The butcher's bill on this one is high.
Last time on My Hero Academia,
Mr. Compress decided to talk about himself. The masked stage magician of the
League of Villains revealed himself to be the Great-Great Grandson of Oji
Harima, a legendary Robin Hood-style thief from the early years of the hero
system. He brings this guy up to explain why he’s a master escape artist and to
show off just a little. Compress uses his compression quirk on himself,
removing bits of his flesh to allow himself to escape the bonds Best Jeanist
put him in. He gathered up all the allies that he could in compressed spheres
and slowed down Mirio Togeta long enough for Spinner to wake up Tomura
Shigaraki’s body. I specify his body because it turns out the one piloting his
body is the elder Shigaraki, All-For-One. Using the powers implanted in his
student to summon the Nomu to him and used them as a distraction to allow his
and Spinner’s escape. Izuku tried to stop him, but he was incapacitated by the
intense pain caused by his new Danger Sense. It’s a Spidey-Sense that should
just warn him of danger but the pulse it gives him keeps knocking him out. He
is able to stay awake long enough to confront All-For-One, using Black Whip
channeled through his tongue to move. All-For-One knocks Izuku back and tells
him they’ll meet again when Tomura is complete. As the heroes gather their
wounded and dead, Izuku passes out again from his own injuries. Enough
recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?
We open the scene on the
destruction of Jaku city where the battle took place. Lots of death,
destruction, and it was so bad someone stuck a “I AM NOT HERE” sign on All
Might’s statue. Future Narrator Izuku let us know that he didn’t know how bad
the total damage was until sometime later. We learn that just before the big
attack, the chief of the public safety commission reached out to the head of a
certain company to begin a project to develop support items. The company was
unfortunately Detnerat Company and the official brough in was Rikiya Yotsubashi
aka Re-Destro. His assistant says that it’s weird they’re being brought in when
the Safety Commission hasn’t been their biggest fans. He says that it’s because
the PSC can’t ignore their products anymore and admits he’s going to introduce
malware and spies into whatever products they give the PSC, which will give
them lots of data. Like the identity of the PSC’s spy (Hawks). They’re both
excited about bringing about the future the original Destro dreamed of. He then
cryptically states that “the Other Me” is ecstatic.
Re-Destro meets with the PSC chair
and her entourage, including Yokumiru Mera, the guy that ran Izuku’s Hero License
Test. She starts speaking to him like this is going to be a simple business
meeting… right up until her squad pulls out guns and heroes start busting in.
We don’t see the fighting, but when we come back into the scene, the building
is destroyed, Re-Destro’s assistant and the Chairwoman of the PSC are dead, and
it’s revealed this Re-Destroy was a body double Twice created. As the copy
melts he admits he was impressed at them using his company’s desire for
expansion to lure him into a trap. He tells them that this is the beginning of
the end and melts to goo.
Future Narrator Izuku goes on to
explain that with the chaos in the PSC headquarters, no one was able to get in
contact with the heroes to warn them, and the raid began. He summarizes the
events of the raid. Heroes tried to grab Dr. Garaki, but he escaped thanks to a
double, Garaki activated a bunch of High End Nomu and activated Tomura
Shigaraki. Shigaraki’s enhanced Decay allowed him to destroy Jaku city from a
distance. Izuku was outside helping to evacuate but he sensed his opposite’s
presence. While that was going on, Edgeshot lead a raid on the Paranormal
Liberation Front’s villa about 80 kilometers from Jaku City. Kaminari got his
big moment of absorbing a big lightning attack and the raid began. Izuku
mentions how Hawks was on a secret mission with the goal of removing Twice from
the battlefield. He killed Twice, but was badly injured by Dabi. He was barely
saved by Tokoyami who flew him to safety. The fight escalated with
Gigantomachia and the PLF’s heavy hitters joining. Gigantomachia got drugged by
class 1A which ultimately stopped him.
Izuku gets to Endeavor’s fight with
Tomura Shigaraki and how he called in everyone that could fight without
touching the ground. He mentions how Tomura’s enhancements made him impossibly
strong even when his quirks were being actively suppressed by Aizawa. Endeavor
tried to incinerate Tomura, but he survived the attack. Dabi revealed his status
as Endeavor’s oldest son to the world and dealt a massive blow to public
confidence in heroes. Best Jeanist and Lemillion helped when Gigantomachia
arrived, but ultimately Shigaraki escaped with seven Nomu.
