Hey y'all! Join us as we discuss the My Hero Academia episode "School Festival Start!!", including violent pretty girls, sharpie eyeliner, and a Science Corner about La Brava's Quirk. Want more? Visit our website, myheroanalysis.com. Thanks for listening!
[00:00:00] Hey y'all, this podcast contains cursing, references to alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs, and thirsty comments about adult characters. Thanks for listening!
[00:00:22] Hey y'all, this is My Hero Analysis, a podcast about My Hero Academia, aka Boku no Hero Academia. We are three grown adults who mind Japanese children's cartoons for serotonin because God knows our brains aren't making it naturally, thanks to capitalism.
[00:00:40] Mhmm, mhmm. What up y'all? I'm Fern and I fly to North Carolina tomorrow!
[00:00:46] Yay!
[00:00:48] Exciting!
[00:00:49] At like, ass o'clock in the morning, but I don't care because I can't wait to see y'all and hug you and cook for you and just hang out.
[00:00:56] I can't wait to eat food.
[00:00:59] Hell yeah.
[00:01:00] I don't cook for myself, listeners. It's a problem.
[00:01:04] I'm Nicole. I'm finally caught up on all of season seven, and it was very good, so good. I have too many emotions.
[00:01:12] And also we're seeing the fourth movie this weekend, and I'm going to have too many emotions again.
[00:01:19] But also, I am currently too tired to even...
[00:01:22] Emote?
[00:01:23] ...about them.
[00:01:25] Mhmm.
[00:01:25] Hey y'all, it's Maria. I am alive and well, and doing these notes day of as per usual.
[00:01:33] Um, life is hard, but I'm excited to see Fern tomorrow. Also Nicole, I need your address please and thank you.
[00:01:39] Okay, I'll send it now.
[00:01:41] Because I will forget.
[00:01:43] I will also forget. We're so great at planning.
[00:01:45] Which is why I am reminding myself to remind you to send me your address.
[00:01:50] Okay, I am sending it now.
[00:01:53] This is what happens when everyone in the chat has ADHD.
[00:01:56] Yes.
[00:01:56] You have to do it now or it won't happen.
[00:02:00] Yup. Yup.
[00:02:02] Alright, well while Nicole is doing that, Maria, do you have a recording snack today?
[00:02:07] I do. I am eating Pocky sticks and drinking squirt.
[00:02:11] Ooh, what kind of Pocky?
[00:02:13] They're the cookies and cream one. They're Halloween themed.
[00:02:16] Yum.
[00:02:17] Ugh.
[00:02:18] Oh my god.
[00:02:20] Best.
[00:02:20] I'm so hungry now.
[00:02:21] They are the best.
[00:02:22] I am also hungry, so I'm going to put in an order for food because I can't cook since I am coming to visit.
[00:02:27] Hell yeah.
[00:02:28] Alright, well we don't have any fan mail. Do we have any news?
[00:02:32] Why does nobody love us?
[00:02:34] Just kidding.
[00:02:37] Okay.
[00:02:37] You know, I don't think I've ever checked the spam folder before.
[00:02:41] Imagine if we have like a hundred emails in there. Sorry y'all.
[00:02:44] I mean we don't, but...
[00:02:45] I know.
[00:02:46] I need to go check that.
[00:02:48] Eh.
[00:02:49] Well, it's not really news.
[00:02:51] Like we already knew that we were going to have a season eight.
[00:02:55] But it has now officially been announced and it is confirmed for 2025 and it is confirmed as the final season now that the finale of season seven has aired.
[00:03:07] Mm-hmm.
[00:03:08] Currently, season seven just ended in the Japanese sub.
[00:03:13] So for any folks watching in English, I'm not sorry for spoiling that. It's not really a spoiler.
[00:03:20] All right.
[00:03:22] All right.
[00:03:23] So what I'm hearing is that when this podcast ends in four years, you and I are going to start on the Bob's Burgers podcast, right?
[00:03:30] And just kind of pretend that the other podcast we had planned is going to get to eventually.
[00:03:35] We'll get to it eventually. We have time. We're not dying yet.
[00:03:39] We have so much time.
[00:03:41] Oh, but oh, I can't imagine this podcast going for another four years. Amazing. Love it. Time is wild.
[00:03:48] We're going to force us to do it if it kills us.
[00:03:51] Yes. It's our hobby.
[00:03:54] I'm just gonna like probably finish and catch up all of these episodes after this because I feel like I should probably know what's going on before the movie.
[00:04:05] Yeah, it'll help.
[00:04:07] Yeah, it'll it'll help. You don't have to be all the way caught up.
[00:04:12] I know you don't understand. I work better under pressure and I finally got the motivation to finish watching what I missed.
[00:04:19] Okay, then then yes, you absolutely have to finish everything because there isn't there is in fact an Easter egg in like the most recent episodes. So yes, you must. Okay.
[00:04:31] I'll be caught up by tomorrow. Nice.
[00:04:34] I don't understand how you'll do that. But I believe in you.
[00:04:38] Oh, you don't understand when I'm watching something I will follow through even if I go to sleep at three in the morning.
[00:04:44] That's wild. I love it. Superhero.
[00:04:48] I'm insane. It's fine. We all need to do that.
[00:04:51] Yeah, I still need to finish it but I'll just do that when I arrive so Nicole can watch me cry.
[00:04:57] Yay!
[00:04:58] I'm gonna cry so much.
[00:05:00] So you are gonna cry so much.
[00:05:02] Anyway.
[00:05:02] I'm not ready.
[00:05:04] There is if anyone-
[00:05:06] I'm excited.
[00:05:06] If anyone has seen the movie and didn't know by the time this episode airs, there's also like a really cute special chapter that you can read on Shonen Jump that is like in honor of the movie.
[00:05:22] Like they always do a little chapter for it.
[00:05:24] It is set actually right before the movie's plot. But also don't read it if you're not actually caught up on like the chapters that lead up to like the start of season seven.
[00:05:38] Um, because the movie itself is set between Izuku's angst adventure and like the big final war final arc.
[00:05:47] So-
[00:05:47] Which is so funny to me.
[00:05:49] I know. There was like-
[00:05:50] That is hysterical.
[00:05:52] It's like a week or two of them having down time. Nope. Movie time. Ha ha.
[00:05:56] Uh huh. Uh huh.
[00:05:58] Um, there are also-
[00:06:01] Or there were-
[00:06:02] There were special movie buckets for popcorn and cups at theaters that were airing the movie.
[00:06:08] I really doubt there will be any left when we go.
[00:06:11] Uh, but we will get them-
[00:06:12] If they're there. Oh yeah, we're gonna ask.
[00:06:14] My sister has got them.
[00:06:16] Nice.
[00:06:16] She-
[00:06:22] Just kidding. I would not commit a felony against any of your family members unless you ask me to.
[00:06:28] Um, I think-
[00:06:28] Yeah, no. I just need myself. I can commit all the felonies against them.
[00:06:32] Okay. Sounds good.
[00:06:33] Um, I feel like there may also be another, another like special little chapter that's, that's been done.
[00:06:41] Um, kind of like how for world heroes they have like the little tiny comic that they gave out.
[00:06:45] Um, I, I will be able to confirm that once I go back and watch all the My Hero TikToks that I've saved that are about the movie that I refuse to watch.
[00:06:57] But I'm like, I have like a whole folder bookmarked ready to go.
[00:07:02] Hell yes. Hell yes.
[00:07:05] Apparently people are thirsting after the guy with the eye patch, at least on my side of TikTok.
[00:07:10] Whatever that means.
[00:07:12] Mm.
[00:07:13] Oh!
[00:07:14] I won't spoil it.
[00:07:15] I think I know why some of them are.
[00:07:17] We'll get to it. We'll get to it.
[00:07:19] Oh yeah.
[00:07:19] We will definitely get to it because y'all know we're gonna do a recording afterwards.
[00:07:25] It's gonna be so chaotic.
[00:07:27] We're gonna figure it out.
[00:07:28] We're gonna figure it out.
[00:07:30] There might be some recording on phones, but we will make it happen.
[00:07:33] I mean, we can all record on my microphone.
[00:07:36] Yeah, we'll figure it out.
[00:07:37] Anyway.
[00:07:40] Back to season four.
[00:07:42] Yes.
[00:07:43] This week we're covering episode 22 of My Hero Academia season four.
[00:07:48] So we're getting real, real close to the season finale.
[00:07:51] The title of the episode is School Festival Start!
[00:07:56] Which in the mangas is chapter 178 through 180.
