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—————————————————————————— Strategy , Strategy , Strategy { 策策策 , Sakusakusaku ? } is the seventeenth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the fourth episode of the second season. Summary. Midnight explains the rules. Midnight explains the rules for the U.A. Sports Festival’s second round event : The Cavalry Battle. The qualifying students have fifteen minutes to make teams of two to four people, and each person’s point value depends on their placement in the Obstacle Race. After getting first place, Yuki Itsuki is worth ten million points. This simulates how difficult it is to be at the top, above the rest of the competition. Teams formed will be worth their members’ accumulated point value. Team’s point values are listed on their headbands, which can be worn around the head or the neck of the rider. The objective of the game is to steal as many headbands as possible to raise your team’s point value. If a team falls or has their headband stolen, they can still compete until the time is up. The time limit for the Cavalry Battle is fifteen minutes, and only the top four teams will advance to the finals. Midnight finishes explaining the rules with warning each team not to make each other fall on purpose, annoying Katsuki. Story. Deatharms, Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods discuss the festival during their break. Meanwhile, Death Arms, Kamui Woods and Mount Lady watch from the break room and have a discussion about the Festival. Death Arms says the Festival is more so about simulating real Pro-Hero competition rather than seeing how prepared the students are. Mount Lady comments that it’s sad to look at Pro-Hero jobs in a manner where you’re looking to step over other heroes. This annoys Kamui Woods, who angrily replies that Mount Lady had no problem stealing the spotlight from him. The three of them agree that unlike the Obstacle Race, the Cavalry Battle is being used to simulate working together with other heroes.

BN // MHA S2 EP17

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—————————————————————————— Strategy , Strategy , Strategy { 策策策 , Sakusakusaku ? } is the seventeenth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the fourth episode of the second season. Back at the stadium, students have begun picking their teams. Many students from Class 1-A try to convince Katsuki to join their team, but he has a hard time recollecting their names and Quirks, annoying them with his ego. Watching from the stands, All Might notes that although he’s a hothead, Katsuki garners so much attention because of his versatile Quirk and placement in the Obstacle Course. Then Eijiro tries to join Katsuki since Shoto denied him already. Katsuki forgets Eijiro’s name as well, but the latter makes a strong case for his team and Katsuki decides they will go into battle together. Story. Everyone avoids Yuki. Yuki notices that all the participants are joining fellow peers from their homeroom class, but they’re all also avoiding her because she’s worth so many points.

BN // MHA S2 EP16

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—————————————————————————— In Their Own Quirky Ways { みんな個性的でいいね , Min’na Kosei-teki de Ī ne ? } is the sixteenth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the third episode of the second season. Despite his lead, Shoto is put at a disadvantage when he reaches the final obstacle : The Mine Field. Shoto has to trek carefully through the field and is eventually caught up to by Katsuki, who is still using his Quirk to fly through the air. He catches Shoto and tries to blast him with an explosion. Katsuki remains irritated that Shoto bothered to challenge Yuki and not him, and the two start to battle for first place. Yuki decides to pull a prank on all of the participants by using one of her abilities, nature manipulation, to force all the pink powder-like-bombs to activate and are sent blasting up, causing the competitors to spin in the air. She can’t help but smirk as she flies across The Mine Field. Yuki passes Katsuki and Shoto with some quick thinking and a cheap trick. Yuki’s prank allows her to fly across The Mine Field and to the finish line, placing first instead. A while after, the remaining fourth two qualifiers arrive back in the arena. Yuki crosses the finish line first. Yuki looks into the stands and sees All Might, with a proud smile on his face. Yuki feels like she can’t believe she finally won the first event after dreaming of doing so when she was younger, and she finds herself giving a small smile at him. But she’s just warming up. Story. After announcing the standings, Midnight moves the Festival on to the second event : The Cavalry Battle. The top forty-three qualifiers form teams from two to four people in order to earn points by stealing headbands from other teams. A team’s point value is based on the value of its individual members. The members of the team receive point value based on their placement in the obstacle race.