Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 28

Something wicked this way comes.

Last time on My Hero Academia Izuku began training with All Might’s old trainer, Gran Torino. While as eccentric as The Symbol of Peace, Gran Torino proves to be an excellent teacher. He helps Izuku figure out a method to better use One For All, developing the Kaioken… er, One For All Full Cowling. He and Gran Torino were about to spar again when the credit’s roll. At the same time, Iida has been spending his Internship hunting Stain. Stain, meanwhile, was getting an offer from Shigaraki to join the League of Villains, which he was about to reject with a pair of swords. Let’s get to it

We open with Izuku and Gran Torino about to spar. This time, Torino adds a time limit. Izuku has three minutes to hit him. Torino starts leaping around at high speed again, circling Izuku and striking whenever the young man’s back is turned. Torino hits with enough speed and force to keep Izuku from getting enough focus to use his new technique. Izuku dives under a couch, and uses the time while he’s out of sight to power up. He launches at Torino and nearly gets a hit, but Torino is able to dodge. Time runs out, but he isn’t getting bummed out by this. He runs out to buy more weird fish pastries for Torino.

With the other students, Uraraka is learning some martial arts from Gunhead, Tetsutetsu and Kirishima are getting yelled at by Fourth Kind, Best Jeanist is doing his best to fix Bakugo’s personality and style his hair, and Yaoyorozu and Kendo are still being used as extras in their mentor’s commercial. Funny how Uraraka is the one having the best time, isn’t it?

I feel like he should be singing nursery rhymes or something.
The silence and lack of movement is much more unsettling.

All Might, meanwhile, is meeting with his friend Detective Tsukauchi. Over tea, Tsukauchi tells All Might about what they’ve learned about Noumu. After a few weeks of intense interrogation, they learned that the damn thing is incapable of speech, and since being separated from Shigaraki seems to be braindead for all intents and purposes. After doing a DNA test, they learned that Noumu had been a low-level thug for hire. And, more interestingly, he seemed to have four other people’s DNA mixed in with his own. The going theory is that forcibly adding DNA and powers to him basically fried his brain. Tsukauchi thinks that the only way Noumu could exist is if there was someone who’s Quirk is to give Quirks to others. All Might instantly knows who made Noumu, and it seems to shake him to the core. He shifts into his hero form and says “he’s back.” How ominous.

Wow, this is pre-transformation Noumu.
How'd those lips turn into a Beak?

Back with the villains, things have taken an interesting turn. Kurogiri seems to be laying paralyzed on the counter of his bar, and Shigaraki is pinned to the ground with Stain’s knifes pressed to his neck. Stain starts spouting insanity about purging the world of heroes of all the fake glory seekers out there. He does point out that unless Shigaraki gains conviction and a cause, he’ll always be a nobody. So good advice mixed in with crazy. Despite the position, Shigaraki is able to grab the knife and disintegrates the knife before it can touch the hand over his face. Stain decides to backdown, claiming his attack was a test to see about Shigaraki’s conviction. Turns out he does hate Shigaraki and feels like their end goals are diametrically opposed, but thinks they want the same endgame, to destroy the hero system. And he’s willing to work with that, if only temporarily. Shigaraki tells Stain to piss off, because the man has the emotional development of a ten-year-old. Kurogiri tries to convince Shigaraki to reconsider, and Stain wants to get back to Hosu to get to cleansing. This seems to give Shigaraki an idea.

In Hosu, Iida is going over what he knows about Stain. The villain’s pattern is to attack at least four heroes in a given area before moving on to a new city or district. Tensei was the first hit in Hosu. Iida swears to stop him. Shortly thereafter, Manual tells Iida that he’d figured out why Iida came to intern under him. He basically tells Iida that hunting Stain will not end well. Iida nods, but is clearly not going to listen, cause ya know, crippled sibling.

After a few days of training, Izuku has hit the point where he can keep up with Torino. He’s not winning, but isn’t getting wrecked every time they spar. After their most recent match, Torino tells Izuku that they’re going out on patrol. Why? Because if Izuku keeps fighting Torino, he’ll just master fighting Torino. Which is kind of silly. Izuku gets in costume and they go on patrol. They aren’t patrolling in Torino’s area, because the crime rate is too low. They’re going to Tokyo.

