For those who may have missed last
post, Izuku Midoriya, hero in training is about to compete in his school’s Sports
Festival. This, as stated by his mentor All Might, is his chance to debut in
the eyes of the public and announce “I am Here!” Who’s ready for a Tournament Arc?
We pick up immediately where we left
off last time, with Izuku and All Might discussing the plan for the Festival. We
get a little exposition on how this all breaks down. Basically, all of UA’s classes
are broken down by year, and in each year the different courses are mixed together
to compete in three events to showcase their abilities. Bet you didn’t realize
there were more than just the Hero Course at UA, didn’t you? Actually, there
are four courses. 1. The Hero Course where students are given the training needed
to be professional heroes. 2. The Support Course where students learn to build equipment
to help heroes. 3. The General Studies Course where students get a quality education
to equip them to enroll in just about any college. And 4. The Business Course where
students learn how to market heroes and support gear for maximum profit. Izuku
is unsure about his chances of making a good showing, but All Might continues
to encourage him to give it his all.
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| We're all extras in Bakugo's Hero Academia. |
Later on, Class 1-A is getting mobbed
by the other first year students. Why? Everyone wants to get a look at the student’s
that faced off against real villains, and to scope out the competition for the
festival. Bakugo makes the whole situation worse by calling the assembled
masses “Extras.” Someone really needs to pop this kid’s ego. One student in
particular, the creepy looking, blue haired Hitoshi Shinso announces that he’s
aiming for a spot in the Hero Course. See, it’s a rule that IF a student in one
of the other Courses does exceptionally well and a Hero Course student does
poorly, it’s possible for the non-Hero Course student to bump the Hero Course
student from the program and take their spot. That’s why the General Studies
kids participate, got it? Bakugo basically tells all the on lookers to screw
off and walks off.
After his exit, Izuku remembers
Bakugo’s promise after their fight last season that he’ll never lose to Izuku
again. It triggers a cascade of memories of all of his friends and mentors resolving
to be the best, either in a fight or in their career overall. This encourages
Izuku to double down on his training during the two weeks wait for the Sport’s
festival. Him and all of his classmates as well. We get to see a quick montage
of what everyone is spending their off time doing before jumping into the
tourney day itself.
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| Hitoshi Shinso is unimpressed with Bakugo. Wow, first time for everything. |
Day of, Izuku heads out to
participate in the festival. Just Izuku, apparently either no one invited his mother
to go, or she elected to stay home and watch it on TV. If A. jerks, if B. What’s
wrong with you Mrs. M? Regardless, Izuku makes it to the tournament stadium and
waits for the event to start with his classmates. Before things begin, however,
Shoto Todoroki approaches Izuku. The heterochromatic young man is there to
issue a challenge to Izuku. He knows that he has the superior power, but, Izuku
has All Might backing him, so he must have some tricks up his sleeve.
Regardless, he’s there to win and he’ll step on Izuku to get there. Izuku isn’t
backing down either and vows to defeat Todoroki. And Bakugo is hyper pissed
that he’s not being included in the declarations of war. Before he can start blasting
things, however, the students are summoned to the field.
MCing this event is the R-Rated
Hero, Midnight…
Who put her in charge of the
Freshmen tourney? Who thought the R-Rated hero was the best person for this
role? Anyone going to fess up?
Whatever, she’s the MC and she
calls up the #1 ranked Hero Course student to say a few words. Bakugo, yep he’s
the best, comes up and just has one quick sentence, “I’m just going to say, I’m
going to win.” Short, spicy and two the point. That’s Bakugo for you. Izuku
does note that his childhood frenemy didn’t cackle manically when saying that, leading
him to believe that this is the most serious Bakugo has ever been.
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| Okay, was Mr. Nezu drunk when he thought Midnight would be the best MC for the FRESHMEN tournament. Seems like poor planning. |
Todoroki, in an effort to show off
his power, flash freezes the ground and the Yaruki robots. He sprints ahead,
smiling a little to himself as the robot’s he intentionally froze off balance
topple, allowing him to get a firm lead on everyone else. While obviously
scared, and probably hearing his mother shouting to run away from home in his
head, Izuku preps to take on the robots himself.
This was mostly a build up episode.
It exists to set the stage for the event to come, and to remind us how
determined Izuku can be when he puts his mind to a task. Remember him doing a
victory yell upon the trash he hauled last season? That’s the feeling he’s
aiming for again, but instead of a private victory like the beach cleanup, he’s
aiming for the top spot. It’s also kind of a good reintroduction to the
character of Shoto Todoroki. For those who don’t remember, he’s one of only a
handful of students that got into UA based on a recommendation. He’s shown to
be one of the most powerful students, having aced the mock hero battle session
in season one in under a minute, and taken care of an entire battalion of
villains personally during the USJ attack. And that’s just using the Ice half
of his powers. It’s official designation of his Quirk is Half-Hot/Half-Cold. As
that silly name might imply, he has the ability to generate extreme
temperatures. His right side can create frigged cold and manipulate ice, while
his left lets him rapidly heats the air and create massive fire blasts. He’s
been largely a background character up to this point, but he’s going to take a
more prominent role from this point onward. As if him personally stopping a Yaruki
Robot single handedly wasn’t proof enough, am I right? The first trial has
begun, but young Midoriya already has some catching up to do. Don’t worry, it’ll
be an explosive finish.
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