Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 142

 They've got 12% of a plan. So... ya, that's really more of a concept. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 141

 The students prepare and the mole is finally revealed. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 140

 We've had a few Unstoppable Forces meet Immovable Objects before, but this is one of the flashier ones. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 139

 Star and Stripe bursts onto the stage. 

Last time on My Hero Academia, Izuku got some rest and All Might prepared for the end. Izuku gets washed and fed by his classmates and is able to unwind for a night despite knowing that final battle is approaching. All Might, meanwhile, runs into Stain at the All Might Statue. After getting a lesson on perseverance from Stain, using the woman that comes by everyday to clean the statue because she was the last person All Might saved before he retired, Stain gave All Might a flash drive he stole from Tartarus during the prison break. The data has information about the attack and helps them speculate on how Shigaraki was able to coordinate with his Vestige within Tomura. They come to the disturbing realization that they only have three days before All For One fully integrates with Tomura Shigaraki. Which, ya know, is terrible. But there’s a silver lining, as the US’s top hero decided its better to ask for forgiveness than permission and headed out with her stealth bomber battalion to aid her master, All Might. Star and Stripe is on her way. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

The episode begins with Izuku going back to his room after getting a load of laundry done. We see all his All Might paraphernalia as he walks in, puts his stuff down, and then goes out on his balcony to think about things. He flashes back to when Uraraka gave her big speech to let him stay at UA. That coupled with memories of Gran Torino advising him that sometimes the only way to save someone is to end them has him feeling off. He places his cape on the line to dry as he realizes that the final battle is drawing near, but he’s confident. He’s got his friends, and together they’ll bring back smiles and forge a new future. Or so he hopes.

 

We cut to an air force base where a bunch of stealth bombers are taking off and landing. A few airmen are watching a news story about the events of last season, ie, the Shigarakis have raised absolute havoc in Japan, releasing criminals from maximum security, turning the whole island nation into a war zone and Japan is asking aid from international heroes to help. To highlight this point, the reporter covering the story is attacked by a pair of thugs mid broadcast. One of the airmen asks their commander, Nathan, if they’re shipping out yet, and Nathan says no. He thinks that the higher ups are worried that if they send a bunch of the US’s top heroes to Japan, local criminals might start something. One of the airmen says that’s stupid as they could get their heroes back in two hours if things started going sideways. A burly woman agrees and asks her bros to give her a lift to Japan. This is Cathleen Bate aka Star and Stripe, the US version of All Might. The bombers take off, Star riding on the roof of one and reiterating that if All Might wants help, she’s giving it.

 

Returning to Japan, where AFO is hiding out in a cave somewhere off mainland Japan. He explains that while the Jailbreakers are causing havoc, that gives the League plenty of time to plot. He adds that while Japan is a small set of islands, they’re big enough for the League to win a game of hide and seek. Spinner asks if maybe they should get out of the country for a bit. AFO says that might be better, but that would complicate his plans. He reveals that he needs to accomplish his midgame objective of taking OFA from Izuku. Spinner is surprised that that is only a midgame objective, and Shigaraki admits that he’s got intricate plans for what comes next and OFA is just a small part of it. He thinks that the biggest hurdle that they might face, and his biggest opportunity is on the way. He reveals that he has friends and allies around the world, ones that will act if he gives the word, but he’s holding off on that for the moment in the hopes of facing Star. He says that if she gets the upper hand, they’re finished… but if he can steal her Quirk, that’s basically the end of this little game right there and then. AFO tells Spinner that while he’s been acting as AFO’s bodyguard, it’s time for him to go out and focus on helping Tomura’s final gambit. He’s planning on using Spinner’s status as a Heteromorph (aka a person with a Quirk that gives them an inhuman appearance) to rally other Heteromorphs around him.

 

We shift focus to a trio of Heteromorphs, former members of the Metahuman Liberation Front who’d been assigned to Spinner’s squad. They’re still lamenting the loss of Re-Destro, but feel that they can rally behind Spinner. He plays a message from Skeptic, their one free leader from the old days, encouraging them to keep fighting. He isn’t happy with the League, but knows that they’re the biggest game in town right now, so it’s in their best interest to work together. We get flashes of Toga, Dabi, and Spinner. Skeptic’s plan is to basically force the League into the positions that they want and to use them, like Stain, to tear down hero society. That’s a cheery thought.

 

We catch up with Endeavor, Jeanist, and Hawks head out to meet up with Star. Hawks admits that he feels better knowing that she’ll be arriving soon to help them, and Jeanist is excited to chat with her about the denim used during the gold rush… one track mind. They get an emergency call from Tsukauchi who tells them to hurry. Tomura Shigaraki is there to meet her. Tomura is astride a flying Nomu. Star asks if he’s All For One, and Tomura says that’s a very good question, but for the moment he supposes that he is. Star gets the intel of Tomura’s powers, and her bomber squad prep shields to protect them from his powers. They prepare for an attack run, Star saying that she wants them to fight with all their might and that she’ll see their remains reach their families if they fall.

 

Shigaraki takes a moment to ponder what he is. He still thinks of himself as Tomura Shigaraki but can’t deny that he’s also Shigaraki the Elder. It’s a confusing situation to be in. He decides not to worry about it for now and unleashes a combo attack of heavy payload, radio waves and air cannon. The super shockwave would probably do damage to the bombers, but Star has them evade before starting their attack run. Shigaraki says that he knows what her power is, and that this fight will end with whoever touches the other first. Star says that he might know what she’s backing, but she’s the best there is, so she’s taking him down. Star uses her quirk, New Order. New Order lets her control reality itself, she just has to say the name of the thing and touch it. This allows her to do things like, say, remove all air from the space 100 feet in front of her. And in All Might Showmanship fashion, the area she made air free takes the shape of a giant Star. Shigaraki and his Nomu drop, but he’s unconcerned. He says that ‘s a hell of a power, and he WANTS it. Star’s squadron takes the opportunity to encircle him and fire energy canons on him. They all hit, but Shigaraki uses another combo, Reflect and Scatter, to fling the energy back at them. Star catches the laser using her quirk. Doing so causes her to release the vacuum bubble around Shigaraki allowing him to recover and charge her.