With the bad guys, Shigaraki, Kurogiri and Stain arrive in Hosu. Stain runs off to ‘purify’ the term hero. And by that, I mean he’s going to murder folks who save lives but commit the sin of liking being recognized on the street. See, it sounds really insane when you drop words like Purify and Cleansing and call a spade a spade. Shigaraki wants to prove that he’s more important then Stain. Again, ten-year-old. To do so, he summons a trio of Noumu’s and releases them. Oh dear.

Izuku and Torino are on route to Tokyo. Since they were going to travel through Hosu, Izuku tries to text Iida, but his buddy hasn’t responded. Which Izuku immediately notes as weird as Iida is the sort to always answer texts within five minutes of receiving them. While mulling over his friends change in attitude, one of the Noumu busts into their train, slamming a hero it’d been fighting into the train as well. Torino, being a badass, tells Izuku to stay back, leaps around and slams into the monster. Looking out through the hole the Noumu made, Izuku saw Hosu literally start burning. Ho damn!

It's official, don't mess with old men involved with Gran Torinos.
Eastwood will use himself to frame you for murder, Sorahiko
will kick you in the face.

The biggest Noumu, a black monstrosity that looks a lot like the original, just minus the beak and eyes, is causing massive property damage while the local heroes rush in to stop it. Manual and Iida run in to help contain the Noumu. At least initially. Iida looks down an alley just in time to see Stain nabbing a hero… how lucky. Maybe, we’ll see how the fight goes for him.

Iida interrupts Stain’s latest attack on a hero called Native. Japanese guy dressed like a Native American… hm… anyway, Iida interrupts Stain mid monologue. The villain knocks Iida’s helmet off during a short scuffle and loses interest in fighting him the moment he sees Iida is so young. He tries to give Iida a chance to walk away, as he’s not interested in killing non-heroes. Which just pisses Iida off even more. In a fury, he claims his brother’s codename of Ingenium and swears that he’ll bring Stain down. Oh dear. And that’s where the episode ends. Damn it.

The reveal about the history of the original Noumu was intriguing. I mean, he’s a duck billed psycho monster, but to find that he was originally a normal dude is kind of jarring. I can’t be the only who thought that Noumu might be a test tube creation. The fact there’s someone out there is able to forcibly turn a smalltime criminal into something that can go fist to fist with All Might is kind of scary. I’m trying to decide if three Noumus or Stain is worse for Hosu. The Noumu are probably going to cause the most property damage, but considering their basically braindead nature, all it’ll take is a few smart and powerful heroes to stop them. Stain, on the other hand, has proven to be both cunning, stealthy and vicious, so odds are he’ll take out at least one hero tonight without much effort. If in the chaos he decides to seize the opportunity to kill a few others, that could very well have much greater damage to the world’s moral. Just saying. The two groups together will probably wreck the whole town, if a few high-quality heroes don’t come in.  Iida coming across Stain feels like a good thing, as well as a bad thing. On the one hand, seeing the man that crippled his brother and ended his career is exactly the motivation that Iida needed to take up the name Ingenium. On the other, he’s about to fight the guy that nearly murdered the last Ingenium, a hero that had around a decade of experience on the job instead of just a week. There’s a pretty massive difference in age between Tensei and Tenya, just a random FYI. When watching this episode the first time I was curious to see if Iida’s fury would prove to be an asset to his fight or a detriment, but I’ll go into that next time. Needless to say, this fight between Ingenium and Stain is going to be one to remember. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 27

Izuku is about to be trained by an eccentric weirdo. So... business as usual for the green haired young man.

Last time on My Hero Academia our young heroes chose their hero codenames and began their week-long internships. In both cases, some look promising, some look troubling, and some look down right odd. If you haven’t been paying attention, Izuku totally falls into the third category for his internship. Oh, and he chose his hero name, Deku. Making it clear to anyone who’d heard his conversation with Uraraka (besides Uraraka) that first week that her opinion bears an insane amount of weight with him. Hint hint, subtle hint. His hero mentor, a retired UA Teacher and former mentor of All Might, is named Gran Torino. Izuku walks into Torino’s office to see him face down in a buddle of red liquid. Don’t worry, he just tripped into his lunch. Oh, this is going to be weird. Oh, and Iida is on his way to Hosu City, the site of the assault on his brother. That’s probably not a good thing.

