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?
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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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