Izuku's dodging bullets, our little hero is grown up.
Last time on My Hero Academia,
Izuku faced off against an old foe. Izuku, who has left UA high and is now operating
as a Vigilante trying to draw out the League of Villains, face off against
Muscular. The villain was freed from Tartarus when All For One, Shigaraki, escaped
the prison, and was given orders to run amok, but not much else. Izuku hit him
with 45% of his full power and ended up defeating him. This saves two of the
students he took the licensing exam with, Yo Shinto and Tatami Nakagame, who
Muscular was beating on when he arrived. Yo recognized Izuku, but thought he
fights completely differently now. We see through flashback that Izuku and All
Might told his mother about what is going on, and that Izuku plans to drop out
of UA after getting out of the hospital to hunt for the League of Villains and
Shigaraki. She’s against it, but Izuku convinces her that it’s the right thing
for him to do. He gets Gran Torino’s blessing to handle this, and heads out
with All Might, Endeavor, Best Jeanist and Hawks to hunt villains. Enough
recapping, lets get to it.
We begin with Izuku explaining what
he saw in the Mindscape to Gran Torino. The elderly hero is in rough shape at
the hospital. He isn’t surprised to hear that the Vestige of Nana is still the
sort of person to cry and apologize for their choices. Torino gives Izuku his
blessing to do what he has to in order to save Tomura Shigaraki, whatever that
means to Izuku. And reminds him that sometimes killing someone is the only way
to do that. He gives Izuku his tattered cape, and Izuku adds that to his Hero
Costume. Outside, he’s met with Endeavor, Hawks, Best Jeanist and All Might. He
tells us that they’re working together to stop All-For-One, Izuku adding that
he “has to” be the one to do it. We get a glimpse of his Vigilante costume,
which is a much angrier, tattered version of his original costume.
We cut to a large green fox-looking
woman, the fans have dubbed her Ippan Josei or Ordinary Woman in most material,
as she’s running from a group of vigilantes. One of them uses a water cannon on
her, shooting her multiple times as Josei screams that she wasn’t doing
anything and she’s just trying to get to the shelter. Looks like these guys are
operating under non-human racism, because this lady is just a big green fox,
she’s got no offensive powers at all. The cannon prepares to shoot her point
blank, but Izuku aka Dark Deku leaps in to block the attack. Despite his new
aggressive look, Izuku still tries to be a voice of reason. He tells these guys
to back off, he understands why their nerves are on high but Josei isn’t
hurting anyone and leaves her to him. The vigilantes run off, muttering about
how it’s Josei’s fault they attacked her because idiots. Izuku gives her back her umbrella and then
asks why she’s out in this weather. Josei admits that she tried to stick it out
at home when the first evacuation order occurred, but things got bad fast and
she tried to move to a shelter, but then got attacked. So, ya know, she’s just
having a rough day. She drops her umbrella again, but Izuku grabs it and
casually floats up to give her cover. She’s like seven-ish feet tall, so he’s
not just flexing his new powers. Izuku swears that he’ll fix things as All
Might pulls up in his car. Izuku asks All Might to take Josei to the shelter.
He thinks he’s been in one place too long. All Might stops him long enough to
give his student a lunch box before flying off.
Izuku does the superhero thing of
watching the landscape from a tall building. Banjo manifests next to him and
says that this is like time travel. He explains that in his day heroes had to
lay low and fight from the shadows as that was during the height of
All-For-One’s evil empire. And it was like that for the original Quirk users as
well. Izuku narrates for us that the Shigarakis and the League of Villains are
in the wind, and that the chaos the escaped convicts are causing has made it
impossible for anyone to investigate that looming but currently quiet threat.
Izuku notes that Tomura is more dangerous than ever now that he has
All-For-One, citing that even with multiple pros help, they were still
overwhelmed by his powers. Izuku resolves to master every facet of One-For-All
to stop him.