Izuku Midoriya, finally looking the part of a hero.
Mostly. He still needs to loose the ear-hair-things on the cowl.

The episode proper opens to Gran Torino explaining his little slip and just generally acting senile. He keeps asking Izuku what his name is, despite Izuku answering more then once. Thinking that maybe the old man is nuts, Izuku plans to call All Might and tell him that his former master might need to be put out to pasture. Much to his shock, while Izuku’s back was turned, Torino stole Izuku’s costume case and starts rifling through it. Before Izuku can tell him off, Torino tells Izuku to come at him with a full OFA Smash. When he makes that demand, though, he sounds completely focused and much more threatening than he had before. But then immediately starts talking like he’s senile again. How odd. Izuku tries to tell the wacky old man that he doesn’t have time to play around as he needs to get stronger fast. Much to Izuku’s shock, Torino starts rocketing around the room, jumping from ceiling to floor to wall and back again. While perched on the wall, he basically tells Izuku that he’d been reckless with his powers during the Sports Festival and that Toshi (All Might) despite all his amazing qualities is fumbling as a teacher. It’s at this point that Izuku realizes that Gran Torino has a dual persona like All Might, a goofy idiot and a serious fighter, and that All Might probably learned that trick from Torino. Izuku agrees to show Torino what he’s got.

Before fighting, Izuku decides to don his costume. It’s the first time he’s seen the dang thing since his fight with Bakugo in the first season. To his surprise, the clothing company that repaired it took it upon themselves to give the suit some much needed upgrades. Which is good. No offense to Izuku’s mother, her original design was filled with love, but a hero costume needs to be a bit more intimidating. They reinforced his joints, and swapped out the creepy smile faceguard for one made of metal. He looks less like a creepy Donny Darko bunny and more like a Battle Bunny. There is still room for improvement, but massive steps forward have been made. Izuku and Gran Torino face off. Despite Izuku’s best attempts, Torino is just too fast for him to track with his eyes. Torino accidently smashes his own microwave while leaping around. Izuku comes close when he figures out Torino’s strategy of attacking at Izuku’s back, but still misses. Torino pins him to the ground. Torino tells Izuku that his biggest flaw is that his idolization of All Might is keeping him from reaching his potential. That Izuku thinks “One For All is more special than it really is.” He tells Izuku to think that over while they get some lunch.

In Hosu City, Iida is on patrol with his mentor, Manual. Iida is clearly only half paying attention as Manual tries to mentor and explain the importance of patrol. He’s scanning the area for Stain. The obsession he has with Stain is going to get dangerous.

I'd bet Kurogiri is thinking something like "I'm honestly
impressed it took this long to draw weapons."

Speaking of Stain, the villain is beginning his interview with Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and their mysterious master. He’s just a blank tv screen with the words “Audio Only” across the screen. Shigaraki is pretty up front with his desire to use Stain’s notoriety to boost the street cred of the League of Villains. Stain, though, is unimpressed. He tells the assembled villains that while he hates the corrupt heroes, he hates villains like them even more. He draws his blades and prepares to attack.

Back with Izuku, he’s thinking over what Torino said while his mentor is getting them food. He has an epiphany and realizes that he’s been treating his powers like his finishing move. Instead of using OFA like the Kamehameha in a DBZ fighting game, he needs to figure out how to infuse OFA into the basic punches. Does that make sense? In more basic terms, in a lot of fighting games, you have to hit a series of buttons in the right sequence to use a final, much more powerful blow. Like A A B A B B to fire off an energy blast. Izuku has been treating one for all like that energy blast, when he should be turning it into the basic A’s and B’s of the combo. Does that make more sense? Sure. Torino, who’d been listening from outside, smiles and notes that this new kid is smarter then Toshi had been.

We get a quick look at some of the other students during their internships. Bakugo’s mentor Best Jeanist tells the angry young man that he doesn’t particularly like Bakugo and will be spending the week whipping Bakugo into shape and working on his anger issues. Kirishima and the similarly powered Tetsutetsu are working with the same mentor, a gangster looking fella named Fourth Kind. Fourth Kind is also planning to whip them into shape. Uraraka is on foot patrol with Gunhead, who explains why heroes do stuff like that. Yaoyurozu and a Class B student named Kendo are basically being used as extras in their mentor’s, Uwabami’s, commercial. Jiro is working with Deatharms, Mineta is being used as Mt. Lady’s janitor, and Tsu is working with a group of marines. We’ll be going over Tsu’s internship at greater length at a later date. Shoto, meanwhile, is at Endeavor’s agency. He’d decided that, personal history and their baggage aside, the only better hero he could learn from is All Might. And since that’s off the table his dad is his best option. He still thinks Endeavor is a bastard, but he’s willing to learn. Good on ya, Shoto.

