Not saying that Mineta is somehow tolerable, i think I would have expressed myself better if I had asked why people seem to like so much Shinso.
My Hero Academia - Gomu Gomu no Gentle Fist
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Not saying that Mineta is somehow tolerable, i think I would have expressed myself better if I had asked why people seem to like so much Shinso.
People dug his internal conflict of having a superpower that people would associate with super villains, putting pressure on himself to prove his capacity for heroism. I thought that was obvious.
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People dug his internal conflict of having a superpower that people would associate with super villains, putting pressure on himself to prove his capacity for heroism. I thought that was obvious.
Associating any quirk with villainy seems kinda useless if we consider that most of the world is a mutant of some kind, and we had a serial killer capable of growing his teeth and a hero that gets so thin that he can get inside a person and mumble his insides.
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Just when Shouto already seems to have enough in common with Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender, his potential secret relative has blue fire.
And he has already done the life changing field trip with Iida and Bakugo.
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Associating any quirk with villainy seems kinda useless if we consider that most of the world is a mutant of some kind, and we had a serial killer capable of growing his teeth and a hero that gets so thin that he can get inside a person and mumble his insides.
If he was an attempt to do quirk discrimination i personally think it's not quite well done, I mean the police and the military would love to have someone like him or Nemoto working for them.It's mainly supposed to be a meta reference for the mind control supervillain trope. But even in the scope of My Hero Academia, it's totally believable for kids to at least joke (which is what they did) about Shinso using his Quirk to manipulate people like a villain might do, let alone be put off by him. It's that overpowered and invasive, and those expectations bothered him. We're talking about school kids here, the ones who love to spread gossip and stratify themselves into social cliques. The series has clearly established that what type of Quirk you have is going to have a certain amount of attention or discrimination placed upon you. Everyone having Quirks isn't enough to wipe away how almost every one has DIFFERENT Quirks.
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I think this chapter I realized just how young Eri actually is.
Speaking of the girls. Mina is growing on me more. She doesn't get a lot of dialogue, but she's pretty fun. Upfront and bubbly without being too ditzy. We know she's low rank in the class, but she's plenty cool.
I wonder if Deku will help out the thematics team. I can't really imagine him having absolutely nothing to do for the class project and only being a secondary escort to Eri.
I've liked Mina for a while now. If they decide to add any more high school romance to this I'd love to see her and Kirishima progress.
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My god that's a lot of spoilers.
Oh, man. Look at Momo at the 26 second mark. Thank you internet. lol
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I'll also add on Koda into the no development filler kids. I had to go look up his name cause I constantly forget it.
I don't want Mineta to have a tragic backstory to explain his perversions. He's clearly just a perverted kid. I don't know how far he can be redeemed since that's 90% of his character. The rest is being a useless coward. Kaminari may be a bit perverted but at least he has other qualities. I fully support Mineta getting transferred for Shinso.
Mineta has other qualities besides his perversion, it's why his friendship with Kaminari works.
They've both shown cowardice at times and incompetence as well, the pretty boy image mashed against his little gremlins friend, his intelligence and uptightness in contrast with Kaminari's "idiocy" and laid back behavior, etc etc.
You see it in a lot of scenes.
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Thia filler/intermediate arc is completely uninteresting to me. I really hope some shit hits the fan soon
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Boss Mina is a benevolent God, Midoriya is just transferred to support group in order to help dico ball Aoyama.
And geez, Toshinori really need to improve his mentor game. -
So La Brava was just a stalker that Gentle took in…as odd as this relationship is, I can't help but smile. Their dynamic is great.
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Those were a few death flags for Gentle, him being practically a troll activist puts him in danger of collision with the league of villains.
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So La Brava was just a stalker that Gentle took in…as odd as this relationship is, I can't help but smile. Their dynamic is great.
Wholly agree with you, for some reason I found the small peek into their backstory very cute. Especially with Gentle's declaration on the last page.
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Give the guy a LIKE, Midoriya!
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The real troll is Mina on last week's chapter.
Why is Toshinori changing his voice? They all know he's All Might. Not crazy about All Might handling OFA so easily. Sounds like a cop out.
Gentle is killing it. Glad he's not taking UA lightly. Gonna suck when he gets caught. No way is he escaping. Can see him helping La Brava escape.
