Last time on My Hero Academia, the
students fought bravely against the forces of the League of Villains Vanguard
Action Squad. The villains almost escaped with Bakugo and Tokoyami imprisoned,
but were foiled at the last second by a naval laser from Aoyama and Shoji’s quick
hands. Unfortunately, they were only able to get Tokoyami back, the villains
bonus objective, still losing Bakugo to Dabi’s quick reflexes. Afterward, the
students were brought to a hospital to heal up. Two days later, Kirishima,
frustrated at not being able to help the others or save Bakugo, proposes that
they save him themselves. He wants to have Yaoyorozu produce another tracking device
and follow it to Bakugo. Most are apprehensive at going along, but Todoroki is
on board with him, and Kirishima made one last plea to Izuku before the credit’s
rolled. Let’s get to it, shall we?
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| He's only be at this a couple of months and his arms look like this! Imagine what they'd look like after a couple of years. |
We open with the last few minutes
of the last episode, Izuku wallowing in self-pity for not saving Bakugo, and Kirishima
proposing that they save Bakugo themselves. His plan is met with outrage by
Iida, and with apprehension from just about everyone else. Before any plan can
be made, Izuku’s doctor has them clear out to give him an examination.
Kirishima takes a moment to tell Izuku that they’re going to move tonight. He already
has Todoroki and Yaoyorozu on board, and he hopes Izuku will be able to help.
Iida overhears and glares. Izuku’s Doctor pops off his casts and gives him a doom
and gloom speech. Recovery Girl healed him up, but he’s never going to be at
100% again. Pushing himself to his 1,000,000% in the fight against Muscular exacerbated
the damage he already suffered during… all of his other fights. Turns out, busting
up your hands and arms so bad that it discolors your flesh MULTIPLE times can
have lasting damage. The worst of the damage is in his ligaments and joints, and
the strain is getting to be too much for his body to handle. The doctor warns that
if Izuku screws up his hands like this even 2 or 3 more times, it will leave
him unable to lift his arms anymore. He tells Izuku to focus on healing, and
gives him a note from Kota.
Izuku takes the note up to the roof
and reads it. Kota pretty much just apologizes for the blow to the Midoriya family
jewels and hopes that Izuku gets better soon so he can apologize in person.
Kota’s words seem to firm up Izuku’s resolve. He calls up his mom and tells her
that while he’s been discharged, but he’s got something going on and won’t be
home for a few more days. Inko Midoriya is clearly choked up as she asks her
boy if he really has to go to UA. It cuts away before we can hear his answer.
We’re shown a brief montage of
heroes getting called in to help with Tsukauchi’s sting operation. He’s gotten All
Might, Endeavor, Gran Torino, Tiger, Kamui Woods, Mt. Lady, and Best Jeanist,
to name a few. The heroes gathered, both new and old, makeup most of the top 10
list of greatest heroes (All Might, Endeavor), are extremely well respected in
the field (Gran Torino, Kamui) or have a vested interest in kicking as much ass
as possible (Tiger). This is going to be a bloody confrontation.
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| We've got two students that want to be there, two who don't but are too worried to stay out of it, and one who definitely shouldn't be there. Dream Team. |
That night, Todoroki and Kirishima
wait outside the hospital for Yaoyorozu. She arrives a moment later with Izuku.
Before they can go into the details of their plan, Iida storms over, clearly still
pissed. It seems that he’s most angry at Izuku and Todoroki for going along
with this, as they were the ones to come to his rescue while he was flipping
out in Hosu. Apparently, hypocrisy is something that pisses off both me and
Iida. Izuku tries to calm him down, but that just causes Iida to snap and he
socks his friend in the jaw. He admits that he’s worried about Bakugo, but he’s
just as worried about everyone else. He’s scared that his friends will do
something reckless and end up like his brother, Tensei, crippled for life. The
group then admits that they understand his fears and that they aren’t planning
on doing any fighting. They’re going to go in, find Bakugo, and get him out if
the opportunity presence itself. Izuku’s thoughts are stuck on saving Bakugo,
and on All Might’s words of wisdom about how the best heroes all have a story
about moving without thinking to save someone. Iida agrees to go along, much to
everyone’s shock.
Meanwhile, the heroes have gathered
and are prepping to fight.
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| Well, this tops my worst bar experience. And I was drunk under the table by a girl half my size that I was trying to impress. Psychos and murders easily top gaffs like that. |
At the Villain Bar, the baddies
have Bakugo chained up. Shigaraki gives him a big speech about how the League
is about freedom and liberating the world. Got to say, I know Shigaraki is full
of crap and all hew wants to do is kill All Might, but had I not known that, I
might believe his rhetoric. Bakugo tells him to throw himself into traffic. Kid’s
got moxie, I’ll give him that.