George, George, George of the Jungle, strong as man can be.
Watch out for that tree!

That night, while Gran Torino slept, Izuku snuck out to do some personal training. His plan is to use OFA to quickly jump up the sides of the alley beside Gran Torino’s building. The idea is that quickly switching from using OFA on just his legs to his legs and arms in rapid bursts will help him figure out how to cycle the power better throughout his body. Unfortunately, he can’t get the timing down right and spends most of the night George of the Jungle-ing himself. Is that too obscure a reference? Think Tarzan if the king of the apes was insanely clumsy and always ran into trees while swinging on vines.

The next morning, a frustrated Izuku has a talk with Gran Torino. Torino explained that part of the reason All Might can’t help Izuku like he should is because All Might is trying to train Izuku like Torino trained him. The problem was that Toshinori was a natural user of OFA and didn’t need to have some of the more complex techniques explained to him. Torino basically just spent his time teaching All Might how to take hits. And that he did it using his full strength, due to a promise he’d made to his friend, the previous OFA wielder.

Smart money is on Old Man with Mad Hops over Green
Glowing Kid.

Their conversation is interrupted by an Amozan delivery… real subtle guys. It’s a replacement microwave for the one Torino smashed yesterday. To celebrate their progress, Torino tells Izuku to heat up some fish shaped frozen pastries. Yeah, I don’t get it either. Must be a Japan thing. Izuku does so, but Torino nearly cracks his teeth on the food. Turns out, the food is still frozen on the inside because the plate Izuku used was too big and the food couldn’t turn in the microwave. This causes Izuku to have another epiphany. That’s what he needs to do, to instead of focusing OFA on whatever part he needs in the moment (legs, feet, arms, etc.) he needs to cycle the power around and through his entire body. Or, using Izuku’s egg in the microwave analogy, he needs to turn it to spread the heat. He tries it, first getting OFA’s power lines to crisscross over his body before pushing it farther into a glowing aura that covers his whole body. Guess Izuku just invented the Kaioken. The two decide to spar again just before the credit’s roll.

Start digression. For those who’ve never seen Dragonball Z, the Kaioken is an ability that protagonist Son Goku learns early on. Using the technique engulfs the user in a glowing red aura, which gives them a massive boost in strength and speed, but runs the risk of over taxing the body and causing massive damage if used incorrectly. Use the technique at the wrong time can cause muscle tears or broken bones, that sort of thing. And, as I read the manga first and that was in black and white, the colored aura that engulfs Izuku looks like the same shade as Goku’s. Even though the Kaioken is red in the anime and Izuku’s Full Cowling technique is green. Considering the popularity of Dragonball Z, I like to think of the similarities as a fond homage to the long running anime. Digression over.

Gran Torino is a very… interesting mentor. Like his own student, he’s equal parts a goof and super intense depending on the mood of the room. As I read the manga first, I read Torino’s voice in a manner similar to Clint Eastwood, so hearing is dubbed voice was a little jarring. But that’s the nittest of the personal picks. I enjoyed seeing Izuku start to get the handle on his powers. Sure, his thought process to get to developing the Full Cowling was… very Izuku, but that is part of his charm. And if thinking about an egg in the microwave lets him function as a Strongman-type hero, more power to him. This marks the end of Izuku literally always breaking his bones whenever he uses his powers, and marks the beginning of him actually learning to use his powers effectively. Sure, he will still occasionally do something stupid and end up breaking something, but it’ll be the exception instead of the rule. The meeting between Stain and Shigaraki went about as well as I’d expect. What? A sociopath meets another sociopath, of course weapons would be drawn. The meeting between this monster and the group of monsters is the start of something... wicked. So yeah, very good episode. 

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Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 26

Internships are hard enough without the risk of being assaulted by superpowered criminals. Just saying.