[00:08:01] So I'm gonna lead us through a synopsis.
[00:08:03] And then we've got a science corner from Maria.
[00:08:06] And then Nicole's got the discussion topics, manga differences and Easter eggs.
[00:08:10] And then we'll wrap up the episode with our big spoiler section.
[00:08:14] If we even have one, I have no clue.
[00:08:16] No idea.
[00:08:17] I did these notes more than 10 minutes ago.
[00:08:20] So I've forgotten everything.
[00:08:22] Same, same, same, same.
[00:08:23] So getting into the synopsis, after a quick recap, we open at UA where everyone is getting ready to start the festival.
[00:08:31] Mm-hmm.
[00:08:31] And the recap reiterates how Gentle Criminal, like, with full knowledge that this is what he is doing,
[00:08:39] he knows he is attacking a children's festival to honor his romantic feelings for La Brava.
[00:08:46] And I still hate him viciously.
[00:08:48] I hate him viciously.
[00:08:49] To be fair, he's only attacking their security network.
[00:08:55] I don't...
[00:08:55] The security...
[00:08:55] Well, that was the plan, anyway.
[00:08:58] I don't think he planned to fight anyone.
[00:09:00] He was just gonna, like, hack into the mainframe and then, I don't know, leave a video about it?
[00:09:05] Who knows?
[00:09:06] I don't know, but...
[00:09:07] Children.
[00:09:09] You disappointed...
[00:09:10] You were planning to disappoint a lot of children, sir.
[00:09:13] Yeah.
[00:09:15] Worse than all for one.
[00:09:21] Also, I don't know if this was in all of the openers, because I know sometimes they, like, tweak them for each episode.
[00:09:29] But I just noticed that we actually get an Easter egg of Hawks and Endeavor, like, in the opening credits.
[00:09:35] I don't know if it was there the whole time.
[00:09:38] It might have been, but the reason I say that is because, like, the last few episodes of season seven, the closing credits all, like, are slightly different to highlight the plots that the episodes covered.
[00:09:53] Mm-hmm.
[00:09:54] Which was very hurtful and very beautiful.
[00:09:56] Um, so I don't know.
[00:09:58] I, I'm, I'm, I, I don't know.
[00:10:01] That's it.
[00:10:01] To be honest, I completely skipped it.
[00:10:04] How dare you?
[00:10:05] Oh, yeah, you don't like this song.
[00:10:06] Honestly, stuff like that is just lost on me.
[00:10:08] I don't, I don't remember what the previous one looked like.
[00:10:12] Yeah.
[00:10:12] I, I, yeah, I, I'm, I'm a waste of that effort.
[00:10:16] Yeah, well, for, for the ones in season seven that I'm referring to, you'll notice.
[00:10:23] I don't think I did.
[00:10:25] You haven't seen the episodes that I'm referring to yet.
[00:10:28] You will notice when you watch them.
[00:10:31] Oh, interesting.
[00:10:32] All right, all right, all right.
[00:10:33] Oh, good.
[00:10:35] All right.
[00:10:36] Also, I, I had to mention this because Fern didn't, but I'm gonna need Monoma to calm down.
[00:10:42] He, sorry.
[00:10:43] Um.
[00:10:45] Also, he has a line in the dub that basically he is surprised that Kendo is so pretty, despite
[00:10:52] having signed her soul over to violence.
[00:10:55] Like, sir, first of all, shut up.
[00:10:58] Second of all, you have also signed your soul to violence because you are both hero students.
[00:11:03] Like what, what the fuck?
[00:11:04] What is going on?
[00:11:05] I think he meant the fact that she's always like hitting him to get him to stop being stupid.
[00:11:10] Because he deserves it.
[00:11:12] He does deserve it.
[00:11:13] He does deserve it.
[00:11:15] He is Brock and Kendo is Misty.
[00:11:18] Mm hmm.
[00:11:19] Mm hmm.
[00:11:19] But also, Monoma, sometimes girls are violent.
[00:11:24] And sometimes those violent girls are pretty.
[00:11:26] It happens.
[00:11:28] Shocking.
[00:11:28] I know.
[00:11:29] Almost every time.
[00:11:31] You know, four ish billion women in the world.
[00:11:34] Some of them are going to be both violent and pretty.
[00:11:36] Yeah.
[00:11:37] Yeah.
[00:11:37] And when they are, it's nice.
[00:11:39] Mm hmm.
[00:11:40] So we cut to the teacher's lounge and midnight notices a permission slip for Izuku to leave the grounds.
[00:11:47] And Toshi explains that, you know, he needed to go get some stuff, run errands, blah, blah, blah.
[00:11:53] Midnight wonders if he'll be able to get back in time.
[00:11:55] Thank you, midnight.
[00:11:56] That is helping my secondhand anxiety so much.
[00:12:00] I hate this.
[00:12:02] The countdown was funny.
[00:12:02] I hate this.
[00:12:03] The countdown was so funny because I knew Fern was just going to have a heart attack.
[00:12:07] Also, Kimball.
[00:12:08] Oh, God.
[00:12:10] Yeah.
[00:12:10] Y'all, I can't remember if we've discussed this before.
[00:12:13] I was raised by a mom who was one of those, if you're not early, you're late people.
[00:12:18] Oh.
[00:12:20] Oh.
[00:12:20] And that rule was enforced.
[00:12:23] So.
[00:12:25] Yeah.
[00:12:26] I had the opposite.
[00:12:29] See, I was raised by Mexican parents where time doesn't exist.
[00:12:33] Brown people time.
[00:12:34] Yeah.
[00:12:35] Yeah.
[00:12:35] I envy it.
[00:12:37] The Spartan needed to leave.
[00:12:40] He heard my roommate come home.
[00:12:42] So he started whining at the door.
[00:12:44] Oh yeah.
[00:12:45] Cause he's got to go say hi.
[00:12:46] Yeah.
[00:12:46] Oh, obviously.
[00:12:48] He needs to make sure everybody's okay.
[00:12:50] Mm hmm.
[00:12:50] He needs to know about everybody's day all the time.
[00:12:53] Mm hmm.
[00:12:54] He needs to sniff.
[00:12:55] Sniff and ask questions and get all up in the way.
[00:12:58] Mm hmm.
[00:12:59] Mm hmm.
[00:12:59] Get his pat-pats.
[00:13:01] All right.
[00:13:01] So cut to Izuku and Gentle Criminal who are still fighting.
[00:13:06] Of course.
[00:13:08] Izuku realizes that Gentle Criminal's elasticity, I don't know what to call them, like patches.
[00:13:14] Sure.
[00:13:14] Yeah.
[00:13:15] The bits of air that he makes elastic, they don't fade right away.
[00:13:20] And Gentle Criminal, as mentioned in a previous episode, like he can't just like un-elasticize them.
[00:13:26] He has to just let it fade naturally.
[00:13:28] Um, so Izuku tries to memorize the locations of all these patches so that he can use them himself during the fight.
[00:13:37] Sure.
[00:13:38] Izuku.
[00:13:39] Your brain.
[00:13:39] Anyway, Izuku manages to tackle both Gentle Criminal and Labrava to the ground, and then he asks them to give up.
[00:13:46] Fairly politely.
[00:13:48] So polite.
[00:13:48] He's very nice about his copley duties.
[00:13:52] Um, in, in the dub, there is this line and I'm quoting, he said, Gentle Criminal says, I am betting my precious mustache on this scheme.
[00:14:02] And I had to stop everything.
[00:14:06] And I ask y'all, does this mean that he's going to shave his stupid mustache when, not if, when, because I know he's gonna lose. He's a loser.
[00:14:16] Um, is he going to shave it when he loses?
[00:14:19] Exactly.
[00:14:20] I feel like he should.
[00:14:21] Yeah.
[00:14:21] He should.
[00:14:22] That's part of the bet.
[00:14:23] Yes.
[00:14:24] Don't bet shit you don't want to lose.
[00:14:26] Exactly.
[00:14:26] Get rid of it.
[00:14:27] Get rid of your stupid mustache.
[00:14:29] It's stupid.
[00:14:30] And your stupid collar.
[00:14:32] And then it grew back in prison.
[00:14:34] How dare.
[00:14:36] Mm-hmm.
[00:14:37] How dare bodily functions.
[00:14:38] Well, they don't get like, many, um, sanitary items.
[00:14:42] So I guess, you just let it go wild.
[00:14:45] Yup.
[00:14:46] So then we got some flashbacks of Labrava's past.
