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Bubble Girl Is New Best Girl – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 24 and 25 (Finale) Review

Bubble Girl Is New Best Girl – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 24 and 25

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 24 & 25.

Doubling up episodes for this review, eh? Pretty much. I was late to getting to the episode 24 review so I figured I’d lump it together with 25—they’re very connected anyway so it works well enough!

Fair enough, so what happens in this—ahem, these episodes? Basically Midoriya and Bakugo are under “house arrest” for the fight in Episode 23 and are stuck doing chores—after Midoriya is released from the chores a day early (due to the fact that Bakugo incited the fight) we get a 1 and half episode long tease for what’s basically going to comprise a fair chunk of season 4. We learn the first year students will be doing ‘Hero Work Studies’ which is kind of like an on the job-apprenticeship just with hero work. We’re also introduced to the “Big Three” the top 3 students of UA who are all third year students.

More characters huh? For some reason I’d never even thought of the first years as having upperclassmen but of course they do, it’s a high school like any other. I’m surprised it took this long to actually meet some of them but at the same time glad as like you inferred this show has a lot of characters.

Are they any good? I enjoyed what little we saw of them—or in the case of Mirio, the whole ~lot~ we saw of him. We don’t get a sense of what the other two characters’ quirks are but Mirio has a very interesting power called ‘Permeate’ which as the name suggests allows all matter to pass through him—which as you can imagine makes him very over-powered. As a demonstration he takes on the whole of class 1-A—and they lose!

Sounds kind of unbalanced to have such an unbeatable hero? Maybe, but I do like that they made him somewhat down-to-earth and showed that he wasn’t just gifted these abilities and was able to use them ‘straight out of the box’ so to speak but that he had to work hard to hone his powers into something usable. I won’t go into detail because the show does a much better job at visualising and explaining his abilities and shortcomings but I enjoyed his whole deal. Also I’m glad there’s a girl in the Top 3, this show too often neglects women heroes but I’m just hoping her power isn’t some passive ‘support’ ability like so many of the other women are lumped with.

I suppose I could just ‘Google’ her power, but where’s the fun in that?

Uh-huh, I’ll stop you there before you start that old rant again. So what were your favourite things about the final two episodes of the third season? My favourite thing about episode 24 is the first half of the episode, which was almost like a noir-esque monologue from villain ‘Twice’—that fleshed out his backstory and was really moody and serious and different from anything we’ve seen from this show. I’d like more of this kind of thing going forward for sure!

Twice is kind of cooler *without* his mask on.

And the finale? Episode 25 gave us a brief glimpse of what will be coming, not just with the ‘Hero Work Studies’ but also the league of villains preparing something big and that someone belonging to the ‘good guys’ has apparently infiltrated their gang. It was a little bit vague but I liked the mystery of it all—also they briefly (like all of 20 seconds) introduced a brand new character who’s ~totally~ my new best girl—well, if her looks are anything to go off of!

Yeah, and who’s that? Her name’s Bubble Girl and she’s hot as heck!

Should’ve figured it’d be a superficial decision… Hey, I said I only had her looks to go off, didn’t I?!

Wait. She only appears for twenty seconds or so and you named the entire review after her?! Yep. I’m a simple man who knows what he likes.

Moving on, so what did you think of the final two episode of Season 3 of My Hero Academia? Full of interest and promise—which is kind of all you can expect for a finale of something ongoing and long-running. Not to go too much into my full thoughts on the season (as I’ll save that for the QandA Rundown) but I was getting a little bit tired of the testing stuff in this season so hopefully next season opens the world up a little bit more as was promised in the early part of season 3. I’m glad the final two episodes have left me wanting more as I do genuinely love this show and the characters—just hoping for a bit more development and intrigue next time!

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The Biggest Villain Is Toxic Masculinity – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 23 Review

The Biggest Villain Is Toxic Masculinity – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 23

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 23.

So, uh, you kinda weren’t too keen on what this episode was going to be about when they teased it last week? Did it live up to your lack of expectations? As much as I hate to admit it… they kinda pulled it off—even with all my preconceived annoyance at the idea of Midoriya and Bakugo “needing” to fight. But that’s a big italicised and underlined kinda… because it’s still all absolutely unnecessary.