We get a rare visit from Future Narrator
Izuku, whom admits that, at the time, he and his friends thought that they’d
seen real evil during the USJ attack and some of their other fights. It’s only
with hindsight that he realized that he was horribly wrong, and he was about to
see real evil for the firsts time.
Iida apologizes to Izuku for
punching him in the face. Not a “I think I was wrong” apology either, it was a “I’m
sorry I think it was necessary” kind of apology, which Izuku accepts. Iida
still thinks he’s in the right that this is too dangerous for them to do, and
swears that he’ll stop them if he thinks they’re going to do something dangerous.
Yaoyorozu doesn’t say it aloud, but she’s planning on doing the same.
The group takes a train to Kamino Ward,
a shady district known for crime, gambling and other shady deals, following the
tracker. Its about a two-hour ride. Todoroki
tells Izuku and the rest of them that he’d told the rest of the class their
plan, and that they were… less than enthused by it. Uraraka and the rest of
them are against this plan, but aren’t going to stop them. Todoroki gives them
all one last chance to back out, but Izuku and the rests of them won’t.
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| I think they're going for a group of tough guys look, but I'm getting more of a West Side Story vibe than Scarface. |
They arrive in Kamino Ward.
Kirishima wants to run off right away towards the bar, but Yaoyorozu stops him.
She reminds them that the villains will recognize them, and so running right at
them is a fairly suicidal plan. They all go out shopping, getting costumes to
put on tough guy/gal personas. Izuku in particular seems to be trying super
hard to seem tough, with poor results, he just looks like he stepped on a LEGO.
Todoroki asks the obvious question of why she, the girl with the ability to
just make any material or object she wants, didn’t just make them stuff. She
hurriedly says that that would be against the law and that she wants to support
the economy, but nobody is buying it. She just likes shopping.
The kids hear someone shout UA,
which causes them to think that they were caught right away. Turns out, Nezu, Aizawa,
and Vlad King are holding a press conference to apologize for letting their
students get hurt and one of them getting kidnapped. It’s super weird to see
Mr. Aizawa in a suit with his unruly hair tied back. It’s like seeing a bat
crawling on the ground, you know it’s possible but are disturbed by it nonetheless.
Nezu claims that they’re going to be implementing new security measures to
protect their students, though no one watching seems to believe them.
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| Ah!!! You monsters, what did they do to Aizawa's hair? |
Back at the Villain Bar, Shigaraki
is relishing all the hate being slung at the hero system. He preaches more of
Stain’s rhetoric about a pure hero system, that they’ll destroy the corrupt
system and replace it with something purer, where heroes won’t do the work for
money. Thus, completely removing the incentive for people with powers to
regularly risk their lives. I roll my eyes at the Stain Logic. Because he believes
that this is a real sales pitch, he orders Dabi to free Bakugo so they can
chat. Dabi foists the task onto Twice. While Twice gets the cuffs off, Compress
brags that they’ve got some kind of plan in the works. He doesn’t get much more
into it, as Bakugo breaks free and attacks them. He’s “done listening to all (their)
endless talking,” and blows the hand off Shigaraki’s face. Bakugo flashes back
to seeing an All Might video when he was a kid. Then, as now, he loved All
Might because he was a mighty hero that always won no matter what, and he’ll do
his damnedest to emulate that no matter what. Bakugo is a bit of an ass but the
kid is convicted. Shigaraki doesn’t seem to notice, he’s fixated on “father” lying
on the ground. Yes, he means the hand. And there is murder in his eyes.This is
probably not going to end well.
This is a pretty solid build up episode.
We see the sort of situation Izuku is currently in. His body is healed, but it’s
not in fighting shape by any stretch of the imagination. He’s got to do
something dangerous, and his mother is already worried sick in the most literal
use of that phrase that I’ve ever seen. Most of his friends can’t or won’t
support this plan because they know how insane it is. But, he still does it
because Bakugo is his friend (more or less) and he knows that a hero’s job is
almost by definition meddling in other people’s affairs. His choices will carry
ramifications, both in his personal life and as a student at UA. I also liked seeing
Iida’s conflict. We’ve got someone that’s a natural rule follower, battling
with a desire to help someone and try to wrestle with the morality of breaking
a rule to do so. Which was further exacerbated by his memories of what happened
the last time he broke rules to get something done, and seeing what can happen
to even someone prepared when they go out to do hero work. It was a good
internal conflict for him to have, and I liked the compromise he came up with himself
to do it. I also liked the background tension building here. We’re seeing
people act more openly hostile to the hero world. As Dabi stated during the previous
arc, their attack made the cracks all the wider and people are seeing just how
fragile the hero system is. If they can’t even protect their own recruits, how
can they hope to protect anyone? And then there’s Bakugo, being Bakugo, and doing
stuff that might put a homicidal maniac into a murderous rage. At least the kid
is consistent. Next time, the raid begins. Have a good night everybody.
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