[00:14:49] Um, so when she was a young girl, she was rejected by a crush because he thought she was creepy.
[00:14:54] Uh, which sent her spiraling into a years long depression.
[00:14:58] And her only solace or interest is her computer.
[00:15:01] And that's how she finds Gentle Criminal's videos.
[00:15:04] And then after they start working together, she becomes attracted to him, but is worried that he'll reject her like her childhood crush did.
[00:15:12] But instead, Gentle Criminal accepts her for who she is.
[00:15:17] And he even gives himself matching dark circles around his eyes.
[00:15:20] And then he also gave her the name Labrava, which means, I definitely looked up what it means and I've forgotten.
[00:15:27] It means honey.
[00:15:28] The strong one.
[00:15:29] Yes.
[00:15:30] Or the brave.
[00:15:32] Yeah, it means the brave.
[00:15:33] Yeah.
[00:15:34] Um, honey is another one of her nicknames.
[00:15:35] Yeah.
[00:15:36] I think it's, is it not?
[00:15:39] I thought it was a direct translation for some language.
[00:15:42] Um,
[00:15:43] It's Spanish.
[00:15:43] Oh, there are.
[00:15:44] Yeah, there are a couple of translations that use the word honey.
[00:15:50] She's got other names in other translations, but they aren't necessarily a translation of Labrava.
[00:15:56] They just use a different name.
[00:15:57] Why would they lie to me?
[00:16:03] They were thinking of you specifically.
[00:16:06] Oh, how I hate everything.
[00:16:09] Anyway.
[00:16:11] But also he gets dark circles around his literal eyeballs with Sharpie.
[00:16:18] Yes.
[00:16:19] He's so stupid.
[00:16:20] He's not stupid.
[00:16:21] He just, you know,
[00:16:23] Wait, wasn't that a thing for a while in middle school?
[00:16:26] Maria, do you remember that?
[00:16:27] Oh yeah, absolutely.
[00:16:29] Girls were like using Sharpie as eyeliner.
[00:16:32] That's how you get poisoned.
[00:16:34] Don't do that to your eyeballs.
[00:16:36] If you don't get poisoned, it's not good for your eye.
[00:16:40] Eh, it was fine.
[00:16:42] I mean, they're still alive.
[00:16:44] Yeah, they kept their eyes.
[00:16:45] So.
[00:16:46] Yeah, but he's also an adult.
[00:16:47] He should know about eyeliner.
[00:16:50] Oh, I hate him.
[00:16:51] He's so dumb.
[00:16:52] But also, I have to not give him credit,
[00:16:56] but kind of point out where we could have diverged in canon.
[00:17:00] Like, Gentle Criminal, he definitely could have been a cult leader because like his first few videos were very indoctrination-ish.
[00:17:10] It's just, he does not have any charisma at all.
[00:17:16] I think that's just you, baby.
[00:17:18] He has a very specific kind of charisma.
[00:17:22] That only worked on the Brava.
[00:17:24] And he doesn't understand what kind of charisma he has and how he has to use it.
[00:17:29] So yeah.
[00:17:30] Yeah.
[00:17:31] No.
[00:17:31] No.
[00:17:31] No.
[00:17:33] I think it just wouldn't work for you, Nicole.
[00:17:36] No.
[00:17:36] That's, no.
[00:17:37] Well, yes.
[00:17:38] Charisma never works because you're always selling something.
[00:17:41] But also, he's stupid.
[00:17:43] Yeah.
[00:17:44] Yeah.
[00:17:45] So we cut back to the present and Labrava uses her quirk, love, which gives Gentle Criminal a massive power boost.
[00:17:53] So he uses that to escape Izuku and then karate chops him in the back of the neck to try to knock him out, but it doesn't work.
[00:18:01] So Gentle Criminal and Labrava start to walk away.
[00:18:04] But Izuku, of course, gets right back up and prepares for another attack because he literally doesn't give up ever.
[00:18:12] He's like, oh God, what are those dogs that like when they bite, they just sink in and they don't let go?
[00:18:18] Like lockjaw?
[00:18:20] Harriers?
[00:18:21] Shepherds?
[00:18:21] German Shepherds?
[00:18:22] Maybe?
[00:18:23] Boston Terriers?
[00:18:25] Crocodiles?
[00:18:27] Who knows?
[00:18:28] There's a thing that happens to dogs sometimes where they bite down on something and then they quite literally cannot open their mouth again.
[00:18:34] That's tennis.
[00:18:35] They have a hard time like letting go.
[00:18:37] It's lockjaw?
[00:18:37] It is kind of like lockjaw, but it's like they're biting into something and they get like so into it that they like forget how to let go.
[00:18:47] Sure.
[00:18:48] Anyway, that's Izuku.
[00:18:50] Sure, sure.
[00:18:51] Sure.
[00:18:52] And he's so dramatic about it too.
[00:18:54] Like over his shoulder.
[00:18:55] Like, sir.
[00:18:56] Also, he's like, next time you try to pistol with me, like try to use an actual pistol.
[00:19:01] Your chop was so weak.
[00:19:03] You bitch.
[00:19:04] Now I'm going to shoot you over my shoulder.
[00:19:08] When I read this for a second, I thought it was real and I was like, what did they have him say in the dub?
[00:19:14] But then I very quickly returned to reality and was like, okay, she's editorializing.
[00:19:19] Yeah.
[00:19:20] Every, every quote, unless I say specifically that it is a quote, is editorialization.
[00:19:26] By the way, y'all, the full quote is, next time you attempt a pistol whip, use an actual pistol, weak ass choppy boy.
[00:19:33] Yeah.
[00:19:34] Yeah.
[00:19:37] Oh, weak ass choppy boy might have to be the episode title.
[00:19:41] We'll see.
[00:19:41] Please do.
[00:19:42] Cause I think it's silly.
[00:19:45] It is very silly and I love it.
[00:19:47] So, meanwhile, at UA, the clock strikes 9am.
[00:19:51] The festival begins.
[00:19:52] I'm having a heart attack.
[00:19:54] It's fine.
[00:19:56] At this point, I've already lost it.
[00:19:58] He still has an hour.
[00:20:00] He's good.
[00:20:01] Half an hour.
[00:20:01] An hour?
[00:20:02] Half an hour.
[00:20:04] Half an hour.
[00:20:06] They don't sit till 10.
[00:20:07] I'm pretty sure it's 930.
[00:20:10] No, it's 10.
[00:20:11] What?
[00:20:11] They go on at 10.
[00:20:12] Hold on.
[00:20:13] I'm going back to the older notes.
[00:20:15] No, I.
[00:20:17] Okay.
[00:20:17] So I'm outing myself.
[00:20:19] I literally watched the episode right before we started the last 30 minutes of work.
[00:20:23] Cause I didn't have time during lunch.
[00:20:25] It's like.
[00:20:26] So.
[00:20:27] I swear to God they started at 930.
[00:20:28] No, it's 10.
[00:20:29] Why would they have a concert at 930?
[00:20:32] That is top of the hour.
[00:20:33] Why would they have a concert at 10?
[00:20:34] Top of the hour.
[00:20:36] Yeah.
[00:20:37] It's 10.
[00:20:39] 10am.
[00:20:39] You've been freaking out on a level you didn't even need to be freaking out at.
[00:20:43] I swear to God.
[00:20:44] Hold on one second.
[00:20:45] I've got it in the notes somewhere.
[00:20:47] Did I have it wrong?
[00:20:48] It's.
[00:20:48] It's 10.
[00:20:49] I swear to God.
[00:20:51] Yeah.
[00:20:51] It's at 10, darling.
[00:20:53] What?
[00:20:53] The comic.
[00:20:55] They're all behind the curtain ready to go at 9 59.
[00:20:59] It's at 10.
[00:21:00] What the shit?
[00:21:01] One second.
[00:21:01] This is chapter 181, page 13.
[00:21:05] Okay.
[00:21:05] Well, in a previous episode that we recorded, I mentioned 930.
[00:21:10] So that was wrong.
[00:21:12] Yes.
[00:21:13] Where was it?
[00:21:15] I'm going to find it.
[00:21:16] Now I have to find it.
[00:21:17] I'm sorry.
[00:21:17] Okay.
[00:21:18] Where the fuck is it?
[00:21:19] This is killing me.
[00:21:32] Okay.
[00:21:33] I can't find it.
[00:21:33] Oh, well.
[00:21:34] Okay.
[00:21:35] Anyway, where the fuck are we?
[00:21:37] Okay.
[00:21:38] So anyway, we're at UA.
