Category: My Hero Academia

Here comes a new challenger! Gigantomachia!

That’s right. The ultimate bruiser is back! And working for the heroes, thanks to Shinso being in the driver’s seat. You can’t end My Hero Academia without Gigantomachia and this is a great way to bring the lunkhead into the fight.

So, is it enough? Are there enough heroes on the scene to keep All For One at bay until Eri’s Rewind erases his existence? Well…probably not. AFO’s younger and probably more powerful than ever. And even if he wasn’t, all he’d have to do is hit Gigantomachia with enough physical force to break Shinso’s brainwash quirk. Basically, it not over just yet. Especially, if someone offers AFO a gaming PC with Fortnite and their HBO Max password. That’d keep him busy.

Dark Shadow punched the perm out of All For One!

It was a good setup. Rereading the chapter you see Tokoyami approaching Pixie-Bob at the beginning with panels of Pixie-Bob sprinkled throughout the chapter. Great story writing, Horikoshi. Here, have some fried chicken—Oh! Never mind.

I also love Shiketsu’s heroes joining the fight. All For One is a big bad. It’s gonna take an overwhelming force to stop him. But I do understand why the battle against the Overlord of Evil started with a select handful of heroes given his ability to steal quirks. Now, it’s a straight up brawl! Power VS Power. May the strongest win.

Don’t you just love La Brava?

La Brava broadcasting Gentle’s heroics live over the internet. Now, the entire world of My Hero Academia will see how much a hero both her and Gentle are. Will they become legit heroes? I don’t see why not. Helping to defeat one of the biggest bads in history should do the trick. Besides, Japan is seriously low on heroes. The Hero Public Safety Commission needs to beg Gentle and La Brava to join their hero ranks. That or offer them a terrific healthcare plan.

Congratulations to the Business Course students for being useful for once. A shame Horikoshi boiled down their entire existence to blogging. There’s a lot hero business students could’ve added to the story such as learning exactly how a hero agency is made, getting the money to start an agency, marketing heroes to corporations for licensing, being a hero’s PR agent, etc. All that potential, gone.

He’s baaaack!

Goodbye, All For Shiggy. Hello, Tomura Shigaraki. As it should be. Just as Deku is All Might’s successor and main protagonist of My Hero Academia, Shigaraki, All For One’s successor, should be the story’s main antagonist. So what does that mean? Well, for Deku, it means he’s in deep dog shit. All For Shiggy wanted him alive at least long enough to steal One For All. Classic Shigaraki just wants him dead. Good luck with that, Deku.

Well, at least you have allies, Deku. Mirio, Lady Nagant and… Um… Let’s see… Gentle’s busy trying to keep U.A. in one piece. Bakugo’s out of commission. Hm, why do I have the feeling Bakugo’s gonna fight again? I don’t know how, but I won’t count everyone’s favorite toxic loud mouth out just yet.

Welcome back, Gentle Criminal!

How ya been? Good? Say, can I ask you something? Were you always this damn powerful? Sure, La Brava gave you a power boost in order to save U.A. from crashing, but you defeated a prison’s worth of villains all by yourself. I’ve really been sleeping on you, Gentle. You’re amazing!

And you, La Brava. Not only are you a genius hacker but you can use your quirk on someone miles away! Geez, that’s powerful! Screw Kaminari and Jiro. You two are THE power couple of My Hero Academia.

Welcome back, La Brava! Are Gentle and Rappa coming too?

Not surprising my favorite My Hero hacker returned. La Brava’s the only character in the entire series established to have enough computer skills to stop Skeptic. Now that La Brava’s found Skeptic, will it be Gentle’s job apprehending him? The police could handle Skeptic, I guess. So maybe the former villain can backup the heroes? They sure as ship need it. Rappa too. I can totally see the masked fighter helping Fat Gum defeat Kunieda.

Stain’s not in police custody but I can see him arriving on his own accord. He’d be of good use against Shigaraki once he and Deku begin battling on the ground.

Kurogiri’s getting the band back together.

Team Gunga Mountain’s in deep doo-doo. All For One, Dabi, and Toga/Twice, that’s quite the party. Here’s an idea AFO: Kill every hero there except Endeavor. Leave him for Dabi THEN head for Tomura. Yeah, you’re on a time limit, but that won’t matter if Deku’s backup is dead.

Also, how come you never took a copy of Kurogiri’s warp quirk for yourself? Seriously? It’s one of the best quirks you can have. I think I found a plothole, Y’All. Don’t tell Horikoshi!

*YAWN!* Himiko Toga’s a “villain” now. Whatever, Horikoshi.

Toga’s been a villain from the very start of the manga. She’s just now being more strategic.

I figured Horikoshi would give us a flashback explaining what happened at the end of the last chapter, but I didn’t expect this chapter to be so boring. Yes, I’m bored. It’s Toga’s fated fight against Ochako and I’m bored. We barely saw Toga and Team Ochako fight on Okuto Island. I guess it doesn’t matter since nothing interesting happened except Toga drinking Twice’s blood. This is the final arc, Y’all. Why is this boring?

Okay, so, All For One, Dabi and Toga/Twice are all on the same battlefield. How will Endeavor and Hawks get out of this mess? Two possibilities:

Toga finally did it.

She drank Twice’s blood. One Twice is Toga and the other Twice is a Twice copy. Got it? Good. But can Toga use Twice’s quirk as well as the original? Well, so far, so good, I’d say. But there has to be a time limit on how long she can keep that form. Depending on what she does (Make only Twice copies? League of Villian copies?), Toga can cause some serious damage in a short amount of time.

Can’t forget about Kurogiri. Looks like he’s about to wrap Team Aizawa away from U.A., giving All For Shigaraki the opportunity hand Deku his ass. Uh-oh! I might just start caring about this fight.

Final arc character development. Sure, why not?

Nothing’s wrong with it, unless you hold off on a character’s full development until the very end. You couldn’t sprinkle Shoji’s past and feelings on heteromorph discrimination throughout the series, Horikoshi? No? You just wanna dump it all at the end for drama? Ugh! Between this and the manga flying to the end of the series, My Hero Academia’s pacing could be its biggest flaw.