We flashback to when Izuku was in
the Mindscape. Shigaraki, the younger, tries to get the second and third
wielders to agree to help train Izuku and stop staring at the wall of their
Mindscape. Neither reacts, so Banjo breaks the tension by telling Izuku to
train with the other powers until those two come around. Especially Smokescreen
and Danger Sense since they’ll be a big help when he wakes up. The third
finally speaks, a fella named Bruce Lee, saying that he and the second,
Toshitsugu Kudo, lived during the worst years when Shigaraki the elder was at
the height of his power. He says that most of Shigaraki’s minions back then
didn’t even know they were being used, but the leader of their resistance,
Kudo, knew. Kudo says that they had to fight and sacrifice a lot of their
allies to get to Shigaraki the elder. They lived with the mindset that they had
to either kill Shigaraki or the world would die. Kudo can’t believe that they
have to put their faith in a kid that wants to save their enemy. Shigaraki the
younger points out that that’s a bit of flawed logic, as they risked trusting
him when the two found him. And in doing so set everything in motion. He says
that they have to leave everything to the ninth. He says that One-For-All
exists to defeat All-For-One, the power was born out of him defying his older
brother. But it only exists as it does now because Kudo trusted him. The
previous wielders all agree to train Izuku, and in the present they resolve to
finally put an end to this… while Izuku finishes his lunch. Way to kill the
mood buddy.
Endeavor faces off against some
minor criminals holding up a convenience store. One of them is using a high
powered nail gun to hold him down, which Endeavor angrily curses Re-Destro’s
company for selling such an obvious weapon as a ‘support’ item. He takes out
the nail gunner while Hawks and Jeanist capture his buddies. The gunner says
that Endeavor has no right to stop him, as the No 1 hero’s crimes are worse
than his. Endeavor doesn’t disagree but says that’s why he has to stop
them. Jeanist comments that they didn’t get any new info about Shigaraki from
these escapees and how frustrating that is. They prepare to leave when they’re
met by a mob that angrily tell them to get out of town. The heroes leave
without comment, but we hear that the civilians have heard that Shigaraki was
after someone besides Endeavor, so the populace knows he’s still keeping things
from them. The trio follows Izuku from a distance. They’re trying to use Dark
Deku as bait to draw out the league, but so far no one has bitten. They know
that the villains are biding their time and will try to nab Izuku and OFA in
the chaos. Endeavor thinks that AFO is waiting for Tomura to recover and
complete his metamorphosis so he can fully possess his protégée. Hawks wonders
why Tomura’s hate seems to be such a big part of the plan, but Jeanist thinks
that the villain needs that raw hate to overcome the will of the eight wielders
within OFA. Hawks wonders why AFO’s hate isn’t enough to get the job done,
considering that he’s been hunting OFA’s wielders for generations at this
point. Jeanist thinks that one man’s hate just isn’t enough, Hawks wonders if
there’s any real hate in the guy at all considering he’s always laughing, and
Endeavor thinks he might just be empty inside. Jeanist says that regardless,
they need to increase their efforts while the League is laying low.
All Might is also following Izuku
in his own car, wondering if his successor has gotten any sleep at all. He
remembers Nighteye advising getting sleep whenever possible and says that he’s
trying to get his student to rest. Izuku stops to call up his allies, but his
phone is shot out of his hand. Both cars race to his last known location, but
All Might is slowed down by a grenade being tossed at him. The sniper tells
Izuku that he’s coming with her, and if he doesn’t struggle he gets to keep his
limbs. Izuku realizes that this is the lead he’s been looking for, that she was
hired by AFO.
We get a better look at the sniper.
It’s Lady Nagant, the purple haired woman from the Tartarus prison break. She
took Overhaul with her after the escape, apparently, as the armless man is
passed out by her. Her power is rather interesting. She’s able to manifest a
full sniper rifle from her right arm, which she loads by twirling her hair
between her fingers and molding it into her bullets. Izuku remembers speaking
with Hawks before he went on the run. Hawks explains that they have captured
all of Dr. Garaki’s tech after the raid, so that the League doesn’t have the
ability to steal and store a Quirk factor like they did before. So, their main
goal will probably be to try to take Izuku alive. Hawks thinks that with his
experience and powers most of the Tartarus escapees won’t be able to catch him.
