The villains bounce back insanely well.
Last time on My Hero Academia
the Big Three Stepped up. Realizing that the situation up top was getting out
of hand, Miro Togeta decided to abandon his post of monitoring to ensure no
additional villains got into the UA dome and help fight. He, Nejire, Amajiki
attacked Shigaraki, Nejire throwing her spiral energy at him as a distraction
while Amajiki stung him with a poisonous tentacle. This caused Shigaraki’s body
to mutate further, growing mouths that barfed up the poison. Toga charged him
and got Bakugo away and to Best Jeanist for emergency medical care. Since Toga
is untouchable, he was able to stay in Shigaraki’s face long enough to tell him
that he’s a bad dude because he doesn’t have any friends. This strikes a
surprisingly deep nerve in Shigaraki, briefly awakening the Tenko Shimura
locked deep in his subconscious long enough for him to shout “Nuh-uh!” The rest
of the fight Shigaraki is half distracted as the AFO part of him tries to
figure out why he and Tomura aren’t fully integrated. Toga and Nejire kept him
distracted long enough for Amajiki to use his Vast Hybrid technique to mix a
bunch of animal and plant parts together along with Nejire’s energy to make a
plasma cannon. He fires it at Shigaraki, obliterating his tentacles but not
doing much damage to the main man. He’s actively insulted by this, asking if
they really though that kind of attack could hurt someone with strength comparable
to All Might in his prime. Bakugo, who has recovered but still seems to be a
bit out of it, charges. It’s here that we learn that using his Quirk so much
has basically spread his explosive sweat pores from just his hands to all over
his body, making him even faster. He’s able to hit Shigaraki hard several times
before Shigaraki gets pissed and tries to finish him. Bakugo has a vision of the
All Might Vestige that he has and he tells All Might that he always really did
want his autograph. Shigaraki hits Bakugo in the chest as everyone else tries
to stop him. The explosion sends them all flying. Bakugo hits the ground and
doesn’t move, his heart stopped. Enough Recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?
We begin by checking in on Izuku.
He’s made it a good distance from the Island, but he’s still way out from mainland
Japan and even farther from the floating UA. Shigaraki the Younger manifests to
warn Izuku that he feels that his brother’s Quirks are somehow increasing in number.
Izuku sees something coming at him from a distance.
Jumping back to UA, we see Monama absolutely
stunned at Bakugo’s death. He remembers the last time he faced off against
Bakugo during the 1A and 1B joint training, where Bakugo (correctly) announced
his team would win their capture battle with a perfect score, four captures, no
losses. He begs someone, anyone to save Bakugo, they can’t let it end like
this. Jeanist is over Bakugo’s body and can’t seem to move at all. Mirio is
also stunned, remembering his words about at least being able to hold Shigaraki
off. We look over at Shigaraki who is now also growing eyes on his mutating
left arm. He blames Aizawa for putting this fight on his students and says he’s
disappointed in him. He starts attacking the others with the tentacle fingers
again, and Jeanist frantically tries to do something, anything for Bakugo.
Mirko tries to fight back but gets tangled in the fingers, she screams that she
wishes she’d been able to kill him back at the lab. She bites the finger
tentacle, trying to break free. Shigaraki tells her not to feel bad as a bunch
of heroes failed that day. They jumped the gun and attacked before they were
ready, which lead to losing even more heroes and begin stuck in this predicament.
He says that Izuku had the right idea but also jumped the gun during his
vigilante arc. Izuku realized that you can’t give villains time to scheme and
that’s why he ran himself ragged trying to hold them off. Shigaraki also says
that that plan was doomed as well and he’s sure even Izuku knew it.
We shift focus and return to Kamino
Ward to prove that point about not letting villains prepare. Dabi’s back up, and
he killed the two guards trying to handle him. He says that he’s grateful he
got to fight baby brother first, it gave him a new thing to try. He figured out
how to use Shoto’s Phosphor technique which protected him from the ice blast. Shoto
realized that they’ve been underestimating Dabi this whole time. He’d honed his
Quirk to perfection all to kill Endeavor. Dabi screams at Skeptic for an
update. We see that Skeptic, the computer expert that the League of Villains kind
of kidnapped, had been monitoring things from an implant in the Nomu. He tells ‘Mr.
Daddy Issues’ to cool it for a second while he works. He’d hacked into the satellite
system he’d helped build and confirms that Endeavor is at Gunga Villa. He seems
to have drunk the Kool-Aide that Shigaraki is the one to tear down the hero
system and is throwing himself wholeheartedly into it. We get a look at UA
where the support course folks keeping the barrier up and the building aloft
are getting alerts that they’re being hacked. He decided that if they really
want to break the system, they can’t let anyone who championed it remain. He
starts doing something to the security pods the UA refugees are in.
