One battle won, another begun.
Last time on My Hero Academia we
got back to the fight against Gang Orca and crew, already in progress. Todoroki
attempted to keep Gang Orca and his men back, but the situation was complicated
by fellow student, Yoarashi. The two have some… issues. Basically, Todoroki the
Elder was a dick to Yoarashi when he was a kid and Todoroki the Younger was a
dick to him just before the UA Entrance exam. Their issues were highlighted by
the fact that their powers cancelled each other out each time they tried to attack
Gang Orca. They’re taken down by Orca, but are able to make up for fighting
each other by combining their powers to hold him back in a flaming vortex. Orca
breaks free, but is held off for a few more seconds by Izuku’s kick. The test ends
with Bakugo and his two other stooges saving the last two HUC actors a moment
later. The episode ends as Izuku starts frantically looking for his name on the
list of students that passed. Dicks. Let’s get to it, shall we?
This kinda stress can give a kid an ulcer.
We open exactly where we left off, with
Izuku looking through the list of passing students, but this time we see that
he did indeed pass. We then get a quick montage of everyone’s reactions to the
test, with 18/20 of the students passing. Who were the two that did? Shoto
Todoroki and Katsuki Bakugo. Dun dun dahhhh! And Yoarashi also didn’t pass. A
moment later, Mera has his men start passing out printouts of each of the student’s
evaluations, which shows what their score was and listing out what they lost
points on. Turns out Izuku got 71 points, most of his lost points were from
that first interaction with the HUC “kid” and for all the times he just stood
around reacting to things. Glad someone called him out on that. Yoarashi walks
over to Todoroki and bowed so deep he slams his head against the ground,
apologizing for fighting with Todoroki and costing him the chance to pass.
Todoroki doesn’t hold it against him, though, as he acknowledges he was being a
dick too. Izuku looks over at Todoroki and Bakugo, and wonders why the students
that failed were allowed to continue if there was no way for them to recover
their score.
Mera takes a moment to congratulate
the students that passed, confirming that their PHL will allow them to help
during emergency situations but reminding them that the media will be watching
and judging the fledgling heroes at pretty much all times. He then shifts his speed
over to the students that fell below the 50-point mark. He basically tells them
that there isn’t time for them to mope, because they have remedial class to
take! Yeah, turns out that they’re giving the students that made it through
round 1 but not 2 a second bite at the apple, reasoning that they have the basic
skills to be heroes but still need to be refined a bit before they can be let
off the least. As such, they’ll be allowed to take a three-month additional
training course and take another test to get their licenses. Or they could wait
until the next test date the following April. You only get one guess as to which
option is most attractive to Todoroki, Bakugo and Yoarashi.
Tears of Joy are the best kind.
After everything is settled, Izuku
cries tears of joy upon looking at his super awkward face in his PHL. He snaps
a photo and sends it to his mother and All Might. We also see Ms. Joke offer to
do joint training with Aizawa, to which he agrees. And we get last one
interaction between Yoarashi and Todoroki. The big doofus tells Todoroki that
he’ll see him at the class, but he still doesn’t like him. Weirdo. Before they
leave, Izuku runs up to Nagamasa Mora, the incredibly hairy student that appears
to be in charge of the Shiketsu high class, and asks what sort of training they
go through to mask their presence. Mora is clearly confused by this and says he
has no idea what Izuku is talking about. He mentions that he wanted to know how
Camie snuck around like she did. Mora says that she left earlier claiming to be
feeling ill, and notes that she’d been acting weird the last couple of days…
Well, that explains a lot.
We’re shown Camie walking down an
empty alley. She gets a call… it’s from Mr. Compress. It’s at this moment Camie’s
face sluffs off, revealing Himiko Toga. She tells Mr. Compress that her mission
was successful, she got a few drops of Izuku Midoriya’s blood. It’s then that
Present Mic’s voice over tells us that Camie’s power is called Transform, and
to use it she has to drink blood. So… they have Izuku’s blood… and Camie
shapeshifts with blood… oh no.
