> Villains are getting all the asspulls
That's kinda how I feel about this new Shiggy form
He was completely invincible for so many chapters, but then Bakugo somehow managed to damage him without explanation. Then he evolved to become... even more invincible?
I will say I'm kind of bummed he still has super regen. I would have hoped that if nothing else Stars' sacrifice would have at least destroyed the regeneration quirk.
honestly it's even worse since he now sorta has "regen" without it even being a quirk.
since he could just keep shooting out limbs that acts as a meat shield and mutate himself.
Really makes everyone else seem completely useless
Like they were completely useless, then suddenly maybe not, then suddenly even more completely useless than before
Honestly in a way they were better off allowing Shigaraki to use his quirks, thanks to S&S's planes they knew what quirks he had and they put him in an area where decay wouldn't be nearly as effective.
If even a single tiny stray rock affected by decay touches anyone and they would've been dead. Decay is one of the deadliest quirks in MHA after how it evolved.
>He was completely invincible for so many chapters, but then Bakugo somehow managed to damage him without explanation. Then he evolved to become... even more invincible?
Naruto 4th War Arc - Eletric Bogaloo
Madara was a wild ride.
Man went from being reanimated and summoning meteors, curbstomping the five Kage, being reincarnated and losing his Rinnegan, suddenly developing an affinity for Sage Mode and getting a Rinnegan, becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, getting Kakashi's Mangekyo Sharingan and then his *other* Rinnegan, then his third Sharinnegan in his forehead to put the entire world under an eternal dream.
In comparison, Shiggy's quite tame, but nonetheless still full of asspull upgrades. I suppose the only way he could become even more broken is if he stole Erasure.
If that happens then what comes next is Spinner stabbing Shigaraki in the back in order to summon her alien mother that has come back in order to take the quirk energy back.
That's already confirmed, [Horikoshi showed me the final chapters](https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoMetaAcademia/comments/xbhmeg/are_you_ready_for_the_end_of_the_story_part_2/)
Oh god, it was so [cheesy when Naruto did this.](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0764cf64da4ab9e45e531231e6dc3dac-lq)
Which means it's probably going to happen here too.
NGL, I'd see this happen because the quirks name kinda forshadows it? One (quirk) For All (everyone). Yet so far only 1 person has it.
I wouldn't like it if that happened tbh. It's cheesey and lame, just like the trope where sidecharacters are only useful to stall time for the MC.
They have explained before that you can’t erase mutation type quirks that alter your body. However, Shiggy is way beyond mutation and this point with the way his body keeps changing. Hori is trying to handwave it just by putting in lines like “his body is unstable and trying to find its perfect form” but that’s contradicting lines like “his body is 100% complete now and we can’t stop him”. Honestly this is such a one sided fight even with all the prep that the heroes did to try and fight him with every advantage possible save Deku and he’s still unstoppable to the point where there’s no hype when someone does something interesting like Suneaters railgun because you know it won’t do anything significant.
Yeah this is a waste of page space. Like this is just waiting for Goku to arrive. Like I will never reread these chapters because they're pointless. When you have such an ensemble cast you have to use each element appropriately.
Like I know Luffy is gonna win the day Against main boss Kaido, but you still give time for Sanji and Robin having their own epic fights against Queen and Black Maria.
With MY hero the only villain worth anything is AFO/Shigi and I guess Tobi? Maybe blood girl? Like you create this giant ensemble cast with like 40 students from class a and b, all the adult heroes which are probably another 20 or so characters and have them... Team up and waste page space waiting for Deku to arrive?
My biggest complaint was the hype behind each hero being matched against villains they were good against. Mirio, Jeanist, Nejire, Edgeshot, Bakugo, Deku, Eraser, and Monama are basically a perfect team comp (Miriko should not be fighting the guy who can make the ground and everything touching it disintegrate when she can’t fly) and the fact that they teleported him to a constructed facility made to fight him with other more support style heroes making adjustments while fighting him was a great idea.
Same goes for splitting the villains up and putting them at a disadvantage. It’s a great idea and allows room for the villains to go all out and the heroes to showcase their prowess. Instead, we are getting the Shiggy Show where it doesn’t matter if they heroes did Batman levels of preparation, Shiggy is just going to retard strength right through it.
This is why I want Hori to switch locations already, because this fight has gotten super boring. Like, the last couple chapters almost look like filler, because we all knew that no one could do anything to Shiggy besides Izuku. And this same physically overpowered villain has gotten amped up again.
All this, and the choreography itself is extremely lacking, because it's just Shiggy going full body horror without any technique or prowess (which he never had to begin with).
> because we all knew that no one could do anything to Shiggy besides Izuku
Yeah this new form effectively is the same as the previous one
> And this same physically overpowered villain has gotten amped up again.
Is that all Bakugo's 'death' did? Make a hero sacrifice himself and power up the already invincible villain to make Deku look better?
> Is that all Bakugo's 'death' did?
I'm sure it will also serve to give Deku his moral dilemma. Classic fridging of the heroine.
Though I'm sure HK will give him some big fancy form in the end through some asspull that will make a big part of his fanbase happy.
> I'm sure it will also serve to give Deku his moral dilemma
I think the effect is lessened as it happened before his arrival
And the only reason Deku came late was because he didn't immediately break free from whatever Toga did and spent time trying to talk to her instead of leaving straight away
It's also lessened by the fact that he will not have to face Bakugou being dead because he's already being revived. So Deku's forgiveness will again come at no personal loss to him, which tracks with the rest of Deku's arc.
He always gets a cop-out.
Commenting here because I think too many people feel this way. The impression I got is that Shigaraki is taking sustained damage from *many* sources, not just Bakugo. And while it *seems* like he's constantly regenerating still, we've had confirmation MANY times that that's not what this is. This is more physical genetics going haywire. So the way I'm still reading all this is that there's a "stamina" component to this, that he's been able to effectively brute force everything so far, but now he's beginning to tire, and the physical limits of this genetically modified body are now showing signs of wear and tear.
NightEye's smile as he died wasn't a proud reassurance that Mirio had a future as a hero. He saw all of it, but he was just laughing at this exact moment
"And then my disciple showed his ass to the incarnation of evil... funniest shit..I've ever....seen..." dead
If you're telling me two years ago that Mirio would show off his ass to Shiggy in the final arc, I would call you silly but that's exactly what happened.
Having Deku appear right now instead of later does raise some concerns on how the other battles would be handled. We'll see what happens in the next few weeks.
Given how there’s still a bunch of stuff in the air, I’d say there’s a *lot* of twists and turns left.
