My Hero Academia II - A true Hero

Nectar

Confirmation All Might never talked to The First. Also, his scars aren't healed, hmm. Well, something happened to Deku. I don't want to say it's a flat-out power boost because that's too easy. A new move? The First touched his hand, maybe only Deku's bones are healed and he's Iron Fist now.

Class-B is relevant again! Love the costume. Cosplayers must be losing their minds. I'm really excited to see Class-B in action, kinda hope they win. Aizawa choaking Monoma, ouch.

Shinsou AKA the icing on the chapter. I have no doubt Aizawa taught him combat skills. Looking back, Shinsou not knowing how to kick butt factored in him losing the match against Deku. Also, have no doubt Shinsou has a weapon.

Oga Simpson

Thought it was a nice touch seeing Ojiro's reaction to Shinso arriving, considering the history between the two.

DestinyDogma

@Robby:

Though the two OFA members being mysterious shadows… what's the point in obscuring them so completely unless they're people we've already seen... or are going to meet at some point still alive?

Someone in 4chan said that maybe those two were corrupted OFA users, people that wielded the power for their own gain or maybe people like Stain that killed because of their creed. It may not be the case, but it would be interesting if not all the people that used OFA were good heroes and the first tried to ignore their existence.

Cyan D. Funk

I want Monoma to copy One For All and then his arms explode.

KageKageKing

@Cyan:

I want Monoma to copy One For All and then his arms explode.

I want him to go full Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru.

maxterdexter

@Nectar:

Also, have no doubt Shinsou has a weapon.

Yeah, he's got Aizawa's scarf.

GJardim

And he seems to got some kind of voice changer to help him use his quirk.

Eitarou

@maxterdexter:

Yeah, he's got Aizawa's scarf.

Fitting that the man who's always sleeping would take the boy who looks tired 24/7 as his protege.

Cyclone_Baroness

Oh winter outfits. Mystery OFA users. Shinzou. Class B. A good chapter!

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Weird seeing Aizawa having an Aizawa Jr. But it's the good kind of weird. Happy to have Shinsou back and maybe fully integrated to the cast after this, and Monoma is always great.

I hate the fact that even though I strongly dislike Bakugou character's basis and I'm still waiting for it to be addressed… the guy is so fun to watch!

maxterdexter

The issue with Bakugou is that if you leave his harsh words take root, then he's dangerous, but he's just a loudmouth asshole who has way more to lose if he actually tries to hurt anybody. He's an angry chiguagua.

Seafarer33

…I can't remember for the life of me who this guy on the last page is supposed to be or what his quirk was. Too many under-developed characters, long time since we last saw him, or my bad memory ?

Not that I would care too much. I am quite into MHA when it goes through intense sequences such as field training, All for One vs All Might or the recent Endeavour fight, but anything UA-related I find rather tame.

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@Seafarer33:

…I can't remember for the life of me who this guy on the last page is supposed to be or what his quirk was. Too many under-developed characters, long time since we last saw him, or my bad memory ?

Not that I would care too much. I am quite into MHA when it goes through intense sequences such as field training, All for One vs All Might or the recent Endeavour fight, but anything UA-related I find rather tame.

I suppose most of us remember him because we've also been following the anime. He is the student from the general department course who fought Deku on the sports festival, he can make people obey his orders if they answer anything he says. He always wanted to be a hero, so he's been trying to be rearranged to the hero course.

Cyclone_Baroness

@.access:

Weird seeing Aizawa having an Aizawa Jr. But it's the good kind of weird. Happy to have Shinsou back and maybe fully integrated to the cast after this, and Monoma is always great.

I hate the fact that even though I strongly dislike Bakugou character's basis and I'm still waiting for it to be addressed…the guy is so fun to watch!

His angry boi thing is probably something that won't die down a little until 2nd or 3rd year.

I'm still holding onto the theory he's partially deaf so the yelling isn't always on purpose. But I think mostly Horikoshi likes drawing his extreme faces and how fourth wally he can be. Eating a speech bubble is so random lol.

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Oh, no, I like that. I am talking more about the reasons I believe he actually hated Deku for back as a child and hasn't been brought up since they joined the UA (meaning, I actually like everything about Bakugou as of now, I just want the stains of his past to be cleaned so I can like him as a whole).

Cyclone_Baroness

@.access:

Oh, no, I like that. I am talking more about the reasons I believe he actually hated Deku for back as a child and hasn't been brought up since they joined the UA (meaning, I actually like everything about Bakugou as of now, I just want the stains of his past to be cleaned so I can like him as a whole).

