So this time around a mega-sized
dinosaur awakens and breaks out of a block of ice. The supersized monster is
King of the Terror Lizard Clan, and claims that the deaths of the kings of the
Deep Sea and the Subterranean have given him the opportunity to take over. Some
military guys fire off some rounds, and then hit him with the big gun, Tornado.
She’s a little green haired woman with CRAZY psychic powers, in case the name
doesn’t ring a bell. Tornado is almost immediately called back in by her
superiors at the Hero Association. This, of course, irritates her. And her
ignoring him irritates the Terror Lizard King. He tries to crush her, and
rather stupidly remarks that only a meteor had any chance of killing him.
Unfortunately for him, Tornado is able to pull a meteor from space, turning him
into burnt street pizza.
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| Find myself wondering how he'd wear a hat. Space-Clayface, real name: Melzalgald. |
We cut back to Saitama and Genos
getting a martial arts lesson from Bang. Teaching a cyborg and the equivalent
of Superman martial arts… kind of like trying to teach Matthew McConaughey pick-up
artist techniques. Would he ever really need them? We get some background on
Bang, that until recently his dojo was really popular, but then his top student
went nuts and beat the snot out of the majority of his students. Tough break,
dude. A Hero Association official shows up and tells Bang and Genos that all
the S-Class heroes are being called in because of a major emergency. Bang and
Genos also insist that Saitama come along as well. They meet a bunch of heroes,
including the Atomic Samurai and Tornado, both of whom are unimpressed by
Saitama. We’re shown 15 of the 17 S-Class Heroes. Couple of bruisers, a few
cyborgs, a morbidly obese…thing, a child genius, and a guy in a dog costume. I
deal with a weird subject matter. The only ones not there are Metal Knight, who
is anti-social, and #1 S-Ranked Hero, Blast.
A few Officials arrive, led by a
man named Sitch, who explain the situation. Apparently, a short time ago a
powerful psychic named Shibabawa predicted a major catastrophe mere moments
before her death. Her predictions, while sporadic, have always been 100%
accurate. As she chocked to death on a cough drop, yes you read that right, she
wrote down “The Earth’s in trouble.” Apparently she’s never been so vague,
hence why Sitch and the others are worried. They have a six-month window for
when this disaster could occur. Saitama points that ‘today’ falls in that
six-month period, right as the Hero Association Headquarters is bombed. We see
some bird people, led by the Sky King, just before they’re slaughtered by an
alien version of Clayface and a giant warship. The alien has an actual name,
but it’s really hard to write or pronounce, so I’m just going to call him
Space-Clayface.
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| They should have brought a bigger ship. |
The Warship obliterates 99% of
A-City, leaving only the Hero Association Building standing. They explain Metal
Knight had designed the building, hence its sturdiness. Why didn’t he share that
with the rest of the town? Because he’s a jerk, duh. Space-Clayface starts
attacking survivors, but he’s temporarily stopped by a weird knight. He’s a
student of Atomic Samurai. While the other heroes are still reacting to the
warship and devastation, Genos notices that Saitama has literally leapt through
the ceiling to get at the Warship. He blocks, dodges, and even flings back
several projectiles back at the Warship before breaking into it. Beneath the
ship, Space-Clayface blows Mr. Knight’s left arm clean off. He’s have been
killed, if Atomic Samurai hadn’t stepped in to save his student. He slices
Space-Clayface into powder, but the alien quickly regenerates. Samurai slices
him up again. And again. Space-Clayface just keeps regenerating. The Hero
Association is preparing evacuation/rescue procedures, and unofficially
declaring this a Kami Situation. For those who don’t remember, Kami=possible
human extinction. So…yeah, very bad. Meanwhile, Saitama has started smashing
through the Warship and killing the crew. We see a creepy image of some sort of
Cycloptic monster.
This episode is focused on build
up. We get to see most of the seventeen best heroes of their world. While some
are clearly based off of pre-existing heroes, Metal Knight = Anti-Social Iron
Man, Bang = Old Man Iron Fist, and Child Emperor = any pre-teen super genius, but
some are pretty unique, like Watchdog Man, that guy in the dog costume, and Pig
God, the morbidly obese guy from earlier. We also get to see Puri-Puri Prisoner
again. Still pretty creepy, but entertaining. And, while I say Space-Clayface
resembles the DC’s supervillain, I just mean his powers. Appearance-wise he’s
much more visually distinct, with multiple heads and apparently more than one
personality. With his regenerative powers, it’s a shame that Saitama didn’t
start from the bottom. He might have gotten a few more punches in against him. So
yeah, building to an epic conclusion. Next time, episode 11. Two to go.
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