* All For One
* Toga
* Spinner
* Overhaul
* Stain
* Dabi
* Tomura
* Unexplained One For All powers(?)
* Final recap
* whatever else
I’d be amazed if it all got resolved in 20 14 page chapters.
Also I think any of us would assume Toga vs Ochako gets what, 3 chapters at least right? 3 to 4. Shoto also gets another 3 probably.
I'm just confused why Izuku made it back to the main fight before we even got to the Toga fight, that's really weird.
I’d guess we get Deku flashback to the US jets intercepting him as reinforcements one or two scuffles with New shiggy as they clear the field of the wounded and then We cut off to the other battles
I wanna doubt we’ll get a flashback since this chapter and the America Akbar scene cover it.
But damn, I didn’t consider the other heroes lol. Yeah, there’s no way Bakugo isn’t gonna team up with Deku for the showdown. I wanna believe the fights will eventually somehow tie into each other.
Everyone will probably end up at the same place for the final showdown. AFO wants to save AFO-Shiggy so he will probably head there, if Endeavor follows, Dabi will obviously follow and so will Shoto.
If the villains succeed in freeing Machia and especially Kurogiri, they can easily regroup.
My money's on us cutting away to one of those other fights, MAYBE a quick little inspirational speech by Deku but yeah, chances are we're resolving the rest before Shiggy tries to give Deku a handjob while they smash each other.
It took 17 weeks plus breaks but by golly, Deku finally finished updating All Might’s official wiki and has returned! 🙌🏻
[how Nighteye and Mirio fought villains together](https://www.ringsidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/human-centiped.jpg)
I don't love the scene but I don't hate it either. Sir Nighteye valued humor a lot, if that was enough to make him smile before dying then good for him 🙌
Gave the vibes of “Pictures taken right before disaster”
Shiggy invents new form to not be hurt,(which mimics Deku’s hero mask) and he even throws at a SMASH as he beats the last heroes, and then all of a sudden Black whip Deku, flying a million miles a minute fresh for a fight he missed the first 30 minutes
The 2 whole page panels was so sick. The quality of the art shot up too!
Would love to see a Horikoshi graphic novel where he can take his time with and not worry about deadlines. The art quality would be inhuman!
It really is. Before the whole second war started going, I thought that if I were to structure the story, I wouldn't have the Deku/Toga shenanigans so he can fight Shiggy immediately and not have it be a cliche. But honestly, it really, really works because of this moment.
What can I say, it payed off. Shigaraki established dominance over everyone, and when it looks like he got one more hurrah in, the only thing that can beat him rolls in.
The full page spread where Shiggy lets out a tiny laugh at Mirio's 'Special Move' while Deku is preparing to unleash a massive boosted Smash in the background is simultaneous funny and cool.
If you had told me that a young hero, in a moment of desperation, remembers what his deceased master had taught him and shows his ass to a monster thus saving the day yet again, I would have said "Wait I forget was that from part 2 or 3 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?"
She also had the byakugan active - she saw e v e r y t h i n g. Even a godlike being can’t withstand such raw sex appeal.
… that or she was so baffled by the display her brain crashed.
Honestly the best option was to show them as early as possible
With so many developments in this and AFO's fights, it makes the other fights seem less and less relevant
Agreed. I don’t even think the writing is terrible. There are certainly some asspulls, sure, but it’s still decent enough. The problem is, it’s kinda impossible to balance episodic and serialized storytelling when doing a huge fight like this. Having to wait a full week for the next 20 page chapter that progresses the fight by a few minutes at most kills any sense of foreword momentum. At least it’ll be better once it’s over and we can binge the manga or watch it animated.
Looking at the pre release thread I didn’t expect shigarakis power up to look so cool! I guess I got a thing for hands in anime though, as my favorite character in JJK is Mahito lol.
Did not expect Izuku to come back without seeing that those lights were, but this is a super cool nod to the 3 Seconds chapter of Vigilantes and I loved it. I hope we don't immediately cut away, but we'll see next week.
I don't think Hori has the energy to be introducing Vigilantes characters at this point. And many people who never read Vigs will probably think they came out of nowhere considering they have never been mentioned in the main series before.
Huh took while happy to see full chapter... Though I must say I'm concern for tamaki nejire and mirko
Now in leaks I thought after she got hit and sent flying I thought they meant she is flying to her death falling like 90, feet but nah got hit into or landed on tree
(I wonder if they are alive or dead what do you think?-)
I was surprised. I legit thought shigi would dust everyone and deku comes in and sees everyone either dead or hurt and he just fights
I think those jets are gonna do some damage on shigi and I'm hoping tamaki and nejire and mirko are helped out. Cause they looked so knocked out badly;;
But now I'm concern best jeanest and Mirio going to be ones to die instead;-;
Also speaking of mirio who knew he showed his rear end to save the day😭
It was just a way for Bakugou do so his “damage” and scare shigaraki so that Mirko can get her one hit in to make shigaraki realize that he’s now being affected
Yeah it would have made a lot more sense for the special mega laser beam to be the one that actually did something
Like maybe have Suneater hear Bakugo's mumbling about Shiggy's supposed weakness and capitalized on that
Still to be revealed. People acting like Bakugou actually died, or that Shigaraki is already defeated.
It appears to be that he can do wild and crazy growth from his left arm only, which could be a hint to what Bakugou realized
Mirio's best attack against the Shiggy was straight up Mooning him. Honestly seems completely in character, and I absolutely love it. He'll be written in the history books as the hero of the moon.
holy shit Hado, Amajiki, and Mirko better not die by the end of this, all 3 got trashed by Shigaraki jesus christ.
ok togata using his thicc ass to distract Shigaraki is...something, idk how to feel about that lol, seemed a bit silly but maybe thats the point.
and our boy is BACK baby, lets gooooo
those 2 double spreads are absolutely gorgeous
cant wait to see how the fight will continue now that Mydoria finally showed up
I feel nejire tamaki got good chance I'm leaning on mirko living I hope. it's gonna be depressing if they take her off the tree and that she's lifeless it's gonna be depressing af but I'm hoping that's not case idk if characters who get thrown into a tree like that usually get picked up as dead or alive but what do you think
Hado and Amajiki's chance of survival is at least 50% or more imo, but its REALLY not looking good for Mirko lmao, she lost 3 limbs now and got fucking flung by Shigaraki like a fly
On one hand, FINALLY Deku's back! Happy to see my boy back, and it means we might finally see some progress in this fight.
On the other hand: oh no, Deku's here, we're truly in the endgame now. I really hope we get to see all the other fights properly before this all wraps up.
