Last time on My Hero Academia,
Izuku and his friends celebrated finishing their exams with a group shopping
outing for their big summer training camp. Things started off well, but quickly
spiraled out of control, starting with Uraraka running off because she’s having
difficulties accepting that she’s got a crush on our green haired protagonist,
and hitting the figurative pile when Izuku is kind of kidnapped by Tomura
Shigaraki. The weirdo covered in hands, disintegrates people, if you’ve
forgotten the name. Shigaraki was still smarting over Stain being more popular
than him, and that said popularity actually netted him some new followers. He
coopted Stain’s message, in case you forgot. After conversing with Izuku, he
discovered his “conviction” and decided to go back to his evil lair and start
plotting how to kill All Might. Izuku escapes, thankfully, but is clearly
shaken up by the experience, though not as much as his mother. Not the best way
to start a vacation, but what are you going to do?
I should preface this one by saying
it’ll probably be pretty short, as this is a filler episode that’s only here to
refresh memories, or inform new viewers, of the general timeline of events for
My Hero Academia. I’ll mostly focus on the framing device and new information,
as all the things that are going to be touched on in the episode I’ve already
spoken of at length.
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| They'd probably look back on today fondly the next time a murderous psychopath went after them... you know, if this wasn't filler. |
We open on the hand covered
Shigaraki and his shadowy minion Kurogiri at the villain bar. Shigaraki is
musing about his recent revelation as to why he hates UA, Izuku, heroes and All
Might so much. Basically, they’re connected to All Might, and that All Might’s
always got a big smile on his face. This motivation will make more sense later,
just saying. As he leaves to do… whatever Shigaraki does with his free time, I
assume torturing small animals, Kurogiri goes over what they know about Izuku.
Namely that he was a quirkless nobody until last year, and is now a powerhouse
somebody. Out in the alley, Shigaraki vows to show the world how fragile their
beloved peace really is.
Finishing with them for a bit, we
leap over to Izuku. My favorite superhero fanboy is just working out in his
room while watching the old All Might video, I think his mother is right about
him adding a million views on his own, when he’s interrupted by two classmates.
No, not Uraraka, Iida, Bakugo, Todoroki or someone that might have a “good”
idea, it’s Mineta and Kaminari. They convince Izuku to come with them to spend
the day at the school pool, for endurance training they say. Yeah, right.
We then cut over to Aizawa
discussing his students with his fellow UA homeroom teacher, Vlad. He’s,
obviously, in charge of class 1B, the other hero class. Aizawa rapid fires over
his students and their powers. I’ll only point out that Izuku’s power in all
the UA documentation is called “Superpower” and that it just makes him function
like a strongman. IE, he hits hard with it. The trio of boys then come in to
double check that they got permission to use the pool, which Aizawa gives, but
stipulates they need to be out by 5.
The boys get changed, and then we
hear what the idiots had planned. Namely, Mineta had overheard the 1A girls
deciding to use the pool as a sort of mini-vacation before their training camp.
They came to leer at the girls, and brought Izuku along as cover, knowing no
one would believe that these two were doing something other than being creeps.
Izuku accidentally foiled this plan in part by secretly inviting all the 1A
guys to the pool to also train, and the girls foiled it further by wearing
school one-piece suits. I just need to take a moment to savor the fan service
bullet dodge here. Ah. All right. Iida, being the trusting sort, congradulates
the two on having such a good training idea and drags them off to get started.
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| What? The three winners of this impromptu race are arguably the three most important characters? What are the odds? (Sarcasm!) |
The dudes go though what’s implied
to be a fairly hard workout while the gals play pool volleyball. This is an
enjoyable bite to the ass for the two perves, all I’m saying. Izuku and Iida
have a quick bro moment where Iida admits that he’d never have guessed he and
Izuku would be such good friends at the start of the year, and then the two
both remember all the times Izuku did something heroic and also broke his
bones. Bakugo leaps in at that moment and swears he’ll defeat Izuku. Kirishima
explains that they’re late because he spent most of the day convincing Bakugo
to come along. The red head is a way better friend than Bakugo deserves some
times. Iida, trying to defuse the situation a little, proposes they do a
friendly 50 meter race. Only the dudes, though, the gals are cool with
watching. I don’t see why they would want to miss out on the… wait… fit young
men, swimming, shirtless, no I can totally understand logistically why the gals
might just opt to watch.
Heat one has Bakugo winning, by
leaping and flying over the water. When they try to call him out on this, he
angrily claims that this counts as free style. Heat two has Todoroki win, as he
pulls and Iceman and slides on an ice-slide. These two really need to learn
what constitutes swimming. The third heat has Iida almost win by sliding along
the dividing buoys with his recipro burst, but Izuku is able to pull ahead with
his OFA full cowling. Making him the only winner that actually got into the
water. Jeeze. Todoroki also takes a minute to remember how Izuku’s resolves was
able to convince him to stop being a dick. While he wrecked his hands during
their bout in the Sports Festival. Good times.
We cut over to All Might and his
cop friend, detective Tsukauchi, watching the videos they have on the various
League of Villains attacks. They both seem pretty certain the next attack will
come soon.
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| Seriously, how has no one caught him yet? He walks around with a SEVERED HAND ON HIS FACE! I can't think of a less inconspicuous head covering than that! |
The final race will be between
Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo. The three young men all leap into the air planning
to win, only for all of their powers to cut out and they feebly hit the water. Aizawa
came in to inform the students that it’s 5 pm, so they better get their S#%T
and get out. He’s a real stickler for cut off times, who knew? Izuku goes to
the beachfront he cleaned up and coincidentally meets up with All Might. He
remembers meeting All Might and clearing the beach of debris and resolves to
keep doing his best.
In an after credits scene, I don’t
know why they insist on doing those, we learn that the location of the training
camp the students are going on has been changed. Principle Nezu is still
worried about a mole in the school so only disperses the information to those
in the know, like Aizawa and Vlad. We then end on Shigaraki making a call and
telling someone to prep for something big, thus implying that the League
already knows where they’re going. Well, crap.
Alright, well, that episode…
happened. As far as filler goes it wasn’t bad or anything, it was just kind of
meh. I think I’d have enjoyed it more without the actual flashbacks and had it
just been about the kids at the pool. What? I like these characters and am fine
with seeing them do something mundane and relaxing every now and then. And I’m
an obsessive nerd who watches some shows repeatedly to the point where I could
quote some scenes verbatim, so obviously I don’t need a crash course refresher.
… If any of my college or high school friends are reading this, yes, this habit
did probably feed into the fact that I didn’t talk much. It did do a good job
at implying at what will go down next with our young heroes, namely another
league attack. This time Shigaraki is going to be coming with quality minions,
not a quantity of them. That’s probably going to suck for Izuku and company,
but we’ll see how much next time. Have a good night and stay safe everyone.
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