Those were a few death flags for Gentle, him being practically a troll activist puts him in danger of collision with the league of villains.
I don't think the league cares about Gentle. La Brava's a different story. If they're breaking Black Mist and AFO out Tartarus they'll need a hacker. And if Gentle's sent there it's a win-win.
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Oh my gosh, their relationship is adorable (stalker beginnings aside).
La Brava earnestly crying "I love you" at the end really made me feel warm inside.
Horikoshi's doing a great job with making this duo legitimately endearing.But I agree that we're probably setting them up for a personal tragedy.
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I feel that the tragedy if it happens won't be during this arc. This arc is shaping up to be fluffy. We've got…Uhh...That kid from the last arc (why can't I think of her name??) learning how to have fun. The students of the hero department getting a much needed stress free school activity. The general and support kids not having a reason to fully hate the hero course. Gentle is aware of some interesting folks we haven't seen in the story yet. I feel he'll escape and at least be around as an infornation vehicle later.
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These guys really are kind of turning out to be the Robin Hood/Maid Marian pair, only instead of "robbing the rich to give to the poor" we've got "committing crimes to encourage the un-inspired."
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These guys really are kind of turning out to be the Robin Hood/Maid Marian pair
More like Bonnie and Clyde. But let's hope they don't share the same fate.
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More like Bonnie and Clyde. But let's hope they don't share the same fate.
Gentle and La Brava announcing La La Land as best picture instead of Moonlight?
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I don't think the league cares about Gentle. La Brava's a different story. If they're breaking Black Mist and AFO out Tartarus they'll need a hacker. And if Gentle's sent there it's a win-win.
The League not really caring about Gentle is probably the case but I can easily see a situation where they attack UA or La Brava and Gentle sacrifices himself.
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If The League of Villains are going to eliminate Gentle and (maybe) La Brava for some sort of tragic ending, I'll be disappointed in Horikoshi if he misses an opportunity as dark as this since they're a video making duo:
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! Bonus points if they force La Brava to film Gentle's demise.That's the perfect way for the League of Villains to step up their game and establish themselves as the top dog villains in a post-All for One era. I don't think Gentle and La Brava, if they do meet a tragic end, will suffer that this arc. This arc seems very lighthearted. But if they become recurring characters, which is very possible given their altruistic behavior not really NEEDING to be stopped for good, then I do expect them to meet a tragic fate eventually.
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I see Gentle and La Brava as more of an Isaac and Miria kinda duo, myself. They might fall on some rough times here and there, but they'll always come back, ready to make people smile.
At least, I hope that's what ends up happening. Please Horikoshi, protect them.
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My Hero Vigilantes 25 is out!
https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapter/my-hero-academia-vigilantes-chapter-25/6662?read=1! Climax time! Happy seeing how much Knuckleduster loves his daughter. Love hurts, and baby, she's getting a fist full in the gut. I do wonder if we're nearing the end of the series. Will Knuckleduster "retire" after saving his daughter, Pop Step become a legit performer, and Crawler… Well, guess it can't end until he masters his quirk. Unless, we time skip him working as a hero/sidekick.
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It's funny that both stories are doing performance stuff.
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Oh, that got me thinking. If UA's General Studies Department doesn't require teachers to be heroes, I'd love Koichi becoming a teacher.
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Not a big fan of Midoriya keeping on bumping on villains like this.
I really wanted to be Gentle to bring a smile to Eri's face. -
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Not a big fan of Midoriya keeping on bumping on villains like this.
I really wanted to be Gentle to bring a smile to Eri's face.Yeah that's pretty forced feeling.
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But 3C, Deku already knows that lesson.
And it would fell weird that every time Deku beats a villain he doesn't get the credits. Or did he got some credit over beating Chisaki?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Still, it'd be even more extreme.
With Stain, Muscular, Baku-Rescue, and Chisaki, there were always other people involved, even if the public at large was none the wiser (don't think the details of the Hassaikai raid were made public).Honestly doubt it'll work out that way though.
Hound Dog's been played up too much (three chapters in a row! Mentioned by Midnight->mentioned by Gentle->shown shooing the kids out of the gym; that stuff smacks of reminders for casual readers that he even exists) for his presence to be a non-factor. Which means Izuku…has to somehow lose here. Or at least be given the slip. -
If Deku has even any common sense and humility he'll still alert the staff and or police he saw Gentle near the school.