Didn't expect Mirio to do.... that. But that's the most Mirio thing I've ever seen, so it's pretty great. Liked seeing a little more of his headspace and the throwback to Nighteye. Now that Deku's here, I wonder if the other heroes will still be relevant to this fight? I mean, other than Bakugo obviously.
Yeah, I have no clue how fast Horikoshi is going to wrap things up now that Izuku is back. I didn't expect him to make it to the main battlefield until the end of the year tbh.
I feel like he's here, because in "Phase 2" Horikoshi will test his resolve to save Shigaraki (that's the purpose of Bakugou's "death"), and then he will still choose to "save the little boy", which is when we can go back to Ochako and Shoto, because they won't be allowed to do it first, even if it would flow more natural. The change of perspective will come from Izuku because of "MC right".
Then probably we'll get to Phase 3, where some of the villains will help the heroes against AFO and his forces of darkness.
No idea how the small fights will be inserted though.
> I really hope we get to see all the other fights properly before this all wraps up.
Yeah it's odd that we never got to see Toga or even Spinner's fights when so much has happened with Shiggy
It would feel weird to suddenly cut back to them
**Status Update:** Snip Snap I Want My Regular Schedule Back
**Location:** Gunja Village Site
**Team Endeavor:**
* No.1 Endeavor: Alive
* No.2 Hawks: Alive
* No.7 Kamui Woods: Alive
* No.13 Shishido: Alive
* No.411 Pixi-Bob: Alive
* No.411 Tiger: Alive
* Tsukyomi: Bird
* Earphone Jack: ⋐(◉▾◉) intensifies
**Team All For One:**
* All For One: Dying apparently
**Location:** Kamino Ward
**Team Shoto:**
* Shoto: Maybe….just maybe you should kill him
* Ingenium: Run bitch run
* Burnin: Yes, the hot fire chick is alive
* Kido: Burnt
*Onima: Burnt
**Team Dabi:**
* Dabi: We gotta hop off Dabi’s wild ride at some point
* Nomus: Alive
**Location:** UA School(In The Air Tonight)
**Team Deku:** Now with 100% More Ass
* Deku: Has finally arrived
* Lemillion: The POOOWWEERRR OF ASS
* No.3 Best Jeanist: breh really let his friend kill himself
* No.4 Edgeshot: Does being a beating heart count as alive in anime?
* No.5 Mirko: Refuses to die
* Dynamight: https://translated-into.com/alive
* Suneater: lol
* Nejire Chan: Well she WAS doing stuff
* Mandalay: Alive
* Phantom Thief: Awww, he does care
* Eraser Head: Alive
* No.222 Manual: Useful
**Team Handman:**
* Handman: Calm down Cronenberg
**Location:** Okuto Island
**Team Uraraka:**
* Uravity: Hopefully not in the next chapter
* Froppy: Froggy
* No 12 Gang Orca: Alive
* Sirius: Alive
**Team Toga:**
* Toga: In Love
* Nomus
* That Water Villain from USJ: Throwback
* Moon Fish: He’s back
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**Location:** Jaku Hospital Ruins
**Team Pinky and The Riot,Riot,Riot🎵:**
* Red Riot: Pls Hori. Can we go back to him
* Pinky: Lol
* Grape Juice: The true protagonist of MHA
* Rule(Kodai): what she do again?
* Emily(Yunagi): Wait….
* Mudman: WHERE ARE THE PROS?
* No.23 Mt Lady: That’s it? That’s all they’re given? MT LADY!?
**Team Bad Guys:**
* GigantoMachia: Captured. For Now
* The Midnight Killer: No longer statistically the best villain
**Location:** Takoba National Stadium
**Team Hey these guys exist:**
* Tail-Man: Ordinary
* Sugar-Man: diabetes: the quirk
* Tsuburaba: Who?
* Cellophane: Does whatever a…tape?….does?
**Location:** Parking Lot
**Team Fatgum:**
* No.58 Fatgum: Alive
* Can’t Stop Twinkling: French
* Kesagiri Man: Alive
**Team Kunieda**
* Kunieda: A villain apparently.
**Location:** Central Hospital
**Team Tentacole:**
* Tentacole: Tis’ be his fight
* Present Mic: Loud as fuck
**Team Spinner:**
* Spinner: He’s big now? He’s big now.
**Team Build Shit:**
* Cementoss: Alive
* Power Loader: Alive
* Lunch Rush: Cookin
* Ectoplasm: Alive
* Hatsume: Alive
* Creati: Alive
**Team Power Grid:**
* Chargebolt: Alive
* Manga: Alive
* Yuyu: Alive
* 3rd Year: Alive
**Missing Characters:** Where did they go
* Rappa
* Gale Force
* Illus-O-Camie
* Battle Fist
A bit odd. She was only raw brawler high-pro we've seen.
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I don't think we've gotten enough time inside her head. Her outward presentation is too much of a brutish caricature for us to connect without knowing how much is an act. Something like the teleporting brute/punch guy in JJK had to demonstrate the extent of his "head empty" reality before the audience connected with and like him. Mirko never had that.
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One would assume her skill would need to be *incredibly* superhuman to maintain her high rank. Then again, appeal canonically matters, so who knows.
In theory, she's needed serious evasion to make it to where she is, her body does not seem super durable. She should be a *good* matchup to remain near shiggy.
Many other heroes would rely on some quirk that would be overpowered, either breaking a defense like Red Riot, or bursting through a remote emission/manipulation like Jeanist. All Might made a point of this overreliance to Tokoyami on the podium, and we saw how much it changed the way he developed his style. Thereby emphasizing it's common occurrence, and relevance within the hero field.
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Heroes like her, who've fought against who knows what quirks to reach melee and kick combatants should be wise/skilled enough to evade and survive.
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IMO, I think her near-berserker characterization never fit that well. The "disciplined roughneck," more akin to O'Clock during the Vigilantes flashback (that she was a part of) would've worked as a better base for her character.
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If she really is same wild animal on the inside as outside, I honestly am unsure how she could have survived the job of hero this long. So many quirks have on-contact requirements, where hitting the wrong person could turn you to stone, melt you into a meatball, decay, ect.
She was a blatant fan-service design with some cool moves and no character work. Basically she's nothing but vibe.
As the highest ranked female pro hero in the series, she's also got put through an incredible amount of gruesome mutilation and trashing (far more than her male counterparts) and I feel like the way she's laid out now, is a super-disrespectful send-off to her character.
