lights that will stand against him.

 

We cut to a Tartarus Jailbreaker, Kunieda. Kunieda creates huge purple flowers that parasitically drain the life out of his victims. Narrator Present Mic tells us that this is taking place about 300 meters from the All Might fight. Kunieda faced off against the heroes that stayed behind to fight the members of AFO’s army that weren’t dangerous enough to be included in the scattering plan. Kunieda unfortunately has overwhelmed the heroes, trapping them all in his purple plants. The only one still up is Aoyama, though he’s wrapped up too. The roots are rapidly digesting people through their roots. The roots digest all of Fat Gum’s fat, and the plant morphs into a something that looks like a cousin of Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors. Fat Guy eggs Aoyama on and says he needs to take this guy out. Kunieda starts to gloat, saying that Aoyama can’t beat him, as Kunieda’s plants broke and stole Aoyama’s belt. Without it, he can’t aim properly and his power leaks out everywhere. We see that that is in fact the case, as Aoyama’s naval laser is bleeding out all over the place. Kunieda mocks Aoyama for having a Quirk so ill-suited for his body.

 

Aoyama flashes back to when his parents got him his original belt that helped him regulate his naval laser and how happy the Aoyama family was. Aoyama thanks Kunieda for reminding him what’s important, and how he needs to work harder than his peers in order to shine as bright as them. He starts firing of laser bursts, damaging the plants that entangle him. Kunieda mocks Aoyama for trying to grasp an impossible dream… but then you notice that it seems like the laser pulses are looping around Kunieda. Why? Well… there was one other hero that was still active, just waiting for an opportunity to use a combo attack with Aoyama. Hagakure reveals herself, using her ability to refract and intensify light to super charge naval laser and burn through the plants. She tells Aoyama that it took him long enough and calls him a hero. We see her face briefly as she uses her attack, and she’s got extremely wild hair. I somehow always assumed she kept it short.

 

Back at the AFO fight, All Might uses that as an example of someone picking up the torch of his light and continuing onward. We see the Anima birds fly towards a target. They lock into a huge cannon that had been floating just above the fight. It turns and locks on target, unleashing a huge blast of energy. All Might says that this attack has a name that will surely burn AFO and announces, “Can’t Stop TWINKLING!” as the plasma blast bombards AFO. The attack drives AFO into the ground and keeps on slamming into him. Hercules warns All Might that it can’t keep up this attack for long and that it already has suffered damage. All Might tells it to keep going for as long as possible. He shouts at AFO that he got this idea from Star’s fight with Tomura. He doesn’t have the power to create a sustained energy blast, so he had to improvise. He adds to the laser fire with soundwave vibration via his Earphone Jack attack. He vows to himself to keep this up until AFO is dead.

 

All Might spells out everything that just happened so we know every moment of this was a trap. When the laser had charged up, he released his Tentacole arms so he could fly away. His suit is treated with an Invisible Girl resin that gave him some protection from the laser blast so he could get close enough to use Earphone Jack. He knew that AFO would want to see him in pain, so he allowed himself to take a body blow to ensnare AFO. It cost him the use of his legs, but he thinks this might do it. Then AFO reveals he’s not out yet and fires his bladed tentacle out at All Might. He has to fall back and uses Creatie to reshape bits of his armor into bombs and tosses them at AFO. He begs his suit to finish off AFO now, while his joy still overshadows his pain.

 

We cut to a family in a foreign country watching the fight on TV. A boy asks his grandma who the skeletal man is. Grandma shrugs and says she doesn’t keep up with heroes. She says not to worry so much, as things happening in other countries won’t affect them. The boy agrees halfheartedly and turns back to the TV. The way he starts clenching his hands together makes it clear that he’s rooting for All Might.