[00:21:40] The clock strikes 9am festival begins.
[00:21:42] I'm having a heart attack.
[00:21:43] We cut back to Izuku and gentle criminal who are still fighting.
[00:21:47] Yes.
[00:21:49] They're still fighting.
[00:21:50] Yes.
[00:22:14] They're still fighting.
[00:22:17] And he's, or is bisexual because he.
[00:22:20] Oh yeah.
[00:22:21] Well, obviously.
[00:22:22] Yeah.
[00:22:22] Oh yeah.
[00:22:22] That was very obvious.
[00:22:24] Yeah.
[00:22:24] Gentle criminal is bisexual.
[00:22:26] As hell.
[00:22:28] And I.
[00:22:28] He is a chaotic bisexual.
[00:22:30] He's the epitome of chaotic bisexual.
[00:22:32] He really is.
[00:22:33] Yep.
[00:22:34] Yes.
[00:22:34] And I hate it.
[00:22:35] I do actually.
[00:22:37] You don't like chaotic bisexuals.
[00:22:39] No, I don't claim him specifically.
[00:22:41] How dare he take up space in our bubble.
[00:22:44] I don't know what to tell you.
[00:22:45] This is what a bisexual man looks like.
[00:22:48] Disgusting.
[00:22:49] Yeah, actually.
[00:22:51] So we get flashbacks.
[00:22:53] Speaking of Nicole mentioning the flashbacks, we do get flashbacks into gentle criminals past.
[00:22:58] So he was a student at some hero school, I think it's kind of implied.
[00:23:02] But he kept failing his classes and the provisional license exam.
[00:23:07] So finally the principal was like, dude, you just like need to quit.
[00:23:09] He was like, dude, this is, this is not your vibe.
[00:23:13] Dude.
[00:23:13] Uh huh.
[00:23:14] So one day he tried to rescue a man who was falling from a building, but he accidentally got in the way of a licensed hero and the falling man hit the ground.
[00:23:24] And he lived, he was horribly injured.
[00:23:27] It took him like six months to recover or something.
[00:23:29] Gentle criminal was criminally charged, expelled from school, and then like beaten by his mom slash possibly kicked out.
[00:23:36] Like, I think they're trying to imply that he's homeless.
[00:23:38] Yeah.
[00:23:40] Either homeless or like really poor.
[00:23:43] There might also be some cultural stuff that we're missing because he's called a part timer in some of the like subtitles.
[00:23:51] Um, but basically he also mentions that he likes spring because it's easier to forage for food.
[00:23:58] Um, which is not usually something that someone with a steady paycheck has to do.
[00:24:05] Um, but I don't think he's homeless, like fully homeless or unhoused because at one point we see him digging through a closet where all his books are.
[00:24:15] Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, he's definitely no longer living with his parents.
[00:24:20] They kicked him out.
[00:24:21] Yes.
[00:24:21] And he's called a part timer, which I think.
[00:24:25] I have, I can understand.
[00:24:27] I can explain the part timer.
[00:24:29] Yes, please.
[00:24:30] Okay.
[00:24:30] So in Japan and Korea, actually, there are people called part timers.
[00:24:36] They are people who take temporary work or, and they work in convenience stores, um, construction.
[00:24:43] It's not like a, a full-time job.
[00:24:48] So they will, um, get paid that day for the work they do that day.
[00:24:54] Oh, okay.
[00:24:54] Like daily contract work.
[00:24:56] It's not super stable.
[00:24:59] Yes.
[00:25:00] Got you.
[00:25:01] So kind of like a lot of people in Japan specifically sometimes have two, three, four part-time jobs because they can't afford to be, uh, to eat or whatever.
[00:25:14] Mm-hmm.
[00:25:15] So that, that's why they're called part timers.
[00:25:17] Yeah.
[00:25:18] Okay.
[00:25:18] So it's kind of like.
[00:25:19] So he's working class.
[00:25:20] Yeah.
[00:25:21] He's below working class.
[00:25:22] That's what it is in America.
[00:25:23] Well, he's, yeah.
[00:25:24] Yeah.
[00:25:24] It sounds like he's a temp and he works a lot of gigs.
[00:25:28] Yes.
[00:25:28] But they're not quite all making ends meet.
[00:25:31] And that's why he has to forage.
[00:25:33] Yes.
[00:25:33] Sounds very American.
[00:25:34] Yes, indeed.
[00:25:35] It is very American.
[00:25:38] All right.
[00:25:39] Also, I have to say this.
[00:25:40] I, I do hate gentle criminal.
[00:25:42] He's an idiot.
[00:25:43] I hate him.
[00:25:43] Um, but also fuck his parents.
[00:25:46] Mm-hmm.
[00:25:46] Like what the fuck?
[00:25:48] Um, like, yeah, it is a little embarrassing to have a convicted criminal as a son.
[00:25:54] Fine.
[00:25:54] Yes.
[00:25:55] I, I can accept that.
[00:25:56] Especially when your son is so stupid.
[00:25:58] Um, but like, he didn't do it out of malice.
[00:26:01] Like he didn't, he was trying to help people.
[00:26:04] Yeah.
[00:26:04] And also he was, he was barely 18 at the time.
[00:26:08] Therefore, still a child.
[00:26:09] So his mom is just throwing stuff at her child.
[00:26:13] Well, he's a very, very young adult.
[00:26:16] Yes.
[00:26:16] But still, your brain's not fully developed at 18.
[00:26:20] Sorry.
[00:26:20] Well, no one's is ever.
[00:26:21] So that's true.
[00:26:22] Um, but like, like, you know, at 18, by that time, you have enough awareness to take responsibility
[00:26:30] for your actions.
[00:26:31] Yes.
[00:26:32] But also.
[00:26:32] Even if you make poor decisions.
[00:26:34] Yes.
[00:26:35] Your mom should not be throwing things at your head, even though.
[00:26:38] Oh yeah.
[00:26:38] Hell no.
[00:26:39] What the fuck?
[00:26:40] Like.
[00:26:41] And then the dad just sitting there letting it happen.
[00:26:44] Freaking.
[00:26:45] Mm hmm.
[00:26:45] Where is CPS or 18 year old CPS?
[00:26:49] I don't know.
[00:26:52] Also, because I have to point it out, cause I still hate him.
[00:26:55] Um, it, during these flashbacks, cause I watched the dub, obviously.
[00:27:00] Um, he does not have a British accent.
[00:27:03] He's definitely just put it on as a pretentious affect and I hate him.
[00:27:09] He's stupid.
[00:27:09] I mean, I sometimes pick up British language when I watch British shows.
[00:27:17] Yes.
[00:27:17] I have a feeling that's what happened to him.
[00:27:20] He just watched a lot of British shows and eventually he got the British accent.
[00:27:24] Oh, he's a full on Anglophile.
[00:27:26] He's definitely doing it on purpose.
[00:27:28] Yeah.
[00:27:28] But also now I'm wondering cause like Maria and I watched the sub.
[00:27:32] Does he speak Japanese with an English accent?
[00:27:35] I have never noticed.
[00:27:37] I wouldn't know what that sounds like.
[00:27:39] I was about to say, I don't know what that would be able to differentiate.
[00:27:42] British listeners.
[00:27:43] If you can speak fluent Japanese, please let us know what it sounds.
[00:27:46] Yeah.
[00:27:47] Japanese listeners.
[00:27:48] Let us, let us know.
[00:27:50] But we know you exist.
[00:27:52] This is probably going to kill us.
[00:27:54] Really funny.
[00:27:55] So for some reason, it just never occurred to me that Latinos lived in Britain.
[00:28:02] Oh yeah.
[00:28:03] Just, you know, it's one of those things, especially Mexican.
[00:28:07] To hear a Mexican accent, like full on Mexican, like pronunciation without the British accent
[00:28:14] and then have them switch over to English with the British accent.
[00:28:18] Mind fuck.
[00:28:19] Oh man.
[00:28:21] That is so funny.
[00:28:22] Oh wow.
[00:28:24] That is amazing.
[00:28:26] So yeah, that could also be the, the, the thing.
[00:28:29] Okay.
[00:28:30] I can accept that.
[00:28:31] But also he's not British.
[00:28:34] Okay.
[00:28:35] Not like Aoyama whose parents are also kind of French.
[00:28:39] Are they?
[00:28:40] Are they?
[00:28:40] Did we ever get confirmation on that?
[00:28:42] They're like part French or something.
[00:28:44] It's like, there's a, it's like the same thing with the, with the blonde guy from Ouran
[00:28:50] host, host high school, whatever.