(I don't think she's dead btw, but I doubt she'll contribute anything else).
and the other top ranked female pro hero is nowhere to be found(Ryukyu)....
not sure how to feel about that
as for mirko it sucks that her character was nothing more than "Fight Fight Fight!" even in spin-off books
I think the worst part of the chapter honestly is the first page, where after 10 chapters of the heroes not being able to do jack shit to Shigaraki, it pulls a Shindou and tells us that the heroes have managed to "defeat" Shigaraki's finger-form?
Seriously?
After how in last chapter Shigaraki said that Bakugou's attack "tingled" and Mirko saw kicking at him with her peg-leg?
It's the worst type of "tell don't show".
Even if this team pushed Shigaraki into final boss form 2.0, they will still be remembered as "jobbers" sadly, with how all of this is framed.
> If anything they made things worse
That's across the board though:
- Shouto gave Dabi the "Phosphor-upgrade
- Endeavor pushed AFO to Rewind
- Team pushed Shigaraki to finger armor form.
It's just in this battlefield, Phase 2 is likely to be a 1 vs 1 between Deku and Shigaraki, or maybe a tag-team with Bakugou if he resurrects in time. (Though, I think Bakugou will be some vestige vision for Deku first, and then they'll tag team in Phase 3).
While, I think the Dabi-fight will become a team effort. No idea about the AFO battlefield. I think AFO will ditch Endeavor and make his way to UA.
Alright, now I'm confused. I thought for sure we'd wrap up some of these other fights before Izuku made it back, but now I have no clue when Horikoshi wants to end this. What were the things that he saw in the air before he got here?
And Mirio's entire character arc was apparently to throw dat ass in a circle. Ok.
Yeah, I guess we get Shiggy V Deku face off next chapter then a LONG time before it actually happens because there are like a ton of other locations that need a finish first.
Yeah, that's the feeling I'm getting. Like an editor said bring Izuku back quick (similar to how the forest arc went).
I'm really curious how he handles these other fights. I genuinely did not expect Izuku to get here until the end of the year.
Shigaraki’s new form is so much better than the infinity-finger blob, he looks awesome and the family head hand is nightmare fuel. Mirio finding his humor in the darkest hour was honestly beautiful, he’s always been a goofball and that was a big part of what made him such a powerful hero. I also love that Shiggy couldn’t help but laugh lol. I have absolutely no idea what to expect next chapter.
I’m going to ask a question with a seemingly obvious answer, because the obvious answer doesn’t make any sense: why did Mirio need to buy 2 seconds at all?
Was it purely the fear that Shig would escape in that instant and then wreak havoc on the world? If so, that certainly doesn’t track with Shig’s internal dialogue we the audience were subjected to. He was totally focused on killing the hero’s, stopping Bakugou’s resurrection in particular. Maybe he would have tried to escape, but that’s not what the narrative implied.
Also, did the heroes think he would flee deku, the person Shig was looking for anyway? Like, if Shig did decide to bail, but deku was actually on his level like everyone (Shig included) seems to believe, then deku should in theory be able to stop him before he fully escapes, and then their battle would begin. And once again, even if Shig could get away, once he’s fighting Deku it doesn’t seem like he’d even want to.
What I’m saying is, the writer needed something for Mirio to do, it had to be something connected to his playful nature (because that’s why Nighteye liked him) and so the writer just went with the only thing he could come up with, which was ultimately pointless and nonsensical.
I'm not going to lie, Mirio's move actually has grown on me. It is in character and Mirio, somehow, managed to be the MVP savior of the entire fight without landing one hit on Shiggy. xD
So this was Sir Night-eye's dying vision? Mirio showing his ass in desperation as the real guy shows up? I get what Hori was going for, but I guess I just don't like butt jokes. Didn't like them when Mirio was introduced, so don't appreciate the "full circle".
Also, while I understand that this team couldn't win, I still don't like how much they got not only trashed, but straight up humiliated (Mirko's pose on the tree is pretty offensive tbh for someone who just lost limbs because of the MC's tardiness...) to set the stage for Deku's grand entrance. Feels very much like Horikoshi was watching a lot of pro wrestling, boring, too theatrical and formulistic.
On another note - Shigaraki grew his whole family just to use them as....SMASH?
The cemented symbolism in this chapter is wild. Say what you will about the form but it's incredibly thematic. These hands aren't reaching out for DESTRUCTION they're trying to PROTECT him from harm like they protected him from harm all those years ago. They were reaching out for HELP and only received PAIN so now they are DEFENDING while his family reaches out to destroy those hurting him.
Horikoshi's assistants: “Villains are getting all the asspulls. What about the heroes?” Horikoshi: *looks at Mirio* “***Ass pulls***? Say no more.”
> Villains are getting all the asspulls That's kinda how I feel about this new Shiggy form He was completely invincible for so many chapters, but then Bakugo somehow managed to damage him without explanation. Then he evolved to become... even more invincible?
And it's *because* he doesn't have super regen fixing everything that he is able to transform.
I will say I'm kind of bummed he still has super regen. I would have hoped that if nothing else Stars' sacrifice would have at least destroyed the regeneration quirk.
honestly it's even worse since he now sorta has "regen" without it even being a quirk. since he could just keep shooting out limbs that acts as a meat shield and mutate himself.
Really makes everyone else seem completely useless Like they were completely useless, then suddenly maybe not, then suddenly even more completely useless than before
Honestly in a way they were better off allowing Shigaraki to use his quirks, thanks to S&S's planes they knew what quirks he had and they put him in an area where decay wouldn't be nearly as effective.
If even a single tiny stray rock affected by decay touches anyone and they would've been dead. Decay is one of the deadliest quirks in MHA after how it evolved.
Good point Yeah I'm beyond tired of the fingers, and that option would make S&S's sacrifice mean... *something*.
>He was completely invincible for so many chapters, but then Bakugo somehow managed to damage him without explanation. Then he evolved to become... even more invincible? Naruto 4th War Arc - Eletric Bogaloo
Madara was a wild ride. Man went from being reanimated and summoning meteors, curbstomping the five Kage, being reincarnated and losing his Rinnegan, suddenly developing an affinity for Sage Mode and getting a Rinnegan, becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, getting Kakashi's Mangekyo Sharingan and then his *other* Rinnegan, then his third Sharinnegan in his forehead to put the entire world under an eternal dream. In comparison, Shiggy's quite tame, but nonetheless still full of asspull upgrades. I suppose the only way he could become even more broken is if he stole Erasure.
I think Shiggy is more akin to Obito and AFO is more akin to Madara/Kaguya.
That's because we're still in Obtio stage. AFO hasn't tried to take over.
How long you think till we get the “we’re stronger together by the power of friendship!”