Except one woman. Hawks says that she and him were colleagues, though she was
the senior between them, and that he’s trying to track her himself. Izuku looks
over his shoulder, and Nagant fires on him. He dodges and uses Black Whip to
Spider-Man swing away. He confirms that this is Lady Nagant. He grabs his phone
as he swings away but it’s busted. He tries to figure out what to do when
Nagant says “Why bother running when you’re already mine?” and a bullet whips
around the building at Izuku. He catches it, and her follow up shot, but they
clearly hurt him.
Izuku remembers an interview the
sniper hero Snipe had talking about Nagant. He says that he’d be the best shot
in Japan if it wasn’t for her. He explains the difference in their powers, that
he can hit targets from about 600 meters that he can see thanks to his Quirk
Homing. Nagant can make the same shot from 3 kilometers away with just skill
alone. He also explains how her quirk lets her mold her hair into whatever
bullet she wants, hollow point, curving bullets and so on. Her Quirk is called
Rifle. Izuku says that without his danger sense he’d be dead. Her shots lead
him to figure out where she was, though, atop a building about 1 km away. He
knows that’s well within her range, so evasion isn’t much of an option, so he
needs to go on the offensive.
Nagant is impressed that Izuku was
able to dodge her shots, saying no one has taken two before. She’s distracted
for a moment by Overhaul muttering where ‘Pops’ the Shia Hassaikai Yakuza’s
boss is. Nagant says that she will once this is over and sticks Chie into a
building to hide him for now. She mutters that maybe she should have ditched
him before. We flashback to the prison break where she helps the armless man
escape. AFO finds them and the Demon King greets her. She admits that until
recently he was her main target. He asks her to bring Izuku to AFO, advising
her to take Izuku when he’s alone. She asks why her freedom comes with a price.
AFO says it’s because she isn’t like the others, she’s a hero that killed an
ally, and that she also desires the destruction of Hero Society. Overhaul draws
attention to himself by saying Pops. He asks if they’re friends, but Nagant
says that something is broken in him. AFO hires her for the job and gives her a
second Quirk as an advanced payment. We see what it is in the present, Nagant
leaps into the air and bounces through the sky on her toes, the quirk is Air
Walk. She mutters that she has a mission to complete as the credits roll.
Well, damn. Things aren’t looking
good with how quickly order is crumbling in Japan. Heroes are stretched thin
battling escaped criminals, rampaging civilians, and civil unrest. And Izuku is
clearly running ragged trying to be bait and still help others. We see a few
shots under his mask, and he’s got deep bags under his eyes and the raggedness
of his costume speaks to how hard he’s been running himself lately. I imagine
that his mom and friends are beside themselves with worry. I do like that we
took a moment with him saving Josei to establish that despite his more
aggressive look he’s still the earnest young man we’ve been following. FYI,
don’t google Ippan Josei without safe search on. Some fans have… thoughts about
this large woman. Lady Nagant is a great antagonist as her combination of
skills will put Izuku’s new suite of powers to the test. She’s efficient,
deadly, skilled, and with her additional Quirk she’s extremely mobile as well.
Her original quirk is really cool and unique as well. Just a sniper rifle arm
and hair she can turn into bullets and she’s one of the deadliest characters
Izuku has gone up against. Her skill basically speaks for itself when she’s
able to hit Izuku when at this point he’s basically Spider-Man with extra bells
and whistles. Do you realize how hard it is to hit Spider-Man? It’s canon that
most of the hits he takes are because he intentionally got hit to protect
someone else. Izuku might not be that dexterous yet, but he’s up there and as
far as we can tell the whole area around him is clear of civilians. So this
lady is an insane shot to hit him on the move just with her eyes. Izuku has got
a massive fight on his hand even if she wasn’t able to more-or-less fly. But
we’ll see how that fight develops next time. Have a good night and stay safe.
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