[00:28:52] Like they're, they're partly French and then that's why they're blonde.
[00:28:56] And I don't know.
[00:28:57] Yeah.
[00:28:58] That's interesting.
[00:28:58] Cause like in my hero, people are just blonde.
[00:29:01] Cause he calls it.
[00:29:02] I don't know.
[00:29:06] Anyway, so we're still in the flashback.
[00:29:09] Um, three years later within the flashback, uh, after he gets kicked out of school and
[00:29:14] his life just fucking tanks.
[00:29:16] One of his old classmates.
[00:29:18] Yes.
[00:29:19] One of his old classmates is a successful hero.
[00:29:21] Um, and gentle criminal goes up to him.
[00:29:24] Just be like, Hey, great job.
[00:29:25] This is awesome.
[00:29:26] How are you doing?
[00:29:28] Uh, but the guy doesn't remember who gentle criminal is.
[00:29:31] Yes.
[00:29:33] And this is what, this is the tipping point.
[00:29:36] This is the straw that broke the camel's back and gentle criminal decides to become
[00:29:41] a villain.
[00:29:42] He literally.
[00:29:43] This is what made him snap.
[00:29:46] He was literally forgotten by a former classmate who may not have even had a lot of classes
[00:29:51] with him.
[00:29:52] And he immediately went to pull out the literal book on villainy.
[00:29:57] Like bro.
[00:29:58] Yeah.
[00:29:59] Like we all have quarter life crises.
[00:30:02] We all have our burnout phases.
[00:30:04] We all get forgotten by some people.
[00:30:06] You don't have to commit to a life of crime.
[00:30:11] You don't have to become a YouTuber about it.
[00:30:14] Seriously.
[00:30:15] Don't become a YouTuber about it.
[00:30:17] Imagine a podcast like we did.
[00:30:20] I literally said, what if he got a microphone?
[00:30:24] Put him in jail.
[00:30:26] So his birthday is August 29th.
[00:30:29] Sure.
[00:30:30] He is a cusp.
[00:30:33] Of course he is.
[00:30:34] Yep.
[00:30:35] What's that?
[00:30:35] Leo and what's the one after?
[00:30:37] Virgo.
[00:30:38] Ah!
[00:30:39] He and Virgo.
[00:30:41] Ah!
[00:30:41] That's amazing.
[00:30:42] He is a little Virgo.
[00:30:44] He gets his drama from the Leos and the Virgo, the crazy like properness, pretentious side.
[00:30:52] Yep.
[00:30:52] Amazing.
[00:30:53] Perfect combo.
[00:30:54] That fits him so well.
[00:30:55] And I hate him.
[00:30:56] Um, also, I wonder what it's like to be so popular and or so successful that you don't actually remember the names of the kids you went to school with.
[00:31:11] I can't relate because I still remember every fucking name of everyone in my class.
[00:31:16] I don't.
[00:31:18] I wouldn't recognize them if they came up to me on the street.
[00:31:22] That must be real nice.
[00:31:23] I would recognize their faces after a while, but their names like I'd have no idea.
[00:31:28] I think.
[00:31:28] I'd be like the only person I haven't seen in like 10 years.
[00:31:32] Yeah.
[00:31:32] I think what happened in my specific brain is that my brain filled up all of their names and then I can't remember anyone else's name ever.
[00:31:40] I think I just reached the threshold.
[00:31:43] Yep.
[00:31:44] Oh my God.
[00:31:44] Yeah.
[00:31:45] Yeah.
[00:31:45] So my problem is, um, even with my friends, I sometimes forget their names.
[00:31:51] It's so bad.
[00:31:52] Yeah.
[00:31:53] And we all know about my facial blindness.
[00:31:55] So we're all, we're doing so great over here.
[00:31:59] We're doing amazing.
[00:32:15] We're all struggling.
[00:32:16] So she's a criminal because they're both fighting for the sake of others.
[00:32:19] They both have this dream.
[00:32:21] And meanwhile, Labrava decides that she's just going to go rogue.
[00:32:26] Um, she tries to hack into the security system from their current location.
[00:32:30] She says, I'll do it myself.
[00:32:32] You dumbass.
[00:32:33] Basically, basically.
[00:32:34] She's like, fuck, everything is going sideways.
[00:32:36] Let's just, let's try to salvage what we can.
[00:32:39] Mm-hmm.
[00:32:39] So she tries to hack into the security system from their current location, but she's too far away.
[00:32:44] So she runs off into the woods until she comes across hound dog and ectoplasm and immediately turns right back around.
[00:32:50] Yeah.
[00:32:50] She's like, oh, fuck.
[00:32:52] Although in the dub, gentle criminal, like kind of sees her running off.
[00:32:56] Um, and he's like, it's dangerous to go alone.
[00:32:59] And I'm like, okay.
[00:33:00] Okay.
[00:33:00] Legend of Zelda.
[00:33:01] Sit down.
[00:33:02] Uh, that's funny.
[00:33:04] Someone on the writing team is very proud of that.
[00:33:06] I need to play the new Legend of Zelda game.
[00:33:08] It came out and I haven't.
[00:33:10] No.
[00:33:12] Ooh, nice.
[00:33:13] Poor thing.
[00:33:14] I know.
[00:33:14] I haven't had time.
[00:33:15] Also, there is a dino game where you can play as a dinosaur and you make your own shop.
[00:33:23] And so you make your own shop and you sell things and you make things and I'm going to go play it.
[00:33:29] Yes.
[00:33:30] Be a dinosaur.
[00:33:33] Sounds amazing.
[00:33:35] I love that.
[00:33:36] Like nowadays, all of our cozy games are like, run your own business.
[00:33:42] Do farming.
[00:33:43] Like some of the toughest stuff to do in real life.
[00:33:46] But it's cozy.
[00:33:48] And you're fine.
[00:33:52] Anyway, back to the, back to the episode.
[00:33:54] So more fighting, blah, blah, blah.
[00:33:57] Izuku finally, finally defeats Gentle Criminal and claims-
[00:34:10] Gentle Criminal is defeated.
[00:34:12] She starts yelling at Izuku.
[00:34:14] She goes, she goes a little, a little bananas.
[00:34:16] Poor thing.
[00:34:17] Yep.
[00:34:18] Yep.
[00:34:18] Yep.
[00:34:18] Yep.
[00:34:18] Yep.
[00:34:18] Yep.
[00:34:19] Bit of a breakdown.
[00:34:20] Fair.
[00:34:24] This prompts Gentle Criminal to think about all the times Labrava insisted on coming along with him to missions, even though he didn't want her like taking the heat for his crimes.
[00:34:35] And she was like, bro, I'm a hacker.
[00:34:38] Like, my felonies are worse than yours.
[00:34:41] I promise.
[00:34:41] Yes.
[00:34:44] So Gentle Criminal launches Izuku in the air because he's trying to hide the fact that he was, he was fighting with a student.
[00:34:53] He was like, oh, maybe I'll just get off on like trespassing or whatever.
[00:34:57] Then he grabs Labrava just as security arrives and very dramatically surrenders.
[00:35:04] Yes, it was, it was very dramatic.
[00:35:06] Um, and I'm paraphrasing here.
[00:35:09] I'm not quoting.
[00:35:10] I'm paraphrasing.
[00:35:11] But he's like basically telling Labrava, he's like, I know that you would have gone on to commit more heinous crimes than I ever could, but I'm going to still sacrifice myself.
[00:35:22] So you're not going to be tied to my crimes.
[00:35:25] And that's the, the only romantic thing he's ever said in his life.
[00:35:29] Oh, it's so romantic.
[00:35:31] So romantic.
[00:35:32] He's like, I know you're a badass bitch.
[00:35:35] I accept that.
[00:35:36] I support you.
[00:35:37] You're not going to go to jail because of my stupid crimes.
[00:35:40] Mm hmm.
[00:35:41] I can't remember if we see it in this episode or if it's in the next one, but Gentle Criminal basically tries to act like Labrava is some kind of bystander or someone who's kidnapped or something.
[00:35:51] Yeah.
[00:35:52] Yeah.
[00:35:52] He tries real hard to make sure she doesn't go to jail and it's really sweet and also really dumb.
[00:35:57] It does not work.
[00:35:59] No.
[00:36:00] No.
[00:36:01] All right.
[00:36:02] So some things of note, a, I keep forgetting Izuku can do freaking trigonometry mid battle.
[00:36:09] Yeah.
[00:36:10] That's, that's just Horikoshi's love of Spider-Man again.
