Let's meet Eri. By the end of this, you'll want to kill Overhaul for what he does to her.
Last time on My Hero Academia,
Izuku met with All Might’s former sidekick Sir Nighteye. The pro hero is
unimpressed with Izuku Midoriya, despite their mutual love of All Might. But he
is willing to deal. He challenges Izuku to take his stamp and stamp his contract
for the Work Study himself to prove his worthiness. This is somewhat difficult,
as Nighteye’s power lets him predict the future of a target for one. Izuku
makes a valiant effort, but can’t get the stamp in the three minutes time
limit. This isn’t completely on him, though, as it is revealed that leaping
around all the All Might memorabilia in Nighteye’s office is what screwed up
his timing. Nighteye agrees to take him, but Izuku believes that it’s a
convoluted attempted to convince Izuku that Mirio Togeta is more worthy of One
For All than he is, and surrender the power to Togeta. On his first patrol with
Togeta, Izuku runs into a little girl with a horn named Eri, and her
germophobic father, Kai Chiski aka Overhaul. This can’t be good. Let’s get to
it.
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| Deku and Lemillion, what a pair. |
We begin a few minutes before with
Izuku and Togeta on their patrol. It’s revealed that Sir Nighteye and Bubble
Girl are doing the actual surveillance of the Shia Hassaikai base, Mirio is
going to focus on showing Izuku the basics of patrol. The boys also exchange
hero names, Deku formally shakes hand with Lemillion. The name is based on
Togeta’s desire to save a million people… not sure why he needed the French Le
with it, but there you go. It’s just after this that little Eri ran into Izuku
and her Padre Chiski walked up. The dude wears a plague doctor mask out in
public? Like… why not just go with a surgical mask when you’re not actively
plotting villainy? Whatever. Overhaul tries to act like he’s a attentive dad
following after a willful daughter, but obviously Izuku is immediately wary of
him. Togeta, without missing much of a beat, pulls Izuku’s mask up to hide his
face and tries to keep Overhaul talking, to pump him for information.
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| Anyone who willingly follows this guy into a dark alley is just asking for trouble. |
Overhaul starts closing up almost
immediately, though, and insists he and his daughter head home. Izuku almost
gets up to leave, but Eri grabs more tightly onto him and begs him not to go.
Izuku notes to Overhaul that she’s shaking, he says that she’s reacting to
being scolded. Izuku notes that she’s got bandages all over her limbs, Overhaul
says she’s always playing rough. The two heroes-in-training are in a pickle.
Togeta wants to leave, because he knows Overhaul is going to close up and will
be less likely to leave his compound and mess up. Izuku, on the other hand,
thinks they need to stay, because if they leave now it’ll tip off Overhaul
there’s something up as heroes wouldn’t just walk away from a child in that
state. Overhaul claims that he’ll tell them what Eri’s issue is, but they
should discuss it in the alley, as it’s a private family matter. They go to
follow… oh jeeze. As they walk, Overhaul talks about the woes of raising a
willful child. He goes to take off one of his gloves and looks directly at Eri
as he says it. She freaks out, leaping from Izuku’s arms and follows pops.
Izuku wants to follow, but Togeta advises they call up Sir Nighteye and trade
info.
Back at the base, Overhaul orders
that a chemical bath be made up for himself and his minion bring Eri to the
lab. He also brutally murders the subordinate who let Eri slip away. IN FRONT
OF THE SCARED CHILD! Jackass.
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| So... is the rash from being outside, or from possibly getting subordinate blood on him? |
The heroes meet up. Izuku and
Togeta apologize for messing up with Overhaul, but Sir Nighteye says it’s his
fault for not using his Foresight on them earlier in the day. He explains why they’ve
been looking into Overhaul. It was the incident last season when Twice walked
on the horrible car wreck where they mutilated the criminals that stole a
counter. As it turns out, when the cops arrived, everyone was fine… better even
than they were before, as chronic issues like cavities and such were removed as
well. The money seemingly burnt in the crash. It’s a very odd situation. They
tell Nighteye about Eri’s bandaged wrapped arms and expresses his desire to
save Eri. Sir Nighteye tells Izuku to not be arrogant and risk the operation by
rushing in to save her. He is going to bring in other heroes to take care of
the Hassaikai.
In the compound, Eri is brought
down into a secret laboratory. Overhaul tells her that he can’t have her
running off like that, as she is the corner stone of his plans. That’s not
creepy at all… Before they can do something horrible to the child, Overhaul is
informed Shigaraki is calling. That can’t be good.