As I stated back in September, we’re going to be switching back to My Hero Academia for December. For those who don’t remember or never knew, I work as a mailman for my day job and December is easily the busiest month of the year for the US Post Office. Just in the last week of November I was putting in 10-hour days, and that’s before all those sales start going into effect. So, my free time is going to be somewhat limited until the New Year. It’s a lot easier to pump out summaries and reviews for a half hour show then an hour one, hence the changeover. We’ll get back to Jessica Jones by the first of the year, I promise.

This was going to be posted last week, but I was in a minor car accident a week ago Sunday. I was 100% fine, but my car has been in the shop since then. The kicker was I was on my way to my own birthday party. Happy birthday to me. Sigh.

I'm picturing Papa Bakugo just hanging his head in his hands
and sighing when he saw this.

Last time on My Hero Academia, the champion of the UA sports festival was decided. Katsuki Bakugo was able to ring out Shoto Todoroki in order to claim victory. He’d be happier about it, if Shoto had come at him full force. But, unfortunately, the young man was still feeling conflicted about using his fire power so he didn’t give the fight his 110% like Bakugo wanted. An infuriated Bakugo tried force the fight to go on, but he was eventually stopped, muzzled and forced to accept an award. Not joking about the muzzling, why does the school have a muzzle for students? Anyway, afterwards, the students enjoy a little time off, with some reuniting with family for the first time in a while like Uraraka and Shoto, and Iida visited his severely injured elder brother. He’d been assaulted in the line of duty by a serial killer named Stain, and while he survived, he was crippled. Sort of a bittersweet note to end on, if I’m being honest.

We pick back up again with Izuku returning to UA just after the sports festival. It seems that after that Icy, flaming, bone shattering brawl, people have started taking notice of him and are treating the young man like a minor local celebrity. Which isn’t so bad, the kid deserves some credit. Out on the street he passed Iida, whom he hadn’t seen since the sports festival. His friend is putting on a brave face, but is also remaining tight lipped about what happened to his brother, keeping our green haired hero at an emotional arms-length.  In class, all of the students are celebrating their own levels of new-found popularity. Seems like everyone walked away from the Sports Festival with a new spring in their step, aside from Iida.

Once again, I love that these two have been besties for decades.

Aizawa comes in and is now bandage free, much to the students’ shock. Turns out he’d been more or less fine after being healed, but Recovery Girl insisted on some extra coverage until the first day back to regular classes. He now has a sizeable scar under his right eye, but is otherwise fine. Which is impressive considering his skull was literally driven into the ground by a colossal monster. He tells the students that it’s time for them to pick codenames. Woo! What? Picking a name that’s both accurate to their powers and intimidating is like half the fun of being a superhero. Midnight comes in to oversee the name choices while Aizawa naps. Apparently, he’s not that good with picking names. We’re shown a flashback where teenage Present Mic picked his name and he just sort of rolled with it. Those guys really have been besties forever, and I love it.

Almost all the students pick accurate and fun codenames, like Tsu picking Froppy, Uraraka choosing Uravity, and Kirishima selecting Red Riot. That last one was an homage to his own personal All Might, Crimson Riot, so yeah, Kirishima is a fan boy too. There are a few hick ups, like Ashido initially going for Alien Queen, but it being reject as being a reference to the James Cameron Aliens monster. Considering this show is taking place about eighty to a hundred years in the future, that’s some impressive film knowledge. She bounces back with the simpler Pinkie. Bakugo has a lot of difficulty as his choices of King Explosion Murder and Lord Explosion Murder are immediately rejected. Apparently, this is a joke that didn’t translate well, as in the Japanese his choice in the Japanese characters of the names made both names really clever puns. But yeah, he isn’t allowed to take either. Shoto chooses to just go by his given name, as does Iida. Iida was tempted to use Ingenium, as his elder brother had asked Iida to take up that mantle given the fact he’d been crippled, but he chickens out. Izuku’s terrible case of the flashbacks flares up and he remembers coming up with hero names with his mom. They were all riffs on All Might, which is a name that he couldn’t justify using yet. They were all also terrible, as they were names made by a four-year-old, just saying. He goes with Deku, as he feels like turning that mean nickname into the name of a hero. And if anyone in class is paying attention, it’s a clear sign that he really values Uraraka’s opinion. Hint hint, subtle hint.

