Viewer Log: My Hero Academia ep 66

If you thought Izuku Midoriya was the biggest All Might fanboy, allow me to introduce Mirai Sasaki aka Sir Nighteye.

Last time on My Hero Academia the Shigaraki and his crew met up with Overhaul, leader of the Shie Hassaikai. What Twice thought was going to be a recruitment meeting turned into a standoff, as Overhaul was more interested in folding the League of Villains into his Yakuza crew than joining up. Shigaraki took exception to this and tried to throw him out. Magne tried to follow orders, but she was brutally executed when Overhaul brushed against her arm. And Compress lost an arm trying to avenge her. Overhaul was able to leave thanks in part to the arrival of his bodyguards, but he left a card with the League in case they wanted to do business. With the heroes, Izuku and his crew got the go ahead to try to apply for Work Studies, provided they picked someone that the school gives approval to. He spoke with All Might about meeting with his former sidekick, Sir Nighteye, but the falling out the two had made All Might hesitant to approach him. Instead, they called up Mirio Togeta, Nighteye’s work study student and asked him to do it. Togeta enthusiastically agreed. Izuku and Togeta went to meet Nighteye at his agency, where Izuku was advised to make him laugh. Despite a no-nonsense persona, Nighteye is apparently a big believer in humor. Izuku tried to make the hero laugh with his disturbingly accurate All Might impression, but Nighteye seemed less than impressed. Let’s get to it, shall we?

 

We open with a quick summary of what a Work Study is by Izuku. Basically, it’s becoming a parttime sidekick. Like the internship, they work under an existing hero, but now are empowered to use their Quirks to save people and battle villains. So, it’s an Internship on hard mode.

 

Not sure who's more uncomfortable, young
Midoriya or me...

Picking up at Nighteye’s office, he’s most displeased with Izuku’s impression of All Might’s face…. Because he didn’t get the wrinkles of All Might’s face right. No seriously, Izuku didn’t make them the right angle or length for Nighteye’s taste. It’s only at this point that Izuku see’s all the All Might merch around the office, including a special 10^th anniversary poster, and concludes that Nighteye is a massive fan boy. It’s like looking into the future… unless Uraraka is in charge of office decorating. He tells Izuku to leave. Izuku, instead, explains that he was doing a very specific face, from the time All Might saved a kid who could turn other liquids into vinegar from drowning in the vinegar river he made. The stinging liquid in his eyes made him make a very distinctive face, I guess. Nighteye and Izuku spend a few minutes fanboying out about All Might. While this is happening, Togeta releases Bubble Girl from the tickle trap.

 

Nighteye and Izuku sit down to finally discuss the Work Study. Izuku brought along the contract that Nighteye needs to sign to accept Izuku as a student. We get a few more details about the Work Study, it’s a minimum four-month stint, paid, and Izuku needs to be prepared for his grades to suffer as the Work Study will cut into his school work. Izuku is ready for that, but Nighteye isn’t ready to stamp the paper work. No, he wants to hear Izuku could bring to the table, when his agency works fine with him, two side kicks and Togeta. He says that while incessantly tapping the desk, which would drive me bonkers. He wants to see Izuku’s skills and proposes a challenge. Izuku has 3 minutes to take Nighteye’s stamp and stamp the paperwork himself. In that time, Nighteye won’t fight back, only dodge, and Izuku shouldn’t worry about the room. He sends Togeta and Bubble Girl on a coffee break while they run this test. As they walk out, Bubble Girl asks if Togeta had to jump through these hoops to work for Nighteye, which Togeta says he didn’t as Nighteye sought him out specifically.

 

Yeah, I would not have guessed he's a big humor
guy either...

Now, this is a very difficult task, as proven when he dodges around Izuku’s charges and narrates the whole damn thing. It’s at this point where we learn that his power is called Foresight. If he touches someone and looks them in the eye, for one hour he can see their future. The activation requirement is a secret. So Izuku needs to somehow get around someone who can literally see his every move before he makes it. Tall order. Nighteye isn’t impressed with Izuku, he had high hopes for the kid but he clearly is only mediocre with his great power. He tells Izuku that he can’t acknowledge All Might’s choosing him, and that Togeta should have gotten the power.