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Yeah that's pretty forced feeling.
Not a fan either, this is like the third time, right? I guess it's supposed to mirror his encounter with Overhaul, how he's not gonna back down now to make sure to protect Eri or something like that.
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Not a fan either, this is like the third time, right? I guess it's supposed to mirror his encounter with Overhaul, how he's not gonna back down now to make sure to protect Eri or something like that.
It's technically the seventh.
1st: Sludge Villain
2nd Nomu punched into his train
3rd Nomu that tried kidnapping him
4th Shigaraki
5th Camie Toga
6th Chisaki
7th GentleMaybe he does have a quirk after all.
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Well, that happened sooner than I expected. I thought Gentle would at least get into the school before Deku found him.
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Not a fan either, this is like the third time, right? I guess it's supposed to mirror his encounter with Overhaul, how he's not gonna back down now to make sure to protect Eri or something like that.
Yeah…Never really been a fan of the hero constantly being where he needs to be. Especially through mostly mundane reasons. If he was actually patrolling or doing hero work when these encounters happened it would make a bit more sense.
At the very least it's dumb of Deku to even confront Gentle. He could have played dumb then alerted the Hound. I don't know why he thinks his talk no jutsu is effective on villains. It usually just pisses them off.
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It's technically the seventh.
Yeah…Never really been a fan of the hero constantly being where he needs to be. Especially through mostly mundane reasons. If he was actually patrolling or doing hero work when these encounters happened it would make a bit more sense.
At the very least it's dumb of Deku to even confront Gentle. He could have played dumb then alerted the Hound. I don't know why he thinks his talk no jutsu is effective on villains. It usually just pisses them off.
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Looks like I'm not the only one irritated by this constructed random encounter. The video felt already forced and now this. Plus I obviously don't want deku to win before anything even happened at the festival. I don't even feel the need for him to build a stronger connection to gentle and love lover than the rest of the ua cast.
I did get a chuckle out of there conversation/thought bubbles though.
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Someone is about to get fuuuuuuuuuuuudge for dessert.
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Some of these don't bother me too much since anybody could just run into a Nomu when they are wrecking the town, but when he walks by guys like Overhaul and Gentle in such a mundane way, it feels kinda lazy, as if the whole situations been crafted to just serve this one moment without it being natural at all.
It's stuff like that that keeps me from truly liking Deku as a character as opposed to some of his classmates and even even some villains. So many scenes with him just feel off to me, overshadowing the ones that I liked.
Yeah. Deku to me is the character I have the least interest in at this point. I know he's supposed to have the spotlight since it's about his journey but it doesn't feel organic to me. His power progression feels natural though. Like his growth isn't to much in that regard. But pretty much everything else about him doesn't really feel earned. It's been pure luck.
I think in a lot of ways he's like Gon…Which is also maybe my I'm not really a fan of him lol. At least he's strategic, but super naive.
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Guess I'm the only one who didn't mind the random encounter. Didn't even think about it. It's the result I'm more concerned about. What will Deku do and will Gentle escape? At this point I don't see the festival getting cancelled. Either Deku wins or his efforts convinces Gentle he doesn't need to attack UA (the students don't need his "guidance"). If La Brava records the fight he'll still get views, everyone wins.
If Deku has even any common sense and humility he'll still alert the staff and or police he saw Gentle near the school.
And deny Eri festival time? Nah. I think he'll keep it secret then get busted when Gentle posts the video.
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I figured people would complained about something as irrelevant as the hero encountering the villain even though the past few chapters has done nothing but set up the encounter happening
@Cyclone_Baroness:Yeah…Never really been a fan of the hero constantly being where he needs to be. Especially through mostly mundane reasons. If he was actually patrolling or doing hero work when these encounters happened it would make a bit more sense.
At the very least it's dumb of Deku to even confront Gentle. He could have played dumb then alerted the Hound. I don't know why he thinks his talk no jutsu is effective on villains. It usually just pisses them off.
What are you talking about? He's not even trying to converse with them, the moment he brings up a villain planing to break in the UA then the festival will get cancelled.