 

Star in voiceover tells us the limit of her power. She’s only able to keep two Orders active at a time. And she keeps one active basically at all times, and that one is to enhance her strength to being in the ballpark of All Might’s. Tomura lunges at her, she shouts his name and knocks him back, two of her bombers acting as a landing pad, adding that she hoped that he’d try to use his super strength to overpower her. She gives us her backstory of how when she was a kid, her and her family were saved from a villain attack by a foreign exchange student that turned out to be All Might. If you recall the Movie, Two Heroes, where in a flashback All Might fought against a pair of bank robbers, one basically being a giant meatball of flesh. All Might leapt in and took out the monster with a single punch, saving a young Cathleen in the process. She says that seeing those two tuffs of blonde hair changed her life and, in that moment, he became her master. She modeled herself after him, down to his hair color. Shigaraki scoffs, saying that wherever he goes, it’s always All Might that meets him. She says that’s WHY he’s the symbol of peace. And lets him know she used her Quirk on him in that exchange and makes the new Order that if Tomura Shigaraki moves a muscle, his heart stops.

 

Shigaraki the Elder says that he knew something was different from the moment that he’d woken up. We go into the mindscape and see how the Shigarakis appear in the mental plane. Shigaraki the Elder has mostly merged with Tomura, growing out of him like a cancerous growth, digging his fingers into his protegees flesh as well. He admits that he and the doctor thought that it would take three months for the two Shigarakis to integrate into one being, but Tomura’s hate and anger have greatly accelerated the project. He thinks they’re up to 97-98% of the way to completion. He claims that when its finished, they’ll be an entirely different person. Shigaraki refuses to accept that future, though, and struggles against it. He screams out his resentment in the real world, and shocks Star when she realizes that he’s moving without having a heart attack. We see Tomura shift between himself and AFOs form. His hair grows out as he struggles for some reason. He remembers his home, and how all his resentment and hate started from little things at his house that piled atop each other. Star leaps off Shigaraki and he says that he’s starting to understand New Order better.

 

Shigaraki says that the US has kept her powers as tightly guarded a secret as they could, but he’s beginning to understand it. He knows that she can only increase her strength so much, or else she’d have taken his head off with that opening punch. And that she has limits to how powerful her rules can be. She can’t just say that anyone who enters this space dies or anything to that effect. He is impressed by the scope of that power. He realizes that the thing that saved him from her quirk was his inability to decide if he’s Tomura Shigaraki or not. He does the Izuku thing of taking a moment to overanalyze the situation and wonder how her powers would work on an animal or object. He admits that he’s weirded out by this desire to just figure out the perimeters of her Quirk.

 

Star tries to figure out a new strategy. She tells Nathan to get her in contact with Commander Ackbar on the line. This plan is apparently crazy, as Nathan tells her that this’ll get her in even more trouble than rushing to Japan on her own. She says that what’s the point of special authority if she doesn’t use it, and that Shigaraki is absolutely a global threat that warrants it. She needs time to prepare, and she tells them to fly steadily until it’s ready. The other pilots knock Shigaraki off of them, and he returns to his Nomu. Star uses New Order on the air again, making a giant air puppet of herself and smacks him aside. Shigaraki admits that he can’t see the attack, but he can feel it. Star crushes him between her giant air hands and then has her men fire their lasers at her. She drops her order to allow her to reshape the lasers into a focused beam attack and slams Shigaraki to the ocean below. The beam is hot enough that it makes a diameter of dry land around Shigaraki. Her men think she killed him, but Star says that its just keeping him in place and stopping him from regenerating. If this level of heat was enough to stop him, Endeavor would have burnt him to cinders. She gets a call from Commander Ackbar, who yes vaguely resembles Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars. He says that this stunt will cost her hero license and then some, but Star says “worth it.” We see a photo of a young Star on his console with All Might and David Shield as he says that the only reason they’ll be able to do this is because All Might himself couldn’t stop Shigaraki. The attack turns out to be a giant barrage of intercontinental cruise missiles dubbed Tiamat. He tells her to make sure every last one hits their target. Damn, hell of an ending to an episode.

 

Wow, it’s weird to get two seasons in a row that don’t start with a recap episode to get people up to speed. But I suppose as this is the second to last season, they expect you to know who Izuku, his classmates, and enemies are as well as their powers. Star and Stripe is a great character with a really fun Quirk. The ability to alter reality itself with a touch and a name is a broken as hell power, but the limit of only keeping two up at a time keeps it practical. I like that Star’s backstory also officially canonizes that movie Two Heroes, as they literally use frames from the movie to show us how Cathleen Bate met the number one Japanese hero to be. I’ve heard that there are a few moments like this, with cameos and callbacks that make it clear that while the movies didn’t happen in the manga, they are canon to the whole story of My Hero Academia. The first one was actually Izuku’s bracers, which he was using during his Dark Deku phase, which were literally just the red bracers that Melissa Shield made for him in that movie. Having grown up in the era where Anime movies were not-canon side stories, see all the Dragonball Z movies up until the latest Broly one, it’s nice seeing that those other stories do factor into the main one. Shigaraki’s instability is an interesting part of the story. Merging with his master is clearly not something that Tomura wants, but it is the thing that kept him in the fight with Star when she used her Quirk on him. The visual of AFO growing from and into Tomura’s body was gnarly. He’s very much a fungal growth on his former protegee at this point. Getting pinned by a pillar of laser fire and about to be hit by a bunch of missiles feels like it’ll take out Shigaraki, so it’ll be interesting to see how he weasels out of this one. But we’ll have to wait and see on that. Have a good night everyone, and stay safe.  

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 138

One night to relax before it hits the fan. 

