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My Hero Academia (Shonen Jump) move over pirates, ninjas, reapers, its Hero time
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Lightning_Roller
Banned
This brings an interesting question. Could there be vigilantes in the shadows or anti-heroes? Then again, considering you need a license to be a hero as well as using powers are illegal unless you're a hero (or villain) it would be hard to tell.
That's what the spin-off "My Hero Academia: Illegals" is about.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
Hold up! There's a spin-off?! Damn.
It's not nearly as good though. At least the first chapter wasn't, I haven't read the second.
Newtype-001
Member
I really liked the second chapter of illegals
Knuckleduster man was great.
Knuckleduster man was great.
The second episode goes in an interesting direction, its still not as good as the original but it makes for good supplemental material.
Also, we finally saw on-screen death. Some people were worried about that after Best Jeanist and AFO survived, so glad to see it deconfirmed.
Nice touch with All Might getting a resized uniform for his depowered form.
Nice touch with All Might getting a resized uniform for his depowered form.
I mean, it makes sense to me that capital punishment is one of those things that wouldn't be around in the MHA world, given how it's been presented; it's both progressive on social issues compared to ours but also more morally strict.
What are or we're his plans more likely. I like how he's wearing his older suit since his last one was wrecked.
OniBarubary
Banned
Someone, quick, compare this chapter to Naruto. Do it now. It's the only way I can relate to the woooooorld.
Also yo this chapter was good man. Also I might be drunk. Also I might be at a bar with my whale
Also yo this chapter was good man. Also I might be drunk. Also I might be at a bar with my whale
It wasn't resized, it's still baggy.
Hm, weird, forgot about that line.
but personally, I still don't think it's that weird for them to keep All for One alive. Especially since All Might wants to get stuff out of him.
but personally, I still don't think it's that weird for them to keep All for One alive. Especially since All Might wants to get stuff out of him.
Thought it was less baggy than before, but guess it isn't, huh.
Naruto talking with Kyubii.
OniBarubary
Banned
Oh shit!
Captain Rage Quit 69
Banned
SalvaPot can I just say I love your avatar
I was reminded more forcefully of Silence of the Lambs.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
God I'm going to have to wear that L on my head for awhile, aren't I?
Or I guess N?
I stole it and made some adjustments to it. Maybe I should make one of the faces All Might. But that would mean sacrificing either Nic Cage, He-Man or Dio.
Frozenprince
Banned
I mean at a point you have to wonder if A4O can even be "killed" by traditional means. I'm sure he's got resiliency and strengthening quirks built up over the two hundred or some odd years he's been alive. It's not unrealistic just like in cape comics that the reason he's, essentially, in the raft, is because he can only really be contained and not killed.
What's great is, by showing vignettes like this that show the psychological trauma a lot of these villains have faced to push them where they are and setting that alongside the trials of the students, you really feel the overall theme that none of this is about power but far more about leadership. It's not about being able to beat the villains, but to make sure that people are cared for and feel welcomed by society, and more importantly, how hard that is. The discussion about Endeavor was perfectly placed at the start of this chapter to show that people didn't like All Might just because he was the strongest hero, but also because he appealed to such a wide demographic. It's all so well done and all very relatable.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Really? The guy who is all about that eugenics and was literally jumping out of his seat when he saw it in action in Shouto v. Deku is unprofessional?
My big take away is just more fodder for the Dabi is
theory. It almost feels like the author is priming information which might be reading too much into it, but be cool if he did do that. Also I swear he looked super like Shouto when he looked down at those corpses, especially after the whole "eyes filled with hate" or whatever thing in the last arc.
Also shout out to the plague doctor aesthetic, my favorite aesthetic. Don't care how evil these guys are, they're winning in my heart by style points alone right now.
My big take away is just more fodder for the Dabi is
Endevour's kid
Also shout out to the plague doctor aesthetic, my favorite aesthetic. Don't care how evil these guys are, they're winning in my heart by style points alone right now.
TBF we haven't really seen how strong Dabi is.
Notice this while on reddit but he does look suspiciously like Todoroki.