Future Narrator Izuku reveals that
the professional heroes at the scene denied that any students got involved with
the fighting. This was obviously to protect the students and the hero system
from any additional scrutiny after how badly the operation went. He says that
the denial that work study students helped was the only mention of Izuku and
his friends fighting. He reminds us of what was really going on, how
All-For-One attempted to take full control of Tomura Shigaraki’s body and steal
One-For-All from Izuku. Izuku remembered how the first wielder of One-For-All,
Shigaraki the younger, manifested in the mental plane along with All Might’s
Master, Nana Shimura, to help fight Shigaraki the elder off. He also mentions
how it looked like Tomura Shigaraki had wanted to be saved.
We see Izuku get loaded into an
ambulance as Future Narrator Izuku talks about Garaki getting arrested for
murder and other crimes. They captured Gigantomachia and took him away with a
pair of helicopters. Mr. Compress, real name, Atsuhiro Sako, survived the
fighting and was arrested. And they captured any of the Nomu that couldn’t
escape with Shigaraki. They harvested equipment from the hidden lab in the
hopes that would help them figure out what was done in the lab. Re-Destro and Geten,
the PLF’s Ice user, were captured by Edgeshot and Cementoss. They also captured
Koku Hanabata aka Trumpet, as well as over 16,900 members of the PLF. He
reveals that along with the big raids there were dozens of smaller raids that
focused on smaller bases around the country. They arrested dozens of more PLF
members as well as double agent heroes.
Future Narrator Izuku states that’s
all that was in the official report and that he has nothing more to add to it.
And while the raid was largely successful, he admits that the aftereffects of
it were devastating. We see a group trying to find and capture Himiko Toga but
shifted priorities to helping civilians. We see a pair of kids almost crushed
by rubble but are saved last minute by Uraraka and Tsu. Uraraka sends Tsu to
drop the kids off while she rushes around to help people. She proves herself to
be invaluable in this situation as her anti-gravity powers help her clear
rubble extremely quickly. Koda, who can speak to animals, is also extremely
helpful thanks to being able to talk with pigeons to get aerial views of the
city. We see that resources are stretched to their absolute limit as doctors
are forced to prioritize saving people they can treat. In an extremely low, as
Uraraka saves another civilian, an unnamed hero just… quits. He admits that he
can’t keep doing this, as it’s just too much.
Class 1A finds Midnight’s body. Kirishima,
Sato, Ashido and Yaoyorozu beg her to get up, but she’s been dead for hours at
this point. Tokage of 1B joins them and informs them that another hero friend
of theirs, Majestic, is also dead. We see Mineta holding back tears with the
rest of his class as he says this feels like a nightmare. We learn from
Garaki’s deposition that Tomura Shigaraki straight up died when his pod was
broken into. Izuku postulates that Tomura came back to life, not from the mild
electric shock that he received while in a puddle of fluid, but by his ‘dreams
and desires.’ Not gonna lie, Izuku, ol buddy, but that’s a bit of a reach.
We see that the public has started
to turn on Endeavor specifically but heroes more generally. Some are still hopeful,
like the kids that Bakugo and Shoto tutored to get their hero licenses
approved, but they’re in the minority. We see Shigaraki both in his cell at
Tartarus Prison as well as the possessed Tomura talking about how the plan
didn’t go off perfectly, but it went extremely well. He says that people
naively expect tomorrow to be brighter, but he’s not going to give them time to
recover. We see a tired Dabi crouched by his side and Spinner looking
absolutely horrified. Shigaraki orders his Nomu to free his real body. And
that’s where we end.
I don’t have much to say about this
episode as it was largely just summarizing the last arc. Overall, Future
Narrator Izuku paints a very bleak picture of the raid and the wider world.
While he doesn’t say that Jaku city was one of the biggest and destructive
events of the modern era, it’s heavily implied to be the case. It’s so bad that
even though the capture tons of villains, including high ranking members of the
new PLF, Gigantomachia, and dozens of Nomu, Izuku clearly thinks they failed. I
liked that the episode did its best to capture the duality of the situation.
Parts are hopeful, like when we see Uraraka working tirelessly to try and most
often succeed in saving people, or seeing guys like Compress and Gigantomachia
captured. Others are totally bleak like the hero that just quit from how
overwhelming this all is, or Izuku’s classmates finding their dead teacher. This
as never going to end cleanly, but it’s clear that the heroes took as many
losses as wins. I can tell you that Endeavor is taking a big hit from all this,
Dabi planned his attack on his father extremely well, the backlash is intense.
And then we see Shigaraki planning to keep up the momentum by freeing his
original body from Tartarus. The part I liked most from this scene was Spinner,
who had a look on his face that can only be described as “what the hell have I
gotten myself into?” All-For-One’s master plan is just starting to get into
motion, and no one is ready for what comes next. See you next time.
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