We cut to the bunker where Shoto’s
family is. They watch some of the preschoolers that Shoto and Bakugo mentored
being troublesome for their teacher and saying that they don’t have to worry
about the villains cuz ‘Five Wienies’ (Shoto’s nickname) will save them. Their
teacher is relieved to hear that. We see that the Todoroki’s are being watched
by the League’s spies.
Back with Endeavor we see what’s
happening to the original AFO. He congradulates them for their work thus far,
saying that they’ve held off his people nicely. But it’s time for that to
change. As, after all, it’s in the nature of Villains to attack and Heroes to
defend. He completes regenerating and for the first time we see AFO’s complete
face. Wasn’t a bad looking fella, bit of silver fox.
We jump back to a few months to
when Garaki was out and experimenting. He explained via tape recorder to AFO
that Shigaraki stole the chemicals that the Shia Hassaikai had been making to
destroy Quirks. With a bit of tinkering, they’d been able to alter the
chemicals to do the opposite. He included the chemical he made along with
instructions with the supplies he left for AFO. This is supposed to be their Hail
Mary play, as the effects of the chemical are irreversible.
In the present, AFO compliments
Endeavor, saying that he thought he thought he’d have to use this final gambit,
but he’d have never guessed Endeavor would be the one to force him to. He
dropped to the ground, reveling in being able to breathe easily and with his
body feeling so light. He grabs a woman hero and starts draining her Quirk. He
also steals her cape, so he doesn’t have to fight in the nude. Hawks charges
him and frees her with his feather sword. AFO’s still in monologue mode, saying
that this version of Rewind he used will continually de-age him. This
effectively gives him regeneration even more potent than Super Regeneration but
has the rather massive negative side effect of it not stopping. He’ll
eventually de-age back into non-existence. But he’s fine with that as he passed
his torch to Tomura Shigaraki. He plans to use the time he has left to free
Tomura and watch the world burn a bit more before he vanishes. Hawks realizes
that AFO is in fact terrified of losing, hence why he used his Hail Mary. Because
Hawks is smart, he tries to burn as much time as possible and asks AFO what the
plan exactly is. AFO shrugs and says that he got the idea from comic books. He
is going to steal OFA, and thus do the scariest thing imaginable, stealing hope
from the world as OFA is the only thing that could stand against him.
We jump to the US. Outside we see
the remnants of a protest with a sign reading “We are All Might” and some
trash. General Ackbar is trying to convince the president to send aide to Japan
now and stop AFO before things get bad. The President disagrees, pointing out the
US is in trouble right now do to the sudden death of Star and Stripe. Their
research has shown that Tomura is already beyond anything they could match. The
president reveals that other nations are strategizing ways to appease Shigaraki
once he’s conquered Japan. Ackbar is disgusted by this, saying that if they don’t
strike now, no chance strike back will come. Ackbar coughs hard and then goes
for something in his pocket. The Secret Service pulls their guns on him, but he
was just pulling out the picture he had of young Star with All Might and David
Shield. He begs the president to not give up on Star’s legacy. Heroes are
supposed to support and set the stage for those who come after.
We return to UA where Jeanist is
working frantically to bring Bakugo back. Edgeshot joins him and offers his help.
He says that as the Ninja hero, there’s no place he can’t infiltrate. He
reduces his body to super thin filaments and follows Jeanist’s threads into Bakugo’s
chest. He shouts at Mirko to unleash the beast on Shigaraki, to ‘tear him apart
with your teeth if you must!’ Edgeshot says that he won’t accept defeat,
he’ll replace what’s damaged and bring him back anyway he can. Jeanist tells
him that there’ll be no coming back from that, and Edgeshot shrugs and says he’ll
just leave what’s left up to Jeanist. We get a flashback and learn that these
two were classmates at UA, Jeanist was their club president. He says that if he
must, he’ll become this child’s heart. He uses a bubble from the Hero wash to sterilize
himself before beginning the operation. He goes in and sees that Jeanist has closed
a lot of the wounds back hasn’t stopped the bleeding. He works quickly, trying
to seal up the damage as well as give Bakugo CPR from the inside. Present Mic’s
narration tells us that this is putting an intense strain on Edgeshot and that
he’s killing himself to try to bring Bakugo back. He mentally tells Jeanist and
Mirko not to give up and stop Shigaraki. He’s injured; this is their best
chance to strike. He also screams at Bakugo to live damn it.
Shigaraki comes over to gloat,
saying that Bakugo is dead and there is nothing they can do. We get a weird
mental flash where he remembers saying that he should get to destroy whatever
he wants. He remembers his mother and his abusive father. We then see a burnt
and broken Shigaraki saying that he ‘has to stop this itching.’ In the present Shigaraki
says he already finished the job! He tries to strike Jeanist with his tentacle.
