The big meeting before the big raid.
Last time on My Hero Academia, Kirishima
had his debut as Red Riot. While on patrol with Amajiki aka Suneater and their hero
mentor Fat Gum. They stop some drug peddling gangsters, but one hidden in the
crowd shoots Amajiki with a bullet that disables his power. Kirishima chases
him down, but the gangster takes an enhancement drug and nearly slices
Kirishima to pieces even in his armored form. He reveals his new ultimate move,
Red Riot Unbreakable. He defeats the gangster and sees him arrested. A few days
later, Izuku is still musing about failing Eri and resolves to save her. Enough
recap, let’s get to it.
We open with Izuku meeting with
Kirishima, Uraraka and Tsu as the four students head out to their work study.
Despite getting on the same train (they usually work in different areas),
walking in the same direction and all arriving at the same building, the four
of them don’t get that they’re all going to the same place until they see the
Big Three. Like, guys, did you not chat at all on the ride over? Oh well, they enter
the building and see a bunch of heroes gathered. The only ones I’ll draw
attention to are Aizawa, Gran Torino, and a new hero known as Rock Lock. There is
way more heroes than those three and the hero work study advisors there, but
they’re almost all more or less seat fillers. The kids speak with Aizawa
briefly, who reveals he got the call to show up super last minute, before they’re
brought into the meeting. And yeah, this is the Shie Hassaikai case.
I think I found a worse power than The Blob's
super strength but also massive BMI situation.
The meeting begins with Nighteye’s
sidekicks Bubblegirl and Centipeder (yes, his head is a giant centipede) explaining
the situation. Basically, they started investigating the Shie Hassaikai after
the incident with a gang calling themselves the Reservoir Dogs. Remember, they’re
the crew that stole an entire cash register counter, were seemed to be brutally
killed, but were then shown to be fine later and were arrested. They also found
the abandon building that the League and Hassaikai met up in, you know, because
of the big freaking hole. When the League was shown to be involved, they got Gran
Torino and Detective Tsukauchi involved. Gran Torino apologizes for not bring Izuku
into the loop, but obviously this thing was super hush hush. Kirishima is impressed
with Izuku’s connections.
This is Rock Lock. Do not judge him too harshly
for being a dick.
The one new hero I mentioned, Rock Lock,
asks the obvious question as to why a bunch of high schoolers are here. Fat Gum
reveals his students are there to pass on information. Fat Gum explains the
situation that happened with them, how Amajiki was shot with something that
blocked his powers, and Kirishima was also hit but the bullet bounced off. Aizawa
takes over, as the expert on stopping powers. He explains that his vision basically
blocks the use of quirk genes, the bullet, in contrast, literally damaged
Amajiki’s genes. He’s recovered, but the effect was worrying nonetheless. They
recovered the bullets that bounced off Kirishima and they found something incredibly
disturbing, analysis shows that the bullets have human blood and cells in them.
Those words seem to freak out Izuku and Togeta, but they haven’t completely gotten
it yet.
Fat Gum mentions that while they
haven’t found a direct connection, the enhancement drug that the blade guy used
went through a middle man group with ties to Shie Hassaikai. Ryuku pipes in and
mentions that one of the giants from the fight that she and her group stopped
also used the enhancement drug and had ties to Hassaikai. Some of the other
heroes are convinced, as they feel that Nighteye and the others are making
vague ties as evidence that Shie Hassaikai is involved. Then they bring up the piece
that makes the Shie Hassaikai connection fit more than circumstantial. Kai
Chisaki, aka Overhaul, his power allows him to break down or reassemble anything
he touches. Izuku and Togeta get the implications of this just as Nighteye
explains it. Chisaki has a daughter named Eri, she has no birth certificate or
any record of her birth, and children often develop powers similar to their
parents. Kirishima doesn’t get it, so an annoyed Rock Lock spells it out, they
think that Overhaul is using his daughter to make these bullets.
Is... is this a vision? An artistic rendering?
I have no idea.