Oh I see. Unless there's another life or death situation soon I can't really see that being addressed. Although it might be interesting to see it pop up on a mundane day. But he spent years hating Deku. So all that baggage wouldn't just be easily resolved with someone so prideful. Deku at the very least isn't jumpy with him even when he's being aggressive.

1234entak

Shinsou's mask probably let's him either throw his voice like a ventiloquist, or mimic another person's voice so enemies don't know it's him talking to them.

kevo_koma

@Cyclone_Baroness:

Oh I see. Unless there's another life or death situation soon I can't really see that being addressed. Although it might be interesting to see it pop up on a mundane day. But he spent years hating Deku. So all that baggage wouldn't just be easily resolved with someone so prideful. Deku at the very least isn't jumpy with him even when he's being aggressive.

Yeah. I was really happy to see Deku just casually dismiss his impotent rage instead of cowering. Just another little form of growth from him and its amazing to watch.

Someone once mentioned how it was interesting that the other students in class A weren't afraid of provoking Bakugo because they were all basically elite students in their own way.

Now that Deku has more or less joined them, Bakugo has no one else to lash out to so maybe his temper will be tempered gradually without it being obvious.

auem

I think the 'point of singularity' is the peak power of OFA. Which means Deku,the ninth, is the last person who can wield it. His is the saturation point of the 'storage'.

Nectar

I just remembered someone (Shinsou?) said before the UA Festival students can be knocked out the Hero Course if they do poorly. I wonder if Aizawa will bring that up. We still don't know if 20 students per class are the allowed maximum. If not, then UA should be working with every General Dept. student interested in the Hero Course unless seeing the hero kids in action during the festival wrecked their aspirations.

And/or, (going Meta here) Horikoshi is laying more groundwork for the traitor reveal and that person leaving UA so Shinsou can take her place.

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I assume Shinsou is allowed a chance to move to a different course because he was majorly screwed by the entrance exam format this year rendering his quirk useless. Although I don't remember if this was state as the reason he didn't enter the course or if I made this memory up…

Cyclone_Baroness

@kevo_koma:

Yeah. I was really happy to see Deku just casually dismiss his impotent rage instead of cowering. Just another little form of growth from him and its amazing to watch.

Someone once mentioned how it was interesting that the other students in class A weren't afraid of provoking Bakugo because they were all basically elite students in their own way.

Now that Deku has more or less joined them, Bakugo has no one else to lash out to so maybe his temper will be tempered gradually without it being obvious.

They may also realize he's trying to be a hero and outside of Deku he's not really prone to physical assault outside of combat practice. Basically they're all good at understanding how to deal with an angry cat lol. They can tell when it's not serious.

pariston_hill

Bringing Shinsou to the spotlights always opens a can of worms for me.
Like the guy has an intelligence service wet-dream quirk, yet we don't know if any of those agencies approached him with better prospects than those of U.A.
Which brings quirk regulations, are we 100% sure that the only professionals allowed to use their quirks in public are heroes? Because it would be incredibly stupid for the fire-squads not want to have professionals with water based quirks, which imo would be better suited for that kind of work instead of fighting villains. Quirks like those of Overhaul and Eri could be absolutely insane in medical research, Uraraka's could make a fortune in the construction business by making materials lighter in a construction site for easy mobility.

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I suppose the hero course is the only one that focus on teaching the students to completely master their quirks and that's why they are the only ones allowed to use them. It makes sense since it is also the only "super course" while anything else is a course that exists in the real world. I mean, a medicine course has a ton of content to teach its students, they can't really have "quirk training" subject to guarantee their doctors-to-be will be properly trained into using their quirks while performing their profession… and if they can't get a degree allowing them to use those quirks as a professional, logically they can't be allowed to use it legally.

glass

Well realistically you would assume that there would optional hero mastery license type stuff available outside of the courses. When the black mist guy from the lov teleported away I remember there was a comment that it was a pity that he was evil since teleportation quirks were rare, which kind of suggested some quirks had alternate routes or fast tracks to becoming a hero. Hawks was just picked up and made a hero on the spot iirc

Long John Silvers Rayleigh

They do have alternate routes it's just you need clearance as a hero to use them and since the hero competition is so ruthless I can easily see unpopular qualified heroes going for professions where they have the skills

pariston_hill

@.access:

I suppose the hero course is the only one that focus on teaching the students to completely master their quirks and that's why they are the only ones allowed to use them. It makes sense since it is also the only "super course" while anything else is a course that exists in the real world. I mean, a medicine course has a ton of content to teach its students, they can't really have "quirk training" subject to guarantee their doctors-to-be will be properly trained into using their quirks while performing their profession… and if they can't get a degree allowing them to use those quirks as a professional, logically they can't be allowed to use it legally.