After the names had been chosen, Aizawa wakes up and explains about the internships that the students will be partaking in. They are one-week training internships where they will be working with licensed heroes to gain some on-the-job experiences. This is something that isn’t normally done until the second year, but given their showing during the Sports Festival and the USJ attack, it’s looking like the pros want to see what this new crop can do. Many of the students received personal invites from existing heroes, with Shoto and Bakugo getting more individually then the rest of the class combined. Students who didn’t get offers get to pick from a pool of heroes that just want to train young people. Oddly, Izuku didn’t get a single offer. The going theory that the class has is that most potential mentors might have been freaked out by his finger breaking tactics while fighting Shoto. I’d say that that just shows true grit, but what do I know?

While all of that had been going on, Cementoss in the teacher’s lounge received an email from another pro looking for an intern. All Might, who was chilling in the lounge as well, is quite surprised to hear it’s for Izuku, and then down right horrified to hear who sent it.

Some of the students had already made decisions who they’d want to intern under. Mineta is going to work under Mt. Lady. Oh really, the perv wants to work for the size manipulating woman that isn’t above using sex appeal to get what she wants? I’m freaking shocked. No, the real surprise is that Uraraka is going to intern under Gunhead, a fighting hero. For those who don’t remember, Uraraka had always expressed a desire to be a more disaster relief rescue hero then a combat specialist. She says that while rescue work is the goal, after fighting Bakugo, she realized it might be a good idea to be a bit more well rounded in terms of her skills. Good on her for realizing that it helps to know how to punch people, regardless of specialty. Shoto notes that his father made an official request to train him, and Iida looks like he picked a mentor as well.

Oh no, Iida's been practicing his murder face.

As class ends for the day, All Might slides in and ask Izuku to come with him for a moment. In a dark hallway, looking incredibly uncomfortable, All Might reveals that Izuku did get an offer. The hero in question is named Gran Torino. He’s a former UA teacher, having taught for a year when All Might was still training. He was also something of a mentor for All Might, and a good friend of All Might’s original master, the previous One For All holder. And, it seems, All Might is completely terrified of this man. While shaking and stammering, he hands Izuku the contact info and directions to Gran Torino’s agency.

Around the same time as that encounter, Aizawa is going over the list of internship choices that some students had already turned in. He’s quite shocked to see that Iida had only one name on his list, a very minor hero operating out of Hosu City. Crap. Why crap? Well, as Future Narrator Izuku explains, he and the rest of the world got the scoop about Ingenium’s maiming on the news a little after the Sports Festival. He’s been attacked in Hosu City by Stain. Stain is the moniker given to that villain I mentioned earlier, who is attacking and killing professional heroes. He’d personally murdered 17 heroes and crippled 23 others before this point. Number 24 being Tensei Iida aka Ingenium. In Hosu. Where Iida is going. Yeah, that’s why crap.

The day the internships are set to begin, the students meet Aizawa at the train station with their gear. After they’re dismissed to take their trains to their Agency, Izuku and Uraraka briefly follow Iida. They try to get Iida to open up to them about what happened to his brother, but he politely tells them nothing is wrong and he’s fine. You know, those standard lies people say after a tragic incident. Future Narrator Izuku laments the fact that he didn’t push Iida more to lean on him, as Iida walks off with murder in his eyes. Double crap.

I wonder how many more of these kind of scares Izuku's
poor heart can take.

In a post credit scene, we’re shown Izuku riding his train to meet Gran Torino. As he walks to Torino’s agency, he muses about never having heard of the hero, but knowing that he intimidated All Might he must be incredibly impressive. He opens the door to see a dead old man laying atop a pile of blood… or so he thinks. No, the old man is fine, he just slipped on his lunch… I guess. This is going to get weird.

One of the things I really like to see in this series, and others, is when minor characters get important character arcs. The minor character I this case being Tenya Iida. Iida’s vendetta against Stain is an all-consuming hatred that is going to affect his personality, personal life, and his future as a hero. It’s hard to be a good hero when you want to murder a guy. Just saying. I also like the concept of the internships. If being a superhero was a government job, the of course they’d want a LOT of street time training along with schooling. I am again calling BS on Izuku getting no other offers, but then this kid’s shtick is getting the short end of the stick. Gran Torino’s reveal is kind of amazing, as how many mentors are you likely to meet facedown in their lunch? Despite this… goofy intro, Gran Torino is going to be a very important trainer to young Midoriya. A fun start to a new arc.

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