 

Back at the fight, the Hercules cannon hits its limit and explodes. AFO drags himself out of the hole and tells All Might that he can’t go beyond using toys. He’s de-aged to a very young teenager, probably no older than Izuku and his friends. All Might tries to deck him, but he’s smacked aside by AFO and he hits the ground hard. AFO starts to gloat, saying that he’ll relish the pain in All Might’s eyes and when he’s done having fun, he’ll mess up All Might’s face just like All Might did to him all those years ago. His body is glowing as he makes a tentacle to attack All Might, but he freezes as some kind of pulse ripples through his body. He tries to take a step but realizes that he can’t move. From behind a ragged voice screams “Everyone bleeds the same color!” Stain has revealed himself, standing atop a jet board of some kind. He launches himself at AFO, licking up more blood to increase the paralysis and shouts at All Might to take AFO out. That’s a hell of a spot to finish.

 

Post credits, damn it Studio Bones, we go back to the Kunieda fight. Hagakure pins Kunieda and radios in that the villain is in custody. Aoyama frees himself and limps towards her. We see that her invisibility isn’t working right, it’s glitching out and we can vaguely see her still. Considering that she still goes around naked in fights, this is something of a problem for her modesty. She covers herself and tries to figure out what happened. She remembers that she became visible for a bit after refracting Aoyama’s attack when she caught him getting his orders from his parents and says that his Quirk might be evolving. Aoyama doesn’t care about that right now, as they need to kill the rest of the plants and free the others. They weren’t destroyed just because Kunieda is down and they’ll keep draining their allies. Aoyama says that they’ll need to do another refraction attack. Hagakure asks if his stomach can handle that and Aoyama tells her that he’ll be fine. He says that because this is his last day as a UA student, no one is going to stop him.

 

When we get down to it, after rehashing the start of the fight, this episode is mostly just covering All Might’s big final gambit to stop AFO and Aoyama’s big moment with Hagakure. And I’m 100% okay with that. Getting to see the level of tactical brilliance that All Might displayed here was great. His power set and general attitude make it seem like he just charges and uses his strength to carry him through whatever fight that he’s in. And while I think that is very much one of his main tactics, we have seen that All Might fights strategically when the need calls for it, and this was just another and the best example of that. He planned this final strike out extremely well, and it probably would have worked if AFO didn’t have Rewind active or some other regeneration Quirk keeping him going. And the fact that the center point of the attack was using Aoyama’s laser against him, (Chef’s kiss) perfect. Unfortunately, AFO’s power is just too great for him to overcome on his own, and I thought that this might be the end for him before Stain showed up. The hero killer was definitely a wild card to throw into this game, but I do completely believe that he’d leap in to help All Might, regardless of anything else going on. His paralysis quirk probably won’t tip the scales in their favor, but every minute that they buy for Izuku is a minute close to AFO de-aging to nothing, so it helps. Aoyama getting one final moment to shine along with Hagakure was sweet. As I said earlier, those two and Mina seemed to be extremely close, so getting off one last combo together was just a sweet way to cap off his story arc. I feel like making Hagakure visible while naked ruins it just a little bit, but Japan has got to Japan. After briefly seeing her earlier and now, fan art of Hagakure and her rainbow hair started popping up a lot on fandom spaces and I get why. If Horikoshi came up with this design early on, he’s an ass for keeping it to himself just to have an invisible girl running around naked joke. Like, come on, she’s got enough hair, she could have made a hair-based suit like Togeta uses so we could have seen her pretty face this whole time. It’s lame. But that’s my one nitpick. Hopefully Aoyama and Hagakure’s part in the story is done, so they can just free everyone else. Just because they’re clearly both exhausted like anyone else, and their offensive options are extremely limited right now. Next time, the Symbol of Peace and the Hero Killer team up to stop the Demon Lord. See you there. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 159

 All Might finds a way to have one last brawl with his oldest enemy. 