Last time on My Hero Academia, Uraraka stepped up. The civilians gathered within UA were terrified at the thought of bringing Izuku into the shelter, for fear that he was a Nomu or that he’d draw the League of Villains to him. These fears are largely unwarranted, as in a flashback Nezu revealed to the 1A students that UA’s campus is nigh impregnable at this point and is capable of rapidly removing the civilians if necessary to other shelters via secret, heavily defended high speed rail. Present Mic and some of the teachers tried to calm them down, but they weren’t having it. Uraraka nabs Mic’s Megaphone and uses her power to jump atop the UA building and does her best to get the crowd to realize that helping Izuku is helping themselves, and that he’s a kid at the end of his rope. Uraraka has been pondering for a while who helps heroes when they need it and decided that they need to all help each other. Her words, coupled with Kota and Ippen Josei running to Izuku’s aid when he breaks down crying at Uraraka’s words convince everyone to let him be. He swears to one of the crowd that asks about AFO that he will get things back to normal. There’s a big cheer at that and everyone relaxes. With that crisis handled, All Might heads out in his car, wanting to check on the anti-hero groups that have been refusing to work with them. Unbeknownst to him, Stain, the Hero killer, is stalking him. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

We open with All Might arriving at the scene of the Deku snatch and grab, finding Izuku’s fallen mask near some ice blocks and his statue with the sign on it. He beats himself up for not being able to help Izuku in his time of need. He has a flashback to when Aizawa told him to just be near the kids, as All Might has a habit of inspiring others to greatness, but he’s not sure he believes that anymore. He starts to walk away, but a rusty, chipped katana gets put in his face by Stain. He heard All Might disparage himself, and Stain says that he’ll cut up the heretic. Stain refuses to believe that All Might is who he says he is, even when All Might beefs himself up for a few seconds to convince him. Stain demands to know who this man is to try to besmirch All Might. All Might says that he’s always been one to run into danger to try to help people, showing us a flashback of teen All Might doing just that, but since he’s retired things have just gotten worse and worse. He says that he can’t even help his students. Stain grabs him around the neck and holds his sword against it. All Might, still with a hero’s wit, says that “I’m usually a hugger, but we just met.” Stain shushes him as they hide behind some rubble. We see a woman arrive who is annoyed to see someone put the “I AM NOT HERE,” sign back up. She uses her bubble summoning power to reach up, snap the sign off and begins to clean the statue. Stain says that she has come by every day to clean the statue. He speculates that she’s staying at a nearby shelter and that the people there probably don’t want her doing this. All Might asks why she’s doing this. Stain reveals that she was the last person that All Might saved. All Might flashes back to his battle with All For One, and yes, this woman was trapped under rubble near that fight and AFO had tried to use her as a target. Ya know, she was the opposite of a human shield, meant to bait the valiant All Might into jumping in the way of AFO’s attack. Stain insists that it wasn’t All Might’s power that made him great, but his insistence of fighting crime with a smile and reassuring word to others. Stain forces him to look at the woman cleaning the statue and says that that is the moldering embers that All Might left behind. He insists that this blaze will reignite if they just tend it. All Might starts to tear up watching the woman cleaning and at Stain’s words. He starts to walk off, All Might calls out to him to try to stop him, but Stain instead throws a pile of papers skewered on a blade at him. He says he stole those from Tartarus and asks him to use that info to stop All For One. And encourages All Might to come stop the Hero Killer Stain, if he still has a hero’s heart. The rain starts to clear, which is heavy handed symbolism, but I’ll allow it.

 

Back at school, Izuku’s classmates are going overboard trying to look after him. The boys strip him down and literally throw him into the bath to get him clean. Bakugo is annoyed that they did that, saying that they’re dirtying up the bathwater. According to him, Izuku needs to be scrubbed down with steel wool and bleach before being put into the tub. Dude is hardcore in all things. Bakugo joins them in the water, reminding them all that they’re all his rivals, that he’s going to be the number one hero, and that he’s mostly talking to Izuku when he said that. And props to him using Izuku’s real name for the first time in like 13 years.

 

After the bath, Izuku asks where Uraraka went, and Jiro tells him she basically passed out after the adrenaline rush ended. Turns out worrying for your friend/love interest is exhausting work. Jiro says that a few others are out like that too. Izuku sits down in the living room with about half of his classmates, and apologizes once again for running off like that. Ashido says that she’s impressed he kept his power under wraps for so long, but after reading his confession about All For One and One For All, nothing is going to surprise her anymore. Tokoyami says that Izuku could have told Hawks to return his calls. His classmates ask about his power and what it was like going from Quirkless to having one of the strongest quirks. Shoto comes in and tells them to leave Izuku alone for a bit so he can sleep. Izuku says that he can’t sleep, he’s too wired, and he needs to apologize to All Might. He mentions that All Might isn’t picking up his phone… and is shocked when Shoto just points outside and we see All Might at the window looking like a wraith.

 

All Might comes in, bows, and begs forgiveness for being a poor teacher to Izuku. Izuku says that All Might helped him a lot, and Ashido butts in, saying that if he has to apologize to anyone it’s to the rest of 1A for taking their friend away. All Might doesn’t apologize, but tells them all that the final battle is approaching. He has a flashback to when he picked up Stain’s intel and he swore that even if he has to crawl to get there, he will be there to watch his students take up the mantel of hero at the very least. He says that they’ll need everyone’s help in that battle, and that even in his weakened body, he’ll give his support. Izuku thanks him for the food, and everyone resolves to be ready for the fight. All Might heads out, saying that he needs to check in with the others and prepare. Tokoyami tells him to tell Hawks to call him. As they head back in, Ashido teases Tokoyami for being an angry bird. Tokoyami says that he’s not angry, just concerned. Sato asks why the heroes don’t just set up shop in UA, and Shoto says Endeavor wouldn’t do that without a damn good reason. Because he knows that if people see him, they’ll start thinking about Dabi and that’ll spread panic. Izuku finally passes out. Kirishima points out that that sucks for Shoto since he really didn’t do anything wrong, it’s just about who he’s related to. Shoto says that he did let his family tree blind him for a while but he’s resolved to do better with his friends and regain the public’s trust. Kirishima is moved by his chivalry and starts crying manly tears. Jiro says that if they have civilians that aren’t fans of theirs, they can just fix it. She pulls in Kaminari, Yaoyorozu and Tokoyami with her earphone jacks. Shoto asks what she means. Jiro compares to what they’re dealing with now is similar (if on a much grander scale) to when other students were giving them the side eye during the cultural festival. She grabs Bakugo as well and suggests that they can just do what they did then to make everyone relax. In case you forgot, their class band consisted of Jiro, Kaminari, Yaoyorozu, Tokoyami and Bakugo. She says that they won’t go back to normal, but make something even better.

