My Hero Academia 0320: “Save the World With Love!”
Season 3 of My Hero Academia is in full swing, and we’re following every move. Just be careful: spoilers and speculation below.
My Hero Academia can make good filler. We’ve seen it before with “Everyone’s Internships” and more recently with “Class 1-A.” “Save the World with Love,” is supposed to excite fans and add buzz to the upcoming movie, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. Instead, it just delivers some unsatisfying filler.
So the premise here is that for the sake of fun, we’ve jumped back, and a special on All Might’s training in America is on tv. There’s a mention of David Shield, All Might’s first sidekick and a major character in Two Heroes. Aizawa informs a group consisting of Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, Iida, Uraraka, and Asui (Wow! The characters with the most screentime!) that they’ll collaborate on a special exercise set at a staged crime scene, complete with U.A. staff playing hostages and a villain.
After all the run-ins with real villains, it makes sense that U.A. would want to stress the importance of deductive reasoning. But that doesn’t really work since Bakugo rushes to attack Fake Villain All Might and everyone else has to follow him. But when they get inside, he’s playing dead next to a bloody knife. They interview every hostage, and Deku figures out that All Might stabbed himself to protect Hostage Midnight. Aizawa walks in to congratulate the group on getting the story right, but they were wrong to assume the villain was dead so they all get a zero.
Later, All Might checks his email and finds a message from Melissa Shield asking him to come to I-Island — she and Dave’ll both be there for an event. Obviously he’ll go because Two Heroes exists. Then, he appears outside Deku’s apartment and asks him to come too, since he’s his successor and all. Deku geeks out and says yes, and wow none of this was necessary. The trailer for next week’s episode looks good though!
The Verdict:
After the brilliance that’s been Season 3, “Save the World with Love” falls flat. We don’t need a whole episode to deduce why Two Heroes is even happening — the trailer does that, and it’s much more entertaining.
Rating: 5.7
“Save the World with Love” is available to stream in Japanese on Crunchyroll and Hulu. All dubs going forward will stream two weeks after the Japanese release. And since this episode is pointing towards the movie, tickets are available now.
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