Last time on My Hero Academia, Uraraka did her best to confront Himiko Toga. The angry, embittered young woman hid herself among the Duplication of Twices and tried to kill everyone, but Uraraka found the real Toga and did her damnedest to just talk out their feelings with her. Toga tries to fight off Uraraka even after the other girl trapped her and all the Twice clones in her anti-gravity touch. She stabs Uraraka in the gut and says that they’ll never understand each other. We get flashbacks to Toga’s backstory, where we learn that she was told to repress her desire to drink blood and was called a monster by like the age of six, so like… there’s no way this girl had a chance of being normal. Uraraka keeps pushing despite her wound and finally breaks through to Toga, saying that Toga is beautiful when smiling her very vulpine smile. It’s at this point that Toga’s Twice transformation runs out and she says goodbye to him one more time as all her clones melt away to dust. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

We open on the last moments of last episode, with the two girls floating to the ground as Twice’s transformation runs out. Uraraka tells Toga that she can’t replace the League of Villains, but she’ll do her best to try. We pull out to see how everyone else had faired against the Duplication of Twices. Everyone seems to have survived, one broke down just as it reached a very injured Iida, and it looked like Endeavor tried to shield his family with his body from the squad that came up on him. Hawks had fought one off for a while, the clone attempted to run him through with a dagger as it broke down. Hawks tells this Toga that he has to admit that Twice was a nice guy, but that she already knew that.

 

Toga grabs her mask and her knife, saying that she only started using a knife to become the people that she loves, but that she ended up using it in anger. She looks around and sees that all the heroes that also got his with anti-gravity are floating down super gently to the ground. She realizes that despite her serious stomach wound, Uraraka is using all her strength to make sure that her Quirk releases slowly enough that no one drops from too far. Toga coughs up blood, reminding us that using a copied Quirk drains her more than just shapeshifting. Uraraka’s torso is coated with blood, she’s also got a ton on her face. She’s bleeding out but still trying to save everyone. Toga looks around and sees that no one else is near enough to help. She tells Uraraka that the League of Villains will tear the world apart and that the world they create will be a better fit for her… but she realizes that she can’t lose Uraraka.

 

Toga licks up some of Uraraka’s blood and shapeshifts into her. She’s exhausted from the fighting, though, so part of her face reverts almost immediately. She tells Uraraka that when she transforms using her Quirk, her blood transforms as well, so this should work. She uses her costume’s syringes to transfuse her shapeshifted blood into Uraraka and another needle to stitch up her stomach wound. She talks to Uraraka about what its like being a hero, saying that all she had to do is fight and capture villains, but she genuinely tried to help Toaga. She says that she thinks Uraraka is pretty weird, but she loves that about her. She realizes that Uraraka can’t let her go free and Toga can’t let herself be captured, so she had to come up with another solution. She thanked Uraraka for caring about her, and that she admires that Uraraka doesn’t run from the past like Toga does. She thinks that maybe if she’d met Uraraka sooner, maybe she’d have decided to give as much blood as she took. She hands Uraraka an All Might figure she’d be carrying as she lays beside Uraraka. Toga has a mental image of healing that bird she drank blood from as a child and watching it fly away. She cradles Uraraka to her as she thinks that she’s Himeko Toga and she lived and loved how she wanted.

 

We jump over to All Might who is holding his briefcase and waiting for AFO. He asks if this is what Nighteye saw in his vision. He flashes back to just after the fight where he’d thought he’d killed AFO once and for all, but was hurt in the process. Nighteye shrieked at him that if he kept going on this path, he’ll face off against a villain and die horribly. All Might sees the teenage version of AFO approaching and says its hard to believe this is the same man he fought. He thinks that if the prediction hasn’t changed, this is what Nighteye saw for him. … “BUT I AM STILL HERE!” He activates the briefcase. It and the hood of his car break down into some kind of nanotech that covers his body in an Iron Man like battle suit. He remembers Nana Shimura telling him that in a fight that the strongest one is the one with a smile on their face. That’s why he has to show his face. His mask peels open to show his huge grin as he announces the reveal of ARMORED ALL MIGHT!

 

All Might tells a drone that popped out of his car, Hercules, to record everything and transmit it to his allies. Hercules confirms that its already doing it. The cops watching marvel at All Might’s new suit, and La Brava remarks how crazy it is that All Might is going to face off against All For One. She hits button and starts streaming the video. Tsukauchi remembers when All Might left, All Might saying that he’s going out to help the others. He wonders if All Might has headed out to die. He tells La Brava to turn off the stream, as he knows that All Might is only going to be able to buy them a few minutes at most. He’s doing this to buy time for Izuku, but regardless of how many gadgets he’s brought to bear, a Quirkless human can’t face off against this power.