 

We cut to the heroes, Endeavor is flying while Hawks and Jeanist are using Jeanist’s car. Hawks explains that they got some info about Shigaraki’s upgrades. They cross referenced info they got out of Garaki during a polygraph test and the notes they took from his lab about Nomu creation. Hawks says that while its not a perfect comparison, a modified living person is worlds different from a modified corpse, they have learned some things. They assumed that they had two months before Tomura Shigaraki’s body is complete. With comments they’ve gotten from Nagant and Dictator, they assumed they had another 30 days to handle the situation. But… then they got the info from Stain. He stole data from Tartarus and included it along with a… passionate letter to All Might.

 

We flashback a month. During the escape, Stain got his hands on a knife and used it to execute an escapee that was shouting about doing something terrible to girls. Stain enters the surveillance room. He sees that all the guards are dead save one. The others died with their weapons in their hand, but the survivor was clutching a box to his chest like his life depended on it. Stain takes it, the guard offers weak resistance but he’s 3/4^ths dead already. Stain opens the container to find data storage devices inside. The guard grabs a gun and says that he can’t take those as its supposed to go to someone just. Stain says that he will pass on the guard’s conviction. The guard asks if Stain is a man or monster, and Stain says that he’s a monster, but one that wants to make a better world. Stain watches as AFO leads the riot, not sure why the data cubes mattered so much, but resolving to bring it to the only person that he trusts. He leaps into the water outside Tartarus and swims to shore. Over the next month, he gathers gear, and makes his way to All Might’s statue.

 

We return to the night when All Might left Izuku with his classmates. He met up with Detective Tsukauchi and passed the Stain info along to him. He says that he’s happy All Might and Izuku made up, as he’ll take any good news right now. Especially since they’re relying on news from a murderer like Stain. All Might explains to us that Tartarus has a security system that was off grid, totally inaccessible outside the base. Without Stain, they’d have never gotten this info, which would have been bad as it includes how the Shigaraki’s knocked out Tartarus’ security. He used high powered radio waves throughout the prison to knock out security, both from Tomura Shigaraki attacking from above and AFO Shigaraki attacking from below. Tsukauchi’s partner, the cat cop Sansa, asks if they could communicate telepathically via their shared Quirk. All Might tells him “kinda.” While that telepathy can happen, that sort of communication doesn’t go both ways. He uses himself as an example. He has a Vestige within OFA. That Vestige knows everything that All Might knows… but All Might can’t get any info from his Vestige. He only recently got information from his Vestige when he touched Izuku while he’d been in a coma. All Might can’t make sense of how AFO was able to do this. But the cops had been able to analyze that radio waves that Shigaraki’s had been using to communicate, and, scarily, one of the messages they received was that Tomura Shigaraki would be complete in 38 days. All Might is now sure that AFO planted that information to give everyone a false sense of security. So… they have 3 days before AFO is complete. Well, crap.

 

We cut to the UN. The security council are arguing about what to do. All Might has asked for aid from them, and for them to send their heroes TOMORROW. This is impossible, as there’s just so much paperwork to do, and moving heroes around like that is an international nightmare. Removing heroes from their home turf causes an uprising in villain activity, and they have reason to believe that Shigaraki has international allies ready to act the moment they hear of such movements. Egypt mentions that their biggest hero, Salaam who featured in the World Heroes Mission, is chomping at the bit to go to Japan. He’s convinced that he’ll be the one to stop AFO. The USA admits that their number one… has already left. The Top US Hero, Stars and Stripes, is rushing to Japan on a fleet of stealth bombers. One of the pilots’ radios to her that she’ll be in big trouble when this is over. Stars isn’t worried, as she’s got a mission to do. She couldn’t ignore a request for help from her old master All Might even if she wanted to.

 

Izuku has a nightmare of AFO saying “Now, it’s your turn!” before being attacked by a spectral version of Tomura. He wakes up with a start and almost hits Uraraka with Black Whip. She wishes him good morning. The others tell him to relax, and Mineta tells him to retract Black Whip as it looks gross. They all assure Izuku that he can relax because they’re with him. Izuku resolves to stop AFO and save the world along with his friends. The credits roll and that’s season 6.

 

That’s a hell of a way to do a season finale. Obviously, the highest stakes action part of the story ended two episodes ago with Class 1A bringing Izuku home, and the emotional stakes were mostly resolved with Uraraka’s speech to the civilians… so the only thing left to do was build up the final battle. Which is kind of terrifying when there are 2 seasons, 32 episodes and one more movie to go. I know that the last two seasons are a rollercoaster ride of action and pain, but still. I like that we got to see All Might meet Stain. The hero killer was obsessed with the former number 1, but like All Might himself said, once Stain was imprisoned and All Might lost his powers, I kind of assumed that there’d be no need for them to meet. So it was extremely weird to see Stain be the one to get All Might to believe in himself again, seemingly just so All Might would be able to take him down eventually. Dude has a one-track mind. I like that the heroes got the heads up about AFO’s timetable and that it’s definitely one of those ‘it might already be too late,’ kind of things. Like… they can only do so much prep in 3 days. I’m sure that while AFO has planned on a lot, I don’t think he’s ready for the likes of Stars and Stripes to arrive. She strikes me as what All Might was like during the height of his power. I think she’ll be a big asset. I also liked seeing Izuku settle back in with his class. Things aren’t exactly going to be fun for him going forward, so it was nice to see him relax in a bath, get to talk with his classmates, and see the beginnings of a potential jam session with Jiro and her band again. Such calm moments are fleeting, so one should savor them while they can. So… they’re prepping for one last brawl. It’d be cruel of me to not continue with this series next month, ya? Well… I guess you’ll have to wait to see how cruel I am, now don’t you? Have a good night and stay safe.  

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 137

 Uraraka is getting an A on her speech course this year, I can feel it. 

You’re getting two published today because I forgot to post yesterday. My bad.

