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Agreed. And Toga stretching out near the window looks cool to me for some reason.
Maybe. Although Toga could keep using her as a blood bank to maintain her Shiketsu disguise. Especially since Ms. Joke and Aizawa want to do combined training for their classes (I doubt they were talking about themselves). Whatever that entails.
I'm sure she could be a blood bank. But one thing I'm sure is that she's not dead. Dead is messy and raise suspicion which they seem to try avoiding for now.
To be fair, it was shown on a computer screen that Bakugou and Inasa were some of the most "inadequate" early in the rescue phase.
Yes, but that was in the early stage and supposedly they were still doing well(said in the same page). There really wasn't a point about them being in jeopardy.
Although that still doesn't mean Bakugou shouldn't have gotten more focus towards failing. The reasons are perfectly understandable, but a bunch of people got docked points over trivial things. While showcasing Todoroki and Inasa's relationship and theme of Shouto taking responsibility for his previous actions was interesting, I still would have preferred more of of a focus on the rescue side of things in terms of individual perspective and character flaws that may be improved here or later in the story. Only Deku got that treatment. That, and it's still a lore more interesting than more battle action focus (even though it was definitely wise to test the students by having them deal with villains on the same field as civilians that need rescuing).
Which is why I was disapointed about switching to the fighting the villain scenario.I was sure the rescue part would be neglected. Not that fighting exercise can't be good. The exercise with the teachers before the special camp was pretty great but I feel other aspect of heroes are not given proper focus. I was ok with it but if you are going to have your going to have a main character struggle with it, a minimum showcase should be expected.
Oh no, I completely agree about Killua's failure being a big thing. I'm just talking about how he want back and retook the exam like he was out grocery shopping and it had no effect on the plot of Greed Island or the overall story thereafter. Killua failing the hunter Exam the first time was great in terms of character development and introspection, but I just feel like the scenes of him retaking it should have held more weight than just being a momentary plot detour.
I distinguish 2 type of competition in the shonen. The rite of passage and the tournament type.
The rite of passage are the genin exam or the provisional license type. They serve to estimate a fairly strict level. They are great to tell you what your hero can do and introduce others that are in the same class as him, a great moment to expand your word and illustrate the environment in which they evolve. But because they have a fairly fixated level regardless of if they pass it the first time or not, by the time the next time one roll around you know the main cast is already past it. So they barely served to showcase how superior they became.
The tournament type. It's the one where in which you get to actually compete with other participant and they level can grow with you. This where passing multiple doesn't really hurt because the cast find new challenge and meet with old rivals and allies that are still an obstacle, you can even meet new challenges. This is usually the one where rivalry are made and you can see the character having evolve in many ways. Pretty useful in sport manga.
Killua was on the first and there's hardly ever anything to be done with it other than showcase superiority or some huge upset. It's kind of why Dragonball never really stick with the preliminaries. I guess the idea of showing pipe guy and the doorman could have worked but it probably still would have been something like a 5 page hunter exam.
And if you read a later post of mine, I also note how redundant it feels for Inasa, Bakugou, and Todoroki to get by with a training course that's just a month before they can take the exam again. I had forgotten that the Provisonary License Exam took place twice a year rather than once before I was briefly corrected. But their lack of licenses will still hold weight and be relevant in the plot until then though.
The problem is mostly how he present it. It's not you failed that sucks. It's you failed but there's an exam in not to long so no biggie. In Kuroko no basket there is that tournament the main team lost and you can feel how destroyed they are. They have another tournament coming in 3 months but it doesn't feel like a silver lining. Same way about the hunter exam you know they will be one next year but between how it affected Killua and the hard defense they tried to have him pass it because Illumi mess him up, there is no silver lining. In this chapter Todo and Wind just lose but they right away told don't worry we have a special make-over anyway. The loss doesn't really sink for the reader and the weight of the loss is lessen in the manga.
P.S.: It's the first time the lack of expression from I&F bothered me. I would really have liked for him to show some emotion.
I also note this in a latter post. If anything, Toga took that blood just for the sake of playing around with Deku more and maybe teasing Shigaraki about his growing fascination/hate for Deku.
I imagine we are getting another invasion arc or Toga sneaking around in the dorm. Could be fun considering her personality.
It could work if Horikoshi really wanted to. Of course, I'm not saying that the students actually have the proper knowledge and resources to get involved with that. But in a situation where one of the Pro-Heroes gets involved while working with a student (especially now that they have Provisionary Licenses), it can work.