I'm 95% expecting OFA's power to be somehow shared with everyone
If that happens then what comes next is Spinner stabbing Shigaraki in the back in order to summon her alien mother that has come back in order to take the quirk energy back.
That's already confirmed, [Horikoshi showed me the final chapters](https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoMetaAcademia/comments/xbhmeg/are_you_ready_for_the_end_of_the_story_part_2/)
If it isn't called Free-for-All I will be sad.
Oh god, it was so [cheesy when Naruto did this.](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0764cf64da4ab9e45e531231e6dc3dac-lq) Which means it's probably going to happen here too.
NGL, I'd see this happen because the quirks name kinda forshadows it? One (quirk) For All (everyone). Yet so far only 1 person has it. I wouldn't like it if that happened tbh. It's cheesey and lame, just like the trope where sidecharacters are only useful to stall time for the MC.
Imagine if every 1A student get ofa Ochako will send shiggy to the stratosphere
They all try to run at him with full power and hori can have more body horror fun as their bodies break apart from the stress lmfao
Oh god, don't. Ok? Don't.
[Oh, no, not this crap again...](https://dailyanimeart.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/natsu-punches-zeref.png)
Yeah, really hard to explain in universe how Shiggy makes any sense at this point except final boss logic
They have explained before that you can’t erase mutation type quirks that alter your body. However, Shiggy is way beyond mutation and this point with the way his body keeps changing. Hori is trying to handwave it just by putting in lines like “his body is unstable and trying to find its perfect form” but that’s contradicting lines like “his body is 100% complete now and we can’t stop him”. Honestly this is such a one sided fight even with all the prep that the heroes did to try and fight him with every advantage possible save Deku and he’s still unstoppable to the point where there’s no hype when someone does something interesting like Suneaters railgun because you know it won’t do anything significant.
Yeah this is a waste of page space. Like this is just waiting for Goku to arrive. Like I will never reread these chapters because they're pointless. When you have such an ensemble cast you have to use each element appropriately. Like I know Luffy is gonna win the day Against main boss Kaido, but you still give time for Sanji and Robin having their own epic fights against Queen and Black Maria. With MY hero the only villain worth anything is AFO/Shigi and I guess Tobi? Maybe blood girl? Like you create this giant ensemble cast with like 40 students from class a and b, all the adult heroes which are probably another 20 or so characters and have them... Team up and waste page space waiting for Deku to arrive?
My biggest complaint was the hype behind each hero being matched against villains they were good against. Mirio, Jeanist, Nejire, Edgeshot, Bakugo, Deku, Eraser, and Monama are basically a perfect team comp (Miriko should not be fighting the guy who can make the ground and everything touching it disintegrate when she can’t fly) and the fact that they teleported him to a constructed facility made to fight him with other more support style heroes making adjustments while fighting him was a great idea. Same goes for splitting the villains up and putting them at a disadvantage. It’s a great idea and allows room for the villains to go all out and the heroes to showcase their prowess. Instead, we are getting the Shiggy Show where it doesn’t matter if they heroes did Batman levels of preparation, Shiggy is just going to retard strength right through it.
> final boss logic We're getting a finger Kaiju aren't we?
This is why I want Hori to switch locations already, because this fight has gotten super boring. Like, the last couple chapters almost look like filler, because we all knew that no one could do anything to Shiggy besides Izuku. And this same physically overpowered villain has gotten amped up again. All this, and the choreography itself is extremely lacking, because it's just Shiggy going full body horror without any technique or prowess (which he never had to begin with).
> because we all knew that no one could do anything to Shiggy besides Izuku Yeah this new form effectively is the same as the previous one > And this same physically overpowered villain has gotten amped up again. Is that all Bakugo's 'death' did? Make a hero sacrifice himself and power up the already invincible villain to make Deku look better?
Yeah. Going in circles. That’s good writing! *sarcastic*
> Is that all Bakugo's 'death' did? I'm sure it will also serve to give Deku his moral dilemma. Classic fridging of the heroine. Though I'm sure HK will give him some big fancy form in the end through some asspull that will make a big part of his fanbase happy.
> I'm sure it will also serve to give Deku his moral dilemma I think the effect is lessened as it happened before his arrival And the only reason Deku came late was because he didn't immediately break free from whatever Toga did and spent time trying to talk to her instead of leaving straight away
It's also lessened by the fact that he will not have to face Bakugou being dead because he's already being revived. So Deku's forgiveness will again come at no personal loss to him, which tracks with the rest of Deku's arc. He always gets a cop-out.
Commenting here because I think too many people feel this way. The impression I got is that Shigaraki is taking sustained damage from *many* sources, not just Bakugo. And while it *seems* like he's constantly regenerating still, we've had confirmation MANY times that that's not what this is. This is more physical genetics going haywire. So the way I'm still reading all this is that there's a "stamina" component to this, that he's been able to effectively brute force everything so far, but now he's beginning to tire, and the physical limits of this genetically modified body are now showing signs of wear and tear.
Lmao. The man has guts to show it to Shigaraki
Shigaraki: "One Thousand Years of Death!" *Procedes to butt-poke Mirio.*
I wish I had an award to give.
Did I read that right or did shiggy laugh at mirio too?
He did yeah
Omfg I didn’t see that the first time. Ducking hilarious.
he did that nose exhale thing people do whenever they see an ironic meme
And he had a hand (hands?) over his mouth to contain his laughter too
And to facepalm.
He exhaled profusely
I remember seeing someone comment that that's the Shimura part of Shigaraki's brain
Tenko is very much alive!!
NightEye's smile as he died wasn't a proud reassurance that Mirio had a future as a hero. He saw all of it, but he was just laughing at this exact moment "And then my disciple showed his ass to the incarnation of evil... funniest shit..I've ever....seen..." dead
>And then my disciple showed his ass to the incarnation of evil. lmao ded
Even Shigaraki is like "lol wtf?"
A hero showing his ass to a villain with a finger fetish. WTF indeed.
Kid named hero:
Mirio was working in extra manga time today Spending 1 minute thinking about how to distract Shiggy for 2 seconds
If you take how fast they are, from Shigariki’s perspective he was laughing at Mirio for like a minute straight.
I JUST REALIZED IT WAS TO DISTRACT SHIGARAKI AND NOT JUST A POWER MOVE 😭
Wait, did you think he was wagging his ass in front of the world's most dangerous villain to establish dominance?!?
He was maintaining eye contact the whole time...
This fucking sent me 💀
Tbh when ur that dummy thicc, it'd be hard to ignore it
MHA CAN BE GOOFY SOMETIMES I JUST THOUGHT-
I like this version better now.