 

Last time on My Hero Academia, Izuku’s friends decided to attack him with a group hug. Sort of. Finding Izuku burnt out, exhausted, and at the end of his metaphorical rope, his classmates do their damnedest to bring him back to UA so he can take a break. Fearing for their safety above all else, Izuku tried to play it cool, saying he’s fine, and run before anyone can stop him. What happened next was about fifteen minutes of Izuku’s classmates doing their best to tackle him and/or use their memories of him to get him to just stop and talk to them. Most of his classmates had something to say about how he inspired them, or helped them, or was just a good friend to them. Izuku struggled the whole way, breaking out of a combination Dark Shadow binding and harness made by Yaoyorozu, an ice pillar that Shoto made, and from just talking it out with several classmates. Their final gamble came when Izuku tried to escape using his powers combined to rocket away. They used their own rocket, comprised of a ball of slime Mina Ashido made, on an ice slide made by Shoto Todoroki, and then rocket propulsion made by Shoto and Bakugo, to send Iida (who’d been in the slimeball) at Izuku at like Mach 2 speed. As he was launched at his friend, Iida admitted that he felt like he was always a lap behind Izuku, and it’s because of that that he’s always willing to race after him to try to catch up. Exhausted and unable to shake them off, Izuku passes out. He’s brought back to UA, where almost immediately a mob of civilians form to try to protest him being brought in. The pros try to calm things down, but the mob is adamant that Izuku not be brought in. Izuku prepares to walk away, but Uraraka grabs his hand to stop him. She asked ‘who protects the heroes when they need it,’ and prepares to be the one to protect Izuku. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

We open by jumping back to Endeavor’s meeting with Nezu/ambush by class 1A. Endeavor points out that Izuku’s presence could put the civilians at risk. Nezu says that they greatly upgraded security a while back and this will give them a chance to test it out. He also reminds them all that they hosted All Might back in the day and survived, so things should hardly be different now. He encourages the students to bring Izuku back. Iida asks about the UA barrier and for Nezu to elaborate on what the weasel meant by it getting upgraded. He is hopeful that maybe giving Izuku evidence that he can come back will mean that they won’t have to fight him in the streets. Nezu admits that there is a certain level of selfishness on wanting Izuku back, he recognizes that Izuku is a key element to battling AFO and the League, so having him back and protected is in their benefit. He admits that the school has been able to buy defensive equipment like the robots they use in training and the security gates for cheap, so the school’s protections are on par with Tartarus Prison. Yaoyorozu says that that is impressive, but Shigaraki and co broke through those defenses before. Nezu says that that is true, but adds that after Shigaraki and his original league broke into the school the previous year, he’s been adding his own customizations to the school’s defenses. He’s confident that with his additions, the schools shield barrier is strong enough to hold back an army of villains. And there’s his ace in the hole. The school can move now. He’s divided the school grounds into a grid, allowing them to lower certain sections into the ground to turn them into high security bunkers. There’s also a bunch of reinforced plates underground for added security. Kaminari puts it best when he says that’s like Mecha anime tech. The shelters can be moved on high speed rails hidden in these lower levels. The rail is connected to other schools and sheltered areas like Shiketsu academy, which explains that comment last episode about the campuses combining. Tokoyami points out that this kind of protection seems to be built around combatting the upgraded Decay that Tomura has access to and how weird that is since at the time of the Festival they had not idea his power would develop. Nezu says he had a hunch, and because of that paid for the extra upgrades from his own pocket. The students are shocked to hear that Nezu is independently wealthy, Endeavor adding that Nezu is a supporter of Quirk morality education and is world renowned for it. Nezu is a big believer in ‘putting in the work’ on improving the world. He encourages the students to bring Izuku back.

 

We return to the campus as the crowds are picketing Izuku being brought in. Most are screaming for Izuku to be taken away, and one even accuses him of being a Nomu since he has multiple quirks. His mother tries to go to him, but Mitsuki Bakugo holds her back for fear the mob might react to her. It’s weird seeing that Izuku and Bakugo’s moms are friends. We also see Kota, the little boy Izuku bonded with at the Training camp, with Ragdoll, the depowered member of the Wild, Wild Pussycats, looking on in apprehension. Inside the school, the 1B students are with Eri trying to keep her calm. Sero is surprised that the principal couldn’t convince them, 13 saying that they seemed like they understood at first, but speculation is running out of control and getting people to panic. On her phone she has a news article up that is asking if Shigaraki is after a UA student. Present Mic uses a megaphone to try to get people to calm down, but Jeanist says that maybe he should do the talking as he convinced many of them to come here and he’s not a teacher.

 

Jeanist tries to convince everyone to go along with bringing Izuku in. He says that they tried to use Izuku as bait to draw the villains out, but that didn’t work. Jeanist insists that Izuku is a key part of the fight against Shigaraki and All For One and asks them to let them just let Izuku rest inside the fortress for a while. This seems to calm everyone for a moment, but then one dick basically blames the heroes for not stopping the villains and saying that because they screwed up, they’re putting everyone else at risk. The mob gets whipped up again. Mitsuki comforts Inko, who has crumpled into a sobbing heap at seeing everyone turn against her son. Uraraka decides that she needs to do something before this turns violent. She makes herself weightless, grabs Present Mic’s megaphone and leaps onto the top of UA’s building. The first to notice her up there are her parents. Uraraka uses the megaphone to explain to the crowd what is going on. She insists that Izuku’s power is special, that he left because he wanted to protect everyone, and that he’s burnt himself out to do it. She begs them to understand that he is just a normal guy that needs their help. Bakugo tells Izuku that they’ll help him protect everyone. Nezu repeats that doing the work is hard, but if they can do it, they’ll help set up a hero strong enough to surpass All Might.

 

Uraraka has a flashback to when she was little when she was absolutely giddy seeing someone else being happy. She says that she’s always been like this. She says that the first time she saw someone do hero work, she was focused more on the people made happy by the heroes work. Ippan Josei is in the crowd and is moved to see that Izuku clearly just kept going after saving her. One of the guys in the crowd accuses the heroes of wanting them all to be like Izuku, dirty and exhausted and covered in blood. Uraraka, her temper flairing, shouts back that the heroes are the ones getting dirty for them. Iida tells Izuku that she’s up their fighting for all of them, but especially for them. Uraraka goes on to says that she wishes she could reassure everyone, but she can’t. She tells them that they, the heroes, are just like everyone else. They need people to support them. She flashes back again, where she was just super jazzed as a kid to see others happy. Her dad tells her that she’s missing out on seeing the hero. She looks over and sees the beaten up hero, and is all the more excited when she sees one of the civilians cheer him on and the hero give a thumbs up. In the present she begs everyone to search their hearts and find it in themselves to help Izuku. She has a flash of Himiko Toga in her mind and shouts her plea for their help all the louder. Both Izuku and Inko Midoriya are sobbing with joy at Uraraka’s words. Izuku flashes back to when he first met Uraraka and she saved him from face planting. He falls to his knees and sobs with happiness at seeing her work so hard for his sake. Several people see Izuku fall, and both Kota and Josei run to him. We see a flashback of him going shoe shopping with his aunt Mandayal and how he specifically chose red shoes like Izuku’s. Future narrator Izuku chimes in to say that while this is the story of how he became the world’s greatest hero, he amends it and says that it’s the story of how EVERYONE became that hero.