 

AFO recognizes All Might and looks like he’s equal parts furious and elated. He admits that of all the people he’s faced in his long life, All Might has been the biggest thorn in his side and yet also the one he loved toying with most. He sees that huge grin on All Might’s face and demands to know why he’s laughing when he knows he’s going to die. AFO charges a plasma beam and fires. I’ll point out that he pumped so much energy into that attack his own right arm was burned to a stump. All Might calls out “Red Riot!” to Hercules, and the plates floating behind him form a shield around his body. He survived the hit, but is warned that his shield is down by 66%. The next hit will destroy it, and All Might says that that is fine by him and keeps charging. AFO says that he’s familiar with All Might’s brazen style, but without OFA, he’s flying towards his death. All Might calls out “Black Whip,” and pierces AFO with black cables. He then calls out “Chargebolt,” and AFO gets zapped, which keeps his arm from regenerating. All Might reveals that he’d been studying AFO since he fought Nana Shimura and he also knows how AFO fights. He always opens big, with a huge, messy long ranged attack. It’s designed to weaken his opponent, to soften them up so he can rush in and steal their Quirk. A strategy that’s utterly useless against someone who is Quirkless!

 

At the station, La Brava teasingly asks Tsukauchi if he still thinks this’ll be a bloodbath. Tsukauchi starts crying, thinking to himself that he should have known All Might wouldn’t go quietly.

 

All Might says that he knew after their last brawl that he’d have to face AFO again and that he’d have to come at him with the best technology possible to bridge the gap in their power. He doesn’t say Melissa Shield’s name, but we quickly flash to her anxiously watching the fight as All Might says he traveled to the US where a Friend hooked him up with Hercules and this powered armor. He shouts at AFO that he should know by now that All Might never enters a fight thinking he could lose. He calls out “Cellophane” to bind him, “Sugar Man” to power up his foot by encasing it in more car parts, and “SHOOT STYLE! SMASH!” to hit AFO in the face with a high horsepower kick! As he beats on AFO he admits that this is a little shameless, a man in his fifties beating on a teenager. In his head, All Might says that he figured something out about AFO. In order to mold Tomura Shigaraki and try to steal OFA, he nurtured an intense hatred and anger in the boy that is now feeding back into AFO. The only reason they’re fighting right now is that Shigaraki’s anger is making AFO blind to reason. All Might loudly proclaims that he’ll get AFO so angry that he can’t focus on anyone else in the world!

 

AFO combines Springify, Brawn Boost, Air Cannon, Rivet Stab, Dark Ball and Impure Beam to make a huge blast that sends All Might through several buildings. All Might’s suit is damaged by the hit, but his suit’s Auto-Guard cape “Tsukoyomi” absorbed most of the blow. He points out that that string of Quirks was completely random, which makes him pretty sure that his taunts are working. Hercules tells him that his left arm and collarbone were also broken in the blast and All Might calls for maximum assistance. AFO floats over and tries to mock All Might back, saying that his ‘fancy body bag’ can only give out so much power. Once it’s broken, he’ll be useless. All Might remembers advising Izuku not to rely too much on an item as some heroes fall to pieces if they lose theirs. He flashes back to when he met Nana, where we see she saved him from fighting a gang using a mop handle. She asks if he really thought he’d win with just that.

 

All Might says that he and AFO think alike and charges, striking his face. AFO unleashes a huge blast of energy from his body, saying that he’s got more than enough time to ‘pick up some trash’ and then get back to hunting Izuku. All Might says what’s pathetic is AFO acting like he’s untouchable. He calls up another item, an injection of Pinky Acid that he rams into AFO’s side. Mina’s acid is potent, infecting his body in seconds. AFO shrieks in fury as All Might jeers at him.

 

He flashes back to begging Nana Shimura into taking him as her student. Young Toshinori reveals that his family was killed recently by villains, Nana isn’t impressed as something similar happened to her and she doesn’t want to help someone seek revenge. Toshinori impresses her by his resolve to become a symbol to unite people. He wants to be the Symbol of Peace, to devote himself to bringing everyone out of the darkness.