Oh no. I litterally means heroes don't do that not just the students. Heroes are more like a strike team here to deal with events. The investigative work and proving stuff is for the police. Heroes are suppose to be assistance not a second police.
For example, Endeavor works on solving police cases, right?
No. He might lend a hand in apprehending a suspect but he doesn't actually do the police work or work cases.
I can see him definitely being up for taking Todoroki along for one of his cases like in the Field Training arc, that leading to investigating a Kingpin-esque villain who's obviously guilty, but Endeavor and other Pro-Heroes can't touch him due to strict Quirk and Pro-Hero regulations.
I'm not sure what you mean on that. Quirk regulation and pro-heroes would not stop them from arresting a guilty person or simply relaying the info to the police. The problem with Kingpin and the likes is that you can't prove they are guilty. So at best you end up with a bunch of assumptions you can't prove.
Another possibility is Deku hanging out with Tsukauchi (All-Might's police friend) more and trying to help him out due to Tsukauchi previously relaying police info to All-Might to help with taking down criminals and finding out their goals from both law enforcement and Pro-Hero ends.
It could work in the main story if it involves Pro-Heroes or once the students become Pro-Heroes themselves and deal with enough petty criminals to know that they may be connected to a major crime boss.You're right that crime bosses are mainly a police thing, but heroes often work with the police. Especially since gangs and organized crime take advantage of all sorts of Quirk shenanigans, like the Quirk-empowering drugs seen in the last Vigilante chapter.
But in this case they would relay the info to the police. Most comic universe have a word in which the heroes are outlaws but this one is not the case. There is no reason for them to get in the way of the police. And more important in those universe every hero has that extremely rich super that decided to say f the police and has a working crime lab, informants and the likes. The heroes of this universe don't have that. They aren't working in parallel with the police, they are part of the system. Police investigate, they help rounding up the criminals if there is the need. Making a crime boss don't really fall under the umbrella on what a typical hero do. I mean I think supes and Spidey mostly try to prevent wathever their crime boss plan and hope this time there's enough evidence but they actually make it their mission to chase them since they don't really have the tools and ressources and time devoted to that is time not devoted to the actual saving people or wathever else you should be taking care of.
It would work better as a major focus in a more street-level series like Vigilante, which I mentioned earlier to Wagomu.
It works well with Vigilante because they work outside of the system and can focus all their energy in that one problem while the heroes take care of the more showy stuff. They also can have vendettas without failing their duties and do whatever they want because they think they are right. But a real pro not delivering his doubts and evidence to police would be strange. Heroes aren't trained for that kind of stuff. They are trained to assist people not actually take the police place.
But it would be a great way to build up tension between the Pro-Heroes and the students in terms of a inter-generational conflict.
The only thing that conflict could bring is quirk being allowed in the police force(I'm surprise it's prohibited). But that would mostly come from the police needing to be stronger or more effective or some quirk possessor thinking he should be a police officer. But one thing I'm sure is they not going to straight give the heroes the right to investigate without warrants, lab, proper interrogation. All those stuff the police do. I'm sure the last thing the countries need are heroes being allowed to hold vendettas because they think someone is guilty.
And bringing more focus onto the built-up Quirk regulation and Pro-Hero merits subplot that's been building up since Stain and his philosophical ramifications on society.
Stain thing was more we lost the true meaning of being an hero than heroes needs to have more powers. Their motivations was the question not their actions. People in the police being allowed to use their quirk to bring justice would be on that area or some sort of arc centered on if Endeveor should be allowed to be an hero. But heroes on Vendetta as cool comic book are doesn't work on this universe where heroes are part of the system.
Spider-Man or the Avengers anytime soon until they graduate, but it's still a big chance that will allow Horikoshi to be more creative with his writing.
The things with avengers and Justice league is that they are organization with crazy founds and ressources that have lots of members in them, so they can keep their activities roling while taking care of other occupations. And they usually don't trust the police or government in general.
As for individual, Spiderderman can simply decide to spy on you but the police need a warrant. If heroes become part of the system, the same would apply to them or they are simply breaking the law and taking law into their own hands, and bringing it closer to chaos. A hero that does so would be a corrupt hero the same way a cop that beat the confession out of you because he knows you did it is a corrupt cop.