After that, we flashback a few
hours to that morning. All Might is in Tartarus, the maximum-security prison
for super criminals. He’s going in to have a chat with All For One. AFO has
been locked into a chair with a bunch of equipment strapped to him, all
designed to monitor if he’s going to try to use his powers and to stop him with
extreme prejudice. Neat. The two have a chat, with All Might pretty much
demanding that AFO tell him what Shigaraki is planning. AFO has no idea, claiming
his little bird left the nest ages ago. They have a longer talk, with AFO
pulling the “Not so different you and I, two sides of the same coin” cliché at
All Might. He does tell All Might, though, that the only reason he took
interest in a successor was because All Might destroyed his face and ended his “Infinite
Potential,” so there’s that. He asks about what is happening top side, but All
Might is advised not to say anything, they’re keeping the former kingpin in a media
lockdown. Despite this, AFO seems to have a fairly good idea about what’s
happening. Namely people are worried Endeavor isn’t a good enough replacement,
there’s civil unrest, and villain groups that have been waiting in the shadows
are preparing to move. He guesses that Shigaraki and his team are going to lay
low for a while longer, to better their odds of come out on top. As All Might
leaves, he tells him that he’s going to take perverse pleasure in knowing that as
things escalate that the problem is due in part to All Might having kept his
condition secret and not allowed the world to prep for his absence. All Might
leaves in a huff, after telling AFO that he knows that his real hope is that
Shigaraki, his master’s grandson, will end up killing him, Izuku or both, that
it won’t happen and that AFO is going to rot in prison. AFO just laughs.
Someone this tied up shouldn't look this intimidating.
Top side, he gets the text from Izuku
with his license picture, which does help lift his mood.
Back at the dorm, the class is celebrating
in the common room. Everyone is pretty psyched, obviously, except maybe Bakugo
and Todoroki. Bakugo walks up to Izuku and tells him to meet him out front
later, as they need to have a “talk” about his quirk. That night, once everyone
else is passed out, Bakugo starts leading Izuku somewhere. Izuku tries to ask
Bakugo questions, but he’s not listening. He’s zoned out pretty hard, remembering
that conversation from when they were kids when he told Izuku he’d never get a
quirk as cool as his.
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Damn, why'd Bakugo have to be as smart as he is angry. |
They wind up at test ground Beta, in front of the building where they had their first test with All Might like 50 episodes ago. Nostalgic… even from the show’s perspective, where this happened like six months ago. He reiterates to Izuku that he kinda hates him and that he makes Bakugo sick. He demands to know how Izuku got into the school with a new quirk that he’d just recently gotten the handle of. He states that he’s pissed at failing the PHLE while Izuku passed, but that got him thinking about Izuku’s quirk. How Izuku told him it was borrowed, and how there’s a villain that can take powers, and how said Villain pointed out All Might’s power was waning, and that Izuku was the only one to seem to get All Might’s “Now it’s your turn,” line when he first said it. Yeah, Bakugo has figured out Izuku was given All Might’s power, and demands that Izuku say it out loud to him. Izuku doesn’t say it out right, but asks “What if it is true?” Bakugo is pissed that Izuku was given the power of someone they both idealized and that he’s improved so much so fast. They’re going to fight, a rematch on the same ground as last time, and we’ll see who is top dog now. And then the episode ends. Damn it.
So, the fact that both Bakugo and
Todoroki didn’t pass the test sure did shock me the first time through. I was
reasonably certain that Todoroki wasn’t going to, he simply screwed up to bad
with Yoarashi for that to work, but I totally thought Bakugo would pass. Dude
is rude and loud but he’s skilled. I am entertained that he probably didn’t pass
because he kept screaming lines like “SHUT UP AND WALK TO THE RELIEF STATION!”
whenever a HUC person got lippy with him. I liked that Yoarashi and Todoroki
apologized to each other… and that ultimately their relationship hasn’t
improved really. Much more realistic to tell someone you hate sorry and go on
hating them than to pretend a bonding moment clears all debris. The stuff at
Tartarus was vaguely ominous, which I like, and also sets up the next long arc,
which I like even more. No spoilers, but we’ll soon start to see other criminal
elements acting out. And Izuku and
Bakugo having another match is super exciting. I like how the story chose to
once again highlight that Bakugo is wicked smart and insightful when he wants
to be, and that he pieced together multiple clues to get to the answer of Izuku’s
power. The fact they’re fighting just outside the building where they had their
first clash is pure poetry. I’ll enjoy describing it, next time. Have a good
night everyone.
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