 

In the present, AFO flings All Might aside. At the police station, they see that AFO is getting closer to Izuku and UA, but he’s visibly diverted his path to fight All Might. Tsukauchi tears up watching his friend throw himself at this villain.

 

Hercules tells All Might that he’s got a lot of broken bones from that hit and his lungs were damaged. As AFO flies after him, her remembers meeting Izuku and thinking about how odd it was to think he used to be that young. He also remembers his meeting with Stain, as the hero killer refused to believe he was All Might as All Might smiled regardless of his power. The suit binds his injuries as he gets back up. He looks up to see AFO has de-aged even more and thinks that AFO doesn’t realize how much he’s been rewound. He doesn’t want to call attention to it and bring FO back to his sense. He realizes that AFO must have used his Quirks to purge the poison from his system. All Might finally realizes that AFO’s rewind is speeding up each time it heals him from wounds. So he just needs to keep piling on the damage to make him de-age to nothing. He starts laughing, driving AFO into a further rage. He calls out to Hercules for more backup. His car launches more parts, merging with his suit as he calls out to his thrusters, “Uravity and Ingenium,” and sets them to full throttle. He asks his students, Class A, to lend him his strength. We flash to the 1A students, all over who look like they’ve gotten rocked to one degree or another before settling on Kaminari. He’s watching from above as Izuku tangles with Tomura, creating a huge cyclone of power. The winds they’re kicking up are infused with his signature green energy making a sort of cyclone of lightning around them. Izuku senses through All Might’s vestige that he’s also fighting. All Might tells him that they’ll win this together!

 

After the credits we see an All Might card in the rain with the promise “To be concluded.” That’s a hell of a season finale.

 

One aspect that I really liked about this fight is that both parties know this is a stall. All Might knows that regardless of how powerful this suit Melissa built for him is, regardless of what techniques he uses against AFO, that at the end of the day he’s going to be a speedbump slowing the eldest Shigaraki down. Don’t give me that look, that even fits with what All Might says about him never thinking he’s going to lose a fight. His win is distracting AFO long enough that Izuku either doesn’t have to fight him at all or for the barest minimum amount of time before he de-ages to nothing. So, AFO can break all of his bones, disintegrate him into smoke or do any other number of horrible things to him, but at the end of the day, All Might will still ‘win’ in the sense that he wasted AFO’s time when every second mattered. And I like that AFO also knows that this is a stall, but he doesn’t care because he wants to beat All Might. This really highlights what an egotistical psycho AFO is, that even in this situation where every second matters, he’s still risking eating up some of his precious time if it means FINALLY wiping the smile off All Might’s face. All Might noticing that AFO’s getting younger at a faster rate based on his healing I think was the first moment where he thought he could potentially win this fight just by running out the clock. His Hercules system is able to pump out enough power to hurt AFO, that’s fact, so if he just keeps laying on the knicks, cuts and blasts, he could win. Death by a thousand cuts and all that. Naming his attacks and armaments after his students was a sweetheart thing to do. All Might clearly loves those kids a lot and is putting a lot of faith in these attacks and defenses based on their skills. I just wonder how he’ll represent something like Koda’s speaking to animals. All Might isn’t showing a Batman level of skill based on prep time, but I like that it’s clear that his boast about studying AFO as much as AFO studied him isn’t bluster. Predicting his opening move and then catching him in the electric cables was just brilliant. I don’t know how much of this fight is going to take up next season, but I hope its at least a couple episodes. And I’ll close on pointing out how sad but sweet a conclusion to Toga’s story this is. She’s a girl that got a raw deal, who’s power made her life hard but who’s family made it exponentially harder, she killed, she hurt people, and she loved with all her heart. She wasn’t a saint by any stretch, but she chose to go out selflessly helping someone she cared about, in her own dysfunctional way, and that’s commendable in its own way. I wish there had been a better ending for her, but having her blood be the thing that saved Uraraka after Uraraka’s blood saved her is a nice bit of symbolic symmetry. The final season is going to be lit. See you tomorrow for that. 

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