Wait, so you say the “pulled it off” but it was also “unnecessary”? How does that work? Well in the direct context of the show I bought it, plus it was well-written enough that I understood the intentions even if I absolutely hate the ~idea~ of it—I still do hate the idea mind you, I’ve just made my peace with it because of the aforementioned ‘positives’ of the episode.

Okay, I think you’re going to need to explain your problems with them having a fight seeing as you glossed over it last week as you pre-empted this week’s potential for a rant. I don’t like the idea that men have to fight each other in order to come to terms with things they’re feeling but can’t verbalise, it’s all under that delightful ‘toxic masculinity’ umbrella that irritates me so. I hate that we have a culture that celebrates being “tough” and negates the benefits of actually speaking about your problems and so whenever characters who are in all respects ‘allies’ and not ‘enemies’ decide that whatever ~problem~ has come between them needs to be resolved with fists instead of words I die a little inside. This is a problem as old as time itself, and perpetuating these negative “masculine” stereotypes is just wrong.

Makes sense I suppose, so I take it this episode at least gave a good enough reason for them to be fighting? Not really, it tried. I mean I ~love~ that Midoriya is open enough with his feelings that he only wants to talk about it, I’m so glad he’s the protagonist and not Bakugo. But Bakugo, ugh… I don’t hate him… but I absolutely pity him. I pity his irrational, violent sensibilities that make him so emotionally inert to any kind of reactions aside from insulting people and wanting to punch things. It’d be funny if there weren’t innocent people suffering at the hands of ignorant people like this in the real world.

Bringing it around to “reality” huh? Sure that’s wise, I mean we’re talking about a superhero anime here… Doesn’t change the fact that Midoriya and Bakugo are in a relationship—and calm down ‘shippers I don’t mean like that. You don’t have to be dating or sleeping with someone to be in an abusive relationship and that’s what it felt like Midoriya was having to deal with here—a “partner” who can’t express themselves verbally so they have to lash out with violence instead.

Do things at least get resolved by the end of the episode between the two? Kind of but not really, after their fight—which Midoriya loses by the way (make of that what you will)—All Might steps in to allay Bakugo’s insecurities and guilt, you know the reason Bakugo’s apparently been acting this way. Which I think is kinda bullshit because the many flashbacks show that he’s always been a dick to Midoriya so all his recent ‘hang-ups’ seem more like an excuse than anything. But as I said it’s still well written and well voice acted and I wasn’t bored at anytime during the episode so there’s that at least. I’m glad this mini-arc is over and we can hopefully get some interesting plot in before the end of the season!

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Spoiling For A Fight – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 22 Review

Spoiling For A Fight – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 22

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 22.

So what happens in this episode? Maybe this’ll be a controversial opinion—I mean it will if the number of tweets about it are any indication towards its popularity—but I really couldn’t care less about Midoriya and Bakugo having a proverbial pissing contest over which of them is stronger and who’s deserving of what…

So I take it that’s what this episode is about? Well, not as such, I’m jumping ahead as I often do. That’s the end of the episode, setting up for what will no doubt take precedence in the next episode.

Okay, well before you decide to annoy everyone with a rant how about you talk about the rest of the episode first, yeah? Sure. So the provisional licensing exams are over and we get the results, three people that we know of failed. Them being Todoroki and the windy guy from the other school because of their stupid rivalry and of course Bakugo for just generally being angry and unpleasant while trying to save people. Of course the consequences of these “failures” is pretty minor seeing as they’re able to take a 3 month makeup course to get their licenses anyway, so it’s really just a minor setback for those guys.

Is he attempting ‘goatse’? (Kids if you don’t know what that is *please* don’t google it).

I see, then what happens? Well Midoriya tries to find sexy shape-shifting girl Utsushimi from the other school but turns out she went home early also turns out that she was ~actually~ female villain Himiko in disguise! She was there to attain a sample of Midoriya’s blood, which she evidently succeeded in doing. Hopefully Utsushimi is okay! But surprisingly it’s All Might who was arguably the most interesting scene of the episode as he goes to Tartarus prison to visit All For One who is imprisoned there under ludicrously strict precautions. I feel like is this was set in actual Japan and not MHA Japan they’d have just given him the death penalty by now.

Oh? What’s so good about this scene? It’s hard to put my finger on it—I mean not a lot of new or vital information is imparted but it just felt so different from everything we’d seen before. Plus All For One being all immobile in his cell but still managing to be intimidating as heck is very cool—he’s got a Hannibal Lecter vibe and I totally dig that!

