Last time on My Hero Academia, Japan
had to start adjusting to living in a world without All Might. Officials in the
police had already decided that changes had to be made to how they do things in
a world post All Might. All Might scolded Izuku for getting involved with the
Bakugo rescue when he was told specifically not to, but then also praises his innovative
thinking and the actual rescue he performed. The following day, the All Might
and the homeroom teachers were sent out to convince parents to sign off allowing
UA to switch to a dorm system for their kids. Surprisingly, the hardest sell we
were shown wasn’t the Bakugos, they were 100% for Katsuki continuing at the
school despite the kidnapping, but Mrs. Midoriya. The anxiety filled mother of
one wasn’t sure she felt comfortable sending her son back to UA given his multiple,
horrible injuries, the kidnapping, and injuries Izuku had already received. All
Might is able to sway her by telling her that he believes Izuku will be the next
Symbol of Peace and literally begs for the opportunity to train him earnestly. She
agreed, so long as he promised to live for and train her son, not die for him.
Alright, enough recap, let’s get to it, shall we?
We open once again on the last
minute or so of the previous episode, All Might begging on his hands and knees
to train Izuku, and Mrs. Midoriya agreeing. We get a little of Mrs. M’s
internal monologue this time, though, and we learn that she hopes Izuku appreciates
how much respect his master has for him. Izuku shows All Might out, with the
former hero saying that Inko Midoriya reminds him of Nana Shigure in a way. He
initially jokes that it’s the hairstyle, but then elaborates that both women
have hero’s hearts.
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| Mama Midoriya isn't crying, you're crying! |
Three days later, the students of class
1A gather at their new dormitory building. They must have worked some construction
types all day and night to get six buildings (two buildings per year) in that
amount of time. Overhead, Mr. Nezu watches the new dorms and admits to himself (and
us) that the dorms aren’t just for student welfare, but also to keep an eye on
them. After the multiple attacks on the school, including the one at the
training camp that should have been impossible to find, Mr. Nezu has to admit
that there is an information leak at the school. And, while it pains him to
think of it, they can’t rule out one of the students. So, they’ll be doing some
covert monitoring of their charges at the dorm to see if anyone isn’t on the
up-and-up. Feels dishonest, but I do agree that we can’t rule anyone out, aside
from Izuku obviously.
Aizawa greets the students. After a
few pleasantries, Aizawa admits that were it up to him, and All Might’s final
battle wasn’t so widely televised, he’d expel everyone except Bakugo, Jiro and
Hagakure from his class. While giving Izuku, Todoroki, Iida, Kirishima and
Yaoyorozu the boot makes sense, he rightly deduced that everyone aside from the
three mentioned before knew about the plan and did nothing to stop the five
from going. He basically tells everyone that they need to follow the rules to
the letter or they’ll be on his $*#% list. On a less dreary note he lets them
know he’ll explain more about the provisional license test that they were
preparing for during that interrupted summer camp soon, and walks into the
building to show off the new digs to the kids. Before entering, sensing the dreary
mood that settled over things, Bakugo did the kindest thing I think I’ve ever
seen him do… for Bakugo. He grabbed Kaminari, forced him to discharge enough
electricity to fry his brain and then let everyone laugh at short-circuit Kaminari’s
stupidity. Like I said, kind for Bakugo, he was trying to lift the mood. He also
slipped Kirishima some money to replace his camera. Good guy Bakugo.
We’re then shown the inside off the
building. It’s a massive structure, with living room, kitchen and bathing areas
all on the first floor and eight rooms on the floors above, four for the girls on
the right, four for the guys on the left. Mineta is told in no uncertain terms
to respect the girls only areas or there will be consequences. I swear that kid
is going to be on a watch list by the end of the series. Uraraka passes out
multiple times as they’re shown around, as the dorm is apparently significantly
nicer than any place she’d lived before. It’s a pretty good sight gag.
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| A valiant effort, but all for naught. |
The students all unpack by the
evening, and start to relax. That is until the girls join the boys and suggest
that they all have a look at each other’s rooms. Izuku is horrified by this,
but can’t stop them. He apparently brought all of his All Might stuff and decorated
his room accordingly. Hey, Uraraka seems into your fanboy side kid, so it’s not
as bad as it seems. We’re shown the rooms in rapid succession. Crow headed
Tokoyami’s room is as dark as his name (the characters in his name can
literally be read as Eternal Darkness, to walk through Shadow). He also has a sword,
which is neat. Aoyama’s (laser from belly button) room is super sparkly and
includes a disco ball. Mineta’s room is skipped because he’s a creepy little
bugger. Ojiro (Big tail) is minimalist, with really only a bed and a desk in
his room. Iida’s room is full of books and back up pairs of glasses, because he
fully expects them to brake during training. Kaminari’s is like a Hot Topic.
And Koda’s (talks to animals) room is super simple, but has a pet bunny which
everyone likes.