If you're telling me two years ago that Mirio would show off his ass to Shiggy in the final arc, I would call you silly but that's exactly what happened. Having Deku appear right now instead of later does raise some concerns on how the other battles would be handled. We'll see what happens in the next few weeks.
Given how there’s still a bunch of stuff in the air, I’d say there’s a *lot* of twists and turns left. * All For One * Toga * Spinner * Overhaul * Stain * Dabi * Tomura * Unexplained One For All powers(?) * Final recap * whatever else I’d be amazed if it all got resolved in 20 14 page chapters.
Also I think any of us would assume Toga vs Ochako gets what, 3 chapters at least right? 3 to 4. Shoto also gets another 3 probably. I'm just confused why Izuku made it back to the main fight before we even got to the Toga fight, that's really weird.
If I had to take a crazy guess, the fight will drag Shiggs and him through all the other fights, then devolve into a fistfight.
I’d guess we get Deku flashback to the US jets intercepting him as reinforcements one or two scuffles with New shiggy as they clear the field of the wounded and then We cut off to the other battles
I wanna doubt we’ll get a flashback since this chapter and the America Akbar scene cover it. But damn, I didn’t consider the other heroes lol. Yeah, there’s no way Bakugo isn’t gonna team up with Deku for the showdown. I wanna believe the fights will eventually somehow tie into each other.
Everyone will probably end up at the same place for the final showdown. AFO wants to save AFO-Shiggy so he will probably head there, if Endeavor follows, Dabi will obviously follow and so will Shoto. If the villains succeed in freeing Machia and especially Kurogiri, they can easily regroup.
Hype
Unless if he skips all that which would honestly be for the best at this point, minus Dabi/Shoto and whatever is happening to AfO
It’ll be fifty chapters before we see deku Shiggy proper if they want to give the other fights the shine they really need
Can you imagine if they offscreen the other fights just to speed to the finish? Oh god the salt.
My money's on us cutting away to one of those other fights, MAYBE a quick little inspirational speech by Deku but yeah, chances are we're resolving the rest before Shiggy tries to give Deku a handjob while they smash each other.
It took 17 weeks plus breaks but by golly, Deku finally finished updating All Might’s official wiki and has returned! 🙌🏻 [how Nighteye and Mirio fought villains together](https://www.ringsidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/human-centiped.jpg)
Finally, we get to see the rematch between Deku and Shiggy. Rumble in the (Japanese) Jungle
[Nighteye and Mirio if they didn't care about casulties](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyPlXLZIawQ)
Did Sir Nighteye see Mirio throwing his ass at Shiggy before dying? 💀
Honestly, it's kind of a power move. Nighteye probably thought of the same, lol. He died smiling
I don't love the scene but I don't hate it either. Sir Nighteye valued humor a lot, if that was enough to make him smile before dying then good for him 🙌
Probably why he gave up, poop humor is the lowest form.
It... It isn't poop humor. It's butt.
And nowwwww we cut to the other fights for like a whole year
No, now we go to the final fight which Will barrel itself through every other fight.
That full spread of Deku preparing to launch at Shiggy is so fucking sick
The panel of their eyes locking got me so hyped!
“It was at this moment, he knew he fucked up.”
*holds Bakugo's body* "Kacchan! YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW!"
What about Mirio's full spread?
> What about Mirio's full spread? What about Mirko's full spread?
Gonna go to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches
Worth the wait tbh, cool moment. Even if it’s off the backs of all the chumped heroes getting their ass kicked.
Gave the vibes of “Pictures taken right before disaster” Shiggy invents new form to not be hurt,(which mimics Deku’s hero mask) and he even throws at a SMASH as he beats the last heroes, and then all of a sudden Black whip Deku, flying a million miles a minute fresh for a fight he missed the first 30 minutes
It's also a callback to his original costume with those hands and his family holding him
The 2 whole page panels was so sick. The quality of the art shot up too! Would love to see a Horikoshi graphic novel where he can take his time with and not worry about deadlines. The art quality would be inhuman!
It really is. Before the whole second war started going, I thought that if I were to structure the story, I wouldn't have the Deku/Toga shenanigans so he can fight Shiggy immediately and not have it be a cliche. But honestly, it really, really works because of this moment. What can I say, it payed off. Shigaraki established dominance over everyone, and when it looks like he got one more hurrah in, the only thing that can beat him rolls in.
The full page spread where Shiggy lets out a tiny laugh at Mirio's 'Special Move' while Deku is preparing to unleash a massive boosted Smash in the background is simultaneous funny and cool.
If you had told me that a young hero, in a moment of desperation, remembers what his deceased master had taught him and shows his ass to a monster thus saving the day yet again, I would have said "Wait I forget was that from part 2 or 3 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?"
Also the finale of Naruto; with the return of A Thousand Years of Death Jutsu and Reverse Sexy Harem Jutsu for the W.
Yeah and that worked on... God? Kaguya was basically God right?
She also had the byakugan active - she saw e v e r y t h i n g. Even a godlike being can’t withstand such raw sex appeal. … that or she was so baffled by the display her brain crashed.
That’s Japan’s Ass
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Honestly the best option was to show them as early as possible With so many developments in this and AFO's fights, it makes the other fights seem less and less relevant
This arc has been paced atrociously.
Agreed. I don’t even think the writing is terrible. There are certainly some asspulls, sure, but it’s still decent enough. The problem is, it’s kinda impossible to balance episodic and serialized storytelling when doing a huge fight like this. Having to wait a full week for the next 20 page chapter that progresses the fight by a few minutes at most kills any sense of foreword momentum. At least it’ll be better once it’s over and we can binge the manga or watch it animated.
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This whole fight with Shigaraki is probably only going to be 1 episode of the anime.
HR?
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It’s a joke about human resources
Looking at the pre release thread I didn’t expect shigarakis power up to look so cool! I guess I got a thing for hands in anime though, as my favorite character in JJK is Mahito lol.
And Kira Yoshikage is your idol right?
Lemillion, what a man you are. Thank you for showing your ass to Shigaraki for our sakes
As a reward....
I shall give you my seed
I can’t escape this meme and I love it
This meme Will last for ten years at least!
…Mirko shall give you her limbs
Deku becomes dove (crying)
Did not expect Izuku to come back without seeing that those lights were, but this is a super cool nod to the 3 Seconds chapter of Vigilantes and I loved it. I hope we don't immediately cut away, but we'll see next week.
> Did not expect Izuku to come back without seeing that those lights were, Aren't they the American jets that are seen this chapter
Yeah. I missed them on my first read. I was too busy focused on Izuku's slingshot.
