Young heroes rumble, Izuku takes a tumble, Camie wants info. What? I wanted to try to do a Haiku, it's been a while.
Last time on My Hero Academia Izuku
revealed his new look. With the help of support course student Mei Hatsume and
instructor Powerloader, his costume had been completely reworked into Costume Gama,
and he’s begun training in his new “Shoot Style.” It’s a kicking focused
fighting style, designed to protect his hands. Uraraka has starts grappling
with her feelings for our green haired protagonist, a bit. The Students arrive
at the Exam building. There, they meet a few other students, and Aizawa’s “Friend”
Ms. Joke. Once in the exam hall, they learn that the test is going to be
significantly stricter this year, in an attempt to winnow down the prospective heroes
to the best of the best. Instead of the 50% pass rate of previous years, it’s
going to be just over 6%. Bakugo and Kirishima,
and Todoroki split off from the main group, while the rest of UA gets mobbed by
students trying to take advantage of their knowledge of UA’s capabilities and
take them all out. Let’s get to it.
After a quick recap of the test,
the rules and the reveal about the “Attack UA” tradition, we see our UA hero
hopefuls beat back a large attack from Shiketsu high. Izuku does a big sonic
boom kick, Tokoyami and Dark Shadow blow back a bunch, Sero tapes up some, Ashido
melts more, and Yaoyorozu protects others without area attacks with barriers.
It looks really cool. Aizawa in the stands explains to Ms. Joke that, since as
heroes his students will have to face off against plenty of villains that know
what their powers are, they’ve been prepared to tackle that sort of opponent.
He claims that UA may look a little further ahead than other schools. Ms. Joke is
a tad upset at him talking down about her kids and points out their experience
and grit may beat UA yet.
Shiketsu students do a combo attack
of hardening one student’s set of balls into small boulders and another’s student’s
ability to throw and control trajectory to try and attack from below ground.
Jiro uses her new fist amps and her earphone jack to send a sonic pulse into
the ground, shattering it and causing the balls to fly skyward. Ashido melts them,
unfortunately protecting Mineta in the process. He’s a perv, but he’s their perv,
I guess. Tokoyami tries to take on the offensive, and seems to slice another
student in half, but it turns out that’s just her power. She can collapse in on
herself, it looks really weird.
Mera announces to the students that
no one has passed yet, but he’ll keep them abreast of when that changes.
Dude is super intense.
Izuku assumes that everyone is
still holding back at this point, playing defensively until they have a better
handle on the other’s tactics. It’s at this exact moment that Shinto decides to
do just that. He uses his vibration quirk to shatter the ground, causing a
rockslide that splits the UA students up and breaks their defensive formation.
Though we learn that a side effect of his power is that Shinto is going to get
hit with feedback, so he probably won’t be wrecking the place again any time
soon.
In the city part of the exam field,
Yoarashi reveals himself. Using his whirlwind powers, he gathers up everyone’s
balls and hurls them at the other students, all while explaining that Passion is
important to being a hero and he wants to show his along side theirs. So, I
guess the balls must have something in them to determine who threw them, as all
of his hits count as his take down. Mera is quite shocked to reveal that Yoarashi
took out 120 students by himself with one attack.
In the rubble, Izuku gets up and
realizes he’s alone. Ya know, he really should put his mouthguard on, just
saying. He goes over the situation in his head, he laments that fact that his
class doesn’t have the coordination that the older students have, but is genuinely
excited about testing himself against other students that are this strong. It’s
just as he’s thinking this when a Shiketsu High girl rushes him, leaps over him
and hits one of his targets. She introduces herself as she lands as Camie
Utsushimi. She says that Izuku “couldn’t be cooler,” I guess Izuku has fans now?
Weird.
Meanwhile, Uraraka pulled herself
from the rubble, commenting that attack could have killed someone. She’s ready
to fight on her own, but rushes out to try and find other members of her class
as back up. You go, girl.
Back with Izuku, he powers up Full Cowling
before Camie’s next attack. She lobs a stone at Izuku to get him to react
before throwing her ball. He dodges, but she seems to move even faster and gets
around him. He ends up pinned to the ground with her at his back. In some other
circumstances, this might be fun, but I think in this instance Izuku is
terrified. She asks him why he wants to be a hero, and admits she wants to know
everything about him, his desires and what scares him! Before the freak train
get gather any more steam, some of Ketsubutsu students arrive and start attacking,
the two break their grapple and start dodging.