It’s at this point that everyone
decides to actually turn this little tour as a contest and vote on who has the
best room. Mineta is super creepy about his excitement to see the ladies’ rooms
after the boys’ showcase is over… why is he still here? Anyway, more rooms. Kirishima’s
is like a little home gym, with manly paintings of tidal waves and stuff on the
walls. Shoji’s (shapeshifting tentacle arms) room is even more minimalist than
Ojiro’s, as he doesn’t have much more than a bedroll. Sero’s (tape elbows) has got kind of an
exotic theme to it, I included it in my screen shots for this episode because I
can’t think of how to describe it beyond that. Todorki’s somehow remodeled his
room in like six hours to look more classically Japanese. And Sato’s (superstrength
after eating sugar) room has a lot of baking supplies and appliances in it, as
it’s cheaper for him to make sugary snacks from scratch than to just buy candy
when he wants to bulk up. The ladies love the cake he’d just finished baking.
Oh, and Bakugo thought the contest was stupid, went to bed, and no one is
stupid enough to interrupt his beauty sleep.
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| So like are the colors super impressive, is the furniture exotic? Someone help me understand! |
They then drop back down to the
first floor and start up the girl’s side. First is Jiro’s (extendable earphone
jack earlobes), which is filled with instruments and sound equipment, all of
which she knows how to play. She also sonic attacks Kaminari and Aoyama when
they agree Aoyama’s room is “girlier.” You’d think these guys would learn to
not push her buttons like that, jeeze. Hagakure (invisible) and Ashido’s (acid
spray) rooms are pretty stereotypically girly, think lots of pinks and purples
and stuffed animals. Uraraka’s is pretty minimalist, think more of a young
person’s first apartment than a teenager’s room. It’s at this point that Izuku
and Sero (whom also tied up Mineta in his tape to make sure he behaves, good
job) that Tsu is missing. Uraraka explains she wasn’t feeling well and went to
bed. Yaoyorozu’s room is last, and it’s got very little in terms of space. She
apparently wasn’t given the dimensions of her room and brought her furniture
from home and her four-poster king sized bed dominates the space. I hope she
gets some new furniture in, as I’ve lived in multiple rooms where my queen-sized
mattress takes up 95% of the space and that can be difficult to live in, just sayin’.
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| So the best way to make Mineta behave is to keep him contained. Noted. |
The kids return to the living area and
vote. Sato wins, because all the women voted for him due to his baking. He’s
probably going to be super popular from now on, just sayin’. With the game
done, most of the kids prep for bed, but Uraraka asks the five from the Save
Bakugo mission to step outside. There they meet Tsu. She admits that the reason
why she sat out from the festivities was because she’d been feeling out of
sorts since they’d met in Izuku’s hospital room and pitched the plan to save
Bakugo. She’s upset at what she said, that they didn’t heed what she said, that
she felt like a coward for trying to stop them, that Aizawa threatened to punish
them all, and that she’s still upset. If that makes sense. Basically, lots of
emotions are warring in Tsu’s head, and she wanted to express them so that
hopefully she can move past them and have fun with her friends again. Uraraka lets
her know that she wasn’t the only one that felt that way, and that the best
room contest was partially to help relieve the tension everyone is feeling. Everybody
apologizes for making her feel like that and they all hug it out. The
conversation makes Izuku resolve to work harder with everyone so that they can
all be heroes together. Isn’t that nice?
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| The best way to solve problems is to talk it out. |
Okay, so this was a pretty laid-back
episode. Sorry if it didn’t live up to
my promise of it being a more interesting premise than it sounded at the end of
the last post, I was mentally adding some stuff from a later episode in this
one. I still enjoyed this episode, though. With all the crazy, multiple episode
arcs that these kids keep finding themselves in, I do enjoy the occasional slice
of life style episode where they get to relax and adjust to changes in the
status quo. And it was kind of fun to see the students get some
characterization through their rooms. Some were obvious, like Izuku’s fanboy
tastes, Kirishima’s focus on manliness, and Mineta’s being too gross to show. Others
were less so, like Sero’s baking supplies, Tokoyami’s so dark he might as well
be the lead singer of a death metal band, and Uraraka’s simple but sensible
room. And the sight gag of Uraraka passing out due to the lavishness of her new
accommodations is hilarious. Even more so if you’ve read the manga. Horikoshi
has a habit of including pages of behind the scenes info, character designs,
and occasionally little additional bits of info at the end of chapters. It’s one
of those style of pages that heavily implied that the flying Noumu that tried
to take Izuku at the end of the Stain arc was the winged kid that was part of Bakugo’s
gang in the opening scene. He also did several that were basically Uraraka’s
tips to living on a budget, which included doing things like chewing gum,
drinking water and sleeping to avoid hunger when you don’t have enough money
for groceries. That situation in and of itself isn’t funny, but seeing a girl
who’d mastered the art of living with next to nothing being moved into what amounts
to a lavish apartment and her not being able to process it is, if that make
sense. I also liked Aizawa’s admonishment in the beginning and Tsu’s sort-of
apology at the end. They’re both nice little reminders that while the kids did
save Bakugo, their actions have consequences beyond the realm of legality. Tsu’s
nerves and twisted up feelings gets more or less resolved here, but Aizawa’s
disappointment in them isn’t forgotten any time soon. But more on that when we
get to it. Next time, on our final post (for now) on My Hero Academia, we’ll
see how Izuku will fight going forward. See you then. Have a goodnight!
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