Nighteye thinks that the bullets aren’t
perfected yet, but Shie Hassaikai is handing out samples for different criminal
groups to use. Everyone is clearly horrified at the idea of a perfected Quirk
destroying bullet. Cat’s and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA! Rock Lock makes
a fairly dickish comment that this would be easier if Izuku and Togeta had just
taken the girl when they had the chance. Nighteye deflects some of the blame on
himself, as their superior. Izuku and Togeta are clearly pissed and they jump
to their feet, vowing to save Eri. Rock Lock tells them that they need to be
more realistic. Nighteye tells the group that due to the importance of stopping
these Quirk destroying bullets is so high, their initial strike has to be perfect.
He shows a list of Shie Hassaikai bases and wants each of the heroes present to
investigate them. Fat Gum wants them to just rush in and take these guys out, but
Nighteye preaches caution, knowing that if they botch this mission it might just
serve as another rallying point for villains like what happened with Stain.
Aizawa asks the obvious question,
why Nighteye doesn’t use Foresight to figure out where they go. Nighteye
explains that his power is very limited, in that he can only use it once a day,
and even when he does the perspective is tight on the person that he uses it
on. He describes the vision like looking at a film strip in his mind, one where
he views his target in a pretty extreme close up. He seems hesitant to use his
ability for any substantial look forward, presumably he’s still gun-shy after
seeing All Might’s death. Rock Lock demands that Nighteye use his power on him
anyway, but Nighteye refuses. He’ll only use it if he’s certain. After an awkward
pause, Ryuku gets things going again.
Aizawa gotta make sure the youngest heroes in
Japan don't bite off more than they can chew.
Sometime later, the UA students get
together and Izuku and Togeta talk about what happened when they met Eri and Overhaul.
Their friends empathize with them. Aizawa joins the students, and tells them to
call him Eraser out of school. He admits that he was going to suspend the students’
internships when he heard about this joint taskforce, but has decided against
it. Mostly to keep an eye on Izuku and keep him from doing reckless and stupid
on his own. He tells Izuku that he still needs to earn back his trust. Izuku agrees
to doing what he can to regain Aizawa’s trust.
Meanwhile, Gran Torino has a
meeting with Nighteye. The younger hero figured out that Torino sent Izuku to
him as part of a scheme to get Nighteye and All Might to start talking again.
Torino does admit it, as he’s an old man and old men like to meddle. He asks
what Nighteye thinks of Izuku, and he does say that Izuku and All Might are
similar. They have the same madness in their eyes. I believe he means the burning
desire to help people, but I guess that’s a kind of madness.
In a post credit scene, we’re shown
Eri in her room. She’s joined by one of Overhaul’s subordinates. I can’t find a
name for him, so I’ll just call him Mop-Top. Mop-Top tells Eri that he’s going
to be the one in charge of her from now on. He complains that she hasn’t touched
any of the toy’s he got for her, and scold her, since if she isn’t happy her dad
is going to murder him. He leaves her. ON the walk out, he remembers Overhaul
telling him that he needs to be someone that Eri can trust and confide in… Overhaul,
at least get subordinate with kids to do this. You know, someone that might
have some insight into seven-year-olds? Mop-Top decide he’ll buy her a magical girl
doll to see if that’ll get her to like him. In her room, Eri is crying,
remembering Izuku and actually felt safe when he hugged her. Well, that’s
depressing.
Okay, so this was mostly an exposition
episode. We’re introduced to the concept of the next few episodes, the investigation
into and ultimately the raid on the Shie Hassaikai. I enjoyed seeing how their
investigation developed pretty much from a random incident into a full-on drug plot
that could completely destroy life as they know it. The revelation about how
Eri fits into the plot was particularly disturbing. Like, you expect things to be
bad for her, but not her father to literally be harvesting her flesh for profit.
Like, that’s freaking ghoulish! I especially liked how they drew Izuku and
Togeta’s reactions to their realization. They’re clearly mortified that the kid
they had the chance to save is now being used as genetic experimentation.
Creepy. I ask that you don’t judge Rock Lock too harshly. Yeah, he’s a dick in
this, and most off his following episodes, but I promise that he’s got reasons
to be hyper critical of kids. The Shie Hassaikai arc is one of the best in this
franchise, so I’m excited to get to talk more about it soon. Have a good night,
everybody.
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