Mirko breaks free and tries to strike him, but gets caught again. Shigaraki
arrogantly asks if she’s really that ready to die. Mirko rips herself free, leaving
her right arm behind this time, and kicks him. This woman is too quick to lose
limbs. This doesn’t seem to affect Shigaraki that much… but he still staggers.
He’s confused by this as his perfect body shouldn’t do stuff like that. He
thinks that maybe the damage is building up, that they’ve hit him with weak
attacks over and over again and it’s starting to accumulate. He then realizes that
he was afraid of Bakugo when he started unleashing earlier, and is infuriated
that we was afraid of a background extra. Jeanist closes Mirko’s wound and she
charges like a ranging bear. Shigaraki goes to attack, but Mirio leaps up and
covers his eyes. Mirko shrieks that he better keep his eyes on her, she’ll keep
fighting until it’s her time to die, and she’s got too much to do to just die
right now. She says that when she leaves this world it’ll be without regrets.
She pummels Shigaraki with her one good leg and her bladed prosthetic and actually
hurts him. The attack was enough to get the Big Three and Jeanist free and
ready to strike. We flash into Tenko in the mindscape again. The hands that
have been encircling him this entire time have pulled back. He says that even
after he disintegrated his family, he wasn’t broken at that point. No, the
thing that broke him was that no one ever reached their hand out to him to try
to help.
Outside, Present Mic explains that Tomura’s
new body is constantly mutating to try to find the optimal form. Initially, it
looked like that might be a bloated mass of finger tentacles. But the heroes
overcame that and so his body is trying something else. Aizawa’s Erasure is
keeping him from accessing his Quirks, so its trying for a new optimal form.
This being hand… armor. Like, he’s grown a bunch of hands all over his body
that have shaped into an armored mask, breastplate and so on. Dude is obsessed.
Mirko says she’s had enough of him and charges, but Tomura smacks her aside. He
quickly overwhelms Amajiki and Nejire as well. Mirio is still standing, but Shigaraki
says that he’s not worth wasting time on. Mirio is devastated to think that he’s
this level of useless on his own. Shigaraki says that Jeanist doesn’t get to
fix what he broke. Jeanist tries to tangle him in threads and Mirio tries to
grab him, but they’re knocked aside as he charges. Mirio is panicking at this
point, everyone else is down, he’s doesn’t have an attack that can work, and
Jeanist is in the line of fire. He remembers Sir Nighteye using his Quirk on
him and saying that Mirio would become the finest hero ever. Nighteye’s power
is supposed to be a nearly perfect prediction, so he can’t believe this is what
Nighteye saw. They get told by Mandela via telepathy that she’s dropping the
barrier for two seconds. Mirio really panics, trying to think of something,
anything to keep Shigaraki distracted. He settles on Nighteye telling him to
use Joy and laughter to balance he sorrow. He dives into the ground and comes
out in front of Shigaraki. He shouts “Hey, you! Got a peach for ya!” while
flexing his ass cheeks. The sheer insanity of that move stops him long enough
for Shigaraki to look back and see Izuku sling shotting himself at him. And
that’s where the episode ends. Damn it.
I want to start off by saying that
Mirko is far, far, far too willing to lose her limbs. This woman is down
3 from the last few months. And yet she will not stop! Even in animated form
seeing her lose another limb made me feel a bit queasy. Shigaraki’s mutations
are getting nutty. The eye on his body made me think of that Resident Evil 2
scientist dude after he mutated. I kind of thought he might be exaggerating a
bit about being as strong as All Might at his peak, but damn it if he’s not
proving it with how much he’s humiliating the heroes. They’ve been fighting
tooth and nail for a while now and they’ve barely damaged him at all. Using
Bakugo’s death and attempted resurrection in this fight is a neat idea. Like,
think about it, Shigaraki has nothing to gain by killing Bakugo at this point.
He can just fight the heroes, potentially break out of the barrier with his
immense strength alone. But no, he’s wasting time trying to kill this one teenager
because he said Bakugo is dead and no one is allowed to contradict him.
Which makes Edgeshot’s attempt to bring him back that much bigger of a screw
you. Was Mirio flashing his ass to stop Shigaraki stupid? Yes. Was it in
character? Also, yes. Did it make me laugh? Hell yes. And now Izuku’s here, so
the fighting is going to shift into high gear. Shame about those other big
negatives coming their way, with AFO on his way in a youthful, powerful body,
and Dabi on the rampage again and now with a new ability to protect him. It’s
like one step forward, two back. Hopefully they’ll make some progress next
time, but we’ll have to wait and see. Have a good night, stay safe.
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