[00:36:13] Mm hmm.
[00:36:13] Very much so.
[00:36:15] Uh, and Nicole's going to hate me for this one, but I'm not going to lie.
[00:36:19] Gentle Criminal and like his early videos is kind of a cutie.
[00:36:22] Like, I don't know why though.
[00:36:24] It's just like, there's just this boyishness or something like he's re found his purpose and he's like still positive.
[00:36:32] Sure.
[00:36:33] Sure.
[00:36:33] Sure.
[00:36:33] I took it as you liked him better before he turned goth and before his life fell apart.
[00:36:41] Well, his life had definitely already fallen apart.
[00:36:44] Yeah.
[00:36:44] But he like got it back together and his life falls apart more now.
[00:36:49] Right now.
[00:36:50] Right now.
[00:36:51] Yeah.
[00:36:51] His costume is a little dumb.
[00:36:53] Sorry, dude.
[00:36:53] It's so stupid.
[00:36:55] Also, I wonder how often civilians get in trouble for like quote unquote interfering in hero work and dystopia.
[00:37:04] Yay.
[00:37:05] I think it's probably anytime someone needs to be sued and they can't sue the hero because they're like too popular or too rich or whatever.
[00:37:14] Oh, I bet that definitely factors into it sometimes.
[00:37:17] Yeah.
[00:37:18] Yeah.
[00:37:18] So they, they sue the poor homeless 18 year old.
[00:37:21] Sure.
[00:37:21] Yeah.
[00:37:22] Yeah.
[00:37:22] Whenever a hero fails and a civilian happens to have been involved, they just go ahead and blame it on them.
[00:37:29] Yep.
[00:37:30] Okay.
[00:37:30] Hold on.
[00:37:32] Freaking ragweed, man.
[00:37:34] Mm hmm.
[00:37:35] Oh yeah.
[00:37:36] I've been dying.
[00:37:37] All right.
[00:37:38] Well, that's it for the episode.
[00:37:40] Yay.
[00:37:40] It's Maria science corner.
[00:37:42] Yay.
[00:37:43] So we're labrava's quirk.
[00:37:45] Her quirk is love.
[00:37:48] Mm hmm.
[00:37:48] And what's released when you're in love?
[00:37:51] Pheromones.
[00:37:52] And that is how labrava gives a power up to gentle.
[00:37:56] Um, it is limited to once a day because pheromones need to be reproduced.
[00:38:00] Makes sense.
[00:38:02] She basically releases a pheromone cloud or bomb, and it is targeted at the person she
[00:38:08] feels intense emotions for.
[00:38:10] The reasons why it doesn't work on someone she doesn't love is because her pheromones
[00:38:15] naturally don't fit that with that person that she does not love.
[00:38:19] Hence why Izuku wouldn't get a power up.
[00:38:21] So yeah, that's essentially why her power is love.
[00:38:24] Mm hmm.
[00:38:25] Mm hmm.
[00:38:25] Mm hmm.
[00:38:26] Mm hmm.
[00:38:26] Mm hmm.
[00:38:26] So she gets, she's horny for someone and they get, they get the boost.
[00:38:32] Yes.
[00:38:33] Yeah.
[00:38:34] Not gonna lie.
[00:38:35] I'm mostly imagining a cat spraying everywhere.
[00:38:37] Yes.
[00:38:38] Like she's marking her property, but.
[00:38:40] Yes.
[00:38:42] No, that is insightful though.
[00:38:43] That's pretty cool.
[00:38:44] Pheromone bomb.
[00:38:46] Literally.
[00:38:46] And it's pink.
[00:38:47] Yes.
[00:38:48] Mm hmm.
[00:38:49] All right.
[00:38:49] So we are now going to move along to discussion topics.
[00:38:52] We actually have a couple after the last episode where we have like none.
[00:38:57] And we're going to start with social rejection.
[00:39:01] Yay.
[00:39:02] Everyone's favorite thing.
[00:39:04] Um, so yeah, this mostly pertains to like, Labrava's love letter.
[00:39:08] Um, gentle criminals school experience and the lawsuit.
[00:39:12] And I love that Horikoshi explores complexities of situations like Labrava's and gentle criminals,
[00:39:20] where they were in the wrong in some ways, but they weren't doing something heinous.
[00:39:27] Um, and that makes their emotional responses to the social rejection that they face, like
[00:39:32] still relatable and valid.
[00:39:33] Like he's, he's setting up like stepping stones almost.
[00:39:37] Yes.
[00:39:37] Um, especially in gentle criminals case where it led to poverty and like somewhat homelessness
[00:39:42] probably for a little while.
[00:39:44] Yeah.
[00:39:44] Yeah.
[00:39:45] Um, also Labrava really needed someone in her corner.
[00:39:49] Like she was what?
[00:39:50] 11.
[00:39:51] When she started falling into her depressive spiral.
[00:39:56] Like, where was her support system?
[00:39:58] Where was her family or friends or neighbors or anyone who noticed an 11 year old was fucking
[00:40:04] suicidal?
[00:40:05] Like, but where is this is where like, what is happening?
[00:40:09] It's Japan.
[00:40:10] So it's nowhere.
[00:40:12] You just ignore it.
[00:40:13] But really, really, really deep down.
[00:40:16] And then one day you die.
[00:40:19] And you're not in the way.
[00:40:22] And no one knows.
[00:40:24] Also, is it really stalking if you're 11?
[00:40:28] Um, the answer is yes, but still she.
[00:40:32] Right.
[00:40:32] Yeah.
[00:40:33] Yeah.
[00:40:33] She needed, she needed something and nobody was there for her.
[00:40:37] And she, she had to face that rejection alone.
[00:40:40] And like, where was her mother?
[00:40:43] Mm hmm.
[00:40:44] Whoever.
[00:40:45] Yeah.
[00:40:45] 100%.
[00:40:46] Like, yes, it's still stalking, but also she is 11.
[00:40:49] Cool motive.
[00:40:50] Still murder.
[00:40:51] She can be, she can be taught.
[00:40:54] Um, so yeah, like all of these situations that Horikoshi puts Labrava and Gentle Criminal
[00:41:00] in set the groundwork for what happens later with more extreme villains.
[00:41:05] Um, because it becomes clear that we need to address people's emotional needs, especially
[00:41:12] when they don't deserve it.
[00:41:14] Um, and because we start with these less extreme cases, by the time we get to more extreme
[00:41:20] cases, we can still see that.
[00:41:23] Yeah.
[00:41:24] And we can still sympathize with it.
[00:41:26] Mm hmm.
[00:41:26] And it's especially for people who are perceived to not deserve it because everyone deserves
[00:41:32] love except for like Hitler.
[00:41:34] Um, but yeah, also sometimes people are fucking dicks.
[00:41:40] Yeah.
[00:41:40] Guess what?
[00:41:41] They, they, they still need emotional support.
[00:41:44] Yeah.
[00:41:44] So they don't, you don't have to do it, but like, they should have access to resources.
[00:41:50] Yeah.
[00:41:51] The government should before taking care of dicks.
[00:41:54] Yes.
[00:41:54] So none of the rest of us have to anyway.
[00:41:57] Exactly.
[00:41:58] Um, but no, um, but like, yes, yes.
[00:42:02] Society's hardships work hard, but Horikoshi fucking works harder.
[00:42:07] He's laying it out so well.
[00:42:09] And I hate him.
[00:42:10] Yep.
[00:42:11] Yep.
[00:42:11] And then also kind of like how we've already started seeing with the league of villains,
[00:42:16] like humans are hardwired to, to form social bonds period.
[00:42:20] Like we've discussed this before.
[00:42:21] So when we alienate, alienate others, they're going to bond with each other.
[00:42:27] And then everyone fucking suffers and no one is having a good time.
[00:42:32] No one's emotions are being handled.
[00:42:34] Well, everybody is sad.
[00:42:37] Yep.
[00:42:38] Yep.
[00:42:38] That's how you get incel message boards.
[00:42:40] Yay.
[00:42:45] Fun times, man.
[00:42:47] Oh, fucking incels.
[00:42:48] They need so much help.
[00:42:49] Incels are terrifying.
[00:42:50] But anyway, it's like, yes, we recognize that they do need help, but also, ew.
[00:42:56] Yep.
[00:42:57] Ugh.
[00:42:57] Socialize.
[00:42:58] Maybe if you socialize, you wouldn't be where you are right now.
[00:43:02] We need easily acceptable help groups.
[00:43:06] Anyway, that's not our job.