 

Mineta tries to go to Izuku, but Iida holds him back, saying that they should let these two save Izuku this time. Kota apologizes for not standing up sooner, but he wants to support Izuku now. Josei reveals that she’d been turned away by several shelters that weren’t allowing heteromorphic people into their shelters. UA was the only one that would welcome her, and while that sucked, it let her see him again which is nice. She hugs him in thanks, and so does Kota. One of the crowd, the man with three cross shapes coming from his head (Izuku met him in the first episode, he dubbed Izuku a true fanboy) says that maybe they should listen to this young hero has to say. He says they should let him in to have a break, he’ll only be there for a short while anyway. One of the crowd says that maybe he could go to Shiketsu, but his friend says that he might be turned away from there too. Cross guy, who is henceforth will be called Carl, says that he’s been doing some self-analyzing over the last few weeks. Carl viewed heroes as essentially performers on a stage. Carl and the rest of the world got to see heroes, like All Might, stand up and perform acts of service for prestige and accolades. But now the money is gone, heroes are dropping off, and they really need to ask themselves why anyone is sticking around to help. He says that he knows this is tough, but they can’t keep acting like Spectators. The guy who keeps acting up asks Izuku if he gets some rest, will he win and put things back to how they were before. Izuku swears that he will, with the help of his friends.

 

Ectoplasm heads outside and tells the Todorokis and Hawks that things are settling down for the moment and they should head inside. They head in and see the crowd encircle him. Endeavor isn’t sure if they ended up making any progress and maybe they should have just sent Izuku here in the first place. Hawks instead thinks that this is progress. He believes that Izuku helped spread seeds of trust and hope while he was fighting, and Uraraka has brought them into the same fold. He thinks this is the start of a future where heroes have too much time on their hands and everyone smiles.

 

Nezu is on the phone with Aizawa, complimenting the teacher on his students making everyone accept Izuku. He asks how Aizawa’s leg is. Aizawa, who also lost one of his eyes after that last fight, says that he’s not going to outjump Miriko anytime soon but he’s doing better. Nezu asks about Kurogiri, and Aizawa says he visits him every day, but there’s been no change. They’ve brought Kurogiri to central hospital for examination in the hopes of finding some way to help the Nomu recover. Nezu says that its thanks to Oboro Shirakumo breaking free of the Kurogiri persona that they’ve any strongholds at all. Aizawa asks if they’re on the lookout for the league, and Nezu says they’re looking for Toga specifically. They know how much blood she needs to mimic someone and how long it lasts, they’re only allowing anyone in after some isolation. Aizawa says that UA is their stronghold and it’s time for their next move, to which Nezu agrees.

 

All Might heads out in his car, saying he’s going to check out the hero-hating groups that refuse to join them. As he races away, he remembers Izuku trying to leave him and he makes a dark expression. From the rooftops, Stain watches him go. Well, shit.

 

Well, that was an emotional gut punch. It was nice seeing Uraraka get the spotlight for a bit. I loved her speech. She has clearly been thinking about this for a while. I liked that she tried for straight compassion for a bit, but when that one guy kept being a negative Nancy that she basically told him to shut up and see Izuku for the scared kid he is. Empathy is important, but sometimes you do need to tell people to shut the hell up. Letting Izuku have a moment with Kota, the first person he legitimately saved, and Josei, the most recent person he saved, have a moment with him was nice. The whole flashback about the shoes was super sweet and does highlight just how much Kota idolizes Izuku after the training camp. I like that they remember to bring up the Heteromorphic racism. That feels like it is a big deal even if its not talked about as much. Humans are really terrible about othering people based on skin tone, so I have to imagine we’d be all the worse if some people looked like anything but a person. And no, I don’t think the people that want to bang monsters specifically would make Josei feel better either. There’s not that much more to say about this one. Uraraka went to bat for Izuku and got everyone on board with letting him take a break, that’s awesome. I’ll be curious to see how Aizawa handles being an amputee and a cyclops. And All Might looks like he’s going to be meeting Stain face to face for the first time, and considering the hero killer once said that All Might is the only person allowed to kill him, I can’t imagine it’ll be a boring conversation. See you then. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 136

Chase the green kid! 

Last time on My Hero Academia, Izuku started hitting the wall. All For One out thought Izuku and his hero allies, luring them out to his hidden mansion just to play a message promising the 9^th Wielder of One For All that ‘Now it’s your turn!” to suffer his obsessive attention. Izuku, growing tired and more desperate to protect his loved ones, tells All Might to stop following him and that he’s okay on his own. Class 1A have heard all about what Izuku’s been up to, and they’re all worried about him, Bakugo most of all. He knows his old frenemy extremely well, and knows that isolation and worry are just not good for Izuku’s mental state. He and the rest of 1A convince Principal Nezu and Endeavor to let Izuku return to the school. Izuku is nearly captured by a Tartarus Escapee called Dictator who used an army of human puppets to overwhelm the exhausted vigilante, but he’s saved by the timely arrival of his class. He thanks them for their help, but tells them to leave, but they refuse. They’re here to bring him back to UA and they will not take “I’m Fine,” or “go away” as an answer. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

The episode starts with Izuku lying to his friends that he’s fine and for them to leave him alone. No one buys it, as their friend is basically in a Donny Darko version of his costume. Class 1A prepare to take him down… For a nap.

