Mushrooms, mushrooms and more mushrooms.
Last time on My Hero Academia,
after the Round-One contestants got evaluated by their professors, it was onto
round 2. Yaoyorozu, Hagakure, Tokoyami, and Aoyama were brought in to fight
Kendo, Komori, Fukidashi, and Kuroiro of class 1B. Kuroiro, a fellow dark
warrior, (literally his skin, eyes and clothes are all coal black) lead the
charge against class 1A, seemingly targeting Tokoyami. This was, as it turned
out, a misdirection so he could go after his real target, Aoyama. He grabbed the
sparkly bugger and tried to run off, but he was chased by Tokoyami. Tokoyami
was able to follow Kuroiro thanks to him learning how to use Dark Shadow to fly
after him and catch Aoyama. Class 1A has Kuroiro cornered when Yaoyorozu and
Hagakure both start sprouting… mushrooms? Oh my. Enough recap. Let’s get to it.
My nightmare.
We begin the episode proper with 1A
cornering Kuroiro, only for mushrooms to start sprouting everywhere. Mushrooms
literally pop up all over everything, including Yaoyorozu and Hagakure. It’s
weird seeing her silhouette after nearly a hundred episodes of her being a pair
of gloves and boots outside of the classroom. Komori lists off the scientific names
of all the mushrooms she is growing, while spraying the air with a pair of
spray bottles. As she walks, you can see the light dusting of mushroom spores
coming off her. Intermittent Present Mic Narration pops in to explain that her
Quirk is called Mushroom, that she releases spores and can make mushrooms grow
instantly, and that her powers are stronger in high humidity. Hence why she’s
just kind of spraying the air.
With the audience, Mineta is a bit
freaked out by seeing fungus grown out of people. He compares it to a horror
movie. I’m included to agree. But a 1B student explains that the mushrooms
Komori creates vanish in a few hours, so there won’t be any lingering effects
to having toadstools growing out of people. The mushrooms get so bad that the
camera is covered.
As Hagakure and Yaoyorozu try to
brush off mushrooms, Kuroiro (who is hiding in a black mushroom) flashes back
to the planning stage. Kendo explained Plan A of having Kuroiro hijacking Dark
Shadow. When Kuroiro points out that when they catch on, he’ll be by himself
and vulnerable, Kendo brings up using the very light they’re using against him
as a signal for them to step in. He slips away.
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Certainly a distinctive power.
Yaoyorozu is impressed by Kendo’s
multilayer attack, just as they hear Fukidashi’s voice shouting a “boom, crash,
kapow” and so on. When that happens, giant kanji in the shape of those words erupt
from the ground, scattering the students. This is Fukidashi’s quirk, Comic, he
can make sound effects and onomatopoeia materialize as solid words. Imagine
watching the 60s Batman, when Batman or Robin hit someone, and “POW” appeared
on the screen. Now imagine if the word POW was just… there. His power in a
nutshell. Certain words can affect the environment in other ways, as he shows in
just a sec. He shouts a few more words and completely separates Hagakure and
Yaoyorozu. When Hagakure is by herself, she sees “Damp” written in the air, and
the air becomes damper, causing the mushrooms to grow faster. Damn, that’s a
weird power.
Mushrooms have grown over everyone.
Vlad King makes more biased remarks about how much his kids rock and class 1A
sucks. The other students are impressed by 1B’s tactics, and Sato asks the important
question: If they all go overseas, would Fukidashi need a translator? Uraraka
and Izuku note that the word wall had separated Yaoyorozu from everyone else.
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I would never feel clean again after this.
Kendo attacks Yaoyorozu, noting
that she’d cut off “the brain” of the team so now she just needs to beat it up.
Her huge hands pack a lot of power, crumpling the tungsten shield Yaoyorozu creates
reflexively to protect herself. She charges Yaoyorozu again, planning to not
give her time to think. Yaoyorozu keeps throwing up shields, with Kendo overwhelming
her. She got this plan from the sports festival, somewhat ironic given that
Yaoyorozu was fighting Tokoyami at the time and plans to just keep wailing on
Yaoyorozu relentlessly.
Back in the stands, Tetsutetsu
praises Kendo for her planning ability. He is impressed with Kendo coming up
with a situation that gives her such an advantage. Todoroki isn’t so sure that
this’ll be the wash that Kendo is hoping for, though. He claims that, if they did
all of this for fear of Yaoyorozu’s planning ability, they might have misjudged
her. He remembers working with her during the end of the end of semester exam, and
how she quickly came up with a plan that let them win against Aizawa. He thinks
that this situation is well within her ability to predict, so they might have wanted
to try to disrupt her plan earlier.
Kendo, who’d been wailing on
Yaoyorozu the whole time, throws the shield back, only to see Yaoyorozu counterattack…
she grew a cannon. She needed time to make something so big, hence why she let
herself get hit so much.