[00:43:09] So we get to complain about it.
[00:43:10] Yep.
[00:43:12] Moving along.
[00:43:13] We're going to talk about Izuku and Gentle Criminal and how they're similar.
[00:43:17] And I hate it because it's true.
[00:43:20] Yeah.
[00:43:21] I love that Izuku and Gentle Criminal relate to each other so strongly.
[00:43:25] And I kind of wonder, it feels like Horikoshi is implying that Izuku would have ended up in a similar position after he, quote unquote, interfered with the sludge villain.
[00:43:37] Even, you know, if Toshi hadn't taken him under his wing, like because of that happened or because that happened, like his trajectory was very different.
[00:43:47] Yes.
[00:43:48] Yes, definitely.
[00:43:48] And especially if it had gone badly and like Katsuki like hadn't been saved or if he'd like really been physically hurt and how Izuku might have been to blame because he got it, quote unquote, in the way of the pro heroes.
[00:44:03] Yeah.
[00:44:04] None of the other pro heroes did anything until All Might showed up.
[00:44:08] So they definitely would have laid the blame at his door in order to dodge responsibility themselves.
[00:44:13] Yeah, exactly.
[00:44:15] Exactly.
[00:44:15] Exactly.
[00:44:16] And that's not even taking into account how Izuku would have just emotionally fucking exploded if Katsuki had in fact like, you know, died.
[00:44:24] Oh God.
[00:44:25] Being abducted.
[00:44:26] Yeah.
[00:44:27] Oh God.
[00:44:29] Villain Izuku.
[00:44:30] Villain mode.
[00:44:31] Villain, villain Izuku.
[00:44:33] Yes.
[00:44:33] Mm hmm.
[00:44:34] And his quirk turns out to be he can turn those who he loves into ghosts when they die.
[00:44:41] Bam.
[00:44:41] Fanfic.
[00:44:41] Quirk.
[00:44:42] Go right.
[00:44:43] His quirk is he's smart enough to not get caught.
[00:44:47] Yes.
[00:44:48] He would be though.
[00:44:50] Yeah.
[00:44:51] The universe is so, so lucky that he has a little heart of gold.
[00:44:56] It's so lucky he's gay and found his husband in preschool.
[00:45:01] Mm hmm.
[00:45:01] Otherwise we'd have like a gentle criminal slash shiggy mashup wandering around.
[00:45:07] Yep.
[00:45:08] Yep.
[00:45:08] Yep.
[00:45:08] Yep.
[00:45:11] Anyway, moving along from that lovely note.
[00:45:13] Um, we're gonna, we're gonna talk a little bit about how Izuku views this as his hardest fight.
[00:45:19] It's not.
[00:45:20] It's not.
[00:45:21] He's just silly.
[00:45:22] Well, yeah, not physically.
[00:45:24] Cause you know, he barely gets scuffed up compared to previous fights.
[00:45:28] Mm hmm.
[00:45:28] But definitely like the new found awareness about how complex hero society can be and how it can hurt others.
[00:45:36] And like the part he plays as an aspiring hero in that probably, probably pretty painful, probably pretty distracting.
[00:45:43] Mm hmm.
[00:45:43] Probably a lot.
[00:45:45] Yep.
[00:45:45] And he, he does also point out that gentle criminal is really the first like a villain that he can really empathize with.
[00:45:53] Mm hmm.
[00:45:54] Everyone else, he might've been able to sympathize with them from kind of more of an outside perspective.
[00:46:00] But Izuku and gentle criminal see themselves in each other.
[00:46:06] Mm hmm.
[00:46:07] And then you're gonna hate someone because you're kind of also fighting yourself.
[00:46:10] Mm hmm.
[00:46:12] Yeah, they freaking get each other.
[00:46:14] Yeah.
[00:46:14] And it's weird.
[00:46:16] Cause I don't like gentle criminal and I love Izuku.
[00:46:20] Anyway.
[00:46:22] All right.
[00:46:22] We're going to move along to manga differences for 178.
[00:46:26] Izuku mentions that he feels bad for the construction workers whose work was like ruined when he had to set down the girder.
[00:46:36] Aw.
[00:46:36] Not in the place where it was.
[00:46:38] And like, sir, how do you even have that emotional capacity right now?
[00:46:44] You're so busy.
[00:46:45] And yet.
[00:46:46] Izuku, like sweet boy.
[00:46:49] Oh, he's the sweetest.
[00:46:50] Um, and then for chapter 179, we actually get a panel of class 2D's attraction.
[00:46:57] So I'm assuming that is the class above them still in the general studies area.
[00:47:04] Um.
[00:47:05] I can't keep track of which letter is which.
[00:47:07] I don't, I don't know either.
[00:47:09] Um, but their attraction is an amusement park.
[00:47:12] Woo hoo.
[00:47:13] Um, but they're all dressed as rabbits.
[00:47:15] Or they all have similar rabbit quirk features.
[00:47:19] Um, I was confused.
[00:47:22] I was like, maybe this was in the year of the rabbit around new years.
[00:47:26] I don't know.
[00:47:27] Or I was just seeing a pattern that wasn't there, but there were a lot of bunny ears in that attraction.
[00:47:34] Interesting.
[00:47:35] I wonder if they're all just like huge fans of Miraco.
[00:47:38] Yes.
[00:47:39] As Miraco themed amusement park.
[00:47:41] Fuck.
[00:47:41] Yes.
[00:47:42] That'd be kind of fun.
[00:47:44] Right?
[00:47:44] That'd be awesome.
[00:47:46] All right.
[00:47:46] And then the festival balloons, like the big ones outside of like floating over campus.
[00:47:52] They're actually more recognizable as teachers at UA.
[00:47:55] Whereas in the anime, they're just kind of like big old balloons.
[00:47:59] Um, and these balloons feature 13 and cement toss his face.
[00:48:04] Nice.
[00:48:05] As they deserve.
[00:48:06] Yes.
[00:48:07] All right.
[00:48:08] And then, uh, when gentle criminal actually tried to save the person in the manga in the
[00:48:13] anime, we actually see him kind of standing off to the side.
[00:48:17] Like he only really shot out his little elastic cushion from afar.
[00:48:22] Mm-hmm .
[00:48:23] But in the manga, we actually see how he's trying to run in.
[00:48:26] He's trying to jump in and help.
[00:48:28] Um, it's interesting that they decided to take this out considering the whole, my body moved on its own theme.
[00:48:35] Yeah.
[00:48:36] That runs through everything.
[00:48:37] Well, I guess something had to be cut.
[00:48:39] But why this?
[00:48:40] The one thing that might've made me possibly like him an increment more.
[00:48:45] They were targeting you specifically.
[00:48:48] Specifically.
[00:48:49] I'm getting tired of this.
[00:48:53] And then for chapter 180, there were no changes that I noticed.
[00:48:57] I also did not look very close because I'm tired and I haven't had my Adderall in a week.
[00:49:02] Mm-mm.
[00:49:02] Oh God.
[00:49:04] It's fine.
[00:49:05] It's fine.
[00:49:05] America's pharmaceutical industry is perfect and nothing wrong with it.
[00:49:10] Oh.
[00:49:10] And now we're going to dive into some Easter eggs.
[00:49:13] Um, we do see that Labrava's quirk is going to come back in a big way.
[00:49:19] If we haven't already mentioned this.
[00:49:21] Mm-hmm .
[00:49:22] In a, in a future season.
[00:49:23] But now I just want a spinoff episode where Labrava and Toga get to talk about how their quirks work with love.
[00:49:32] And.
[00:49:33] Ow.
[00:49:34] Yeah.
[00:49:35] They need to have a chat.
[00:49:37] God.
[00:49:37] That one targeted me specifically.
[00:49:40] Yeah.
[00:49:41] Yeah.
[00:49:42] They would've been besties.
[00:49:44] Oh my God.
[00:49:45] They would've loved each other.
[00:49:46] Oh.
[00:49:47] I'm so sad.
[00:49:48] For a Koshi.
[00:49:49] They would've been on the same message boards.
[00:49:51] Come on.
[00:49:52] Ah.
[00:49:52] And then next, uh, this was more of, for me specifically, but watching this fight for whatever
[00:49:58] reason reminded me of the world heroes, big villain Flecked turn or whatever the fuck his name is.
[00:50:05] Um, cause I feel like the fights were similar considering like how Izuku was using the elasticity discs like against him.
[00:50:14] And then Flecked turn had a bunch of discs too.
[00:50:17] I don't know.