And I’m guessing after that we get to the thing you don’t care about and probably want to rant about? Listen, the next episode is going to be all about these two beating the crap out of each other because of fragile male egos or some such nonsense and I’ll save my rant for then, nobody needs to read the same complaints twice. Let’s just say leave it at, ‘I don’t care about the issues these two characters have with each other and Bakugo is a big dumb baby.’

Oooh~ I can just feel the hate radiating from a thousand keyboards around the world reading those words of yours! A thousand?! That’s very optimistic, more like ten.

So final thoughts on the episode? Glad the licensing exam is over—not glad we have to deal with Midoriya and Bakugo’s ~issues~, hopefully we can get to something more interesting before the season is done!

This moment was pretty cute though. He was so excited!

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Never Meet Your Heroes – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 21 Review

Never Meet Your Heroes – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 21

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 21.

So what happens in this episode? We’re back to our regularly scheduled licensing exam after last week’s diversion into ‘Anime Original/Movie Tie-In Episode’ and boy does this episode sure…

Sure what? Kinda bore me a little… it’s like it took me this long to realise the folly of watching a long-running Shonen series week-to-week, or at least reviewing it. I should retract what I said, it didn’t bore to watch it, it was fine, good, even with moments of greatness but as I was trying to recall the events to write this review I was left scratching my head about what exactly made it worth talking about. Suffice to say future seasons of this show and indeed most, if not all shonen-genre shows coming up (like Fairy Tail) won’t be reviewed week-to-week on the site anymore.

That’s probably for the best, the view counts for these reviews were the lowest of any show you reviewed this season… Don’t bring that up, jeez!

So how’s the episode itself, what happens? Todoroki and the windy guy from the other school have an argument when they’re meant to be rescuing people, turns out Todoroki’s dad, Endeavour, was a dick to this guy when he was a kid—also during the entrance exams for UA High Todoroki was apparently a dick too. And here’s the thing, this was all well-written and well-acted and had drama and ego and depth and I just didn’t really care at all.

Any particular reason why? You know the reason.

Oh shit, he’s going to bring up the— They are underutilising the female heroes on this show damn it! Like I adore this series, I really do, the irlwaifu even bought me a Froppy hoodie which I love so much—but man it pisses me off to see such wasted potential, like stop introducing more macho male characters who are super powerful and instead focus on the actually interesting women you’ve chosen to sideline at every opportunity! It’s gotten so bad that I feel like I can’t even watch the show without getting angry, and I don’t want that! Like I can deal with them focusing on Midoriya and Todoroki and Bakugo and Tenya and All Might, but then to bring in more male characters and give them screen-time, it’s infuriating!

Yes, you female heroes look after the children while the *men* do all the fighting.

All right, settle down, you’ve had your rant, can we move on? Sure sure, whatever. So Todoroki and windy guy get yelled at by Midoriya for bickering when they’re meant to be working together which shames them enough to put their differences aside and help Midoriya defeat Gang Orca. Just as it looks like he’s about to win, the timer runs out and the exam is over and the episode ends with the cliff hanger over who passed and who didn’t.

I really didn’t care for Gang Orca either.

Your hearts not in it anymore is it? Sad to say but not really, I was almost going to just stop reviewing this show all together and try and just enjoy it without the added layer of analysis that having to write a review for it does but I figure I owe it to the nine people who still read these reviews week-to-week. I don’t hate this show, I could never hate this show—it gave me Froppy after all—but yeah, don’t expect long and incisive reviews for the remainder of the episodes this season, sorry!

Froppy learnt a new ability! And the show devoted all of 30 seconds to that, thanks again My Hero Academia! /sarcasm

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Midnight Robbery – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 20 Review

Midnight Robbery – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 20

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 20.

So what happens in this episode? It’s advertised as an ‘anime original’ episode, i.e. not based on something from the manga—though what that really means (at least in this case) is that they wanted to air something that acts as a tie-in to the movie as well as not-so-subtle cross promotion.

Oh, so does that mean it’s kind of half-assed? I wouldn’t go that far, the production values are the same as a normal episode—besides it does actually have an ‘original’ tale to tell that’s separate from the movie prologue and advertising book-ends.