 

Izuku, actually spurred on by these comments activates his full cowling and starts leaping around at high speed. He plans to leap around so fast that it won’t matter if Nighteye sees him coming. He declares he’ll make Nighteye acknowledge him. Izuku makes a grab for it, but is just a titch too slow. Nighteye noticed Izuku using Gran Torino’s style, but it’s a pale imitation of the original. Nighteye tells Izuku that in two minutes he’ll be slumped on the floor without the contract or seal. He’s noticed that Izuku is hesitant and fearful, two things that a Hero can’t be. Izuku, wanting to prove All Might right for choosing him, grabs a bookshelf and throws it, scattering books and papers. He wants to see if Nighteye just sees everything about Izuku or if he just see’s Izuku. He makes a grab, misses, and slams his face into a wall. Izuku slides to the floor, three minutes pass and Nighteye ends the contest. He chastises Izuku for putting all of his efforts into a single attack, exhausting himself and missing the target. Izuku then informs him that he didn’t miss because he was exhausted, but because he changed trajectory midflight to dodge the 10^th anniversary poster. Its at that moment that Nighteye looks around and notices that Izuku, despite the time constraint and Nighteye’s unnecessarily cruel smack talk, managed to dodge every single bit of All Might Memorabilia in the office. Togeta and Bubble Girl join them, and Nighteye says he’ll take Izuku.

 

Okay, so Sir Nighteye might not just be a 
super random name.

He pulls the whole “I said do x, but I didn’t say I wouldn’t take you if you failed,” excuse. In fact, he claims that he planned to take Izuku from the moment he heard from Togeta he’s coming. Izuku realizes that, even if that’s true, it’s not so much a vote of confidence. He thinks that Nighteye is taking him on specifically to work him with Mirio Togeta, see that Togeta is clearly superior to himself, and convince Izuku to hand off One for All to him. It’s a dastardly plan.

 

Back at the dorm, Izuku tells his classmates that he got the position. His classmates are impressed, you know, except Bakugo whom is angry and Todoroki whom says that they both need to work hard to keep up with the others. The other students are having issues finding Work Study’s, Uraraka and Tsu’s Internship mentors are too inexperienced to meet UA’s standards, and Kirishima’s mentor Fourth Kind doesn’t take Work Study students. Aizawa comes in and explains that it’s due in part to how much more responsibility the students are given. They’re at much greater risk, so a hero has to be pretty damned confident in their abilities. Nothing would kill a career quite like a dead seventeen-year-old Work Study student. He tells that Tokoyami that he got a request from Hawks, Japan’s #3 hero. He’s got big angel wings. He also tells Kirishima that Amajiki and Uraraka and Tsu that Hado want to speak with them respectively. Care to guess who is going to be important this arc? All three are too excited to wait and go to speak with them. 

 

The next day, Izuku starts his Work Study. His first mission is to patrol and survey the area with Togeta. The group explain that Nighteye has been monitoring the actions of Kai Chisaki aka Overhaul, the number two of the Shia Hassaikai. They don’t know what he’s doing, besides that he seems to be gathering the remnants of organized crime together and he made contact with Shigaraki.

 

Grab the girl and run. Grab the girl and run. 
Grab the girl and RUN!

In a post credit scene, Damn it Studio Bones, we’re shown a little girl with a horn running from Overhaul. She runs headlong into a hero inn green with bunny ears. The hero called Deku helps her up, noting that her arms are completely covered in bandages. Overhaul steps out of the shadows, and chastises the girl, Eri, for running off and bothering the heroes. Well... that’s a hell of a place to stop.

 

This was a solid introduction to Sir Nighteye. I read that while All Might was designed as a parody of US superhero comics, Sir Nighteye’s design is based off of Japanese stereotypes. He’s an uptight business man in a white suit, so I can kind of see it. I give Izuku credit for not giving up despite going up against a man who literally sees the future. I’m impressed with how quickly he’s grown from getting a handle on his powers last season. In a few in universe weeks, he’s been able to master leaping around at high speed and dodging in the air. If he had more time, I’m reasonably certain he could have gotten that damned seal. The fact he got the job because Nighteye wants to break him is pretty dark, not going to lie. But seems to be in character for this guy we’ve been told is both a massive fanboy but is also incredibly exacting. This is going to be a rough job for Izuku Midoriya me thinks. As I may have spoiled earlier, Kirishima, Tsu and Uraraka are going to important in this arc. One thing I’ve liked about this show is that they’ve done their best to highlight as many of the 1A students as they can. And sidelining Bakugo and Todoroki so that Kirishima and Tsu can get some more screen time is something I 100% approve of. Finally, if the post credit scene that involves a terrified little girl in a ragged dress and covered in bandages isn’t a solid indicator of what you should feel toward Overhaul, I can assure you you’re gonna hate this SOB by the end of this ride. And that’s all I have to say about that. Have a good night!

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