 

Before the battle starts, Iida has a flashback to when he said more or less the same thing to Izuku. Back when he was at the mercy of Stain, the Hero Killer that maimed his older brother and crippled him, he told Izuku to leave and not meddle in something that doesn’t concern him. Izuku countered with “dude, that’s literally the entire point of being a hero!” I’m paraphrasing but that’s the gist. Iida says that he knows Izuku and knows that he’s too stubborn to be turned off a course once he’s on it. Bakugo tries to taunt Izuku into acting, mentioning how Izuku has access to more powers now, but he still isn’t All Might. He also mocks Izuku’s new costume design, saying that it makes Izuku look like a villain. Izuku does thank his friends for coming but then fires off a Smokescreen to hide his movements. Bakugo blows it away with a blast. He sees Izuku in the sky above him and says that now that Izuku is the all-powerful successor, he thinks of the rest of them as extras. I think that’s your own damage, Bakugo, but I appreciate you keep trying to make him mad since ya know he’ll screw up. Koda summons a flock of crows to try to distract Izuku, begging him to come back with them. Izuku tries to leap away, but Sero uses his tape attack to grab on. He says that Black Whip makes him look scary and that its freaking people out to see him like that. Izuku flashes back to when Sero gave him some basic advice on how to use a Spider-Man web attack when he first developed Black Whip. Izuku rips the tape away but then gets hit by Jiro launching a sonic blast from her speakers. He leaps away but can’t escape Jiro saying that his help formulating her music lessons for their school festival concert was a huge moment for her even if it seemed small to him.

 

Ojiro catches Izuku in his oversized tail and reminds him of how they bonded when Ojiro asked him to beat Shinso as payback for Shinso mind controlling him. He tells Izuku they all know he’s running on empty and begs him to just let them help him. Izuku is worried that All For One will attack the school if he’s there and that’ll be like killing them all himself. He breaks free of the tail but gets tackled by Tokoyami and Dark Shadow into a building. Tokoyami pins him to a pillar with Dark Shadow. Sato grabs Ojiro as he falls and carries him and Jiro to the ground. Jiro comments on how much stronger Izuku. Sato asks him to just hear them out, reiterating Koda’s comment about Nezu saying it was okay for him to come back. He decides to go for the Jugular and say that if he doesn’t, he won’t help Izuku make candy apples for Eri again. Izuku, still in his dark place, says that anyone can treat Eri to those and that she doesn’t need him. Before he can struggle or try to move, Yaoyorozu catches him in restraints. She says that their original plan was to find him and fight with him in the streets, but Nezu, Endeavor, All Might and the other heroes changed their directive to “bring that boy home!” Izuku realizes that Yaoyorozu’s device is supposed to put him to sleep, so he pries himself free and tells everyone to forget about him and go back to campus. Before he can break out of Dark Shadows, Kaminari runs up and throws around him, saying that they’re not abandoning him. Then, Shoji entangles them both in his tentacle-like arms, which Yaoyorozu coated in electrical tape to protect him. He reminds Izuku about when their group was attacked by the League at the Training Camp, that he thought with their class they might even be able to take on All Might. Tokoyami joins them and has Dark Shadow wrap him up even further. He says that using Dark Shadow’s offensive strength protectively was Izuku’s idea in the first place. The four of them try to get him to calm down, Kaminari adding that he could really use a bath to break the tension, but Izuku freaks out and tells them to just go! Kaminari prepares to shock him, but Izuku breaks free and leaps away. The quartet are all impressed by One For All’s immense power.

 

Izuku, clearly holding back tears, tells them all to just leave him alone. He admits that he knows they’re there for him, and that they want what’s best for him. He knows that for certain as his Danger Sense isn’t going off at all to their attempts to restrain him. He begs them to just go. His mask falls off during this speech and we see how bloodshot his eyes are and how dirty his face is. He keeps saying that he’s okay, but he’s not convincing anyone. Shoto summons a giant ice pillar and Izuku dives headlong into it. He says that he can see that Izuku wants to cry, but he’s not allowing himself to. He begs Izuku to just rely on them so he can have an emotional release. Tsu leaps over and says that she’s not willing to let him go, either. She reminds him of when she talked to him and the others after they broke the rules to free Bakugo from the League and how she had to vent her feelings to them so they could be friends again. She says that she cried a lot during that, but she doesn’t do that anymore and begs her friend to just rely on them. She tells him that he doesn’t have to do this alone.

 

We jump back to All Might Statue, where Kirishima, Aoyama and Hagakure present a captured Dictator to Endeavor. Kirishima is kind of bummed that all he got to do was chip the guy out of the ice. Endeavor thanks the kids for their hard work, and asks them to help Hawks control the scene. Hawks radios in to Endeavor and asks if maybe they should just bring Jeanist in to stop Izuku as the fabric-based hero could end this in an instant. Kirishima is vocally upset that he can’t keep up with Izuku right now, the green-haired hero being so much more mobile than the red head, as there is so much he wants to say to Izuku. Rather than wait around, he leads the other three towards Shoto’s ice pillar holding Izuku. Endeavor tells Hawks to wait; he wants to give the students a chance to settle this.

 

Izuku doesn’t want to stay put, though, and starts breaking free of the Devil’s Tower of ice he’s in. Shoto then points out the obvious, that this is probably AFO’s plan. By trying to stay away from the people he cares about, Izuku is dividing their attention and thus making UA more vulnerable. And on top of that, he’s exhausted and hurt, and therefore extremely easy for someone with a ton of power and resources to grab whenever they want. He asks Izuku to stand together with them and help protect UA. Izuku remembers AFO’s “It’s your turn!” threat, and all of previous wielders, he tells Shoto that this is a destined conflict between One For All and All For One, and they can’t keep up. He breaks free of the ice, Shoto leaping away to not get caught in the avalanche. Iida and Uraraka run up and prepare for their next grab attempt. Tsu follows Izuku, grabbing Mineta (whom Uraraka just made weightless) and tongue whips the purple little perv at Izuku. Mineta catches Izuku with a whip of his super sticky beads. He says that he never thought Izuku’s power was that cool. No, what made Mineta fall for Izuku (his exact words) were all the times he saw Izuku do something brave despite being scared. Like at the USJ when the original, extremely sucky League of Villains attacked. Izuku gets him in a Black Whip and drops him on a roof.