Okay then, so what’s the plot of the “original tale”? Well it takes place before the Summer camp stuff that started the 3^rd season and involves Midoriya, Bakugo, Tenya, Todoroki, Ochako and Froppy take part in a special ‘test’ where they have to respond to a ‘fake’ jewellery robbery/hostage situation and find a way to resolve it. But it’s a lot more complicated than it first seems as the villain (played by All Might in a villain costume) ends up dead as they enter the crime scene and then the heroes in training have to work out ‘whodunnit’.

And is it good? It’s a surprising amount of low-key fun—even if it doesn’t add anything of real importance to the narrative. Midoriya kinda hogs the episode though which is a bit annoying, I would’ve liked more for Froppy to do but as usual the female characters are underutilised even in this ‘anime original’ where they could have done whatever they wanted.

I think Ochako is trapped in a glass box.

I’m going to divert your train of thought from that impending rant and return to where you said it was “fun”, let’s roll with that instead, yeah? It’s fun seeing All Might and some of the other teachers play ‘dress-up’ for this mock robbery, there’s some good humour and character moments. I’d say All Might comes off the best out of this special which makes sense as the movie is about his past and so giving him a bit more material from before he was ‘taken down’ by All For One feels like a bit of necessary fan service—sort of like a last-hurrah for how he used to be.

And you mentioned something about a ‘prologue’ to the movies and advertorial bookends? Yeah so the episode starts with All Might and Midoriya addressing the audience directly about how this is a special episode and then ends with them doing the same except plugging the movie and thanking everyone in that endearing and distinctly Japanese way, it’s kind of adorable even if it just a way to get people to pay $20 for something they could more or less see on TV for free. The movie prologue is very brief and basically just sets up that All Might used to have an American sidekick back in his ‘glory days’ and his daughter wants them all to catch-up on I-Island, a sort of technological hero-based utopia. And of course All Might is taking Midoriya with him which makes sense if Midoriya is going to end up as his replacement as the ‘Symbol of Peace’.

I wonder what his quirk is and if it has anything to do with his last name…

I guess the real question is, did it work at wanting you to see the movie? Oh I was planning on seeing the movie as soon as it was announced! I seldom miss an opportunity to see an anime I like on the big-screen (unless it’s a dumb recap movie). I saw Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry at the cinema, as well as No Game No Life Zero and I’ll be doing the same for My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. But if you’re asking if this episode made the movie more interesting or appealing… eh, I guess I know there’s a new cute girl in the form of Melissa Shield so that’s good! Other than that, not really. Am I annoyed that this episode interrupted an arc mid-way through to sell a movie? No, it was entertaining enough in it’s own way. But is it essential to watch this episode? Not really.

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Research and Rescue – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 19 Review

Research and Rescue – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 19

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 19.

So more hero license training? You know it!

And is it a good episode? Mostly so. It’s got quite a few good jokes—even Mineta who’s usually a chore isn’t too bad here. The biggest problem I had with this episode is the stakes—usually something this show does well, didn’t feel quite as high here.

And why do you think that is? Well this part of the licencing exam requires the hundred heroes who passed the previous assessment to rescue actors who are playing trapped and injured bystanders around several different disaster sites and I mean kudos to the show for the idea of making the people being rescued the ones scoring the students but there just doesn’t feel like much emotional or physical stakes in practicing rescuing people.

So real rescues would have been better? Assuredly, impractical of course—you can’t just wait around for a disaster to happen to rescue people, but I don’t know, as interesting as it was to see the different heroes using their different abilities to rescue people the whole time I couldn’t think about how much more compelling this would be if these were real rescues, with real lives on the line. This kinda felt like the stuff these kids should’ve been doing in season 1 or 2 not here at the tail end of season 3.

Anything else you wanted to talk about? Another slight annoyance, I was ~actually~ getting invested in Ochako’s blooming feelings for Midoriya and I thought having Utsushimi being a sort of love rival would spur her on to confess how she really feels but instead Ochako decides to push her feelings down and concentrate on being the best hero… Lame! I don’t want that! I want to see those two dating already!

Do you think they’re setting it up so it can become a plot line later? I get the feeling it’s going to be a long time before any romance happens—the best we can hope for is some of the other Class 1-A students start pairing up and maybe that creates the catalyst for Midoriya and Ochako to start a relationship!

Ochako just wants the D… by which I mean Deku, of course! Minds out of the gutter!

