So… Maybe Spider-Man in the MCU isn’t
dead? No, no I refuse to get my hopes up. More anime!
Last time on My Hero Academia, we
got some filler in the form of what the other students were doing while Izuku
was recovering. Bakugo yelled at some kids, Uraraka learned some fighting moves,
and Tsuyu Asui stopped some drug smugglers on the high seas with a buff Selkie.
Again, I really want to know how a Japanese man chose to name himself after a predominantly
female Celtic Fae. How does that even happen? Anyway, now that the filler is
done, back to the action. Let’s get to it.
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| Something seems different about Uraraka. She get a new haircut? New Shirt? No, wait, it's the crazy intense Aura. I knew I'd get there. |
We open on Izuku saying goodbye to
Gran Torino. The old man gives his young student some last-minute advice,
basically don’t lose focus and risk breaking his bones again. Izuku asks Torino
why the former trainer of All Might and a pretty powerful hero in his own right
is basically unknown. Torino gives a vague answer about not caring that much
about being a pro, and tells Izuku that if he wants to know more, he should
talk to Toshinori aka All Might. As Izuku walks off, Torino acts senile again
and asks Izuku who he is. Izuku, finally realizing what Torino means and tells
him “I’m Deku!” Woo!
The next day, class resumes. Most
of the students discuss what they did during their internships. Sounds like
everyone had a pretty normal week, other than Izuku, Iida, Todoroki and in the
Anime, Tsu. Oh, and Uraraka is super intense after finishing her week of
intensive Martial Arts training. After a bit, the other students congratulate
the trio for meeting Stain. Kaminari reveals that a video about Stain is
still circulating. Oh, and his real name is Chizome Akaguro. Kaminari
accidentally compliments Stain, but Iida doesn’t hold it against him. He resolves
once again to be a perfect hero, specifically to ensure another Stain incident
never occurs again.
Later on, they have class with All
Might. Their first hero class is a race, five students enter an industrial zone
like training course and have to race to All Might. Izuku is going up against
Iida, Ojiro (kid with the tail), Ashido (Pink skinned acid shooter) and Sero (Spider-Man
but with Tape elbows). Izuku is pretty much written off by his classmates,
until the race starts. He shows off his new control of his powers, plus his
kind of crazy intense parkour skills. Bakugo is particularly pissed off because
Izuku seems to have copied his parkour skills perfectly. Izuku gets confident,
but then slips and falls. Sero ends up winning. All Might compliments everyone
for how they’ve improved. He also tells Izuku to see him after class. Oo, ominous.
Oh, and Mineta gets stabbed in the
eye by Jiro’s Earphone Jack for being super pervy again. I so enjoy seeing him
in pain.
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| That is a disturbingly good impression. Do Bakugo next! |
Izuku meets up with All Might. The Symbol
of Peace starts off by alleviating, after creating, Izuku’s fears that Stain
might have stolen One For All when he licked up Izuku’s blood. Turns out, OFA
can only be transferred when the holder wants to give it up. Izuku could
potentially give OFA to someone who doesn’t want it, but it can’t be
taken from him.
All Might tells Izuku about All For
One. All Might explains that AFO was a man that was born around when Quirks first
appeared. He chose to go by the name of his power. AFO allows him to forcibly
take powers from others, either keeping them for himself or transferring them
to other hosts. He was basically Magneto, rallying the disenfranchised and anyone
that wanted powers and became king of the underworld. The tumult from the
fighting that AFO caused, and the general fighting between Mutants and Normies…
wait, sorry that’s X-Men. The fighting caused by AFO and the general fighting between
Quirked and Quirkless set back technological development back too, hence why 21XX
Japan doesn’t have interstellar colonies. This is why race wars suck people;
they keep us from space travel. Also the discrimination, but also keeping us
from space travel.
AFO had a younger brother. His baby
B was a sickly young man, Quirkless, but also had a strong sense of justice. He
tried to convince AFO to give up his evil ways. In order to toughen up his brother…
maybe, maybe he was just being a dick, AFO gave him a quirk. The power was an
ability to stockpile power, making him stronger. All Might explains that there
were occasionally weird side effects to AFO mixing powers with his own. The strain
of multiple quirks could render their hosts brain dead, and for others the
powers mixed together in unexpected ways. Turns out, the younger brother had a
power, it was just kind of useless. His original ability was the ability to
transfer his quirk. The transference and power stockpiling quirks mixed together
and created One For All.
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| Okay, can anyone else understand why All Might assumed he'd killed All For One? |
Izuku asks why this is relevant,
since All For One should definitely be dead by now. Remember while they haven’t
given an exact date, we’re about a hundred years or so in the future. All Might
says that AFO had gotten his hands on a power that made him immortal. Knowing
that his brother was too tough for him to handle, and possibly because he didn’t
want to fight his brother, the original One For All holder transferred his
power to the next generation. It passed through six other holders before coming
to Toshinori Yagi aka All Might. He fought and supposedly killed AFO five years
ago. Izuku, motivated by All Might’s speech, swears to use OFA to defeat AFO
once and for all. He knows he can do it with All Might at his back. All Might sends Izuku off. He was tempted to
tell Izuku the truth but chickens out. Turns out, All Might is dying. Damn.
In a post credit scene, they reveal
what the next arc will pertain. The kids summer break is coming up. Japan’s
school year runs from April to July, then a month break, and then back for September
to December, another month off, and a final trimester running from February to
April. So, they aren’t done with the first year already, they’re almost done
with the first Trimester. Mr. Aizawa lets them know that after their semester
final, they’ll have a summer training camp to improve their skills. Provided
that they pass the exam. Whoo!
We then cut over to AFO. His doctor
reveals that AFO is also not doing well. Turns out he only stole Super Regenerator
recently, and most of his wounds had scared over all ready. It can’t fix things
already mostly healed. AFO is planning to use Stain’s arrest to boost the
League of Villains ranks, and to turn Tomura Shigaraki into the new AFO. Well,
crap.
It was very cool to see how the
rest of the students reacted to Izuku’s increased power. In a week he went from
breaking his bones to leaping around like a real Strongman type hero. Granted,
it was actually several months in the Manga, but in universe it was a really short
time. I liked that it seems Bakugo is legitimately getting frustrated at Izuku’s
growth. While he has a better handle on it than earlier, the thought of his old
punching bag potentially catching up to him seems to still be freaking him out.
The lore on how One For All came to be is very interesting. The fact that it was
a power created by accident seems fitting. In an attempt to make his brother
more like him, All For One created the power that is the greatest threat to him.
I believe that’s Irony. While it was a bit of a minor line, I did like that
they for once confirmed that things were… unstable after Quirks began to
manifest. While I wish that if some sort of psychic or mystical powers were created/discovered
would ultimately be for the good, I also know that if the real world started to
look like Marvel comics, there’d be RAMPANT destruction and chaos in the
streets. Like, reshaping the map kind of destruction. So, the fact that Horikoshi
Kouhei has a realistic view of how people would handle sudden super powers is
kind of cool. Also, the foreshadowing of what the students will soon be facing
and the upgrading of the League of Villains ranks is really well done. We’re towards
the end of season 2 here, but they’re really doing their damnedest to set up
season 3.
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