Back at UA, the students are
getting into a routine. Bakugo and Todoroki are covered in bruises from their
Provisional License make up class. Uraraka, Kirishima, and Tsu are out for
their work studies. And Izuku is feeling melancholy for abandoning Eri. It
affects his school work for the rest of the day. He decides that he needs
advice for his mentor, so looks up All Might. Midnight tells him that he’s out
jogging, and Izuku is able to find him along his route.
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| Even withered, All Might can strike a hell of a pose. |
Izuku tells All Might that he
learned all about Mirio Togeta and that he was going to succeed All Might. He
wants to know why All Might chose him over Togeta and why All Might kept the
info from him. All Might admits that it was because he thought the info
wouldn’t help Izuku with his training, so he didn’t want to burden him
unnecessarily. He gives Izuku the brief background of his time with Nighteye.
Eleven years ago, the two started working together despite All Might’s long-standing
rule about not taking sidekicks. They worked well together for five years, but
things changed after All Might’s battle with All For One. From the look of
things, Gran Torino was also injured during the fight as he too is in scrubs.
Nighteye advised All Might to retire now, as a legend, and look for a
successor. All Might isn’t willing to give up now, though, as in the time
between his retirement and choosing a successor, people would get hurt,
something he can’t abide by. Nighteye saw his future, tells him someone will
fill the gap while he’s training his successor. But if he doesn’t stop, he’ll
die a gruesome death facing off against a terrible villain. All Might takes a
somewhat fatalistic approach to this, believing that because Nighteye’s visions
have never been wrong, why fight it? All Might isn’t willing to stop, and he
and Nighteye terminate their partnership. All Might admits that Nezu suggested
Togeta to him, but he met Izuku before the meeting and the rest is history.
It’s at this moment that Izuku
realized what should have been fairly obvious, that All Might is dying. What?
In the first two episodes, he tells us that his respiratory system is shot and
he doesn’t have a stomach. The fact he’s lived this long is a mother loving
miracle.
He told Nighteye about his plan,
which only made things worse between the two. Nighteye rejected his plan and
began training a true successor in Mirio Togeta. Izuku asks how much time he
has left. When Nighteye made the prediction, he had six or seven years. Izuku
is freaked out to realize All Might is going to die this year or next, if the
timeline follows. Izuku won’t accept it, says he needs All Might to survive
long enough for Izuku to announce “I Am Here.”
All Might admits that he accepted
his death when he first heard it. And that he assumed he was going to die when
he fought AFO. But Izuku was there, and he realized that his student changed
him. Izuku gave him the drive to keep going, and that he’ll keep leaving to see
Izuku make his announcement. He’s so motivated he’s able to bulk up for a few
seconds. Izuku refuse to let the prediction happen to him. He suggests that All
Might make up with Nighteye and get him to see his future again. All Might
isn’t certain it’ll work.
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| Oh, this can't possibly be good. |
In a post credit scene, ugh, we see
Shigaraki getting brought in to meet Overhaul. He agreed to join the yakuza,
under the right conditions… that can’t possibly be good.
This was a solid continuation to
last episode, and introduction to the center of the next arc. Eri, the sad
little girl that is clearly being tortured by Chisaki for some nefarious
purpose. I don’t like seeing kids in pain, hell, there’s an episode of another
series, Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood and Classic) that I refuse to watch
because it involves a child being experimented on and turned into a monster.
So, nothing really could have set me against Overhaul faster than seeing his
daughter in such a state. And we got a fairly good view of the sort of person
that Overhaul is beyond his child abuse. I mean, he violently executed a
subordinate. Sure, the dude lost his precious Eri, but liquifying him seems a
tad extreme. I also forgotten that Overhaul has a violent reaction to being
exposed to dirt and germs. I mean, the skin rash he seemed to spontaneously
develop was grotesque, and I see no other reason for it besides him going
outside. I also liked the background on All Might and Nighteye. The fact that
their schism occurred largely because Nighteye respected him so much that he
could standby and watch him destroy himself. I think he probably took it too
far with Togeta and potentially convincing Izuku to give up his powers, but his
heart is in the right place. The next episode will feature one of Kirishima’s
most badass moments to date, and I’m excited to talk about it, next year. Next
time, we’ll be covering a few episodes of X-Men: Evolution. Have a goodnight,
everybody.
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