While Izuku is dodging attacks,
Uraraka shows up and tries to offer Izuku a hand up to get him out of the
metaphorical hot zone. Unfortunately, she’s noticed and knocked from her perch.
Izuku flashes back to the fight with Muscular, and the chain of events that
followed that ended with All Might’s retirement. He laments that he wasn’t fast
enough then, but that pushes him forward now. He catches Uraraka mid fall,
spins, creates a shockwave with a kick and his new boots, knocking the other students
from their perch. He runs off at high speed carrying Uraraka princess style.
The two are able to hide in some
rubble. Izuku tries to figure out a plan. Uraraka looks at him, blushing… but
then reaches for one of his targets, ball in hand. Izuku flips around, slapping
the ball out of her hand and asks who she really is. Not-Uraraka tries to play
it off for a bit, but Izuku figured her out. He noticed that she didn’t use her
powers when in danger, she put herself in a risky situation that Uraraka wouldn’t
have, etc. Not-Uraraka drops her guise, face and costume melting to reveal Camie.
All of Camie. I’m not sure if she’s supposed to be naked or in like a super
tight jumpsuit, but her look is certainly too much for Izuku, for a moment
anyway. Camie tries to rush him, actually attacking him and scratching his face
pretty bad, but he’s saved by Sero and his tape attack. The actual Uraraka
leaps in and gives an assist. Camie leaps away, she stops just long enough to
admit that she wanted to talk to Izuku more, but in private, and to tell
Uraraka that he must trust her a lot before scampering.
Sero wants to go after her, actually
calling out “Come back naked girl,” or something similar, but Izuku stops him.
He points out that she didn’t have her targets on her, so going after her would
be a waste of time with the number of open spots dropping. He rather nervously
asks if they’re both who they look like, and when they give him “da hell?” look
he explains that Camie turned into Uraraka. Given how they met Camie, Uraraka’s
“I’m going to die of shame!” blush is super understandable. Sero’s rather
intense desire to know if he saw Camie as Uraraka in a similar state of dress
is less so. The trio hide out, and exchange info. Sero saw fighting so ran
toward it to see if one of his class was in danger, and he and Uraraka met
along the way. They agree to work as a team and try to regroup with the others.
We cut over to Todoroki in an
industrial zone. He’s going over info in his head, relaying that most schools
are sticking to teams of around ten, and, while he’s confident in his powers,
that’s still too big a disadvantage for him to fight. Mera announces that 53
students have passed and 230 have been eliminated. A set of balls start flying toward
him, he incinerates them. He’s up against a squad…of… ninja? How odd. Todoroki
unleashes a big ice attack to shield, and a more focused one to freeze the squad
in place. The lead ninja throws a nut at him, supersizing it half way there.
Todoroki flame and ice blasts it and the other projectiles Red throws at him.
He’s shocked when they don’t melt, but Red explains they’re tungsten and have a
high melting point. He frees his team, and it looks like it’s Todoroki vs. Ten Ninja.
What a fun point to end! Oy.
FYI, this is all filler. Todoroki’s
fight happens entirely off screen, and while it’s implied to be a tough fight,
we see obviously see none of it.
Another solid episode. It was fun
seeing the new attacks that the students have developed during their intensive
training, like Jiro’s improved sonic, Ashido’s bigger acid blasts, and Tokoyami’s
improved Dark Shadow control. All very cool. As was Shinto’s big sonic blast
that separated the students. I think that mentioning in the voice over about
his power causing feedback and hurting Shinto was a little clunky, especially
when they could have just shown Shinto drop to his knees or spit up blood or something
to SHOW us that side effect. But that’s really neither here nor there. Yoarashi
and his massive hurricane attack was super entertaining too. Power over wind is
always a visually kick ass ability, even if you don’t get the full Storm weather
controlling suite of powers. My summary might have made his speech about passion
too preachy, but his delivery is very much that of a man having the time of his
life and just wants everyone to experience it with him, if that makes sense. Izuku’s
fight with Camie was… interesting. She’s a very fast and agile opponent, even
keeping up with Izuku with Full Cowling on, even where her power wasn’t a
physical enhancement type like Izuku’s. Her dialogue gets pretty creepy towards
the end, she seems pretty obsessed with Izuku, I wonder why? And, while I don’t
think the whole naked thing was completely necessary, Uraraka’s utter embarrassment
face and Sero’s unabashed interest in details at least gave it a good payoff.
Like I said, Todoroki’s upcoming fight is going to be largely filler, but it’s
more of that good, on topic filler that I love about this show. But we’ll get
into that later. Have a good night.
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