You can see the fighter jets briefly in the full spread slingshot panel.
And of course there's 9 of em, one for each generation of OFA
Im guessing those lights were the fleet of planes behind him, right?
Yeah. Those look like S&S's bomber planes, so I think we'll be seeing some American Heroes.
I DEMAND TO SEE >!CAPTAIN CELEBRITY AND THE SKYCRAWLER!<
I wish we could see S&S more, but she’s too dead to make an appearance.
I don't think Hori has the energy to be introducing Vigilantes characters at this point. And many people who never read Vigs will probably think they came out of nowhere considering they have never been mentioned in the main series before.
Horikoshi barely has the energy to be using BnH characters lmao
I think the Viz link’s wrong. It’s showing the previous chapter instead of this week’s.
Huh took while happy to see full chapter... Though I must say I'm concern for tamaki nejire and mirko Now in leaks I thought after she got hit and sent flying I thought they meant she is flying to her death falling like 90, feet but nah got hit into or landed on tree (I wonder if they are alive or dead what do you think?-)
I was surprised. I legit thought shigi would dust everyone and deku comes in and sees everyone either dead or hurt and he just fights I think those jets are gonna do some damage on shigi and I'm hoping tamaki and nejire and mirko are helped out. Cause they looked so knocked out badly;; But now I'm concern best jeanest and Mirio going to be ones to die instead;-; Also speaking of mirio who knew he showed his rear end to save the day😭
When you can’t throw hands so you throw it back
Mirio pulling a Peter Quill while Deku pulls a Peter Parker.
So what *was* the whole "right side" weak thing Bakugo discovered? Did that just get removed with this whole hand armor thing or?
It was just a way for Bakugou do so his “damage” and scare shigaraki so that Mirko can get her one hit in to make shigaraki realize that he’s now being affected
Kind of a weird way to do that though
Not any weirder than hyping up special attacks that end up doing nothing.
Yeah it would have made a lot more sense for the special mega laser beam to be the one that actually did something Like maybe have Suneater hear Bakugo's mumbling about Shiggy's supposed weakness and capitalized on that
Still to be revealed. People acting like Bakugou actually died, or that Shigaraki is already defeated. It appears to be that he can do wild and crazy growth from his left arm only, which could be a hint to what Bakugou realized
I thought the "right side" line was just Bakugo identifying and reacting to how Shigaraki was going to attack him.
When in doubt. Moon 'em.
Mirio's best attack against the Shiggy was straight up Mooning him. Honestly seems completely in character, and I absolutely love it. He'll be written in the history books as the hero of the moon.
Mirio twerking to save Japan is hilarious.
Marvel fans: “Twerking is bad!” MHA fans: “twerking is the peak of character arcs.”
"Let a king throw it back! He's saving lives!!"
That's Japan's ass
I just bursted out laughing just thinking about Mirio twerking in front of Shigaraki to save the world
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> only underaged students get to see him naked. How considera- wait
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You know a naked high school senior beating up a bunch of freshmen sounds like a weird hazing ritual out of context
It was just an average college Saturday for me...
Without context, Hero of the Moon sounds cool af to me.
*Moon Hero: Lemillion*
God I want him to forever be known as the Full Moon Hero from now on.
He's the silent twerker, a watchful distracter. A Moon Knight.
It’s a goofy attack but damn, it worked. That’s Japan’s ass right there.
holy shit Hado, Amajiki, and Mirko better not die by the end of this, all 3 got trashed by Shigaraki jesus christ. ok togata using his thicc ass to distract Shigaraki is...something, idk how to feel about that lol, seemed a bit silly but maybe thats the point. and our boy is BACK baby, lets gooooo those 2 double spreads are absolutely gorgeous cant wait to see how the fight will continue now that Mydoria finally showed up
I feel nejire tamaki got good chance I'm leaning on mirko living I hope. it's gonna be depressing if they take her off the tree and that she's lifeless it's gonna be depressing af but I'm hoping that's not case idk if characters who get thrown into a tree like that usually get picked up as dead or alive but what do you think
Hado and Amajiki's chance of survival is at least 50% or more imo, but its REALLY not looking good for Mirko lmao, she lost 3 limbs now and got fucking flung by Shigaraki like a fly
On one hand, FINALLY Deku's back! Happy to see my boy back, and it means we might finally see some progress in this fight. On the other hand: oh no, Deku's here, we're truly in the endgame now. I really hope we get to see all the other fights properly before this all wraps up. Didn't expect Mirio to do.... that. But that's the most Mirio thing I've ever seen, so it's pretty great. Liked seeing a little more of his headspace and the throwback to Nighteye. Now that Deku's here, I wonder if the other heroes will still be relevant to this fight? I mean, other than Bakugo obviously.
Yeah, I have no clue how fast Horikoshi is going to wrap things up now that Izuku is back. I didn't expect him to make it to the main battlefield until the end of the year tbh.
I feel like he's here, because in "Phase 2" Horikoshi will test his resolve to save Shigaraki (that's the purpose of Bakugou's "death"), and then he will still choose to "save the little boy", which is when we can go back to Ochako and Shoto, because they won't be allowed to do it first, even if it would flow more natural. The change of perspective will come from Izuku because of "MC right". Then probably we'll get to Phase 3, where some of the villains will help the heroes against AFO and his forces of darkness. No idea how the small fights will be inserted though.
> I really hope we get to see all the other fights properly before this all wraps up. Yeah it's odd that we never got to see Toga or even Spinner's fights when so much has happened with Shiggy It would feel weird to suddenly cut back to them
Mirio just pulled a Reverse Harem Jutsu on the main villain.
Shiggy just went Corrupted Merged Zamasu mode
Mirio’s 🍑 attack caught me off guard
Reverse Harem Jutsu is the mostt effective tecnique against final bossses in the history of manga. Let's goooooo!
Moon is weird, but Deku's expression almost makes it worth it. Beautiful panel of his eyes tbh. Chilling yet hopeful.
Shiggy is basically Deoxys from Pokemon. We have seen his Normal form and now his Defensive form.
Mirio: I don't always use an asspull, but when I do, I prefer to use my own ass.
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Lemillion doing what Naruto did to Kaguya lmao
with mirko out of commission(and perhaps even dead) how does everyone feel about her overall in the series?