[00:50:17] I think I just need to rewatch the movie.
[00:50:19] I'm going to be real with you.
[00:50:21] The only thing I remember about that movie was Izuku's gay little summer vacation.
[00:50:26] Yeah.
[00:50:27] His gay little boyfriend.
[00:50:28] Yeah.
[00:50:28] Yeah.
[00:50:29] His, uh, his road trip.
[00:50:30] Yeah.
[00:50:31] That's like literally all I remember.
[00:50:33] His, his little gay road trip with his little gay bucket hat.
[00:50:36] Yes.
[00:50:36] That's fine.
[00:50:37] That is totally acceptable.
[00:50:39] Nothing else happened in there, right?
[00:50:42] No.
[00:50:42] Yeah.
[00:50:43] There was a battle or something.
[00:50:44] I don't know.
[00:50:45] Possibly.
[00:50:46] Um, this is a very large battle.
[00:50:49] Oh.
[00:50:50] All right.
[00:50:51] And again, this isn't like an Easter egg or anything.
[00:50:53] This is just me freaking out.
[00:50:54] Um, but at some point in the dubbed episode, somebody says gentle criminals, like actual
[00:51:01] name.
[00:51:02] And for a second, I thought that he was, he was named Togoda.
[00:51:07] Yeah.
[00:51:08] A.K.A.
[00:51:09] Mirio's family name.
[00:51:11] Mm.
[00:51:11] It's not.
[00:51:12] It's Tobita.
[00:51:13] So wait, I think Togoda is Mirio's given name and Mirio is his family name.
[00:51:18] Sure.
[00:51:19] Whichever way.
[00:51:20] I feel like there was a connection and I panicked.
[00:51:24] That would have been hysterical though.
[00:51:26] For, for like a full two seconds.
[00:51:29] I thought gentle criminal and Mirio were blood related and panicked about what that family
[00:51:36] reunion would have been like.
[00:51:38] Chaotic.
[00:51:38] I would have just combusted on the spot if I had been witness to it.
[00:51:43] No.
[00:51:46] Um,
[00:51:47] Judgmental Criminals full name.
[00:51:49] And I don't know if this is the right way or not.
[00:51:51] Sorry.
[00:51:52] Um, but his full name is Dan Jero Tobita.
[00:51:55] Um, therefore his name is actually Dan Toby.
[00:51:58] Boring ass man.
[00:51:59] That's your, that's your Anglophile name, sir.
[00:52:04] Dan Toby drives a Ford F-150.
[00:52:07] And it's disgusting.
[00:52:08] That he doesn't need.
[00:52:10] No.
[00:52:11] And he gave it eyelashes, which is the only good thing about it, but only because of
[00:52:16] his girlfriend.
[00:52:19] I hate all of this man.
[00:52:22] And then finally another, again, it's not really an Easter egg.
[00:52:26] It's a what if.
[00:52:27] Um, we need a new story.
[00:52:29] What ifs?
[00:52:31] The speculation station.
[00:52:33] They're so good though.
[00:52:35] Oh, we should add that actually.
[00:52:36] That's a great idea.
[00:52:38] Holy shit.
[00:52:39] Why were we not doing that?
[00:52:41] We were, they were just mixed in.
[00:52:44] Okay.
[00:52:44] Well now we're getting an actual section.
[00:52:46] Okay.
[00:52:47] Speculation station.
[00:52:48] Moving in on the autism train.
[00:52:51] So, but like, what if, what if Labrava had found Chisaki instead of Gentle Criminal?
[00:52:58] Like, with her power up quirk, like possibly paving the way for the booster drug or to like
[00:53:07] power up Chisaki himself.
[00:53:08] Like the Shia Hisaika would have been a whole fucking different thing.
[00:53:12] They would have been the big bad, not all for one or two big bads.
[00:53:17] Honestly, someone go write that.
[00:53:19] But I'm tired.
[00:53:22] Like imagine that big fucking monster in the climax of the Shia Hisaika with Labrava's power up.
[00:53:30] Like, Izuku would be dead.
[00:53:32] There'd be just a crater where that entire city was.
[00:53:36] Not the city block.
[00:53:37] That is interesting.
[00:53:40] I don't know.
[00:53:42] And then AFO would fight Chisaki and.
[00:53:44] They'd both kill each other off.
[00:53:46] Yep.
[00:53:47] And they're that whole drama that we can't talk about yet because it's a big spoiler would be even more dramatic.
[00:53:53] Oh yeah.
[00:53:54] Oh my God.
[00:53:57] Anyway, that is it for Easter eggs speculations that aren't part of the big spoiler section.
[00:54:04] So if you are not caught up, I guess, to season seven and beyond.
[00:54:11] First of all, what are you doing?
[00:54:13] Go catch up.
[00:54:14] But we will talk to you later.
[00:54:16] Love you. Bye.
[00:54:17] So for the big spoiler section, we might actually learn this in the upcoming episodes.
[00:54:21] And I've just forgotten because my memory is holy.
[00:54:27] But I wonder how much like Suku Uchi knows about Gentle Criminal's connection to Izuku both before and after how Gentle Criminal helped not in Tartarus, but in his prison after Tartarus.
[00:54:42] Or it could be my memory is completely shit and they had all that covered.
[00:54:46] And therefore, Suku Uchi was not surprised by how Gentle Criminal wanted to help Izuku.
[00:54:52] And it was only Izuku who was surprised.
[00:54:54] Yeah, I think we get into that next episode.
[00:54:56] We shall see.
[00:54:57] And I will probably forget that I was curious about this by then.
[00:55:04] We're doing so great.
[00:55:06] We're great.
[00:55:07] The only thing these days that I am remembering barely is to pay my bills.
[00:55:12] And that's the only thing I need to remember, folks.
[00:55:14] Because I need electricity.
[00:55:16] I am a baby.
[00:55:20] Anyway, final comments other than me being mad at Adderall and how it's not being manufactured generically at the moment.
[00:55:29] Or they're just keeping it from my specific pharmacy.
[00:55:33] Fuck you.
[00:55:34] And then I went into a wine and crime Guantanamo Bay tangent that I don't even remember.
[00:55:39] So we're gonna skip it.
[00:55:42] If you know, you know.
[00:55:44] If you don't, you won't.
[00:55:47] Oh man.
[00:55:48] Yeah, God.
[00:55:49] Medication, manufacturing, and distribution is fucking shit.
[00:55:53] Like what the fuck, y'all?
[00:55:54] It's so stupid.
[00:55:56] And also...
[00:55:57] It's so bad.
[00:55:57] ...and also overpriced needlessly.
[00:55:59] And I hate everyone.
[00:56:01] Everywhere.
[00:56:02] All the time.
[00:56:03] Yeah, also, distribution doesn't have to be this fucked.
[00:56:06] We have the technology.
[00:56:08] Yeah, we have drones.
[00:56:10] Just bring it to my house.
[00:56:11] I'm not asking for much.
[00:56:13] Not even that high a dose.
[00:56:15] Oh, Lord.
[00:56:16] Well, anyway, I can't wait for us to be able to just rant aimlessly in person.
[00:56:21] This is gonna be great.
[00:56:22] We're gonna be chaotic.
[00:56:24] In person.
[00:56:26] Mm-hmm.
[00:56:26] The people at the theater are gonna be so scared.
[00:56:29] No, the people at the airport are gonna be terrified.
[00:56:33] I'm thinking of like, what the fuck?
[00:56:35] We will be escorted out.
[00:56:37] Please don't.
[00:56:39] We...
[00:56:39] We...
[00:56:40] We...
[00:56:41] Well, the airport that you were flying into, you will already be outside when we meet.
[00:56:46] So, we can't get escorted out.
[00:56:48] We'll already be outside.
[00:56:49] Boo.
[00:56:50] Boo!
[00:56:50] Well, I'm still doing an interpretive dance.
[00:56:53] Okay.
[00:56:55] Listeners, my one rule for all my friends is, um, don't go to jail.
[00:57:00] Aww.
[00:57:00] We can clear that bar.
[00:57:02] That's fine.
[00:57:03] Yeah.
[00:57:04] We'll get escorted out and then they'll just tell us to leave and then we will.
[00:57:06] It'll be fine.
[00:57:07] And then they won't catch us because we're too smart.
[00:57:12] Definitely.
[00:57:13] Oh, yeah.
[00:57:14] We're smart.
[00:57:15] We're the smartest.
[00:57:17] We just forget.
[00:57:20] Okay.
[00:57:20] We got...
[00:57:21] This episode is so long.
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