What?! “I thought MHA was delayed this week”, you say. Well fear not! We have last week’s MHA review to hold you over (never mind that I was going to do a double header and rugby messed up my plan).
You could be forgiven for skipping this episode – this is an establishment of premise episode: showcasing Sir Nighteye’s Quirk and Mirio’s place in all this. There’s an attempt to show the difficulty of getting work-studies, which falls a bit flat (why is a teacher just hanging out with the students? That would 100% not happen).
Midoriya basically fails his task, but demonstrates his love for All-Might’s….merch, which carries him through, I guess? I do really enjoy seeing Midoriya’s All-Might superfan come out, and his working to understand Sir’s Quirk on the fly was well done. It was a decent fight, but the stakes were so low and the outcome predetermined, so it lacked any real bite.
I tend to think we’ll be getting the story moving along next week, so this week felt a bit of a chore – yes, we need to establish all this setup to get to the real juicy bits. It’s like eating the salad of this season – let’s get to the steak! Especially since we had to wait an extra week for it!