 

Izuku attempts to get away by combining his powers, using Black Whip as a slingshot, adding Fa Jinn kinetic energy build up, and 45% Full Cowling to hopefully rocket himself away… but Uraraka comes falling from the sky screaming that she’s not giving up on him. She talks about how much everyone has grown over the year. Izuku blocks her out and shoots off, but that seems to have been Uraraka’s plan. She says this is their chance. Shoto makes a massive ice ramp, Ashido makes a super slick ball of her acid that Shoto and Bakugo ride in, with the rest of 1A shoving to give it momentum before Shoto uses his fire blast to rocket the two of them after Izuku. Uraraka thinks about how much she wants to tell Izuku as she slaps the passing slimeball, making it weightless. Shoto and Bakugo use their powers as booster rockets to make the slimeball go farther and faster. Shoto drops first. Bakugo thinks that he has so much that he needs to say to Izuku, but he is willing to put it off just a little bit longer. Because he’s not the one made for speed. The slimeball breaks up as Iida powers up his Recipro bust to maximum and shoots like a comet after Izuku. As he shoots forward, his suit and glasses breaking, he admits that Izuku is always ahead of him, but it’s because of that that he’ll always be running after him. He says that he will always be ready to challenge Izuku as he catches his hand and whips around to face him. We see Kudo again as the second wielder says that the thing Izuku needs most right now are friends that can keep up with him. Izuku tells Iida to let him go, and Iida refuses, saying he’ll always race after him, as meddling when you’re not wanted is the essence of being a hero.

 

Izuku tries to escape, but all the chasing and struggle has finally worn him out and he collapses as Iida pulls him into a grapple. He yells that he’s got Izuku and Uraraka releases her power. They plummet to the ground, and it’s at that moment that Iida realizes that he hadn’t thought about how they’re going to land. Thankfully Kirishima runs out and catches them as they hit the ground. The force of the catch causes Kirishima to skid backwards for like a mile, but he says they won’t break him. He then adds that he saw a new report about some kid his age running to save someone from a villain, and that he now knows for sure that that was Izuku. The story blew him away. He tells Izuku that ya don’t need special powers or fate to be a hero, just being there is enough. Everyone gathers and Ashido asks him to stop running, the others all agreeing. Izuku gets up and admits that he wishes he could go, but he’s too scared to do that. He knows that a lot of people are taking refuge at UA right now and he won’t risk them or his friends.

 

Bakugo walks up and asks if Izuku remembers what he said to Bakugo after he was stabbed by Shigaraki. Izuku admits he doesn’t, and Bakugo says “Stop trying to win this by yourself.’ He elaborates and says that the whole reason that he got stabbed was because he reflexively got in the way to protect Izuku. He says that their whole lives he’s looked down on Izuku for being Quirkless, for being less than Bakugo in so many ways, but how he hated how it felt somehow also felt like Izuku was way ahead of him. He formally apologizes to Izuku for being a dick all these years. He swears that he and the others will handle the things that Izuku can’t. They’ll work together and be better than they’d be apart. Izuku pitches forward, exhausted, and Bakugo runs up and catches him. He says that he’s sorry and Bakugo says he knows. Yaoyorozu says they’ve cleared the first hurdle, but things will get harder from here.

 

A short time later, Izuku wakes up. He’s being carried by Shoto and being looked over by the space themed hero 13. … Whom I’m just learning is in fact a woman. Sorry for misgendering her in the first season. She tells Izuku that most of the civilians have made it to shelters and the only folks outside of those are criminals and anti-hero vigilantes. She’s sure those won’t last much longer either as things are growing more desperate and even those are looking for help. We pull out father to see that they’re standing before UA campus, which is completely enclosed in a colossal wall. How. Do. They. Afford. These. Things! Anyway, 13 tells him to relax and leave stuff outside UA to the pros for now. Izuku is impressed by the wall, Hagakure adding that they’ll be able to ‘merge’ with Shiketsu Academy in some way. Izuku is moved by everyone’s earnestness but he knows that he can’t do this. They’re interrupted by a group of protestors just inside the walls chanting ‘keep the boy away!”

 

Inside a crowd has formed to protest Izuku being brought in. They’re scared, confused, and know that All For One is hunting Izuku. Present Mic and 13 try to keep them calm, but they keep chanting. A very sad Deku turns to leave, but Uraraka takes his hand to stop him. She tells him it’ll be fine, and she thinks about how she and the others won’t let him go. The episode ends with Uraraka asking herself, ‘when a hero suffers, who is supposed to protect them?”

 

Overall, this is a simple episode. Izuku is shouting, “I have to go to protect all of you!” and his classmates are all shouting back, louder, “Like hell you do!” It was nice that they found ways to have the majority of Izuku’s friends get a chance to talk to him and say their peace about how much he means to each other them. That alone would be moving for this kid who a year ago in universe was shocked to have classmates that liked him more than Bakugo. He’s had big impressions, like with Shoto, little impressions, like with Jiro, good bro moments, like with Kaminari, and moments that broke some fandom spaces, like with Mineta. Ya, there was a lot of discussion on what it was meant when he said he ‘fell’ for Izuku. I’m not sure if Horikoshi has ever addressed it, but the common fandom answer I’ve seen is that Mineta is in fact bisexual but not really mentally or emotionally ready to handle that, hence why he goes so over-the-top to showoff his heterosexual interests by harassing the girls. I’ll just say that if that interpretation is true, then it at least makes him more interesting than being the stock horny pervert. Most of all I liked how this episode showed off that there is a genuine friendship between Bakugo and Izuku at this point. Bakugo lead the charge in trying to get Izuku back, he used all the right words and phrases to needle him and keep him off balance so they could prep for their big plan, he knew what he had to say in his apology to get Izuku to finally breakdown, and, most importantly, he knew who had to speak to Izuku in order to slow him down enough so they could all talk, Iida. Iida’s screentime has been severely reduced since the focus shifted to Izuku as part of a trio with Bakugo and Shoto, but he was one of Izuku’s first real friends, and they had a major bonding moment during the fight with Stain. Like how Izuku knew that Kirishima had to be the one to offer a hand so they could save Bakugo from the League of Villains, Bakugo knew that Iida was the one with the right mindset to finally chip through Izuku’s defenses and get him to stop. It shows a tremendous amount of growth, and then we got the apology. When this show started back in 2016, I never would have thought we’d get such a direct apology from Katsuki Bakugo. The kid was too angry, too self-centered, too violent to have the self-awareness to apologize to Izuku, the kid he irrationally hated for a long time. But here it was. We made it. Now they just have to convince an angry mob to calm the heck down. I’m glad Uraraka is going to be doing this one, as I imagine the next most likely candidate would be Inko Midoriya. Nothing against her, I’m sure she’d do a great impassioned speech to support her boy, but she’d definitely be backed up by Mitsuki Bakugo… and she’s her son writ early 40s housewife. I think that says it all. Ha. Have a good night and stay safe. 

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