*Pics coming later, technical issues.
Last time on My Hero Academia, we
had a filler episode of a reporter looking into All Might’s successor. Tokuda
is his name, and in the end, while he does figure out the successor is Izuku,
he promises to keep it under wraps. He just was looking into it for personal
satisfaction, series summary reasons. Now that we’ve gotten the filler out of
the way, let’s get into season 4 proper. Let’s get to it, shall we?
After a quick series summary… wait,
why did we need another one? Oh well, best not overanalyze this. After the
summary, we begin again with Izuku talking to Gran Torino. He suggests Izuku
get All Might to introduce Izuku to his former sidekick, Sir Nighteye, when
Gran Torino can’t mentor him himself.
As that’s going on, Twice of the
League of Villains bring his prospective recruit, Overhaul, to meet with
Shigaraki. This is where we learn he’s actually the #2 for the Shie Hassaikai,
of Japan’s Yakuza. It’s the Japanese mafia. Mr. Compress explains that Yakuza
and other organized crime organizations began to decline after heroes became a
thing, and were all but made defunct with All Might’s arrival. The organizations
that didn’t fall apart or arrested are now considered cheap muscle. The remnant
of a bygone era, which Overhaul can’t really dispute those comments. Overhaul
admits that he, like most criminals, is excited by All Might’s retirement, he
personally is more interested in All For One’s arrest. One captured, one
retired, Overhaul points out that effectively both law abiding citizens and
criminals are now without leadership. He’s curious on who will take up AFO’s
mantle as the emperor of the underworld. Shigaraki claims it’ll obviously be
him, as he was AFO’s student and his League is blossoming with talent. But
Overhaul disagrees.
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| Not gonna lie, I'm legit upset that Magne is dead. But at least she was a SUPER memorable death. |
He believes that, given the fact
Shigaraki ended up losing talented villains like Stain, Muscular and Moonfish,
and that he doesn’t really seem to have a plan beyond gathering power, he isn’t
fit to rule. Overhaul claims that he has a plan, but needs money and the name
recognition of the League of Villains to get his plan going. Shigaraki is
pissed at Overhaul’s audacity and tells him to get out. Magne decides to take
this as a personal order and uses her magnet on Overhaul. She explains that
she’d spoken with a friend recently whom was impressed with her actions with
the League and she’s not willing to give up her “freedom” from society to
anyone. She draws him in to slam him with her magnet, but Overhaul gets a glove
off and nicks her. And her entire upper body BURSTS into a rain of blood. Damn!
Compress rushes Overhaul next.
Shigaraki tells him to back down, but Compress is kind of freaking out about
watching a comrade die, and feels he needs to seal Overhaul before he can do
more damage. Unfortunately, he’s hit with something, and afterwards his power
doesn’t work right. This cost Compress an arm, so he’s at least better off than
Magne. Shigaraki rushes passed the wounded Compress. He’s almost hit y
something as well, but dodges. He almost gets a hand on Overhaul, but the
villain calls in an unseen minion to block. Shigaraki obliterates the goon,
just as Overhaul’s minions burst in, all of whom are wearing Plague Doctor
masks. Twice claims that he wasn’t followed, but Shigaraki assumes that
Overhaul’s goons include a tracker. Overhaul scolds them for their tardiness,
and one of his goons also apologizes for missing the shot on Shigaraki.
Overhaul, now flanked by goons, thinks that the two groups area bout even with
a death each, and admits he owes Compress an arm. Twice and Toga want to keep
fighting, but Shigaraki calls them off. Overhaul leaves them with a card and
tells them to reach out after they’ve cooled off and changed their minds. Shigaraki
isn’t likely to forget or forgive, me thinks.
The Plague Doctor masks are certainly odd,
but they do make your goons memorable.
Back at UA, Aizawa tells the class
that at the meeting, he and the other teachers voted against expanding Work
Study’s to first years. Bakugo is quite happy with this, as he’s clearly
jealous. He obviously gets pissed when Aizawa admits that it was eventually
decided that they would allow the Work Studies to move forward, as long as
they’re with hero agencies with an impressive resume. The school realized that
the public might object to what they might see to as coddling prospective
heroes, so if they can’t protect the students, they’ll at least make sure
they’re only serving under the best of the best. Ain’t that a kick in the head?
Izuku remembers his conversation
with Gran Torino and goes to All Might to ask about being introduced to
Nighteye. All Might, unfortunately can’t help him with this. Why? Three
reasons. 1. He voted against Work Studies for First years. 2. He thinks Izuku
needs to focus on improving his Shoot Style. And 3. He really, really, really
doesn’t want to talk to Nighteye and hear “I Told You So’s,” from his former
sidekick. Izuku is adamant about working with Nighteye though, as he thinks Nighteye
will help him improve the most. Despite that, All Might can’t help him, but he
knows someone who might.
Like, there is no denying that Togeta is much more
like All Might than Izuku is.
They meet with Togeta and ask him
if he thinks Izuku will work well under Nighteye. Togeta asks Izuku what kind
of hero he wants to be. After Izuku explains that he wants to be the strongest,
best hero there is and to save everyone, Togeta does think he could work with
Nighteye. So, Togeta agrees to introduce Izuku. As the two students celebrate,
All Might thinks back to when interviewed Nezu for perspective successors. All Might
admits to himself, that had he not met Izuku when he did, Togeta might have
been his choice. Damn.
The weekend rolls around to UA.
While most of his classmates are going to take it easy, Izuku runs off to meet
Togeta and Bakugo and Todoroki are on their way to their remedial classes for
their Provisional Hero Licenses.
Bubble Girl... fairly certain you can sue him for
something like this. Just sayin'.
Izuku and Togeta arrive at Sir
Nighteye’s agency, which is about an hour away from UA by train. Togeta advices
that he needs to get Nighteye to laugh. While the hero has a stern reputation,
he believes in humor and thinks laughter is extremely important. They enter the
agency. At the same time, Nighteye is getting a report about Overhaul from his
sidekick Bubble Girl. She explains that while the warehouse was empty, they
found evidence of a massive amount of blood being cleaned up and the massive
hole in it makes it clear that something happened. Nighteye chastises her for
not delivering her report with enough humor and will have to discipline her.
Izuku and Togeta walk in as Bubble Girl is being tickle tortured in a tickle
machine… I feel like this might be a violation of some kind of HR violation…
but what are you going to do? Izuku tries to get Nighteye to laugh at his
impressive All Might impression, but it doesn’t go over well. Togeta mentally
laments the fact Izuku isn’t funny!
Okay, so this is a much better
official start to season 4 than the previous filler episode. We got a proper
introduction to Overhaul, and his Hassaikai. They’re a dangerous, powerful
group, and will cause a lot of damage by the time they’re done. It’s a shame
that Magne had to get obliterated to show how powerful Overhaul is. And also
introduces a new mystery, what the Yakuza have made that seems to block powers.
But we’ll get more into that later. Izuku also made progress with his work
study. I thought it was quite funny that All Might’s biggest reason to not
introduce Izuku to Nighteye was to avoid the I Told You so from his former
sidekick. While Nighteye’s method of encouraging humor in his sidekick might
seem… extreme, I do enjoy the juxtaposition of this super serious dude being
hell bent on spreading laughs. Given his reaction to Izuku’s impression,
though, I doubt this is going to be an easy first meeting for Izuku. But we’ll
get into that next time. Have a good night, everybody.
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