Meanwhile, Tokoyami and Aoyama are
still flying about. They’d lost sight of Hagakure and were considering going back
to find Yaoyorozu, when Kuroiro attacks again. He grabs Aoyama and slides off
down a line of black mushrooms. Tokoyami flies after, but a combination of
Mushrooms and word barriers cause him to crash. Thankfully, Fukidashi’s getting
a bit hoarse, so perhaps his power is waning. He runs into Hagakure, who is now
totally visible because she’s so covered in mushrooms. He tries to help her get
some of those off and laments the predicament they’re in. He knows that they’ll
need to find all three to clench victory and how tall an order that is.
Yaoyorozu aims her big cannon at
Kendo. The spectators think that maybe Yaoyorozu lost her mind, threatening a
student with that BFC, but Izuku in the stands, and a second later Kendo in the
fight realize what is happening. Yaoyorozu is in actuality going to use the
cannon to punch a hole in the wall, she just threatened Kendo to give herself a
chance to aim. Kendo rushes the cannon, Yaoyorozu just barely getting it out of
the way of her huge fists. She swings around for another attack but Yaoyorozu
fires, not hitting the wall, but lobbing something over it. She also creates
something that goes off in her and Kendo’s faces.
Tokoyami sees the bag that
Yaoyorozu fired flying over the wall. He flies Hagakure up and they catch the
bag. It’s labeled Yaoyorozu’s Lucky Bag.
Komori and Kuroiro link up, Kuroiro
reporting he’d captured Aoyama and put him in their cell. Komori congradulates
him, and she goes back to growing mushroom. Kuroiro notes “something” coming at
them. It turns out to be Tokoyami flying in while wearing thermal imaging
goggles. “When I stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at me!” Dude
really needs to write some death metal songs, damn. He remembers going through
the bag with Hagakure, it was filled with the goggles and anti-fungal spray. He
wonders if this was Yaoyorozu’s backup plan the whole time and is impressed
with her ability to communicate what they should do without saying a word. Fukidashi
sees him as he flies by, confused about him moving straight at his team. Its at
that moment that Hagakure reveals herself, having become truly invisible again
after disinfecting herself, and noting that 1B must have done the same thing to
protect themselves from the mushrooms. She decks him, and then starts wailing
on him. You go, invisible girl.
Tokoyami closes in, overlaying
himself in Dark Shadow in his Black Abyss: Sabbath technique. He hits them
hard, Kuroiro prepares to escape, but Tokoyami throws his cloak at him. Once in
the cloak, separate from the ground and other dark patches, he’s trapped. Neat.
Dark Shadow also grabbed Komori. He tries
to order Dark Shadow to drop them off into the cell, but Tokoyami starts
violently coughing. Turns out, Komori had an ace up her sleeve, a lung fungus.
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Waa waa waaaaahhhhhh.
Hagakure is holding off Fukidashi,
but unfortunately, Kendo arrives and grabs her. Turns out, Yaoyorozu’s final gambit
was to tie Kendo up in ropes attached to her and keep herself attached to the cannon
to try to slow her down. Obviously, it slowed but didn’t stop her. With Hagakure
captured, and Tokoyami coughing violently, class 1B is declared the winner.
Everyone watching is impressed with the fight, Todoroki and Izuku hoping that Yaoyorozu
not get too discouraged by this as they did come really close to winning. The
episode ends with Vlad gushing at his student’s victory and 1A again protesting
his biased commentary.
A solid fight episode, although I’m
a little disappointed by the result. We got to see incredibly unique combination
of powers on display, with Fukidashi throwing words around and shaking up the
whole battlefield and Komori spreading fungi around the area to slow and
distract 1A. The focus of the episode was Yaoyorozu vs. Kendo, both the actual physical
altercation as well as their abilities as leaders. Kendo had a leg up with her
initial strategy, but I do have to give the win to Yaoyorozu for thinking on
her feet. Her biggest flaw seemed to be hesitating on implementing her plan
early yet again. Had she handed out the thermal goggles and anti-fungal just a
bit faster, they might have beaten 1B. Hell, if she’d tried tying up Kendo, or blinding
her with a flashbang, she might have had more time to work with and reorganize
her team. Honestly, I think what bugs me about the 4-0 loss is that a huge part
of Yaoyorozu’s character development has been devoted to the inferiority
complex that she has developed from her early losses, so she ends up losing
again? Just seemed… mean. They could have at least grabbed Fukidashi or Kuroiro
but still end up losing to Komori. Giving her the lung fungus was pretty much an
auto win for them, they could have lost one guy, so it wasn’t a blowout. All I’m
saying. So yeah, a fine episode, but a bit annoying to me personally. Next time,
round 3, see you then.
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