So what’d you think of the episode overall? It’s an entertaining 25 minutes that lacks any substantial threat—even the introduction of Gang Orca to ‘act’ as villains to fight against, making the rescues more difficult kinda felt weak. But hopefully it will improve—though we have to wait an extra week as next week’s episode is unrelated to the main plot and is an “anime original”—no doubt to tie into the release of the theatrical film.

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Navel Gazing – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 18 Review

Navel Gazing – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 18

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 18.

So what happens in this episode? Does the licensing exam finally finish? What kind of show do you think this is, son? Part one of it comes to an end but there’s still another whole part of the exam! This is shonen anime, son!

Stop calling me “son”. Sorry…

Okay so do our intrepid Class 1-A students pass? Unfortunately, yes.

Almost like there was no real threat to them passing at all!

Wait, what do you mean “unfortunately”? Aren’t you supposed to be rooting for them? I don’t like shows where everyone on the main cast succeeds; it eliminated a lot of the tension from the narratives, and for a narrative that’s already pretty low-stakes (this is an exam after all—nobody is in any real mortal danger) that’s kind of irritating.

So you wish some of them failed? I’m not asking for a massive culling, just one or two here and there. At the very least it’d make it more believable. Though there is still another part of the exam before anyone’s ~actually~ qualified so I’ll save my real belly-aching for then—assuming it’s a repeat performance of this outcome.

Is there at least some good action and character moments to be had? The action is good, nothing remarkable, same kind of goes for the character development—but then again this episode focuses a lot on characters I sort of don’t care about that much so that’s to be expected.

Oh do tell! Well it’s no secret I’m not the biggest fan of Bakugo, they attempt to soften him here ever so-slightly and whatever—I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who loved the little interaction between him and Midoriya but I still don’t like the angry hot-head. It’s going to take a lot more than just not shouting for once to reform a bully.

I bet this got some shippers happy, did nothing for me though.

Who else? I had to look up his name, that oughta show you how much I don’t care about the guy, but Aoyama a.k.a flamboyant boy who shoots lasers out of his belly button proves again how much low-teir hero he is. And the show tries… something I’m not quite sure what that 5 second flashback to his childhood actually achieved but somehow I feel he belongs in Class 1-A less than Mineta and that’s saying something. I mean Mineta actually competently traps opponents in this episode whereas Aoyama just gives up, fires his navel laser into the sky and inadvertently becomes a beacon for the other 1-A heroes to rush in and help him and Tenya. I’m not saying he’s completely without utility as a support hero maybe, but he absolutely does not deserve to be in Class 1-A.

Not sure if it was the intent but I was laughing my ass of at this.

Harsh. So overall what did you think of the episode? It’s probably one of the weaker episodes from this season—especially after last week. I think the next test, which revolves around saving people could be interesting but I’m just hoping it’s not too drawn out or at the very least gives us some good character development thrown in!

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Girl Powered – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 17 Review

Girl Powered – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 17

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 17.

The provisional licensing arc continues? Yes, and you can stop asking that, I have a feeling it will continue up until the end of the season—or close to it at least!

But it’s still exciting, isn’t it? Indeed. The stakes might not be life or death but it still makes for some interesting, dramatic and entertaining anime—and this episode is certainly no exception.

Right. So what happens in this episode? You know how a lot of the season I’ve been complaining that the female characters in this show are underutilised?

I barely noticed… Haha. But yes, I have made that a frequent issue of contention regarding this series, well thankfully this episode not only puts Yaoyorozu in the spotlight but she’s also going up against a group of ~moderately interesting~ female heroes from another school, so it’s like, double girl power!

You can tell she’s “evil” coz of the monocle.

Bet that made you happy. Eh, yes and no. While the scenes with Yaoyorozu, Froppy, Jiro and Shoji are a lot of fun, surprisingly tense and demonstrate Yaoyorozu’s calm under pressure, ingenuity and all around aptitude at being a pro hero it felt like the show was eager to have any chance to cut back to the action with any of the three main guys. Like I know I shouldn’t expect for them to spend the entire episode with her but it seemed like they were so intent on having scenes with Midoriya and Todoroki and Bakugo that it short-changed and kinda almost robbed Yaoyorozu of her chance in the sun.

I think you’re just being greedy but then again what do I know, you’re the one who watched it! Also, while I understand why the Yaoyorozu’s main opponent was chosen (the ringleader is a hero from Seiai Academy who has the power of an increasing IQ when she drinks tea). I kinda wish it wasn’t just a battle of wits, I’d like to see the girls get involved in actual physical fights, I don’t like that the majority of the female heroes have either passive or defensive abilities—but again that’s more of a problem with Shonen anime in general, rather than something that’s exclusively wrong with this show.