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It's stuff like that that keeps me from truly liking Deku as a character as opposed to some of his classmates and even even some villains. So many scenes with him just feel off to me, overshadowing the ones that I liked.
So you dislike him for taking initiative given how the last arc came about mainly because he didn't?
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I want Izuku to deal with Gentle+LB in an alleyway and then never tell anyone about it.
"And that was the time I learned that being a hero isn't about fame and glory. It's about fighting for others, even if they'll never know it." etc. etc.They are going to film it so I don't think it would be possible. And I don't think Deku was ever portrayed as someone in need of that lesson.
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Yeah I have zero problem with this. The "coincidence", Izuku's not wanting to get the whole thing shut down, etc.
It's kind of neat how the Aoyama friendship indirectly led to this (though he might've gone shopping for the mystery item anyway - probably an apple-treat for Eri).Reminds me of #19 in Pixar's 22 rules of good storytelling:
Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.And half of the coincidences being cited weren't coincidences at all for in-world reasons beyond the obvious "stuff happens to the protagonist."
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He just said please leave UA out of it. He's talking to him isn't he?
He's being dumb here. He's confronting a villain by himself that he knows very little about. But that's part of the problem of having this encounter in the first place. There's very little that may actually happen from this. Gentle could still be all "Oh I'm not who you think I am?" And back off. And then not show up. Deku asking him not to show up and then still hoping a villain will keep his word and never telling anyone cause he wants the festival to continue is still problematic. It'll mean he knew the guy was lurking and let him go. And the festival could still get invaded and the school still looks bad.
It's just messy to have this meet up. Good intentions, to want things to go well for his friends but still a problem.
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What a great hero Deku is asking a villain to walk away and go free potentially hurting innocent civilians someday all to protect Jiro's special day instead of you know trying to capture or report him.
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I think I would have preferred Gentle in the the festival rather than outside just for Deku.
The encounter itself probably would not bother if Deku didn't coincidentally watched his video recently so he could get recognized. So my problem isn't running into Gentle but that he just learned who Gentle is for that encounter.
I am looking forward to the dance performance and maybe spending some time with Mirio.
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What a great hero Deku is asking a villain to walk away and go free potentially hurting innocent civilians someday all to protect Jiro's special day instead of you know trying to capture or report him.
I think it was mentioned that Gentle is known for only doing little mischief. His MO is a matter of public record.
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So you dislike him for taking initiative given how the last arc came about mainly because he didn't?
I didn't even have a problem with him not confronting Overhaul in the last arc tbh, the drama felt stilted to me. Not confronting a very dangerous person in a public place and informing the authorities are all very reasonable things to me. I realize that a cold and clinical view on the whole thing, but for some reason how it all happened rubbed me the wrong way.
Taking the initiative is fine, since some of my favorite heroes in other comics are the pure type who just want to help people, but the festival being cancelled isn't even that bad, even though Hori wants us to think that it is. There's really no reason for him to not inform a pro hero except that he really doesn't want the festival to be interrupted in any way. That's a really feeble reason for something that could end up harming other people, even if Gentle's MO isn't violent or all that malicious. What if he loses, gets knocked out and Gentle's actions allow for the Alliance to crash the festival? Heroes are supposed to take something like that into consideration. -
The coincidence per say it's not the problem is the where and the how; if Deku beats Gentle or convince him not to intrude the festival we are deprived of the shenanigans that he could provide, if Gentle somehow escapes or beats the Deku and go to the festival the encounter would be meaningless to happen before the start of the festival, if Deku after the meeting does not inform UA personal about it it looks bad for him.
The most likely thing to happen imo is that the meeting will be inconclusive, Gentle will still go to the festival, Deku will keep shut about in order to not ruin Eri's special day and put to waste the efforts of all his classmates so he will try to unfold himself into doing his part in the dace-music performance, chaperone Eri with Mirio and play mouse and cat with Gentle in order to avoid him doing anything at all to ruin the day. -
People think Deku will win? Seriously? Gentle's first appearance is literally him pacifying a bunch of heroes and getting away.
The most interesting thing for me here is Deku's emphasis on not canceling the festival. He knows Gentle is relatively non-violent so he figures Eri won't be in any direct danger. Once Gentle escapes, I definitely see Deku trying to capture Gentle without alerting the whole school. He and Aoyama will for sure team up for a fight in the rafters.