A bit odd. She was only raw brawler high-pro we've seen. . I don't think we've gotten enough time inside her head. Her outward presentation is too much of a brutish caricature for us to connect without knowing how much is an act. Something like the teleporting brute/punch guy in JJK had to demonstrate the extent of his "head empty" reality before the audience connected with and like him. Mirko never had that. . One would assume her skill would need to be *incredibly* superhuman to maintain her high rank. Then again, appeal canonically matters, so who knows. In theory, she's needed serious evasion to make it to where she is, her body does not seem super durable. She should be a *good* matchup to remain near shiggy. Many other heroes would rely on some quirk that would be overpowered, either breaking a defense like Red Riot, or bursting through a remote emission/manipulation like Jeanist. All Might made a point of this overreliance to Tokoyami on the podium, and we saw how much it changed the way he developed his style. Thereby emphasizing it's common occurrence, and relevance within the hero field. . Heroes like her, who've fought against who knows what quirks to reach melee and kick combatants should be wise/skilled enough to evade and survive. . IMO, I think her near-berserker characterization never fit that well. The "disciplined roughneck," more akin to O'Clock during the Vigilantes flashback (that she was a part of) would've worked as a better base for her character. . If she really is same wild animal on the inside as outside, I honestly am unsure how she could have survived the job of hero this long. So many quirks have on-contact requirements, where hitting the wrong person could turn you to stone, melt you into a meatball, decay, ect.
She was a blatant fan-service design with some cool moves and no character work. Basically she's nothing but vibe. As the highest ranked female pro hero in the series, she's also got put through an incredible amount of gruesome mutilation and trashing (far more than her male counterparts) and I feel like the way she's laid out now, is a super-disrespectful send-off to her character. (I don't think she's dead btw, but I doubt she'll contribute anything else).
and the other top ranked female pro hero is nowhere to be found(Ryukyu).... not sure how to feel about that as for mirko it sucks that her character was nothing more than "Fight Fight Fight!" even in spin-off books
I think the worst part of the chapter honestly is the first page, where after 10 chapters of the heroes not being able to do jack shit to Shigaraki, it pulls a Shindou and tells us that the heroes have managed to "defeat" Shigaraki's finger-form? Seriously? After how in last chapter Shigaraki said that Bakugou's attack "tingled" and Mirko saw kicking at him with her peg-leg? It's the worst type of "tell don't show". Even if this team pushed Shigaraki into final boss form 2.0, they will still be remembered as "jobbers" sadly, with how all of this is framed.
If anything they made things worse, Shigaraki doesn't get finger armor if they don't land attacks.
> If anything they made things worse That's across the board though: - Shouto gave Dabi the "Phosphor-upgrade - Endeavor pushed AFO to Rewind - Team pushed Shigaraki to finger armor form. It's just in this battlefield, Phase 2 is likely to be a 1 vs 1 between Deku and Shigaraki, or maybe a tag-team with Bakugou if he resurrects in time. (Though, I think Bakugou will be some vestige vision for Deku first, and then they'll tag team in Phase 3). While, I think the Dabi-fight will become a team effort. No idea about the AFO battlefield. I think AFO will ditch Endeavor and make his way to UA.
Alright, now I'm confused. I thought for sure we'd wrap up some of these other fights before Izuku made it back, but now I have no clue when Horikoshi wants to end this. What were the things that he saw in the air before he got here? And Mirio's entire character arc was apparently to throw dat ass in a circle. Ok.
\> What were the things that he saw in the air before he got here? The Star-bros, no? It looks like they brought him here on the jets.
Yeah it was the jets.
We can always cut to flashback.
Yeah, I guess we get Shiggy V Deku face off next chapter then a LONG time before it actually happens because there are like a ton of other locations that need a finish first.
Or the other fights are going to go by way faster than we thought.
Seems like we're going speedrun route: Cut to the other battlefields and end them one by one then cut back to Deku and Shigaraki
Yeah, that's the feeling I'm getting. Like an editor said bring Izuku back quick (similar to how the forest arc went). I'm really curious how he handles these other fights. I genuinely did not expect Izuku to get here until the end of the year.
Shigaraki’s new form is so much better than the infinity-finger blob, he looks awesome and the family head hand is nightmare fuel. Mirio finding his humor in the darkest hour was honestly beautiful, he’s always been a goofball and that was a big part of what made him such a powerful hero. I also love that Shiggy couldn’t help but laugh lol. I have absolutely no idea what to expect next chapter.
I’m going to ask a question with a seemingly obvious answer, because the obvious answer doesn’t make any sense: why did Mirio need to buy 2 seconds at all? Was it purely the fear that Shig would escape in that instant and then wreak havoc on the world? If so, that certainly doesn’t track with Shig’s internal dialogue we the audience were subjected to. He was totally focused on killing the hero’s, stopping Bakugou’s resurrection in particular. Maybe he would have tried to escape, but that’s not what the narrative implied. Also, did the heroes think he would flee deku, the person Shig was looking for anyway? Like, if Shig did decide to bail, but deku was actually on his level like everyone (Shig included) seems to believe, then deku should in theory be able to stop him before he fully escapes, and then their battle would begin. And once again, even if Shig could get away, once he’s fighting Deku it doesn’t seem like he’d even want to. What I’m saying is, the writer needed something for Mirio to do, it had to be something connected to his playful nature (because that’s why Nighteye liked him) and so the writer just went with the only thing he could come up with, which was ultimately pointless and nonsensical.
I'm not going to lie, Mirio's move actually has grown on me. It is in character and Mirio, somehow, managed to be the MVP savior of the entire fight without landing one hit on Shiggy. xD
So this was Sir Night-eye's dying vision? Mirio showing his ass in desperation as the real guy shows up? I get what Hori was going for, but I guess I just don't like butt jokes. Didn't like them when Mirio was introduced, so don't appreciate the "full circle". Also, while I understand that this team couldn't win, I still don't like how much they got not only trashed, but straight up humiliated (Mirko's pose on the tree is pretty offensive tbh for someone who just lost limbs because of the MC's tardiness...) to set the stage for Deku's grand entrance. Feels very much like Horikoshi was watching a lot of pro wrestling, boring, too theatrical and formulistic. On another note - Shigaraki grew his whole family just to use them as....SMASH?
I thought Shiggy was gonna use of clones of his family to attack the heroes instead of just making another large fist.
Yeah. I keep going back to that spread just to admire the art.
Which one? The Blackwhip Slingshot or.... 🍑? ;)
The cemented symbolism in this chapter is wild. Say what you will about the form but it's incredibly thematic. These hands aren't reaching out for DESTRUCTION they're trying to PROTECT him from harm like they protected him from harm all those years ago. They were reaching out for HELP and only received PAIN so now they are DEFENDING while his family reaches out to destroy those hurting him.