I feel like this girl has meme potential.

Sounds like you just like to complain a lot. As I’ve said before, the better a show is the more I seek to improve it. I wouldn’t be nearly as critical of this show if it didn’t have an endearing cast of characters and cool set-up, not to mention consistently excellent action!

I guess that makes sense? Meanwhile Todoroki wins his battle, Midoriya and Ochako continue to outrun where they can while Bakugo, Kaminari and Kirishima battle a guy called Seiji Shishikura who turns his opponents into blobs of living flesh like Mitty from Made In Abyss. I’m not particularly interested in this battle, mostly because Bakugo is consistently my least favourite (of the main cast) but whatever it makes for an interesting enough place to end the episode.

So is this a good episode or what? Hard to tell with all your whining… It’s the usual consistently good My Hero Academia episode with the usual consistently minor but nonetheless present gripes. I’m happy a female hero got a chance to step-up and be the hero and I like reinforcing the idea of Class 1A fighting to help out each other rather than being lone-wolf heroes. All in all not much else to say! Happy to be watching it, enjoying it heaps but always room for improvement here and there.

The cold made Froppy a little worse for wear but she’s still contributing!

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The Most Glamorous Hero – ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 16 Review

The Most Glamorous Hero – An Anime QandA Review of ‘My Hero Academia 3rd Season’ Episode 16

What’s the show? My Hero Academia 3rd Season, Episode 16.

The hero licensing arc continues? Indeed! And somehow things just keep getting better—I say “somehow” but I mean of course they are—last episode was just a prelude, a taste, a whiff now we’re offered the delicious entrée!

That good, huh? Never underestimate the importance of adding new and interesting heroes to the mix! And the fact that these aren’t villains they’re versing but rivals—practically colleagues—makes it all the more interesting and rich, it’s like the Sports Carnival arc all over again except without those pesky things like personal friendships getting in the way of defeating one-another!

Right… so what kind of epic match-ups do we get here? Well the most ‘impressive’ of the battles—if you want to call it that—is Shiketsu High’s Yoarashi who uses his whirlwind quirk to take out 120(!) other students all in one fell swoop! It’s as impressive as it is ridiculous, but it’s not without explanation of course as he is the most powerful student out of every student in Japan (if we’re basing power levels solely on how well a student scored on an entrance exam—he was number one).

He’s ridiculously strong. I’m worried for our heroes!

Wow, that’s quite an achievement! Indeed, but it’s another Shiketsu High student that steals the show—at least in my humble opinion; that being Utsushimi.

Oh yeah? What’s so good about her? Well, as my irlwaifu said within a couple of seconds of her character being on-screen “I’d f**k the shit out of her”.

*spit take* Excuse me?! I’d expect that kind of crude remark from you but your missus said that?! Hey, I was surprised too! But ignoring her physical appearance for just a second Utsushimi’s ‘Glamour’ quirk allows her to create illusions, which in this episode she uses to evade all of Midoriya’s physical attacks by seemingly ‘teleporting’ around him then in a particularly inspired move makes herself to look exactly like Ochako almost getting the drop on him before escaping, having rattled Midoriya considerably.

She *almost* got the jump on him. But she can get the “jump” on me any day…

Uh-huh… What? You still bothered about what the irlwaifu said?

No. Uh… well maybe a little… it was just unexpected that’s all. So what else happens? Well elsewhere on the battlefield Todoroki is confronted by ten colour-coded ninja looking fools who bombard him with their complimentary quirks but he manages to hold them off pretty well and then the episode ends.

This guy continues to be hilarious though, so glad he’s ‘commentating’ the exam!

Oh, bit sudden is it? Kind of, but there’s so much action that happens in this episode that it’s understandable that they couldn’t exactly manufacture a cliffhanger just so the episode can end on something noteworthy. All-in-all I’m very happy with this episode, though the continuing complaint remains, that this show really needs to give more screen-time to its female cast—at this point they feel worse than secondary to the male heroes and while I know that’s a problem inherent with the genre itself I think it’s something that could be so easily rectified. That will always be my issue with this series and I’ll probably continue to bring it up until it’s not.

I prefer her leather outfit but this is good too!

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