Spider-Man is officially out. And I’m
sad. ☹ Let’s talk about anime to make me feel better.
So, we have a filler episode. All
of these events were created for the anime to fill out the season. But, it’s
good filler. Sure, it doesn’t really matter, but I love 99% of these characters
(you suck, Mineta) and seeing more of them is a good thing in my books. Bonus
points for this one as the filler once again fits into the story pretty well.
No Bleach filler where they have to completely stop the story for an unrelated
bit off insanity for this anime. Let’s get to it.
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| Think it's hard to breath with that much denim over your face? |
This episode begins with a quick
recap by Izuku. He mentions that he’ll be in the hospital for a little while longer
recovering. The news is laser focused on Stain, his motivations, his history,
and his capture. The boys weren’t named, and even though he got the credit
Endeavor is clearly annoyed. Iida went home to be with his family, and Todoroki
wasn’t hurt too bad so he’s going back on his internship. And I’m sure he’s totally
not going to rub his actual defeat of Stain in his dick of a father’s face.
Izuku wonders how everyone’s internships are doing.
We’re shown brief snippets of how some
of the internships are going. Bakugo is scaring children with his intensity
while on patrol with Best Jeanist. Uraraka is sparring with her mentor,
Gunhead. He’s showing her how to handle a knife fight. Yaoyorozu and Kendo are
doing photoshoots with their mentor Uwabami, and wondering if this is really
hero work. Kirishima and Tetsutetsu are working with their mentor Fourth-Kind
to clean up a local park. I guess Fourth-Kind and All Might read the same
teaching books. And Jiro is doing recon work for the super strong hero Death
Arms.
But now we’ll shift to the meat of
this episode, Tsuyu Asui. Tsu is working as a deckhand for a sailing hero. She’s
takes a break with her mentor’s sidekick, Sirius, who gives her a speech about
pushing through the boring stuff and learning about what it really means to be
a hero. Their hero, Selkie walks in and at first admonishes them for slacking
off, but then apologies for jumping to conclusions. His ‘cute face’ of apology
is super intense. Side note, I would like to hear how a Japanese man decided to
name himself after a predominantly female Celtic Fairy. Legend has them looking
like beautiful women that put on a seal skin coat to transform into a sea lion,
fall in love with sailors only to get homesick after seven years and return to
the sea. What? I’m Irish and I like folk lore, obviously I’d look up my people’s
mermaid.
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| Shame on whoever told him this pose was cute. |
Anyway, they’re called in on a
mission. The coast guard got a call about some stowaways on a freighter. Said stowaways
vanished by the time the coast guards got there, but so did several crates of
cargo. When asked, Tsu theorizes that they probably jumped ship, literally,
onto another smaller ship and scurried away. Selkie’s team and several other
aquatic specialists are going to search the area for them. The crew will use
the ship’s sonar to search, while Selkie will use his echolocation and other
sealion powers to search himself. They’re able to locate the boat and weigh
anchor. Once they arrive, Sirius, Tsu and the helmsman are left on board while
the rest of the crew go to search the fishing boat. Tsu is initially upset by
this, but accepts her captain’s orders.
Selkie and the crew don’t find
anything top side, but force the fishing boats crew to open the hold. When
everyone’s backs are turned, the crew shove Selkie and his men into the hold,
and then the two squid looking people force the human crewman into the hold.
They escape into the water, claiming that they’ve bought enough time for their boss
Innsmouth to finish his work… huh, guess that makes these two Howard and
Philips… or Arkham and Dunwich.
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| So we have a Japanese man named after a Celtic Fairy and one named after a fictitious town created by acclaimed but racist turn of the century horror writer in the same episode? I love my hobby. |
Selkie, using his echolocation
powers and Morse code to communicate to Sirius what happened. Her power is
super sensitive hearing, fyi. He tells them to search for the real boat and
that the rest of the crew will catch up when they can. They find the real boat
hidden in some sort of deep-sea grotto. Tsu, Sirius and the Helmsman capture a
third squid-person. Guess this makes her Lovecraft? Maybe Gloucester? Anyway,
they disable the girl squid-person and land on the ship. They’re immediately
attacked by a huge octopus-man, the aforementioned Innsmouth. He hits the Helmsman
with ink before tossing him aside, smacks Tsu and grabs Sirius. Sirius gets a
call from one of the captured crewmen, informing her that they’re still caught
but Selkie got out and is on the way. Innsmouth takes her communication earpiece
and gives it to Tsu, telling her to tell the them that they’d lost the boat.
Tsu remembers what Sirius told her about being a real hero, and she opts to
tell the crewman where they’re at. Tsu leaps around, wrestling with Innsmouth. He
grabs her tongue when she tries to grab Sirius, and looks like he’s about to
beat her to death. At the last minute, he’s hit with Robert and Olmstead
(possible name for the nameless protagonist from Shadow Over Innsmouth) and
then tackled by Selkie. The two have pitched battle, which only ends when
Sirius grabs his legs to trip him up and Selkie smacks him hard. They capture
the Lovecraft bandits, Tsu gets a congratulations from the coast guard, and
then the credits roll.
So yeah, as far as filler goes this
was a fun episode. I liked seeing a little bit of what the other students were
doing while Izuku was laid up. Bakugo’s vignette went exactly how I’d expect it
to. I doubt he’ll ever be a hero beloved by children. I would have liked to see
a bit more of Uraraka’s story personally, just because I’m one hundred percent
for her developing hand to hand skills. What? No series was ever lessened by the
love interest learning martial arts. Kirishima doing community service was fun,
I’d also would have liked to see more of that. It was a reference to Izuku’s
training period back in the first couple of episodes. I’m not sure why the
second half of the episode was a Tsuyu Asui episode, but I’m not complaining.
What? I like her whole thing. Plus, the design of Innsmouth was kind of cool.
He didn’t really look like a deep one or an eldritch horror but combining human
and cephalopod traits together make for a rather creepy looking bad guy. I
wonder what it was they were stealing? No, it was never addressed so it’s up to
your imagination. I think it was crates and crates of octopi to make calamari.
Next time, we’ll get a bit of the background on this mysterious All for One and
the history of One for All.
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