I think we need to have more these vignettes for these villains. Like everybody else if this was published in Marvel or DC, it wouldn't be out of place.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
I think the first real big clue was in that full page panel where the villains successfully captured Bakugou. It's not Deku, our main character, who barely misses, but Shouto and I always felt this weird sense of reveling from Dabi when that happened and he saw Shouto failed.
Also anyone else notice the weird emphasis on eyes from this family? Shouto's mom burns him because she's scared of his eyes, WIndguy's whole beef was with Shouto and Endedvour's eyes, Dabi has some pretty dead eyes of his own in this chapter.
Also anyone else notice the weird emphasis on eyes from this family? Shouto's mom burns him because she's scared of his eyes, WIndguy's whole beef was with Shouto and Endedvour's eyes, Dabi has some pretty dead eyes of his own in this chapter.
His mom didn't burn him because of his eyes, she said his left half was ugly because it's the half that he got from Endeavor.
There's a passing resemblance and the power set matches up, but I'm not convinced yet. It's really just the power set that leans in that direction, because it looks exactly like Endeavor's powers and we know the reason Shouto was created in the first place was because using Endeavor's powers too much can burn the user unless he has ice to cool himself down.
Did she? Well if two of you remember that I guess it probably happened.
No one's talked about Dabi's eyes yet though.
Maybe Dabi's deal is that he's willing to go overboard with his powers and burn himself, exceeding his natural limits, which might theoretically allow him to match Shouto in a contest of fire. But Shouto has ice too, and I don't really see how he overcomes that.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
This is a little weird, but my big bet in how he evens the playing field is simply playing dirty. Use a gun. Bombs. Sand in the eyes, whatever. I think the tactics Villians use will come more into play soon.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Honestly, if he was one of Endeavor's kids, I'd expect that anyway. None of the rest got abused to nearly the extent that Dabi seems to have been, they just got ignored. Him being illegitimate would explain that, as well as add an additional dimension to him turning Villain.
Honestly, I hadn't even considered the possibility that he was one of Shouto's full siblings, lol.
The villains for this series have such great and creepy designs. I don't know if anyone else feels this, but there's this genuine feeling of unease when I see them. I never got that from any other shonen. Naruto's Orochimaru sometimes had this in his most freaky moments, but it was rare. I think Bleach attempted it with Aizen's final form(s), but for the most part they were designed to look cool. MHA do look cool, but also legitimately scary.
Their disfigurements have stories behind them. I think that's the difference. We look at his burn marks and we know there's a story there, whether it was done to him or he did it to himself.
With Orochimaru he just always looked like that, didn't he? It appears to just be genetic. When Mitsuki enrolls in the Konoha Academy he doesn't tell anyone that Orochimaru is his father, but really, wouldn't everyone be able to guess by looking at him? The pale skin and snake eyes aren't a giveaway?
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Same. Endevour is all about Eugenics. Did anyone really think he was going to settle down with one woman and keep popping up kids with her until he found the perfect one? Or would he be using different women with different power sets trying to find the perfect combination? Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be that surprised if he had a second power set like Shouto and we just haven't seen it. Maybe he has mommny issues to parallel Shouto's daddy issues? Who knows?
Also doesn't Endevour have black hair? Or did I imagine that?
I don't know if I would call them scary per say. A lot of them are, don't get me wrong (or rather disfigured in a lot of their cases now that I really think about it). For me, I'd call them more interesting because of how wrought in symbolism their designs are from the multiplyer's scar in his head as he deals with schizophrenia, to Handy's... well... hands.
Poodlestrike
Banned
A big part of that is the style, I feel. Horikoshi draws his villains differently, they're a lot... higher detail, often in really unsettling ways. The degree of villainy is tied to it as well. These new guys are opportunistic predators more than anything else, so their style is closer to the rest (tho the designs are still appropriately menacing), but when you get into the upper tiers...
handsguyface.png
It looks basically black in the B&W, but it's always officially colored red.
And I don't even think that Dabi is a eugenics experiment. I think that's another part of why he's so thoroughly outcast, he's not just a failure, he's a mistake.
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