It's a solid point, but it raises further questions about the existence of quirk mastering courses or even quirk mastery, in case of young children with dangerous quirks. Gran Torino said he only got his license because he need to use his quirk freely, likely to help Nana and teach Toshinori, but let's say that Kota wanted to be a fire fighter and use his quirk into it, would his only option for it to enroll on a hero course?

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@Long:

They do have alternate routes it's just you need clearance as a hero to use them and since the hero competition is so ruthless I can easily see unpopular qualified heroes going for professions where they have the skills

I don't think being a graduated hero would be enough to allow them to legally use their quirks when exercising another profession. (EDIT: We have Recovery Girl, though.)

Although I could see something like glass mentioned, individuals undergoing some sort of specialization that would grant them licenses to use their quirks "professionally".

I wonder how that could affect the market though. Like, a plastic surgeon allowed to use his "physical altering" quirk would easily kill his competition. Those special licenses would need to be very hard to get and maybe only when proven it would be greatly beneficial to society.

DestinyDogma

@pariston_hill:

Bringing Shinsou to the spotlights always opens a can of worms for me.
Like the guy has an intelligence service wet-dream quirk, yet we don't know if any of those agencies approached him with better prospects than those of U.A.
Which brings quirk regulations, are we 100% sure that the only professionals allowed to use their quirks in public are heroes? Because it would be incredibly stupid for the fire-squads not want to have professionals with water based quirks, which imo would be better suited for that kind of work instead of fighting villains. Quirks like those of Overhaul and Eri could be absolutely insane in medical research, Uraraka's could make a fortune in the construction business by making materials lighter in a construction site for easy mobility.

I think other people are allowed to use their quirks if they get permissions, when Uraraka told her story before the festival Deku told her that with her power if she could get a permit it would be really economical, so that should mean those permits actually exist.

I think that heroes are the only ones allowed to use their quirks in general (as weapons too), then everyone else can´t use their quirks in public space unless they got a permit for it (but never for self-defense I guess) But maybe the story has already said that only heroes can use quirks, I don´t really remember.

MDL

That's where people with transformed bodies are at an advantage lol

"What? It's not something I'm in control of. Do I need a license for existing?
That's what I thought. Can't touch this."

CCC

That probably led to nasty Quirk-cial profiling in the early days.

"What's the charge, officer?"
"Walking down the street with those lizard legs, that's what."

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The real heroes of MHA are the furries. You would expect the world to have its birth rate screwed when people suddenly got dog/bird/lizard heads, but "nope! We got that covered"

pariston_hill

I've been saying to my friends that monster girls mangas are banked by NASA in order to make the xeno reveal and interspecies relationships easier.

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DestinyDogma

@MDL:

That's where people with transformed bodies are at an advantage lol

"What? It's not something I'm in control of. Do I need a license for existing?
That's what I thought. Can't touch this."

That´s a pretty good loophole. We have seen people that didn´t look like heroes moving hubris after the Endeavor´s arc, so you are right.

So by this logic if you needed to hire lifeguard and you had a guy that can control water and Gang Orca, the second would be the best option because it can use his quirk without anyone telling him anything (except maybe the sonar thingie) Then again having a dude that looks like a shark or an orca working as a lifeguard has some flaws, but I guess in the mha universe not hiring someone because how he looks may be considered a crime or simply a ugly thing to do.

pariston_hill

Things I want to be addressed by an animal head bureaucrat:

Are there any other institutions for quirk mastery besides hero schools?
A hero license is the only way for a professional exercise his quirk freely?
Are the Public Defense Departments, such as military, police, fire-fighters, intelligence agencies, paramedics forbidden to make use of their quirks during work hours? If so is this a japanese regulation or a worldly one originated from quirk wars?
We have seen exemples of quirk-cism, but how far and wide it is spread? Are there a racism towards quirkless people or some specific type of mutation? Are there a quirkless Reverend Stryker preaching against the amorality of quirk? Are there anti-quirks secret societies?
-How Hellboy Might transferred OFA if he is bald?
-Is one of the two shadowy OFA users the converted AFO bodyguard that we've seen? Is trench coat Might also a woman?
How the nomus are made? And why AFO didn't make a fortune selling this information to terrorist groups?
Will we ever know the secrets of Golden Tips Imperial and it's popularity?

I know it's a lot, and the series is young so I hope Hori answers most of it.

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glass

Theres not really any reason for afo to sell nomus to terrorist groups considering he is the biggest terrorist group and seems to have no problem with funding unlike the yakuza dudes. Selling them at that point is just another risk for them at that point especially considering the power of the nomus and the difficulty in creating them.

maxterdexter

All for One seems to be a very hands on villain. What Glass said, granted he probably stole a duplication quirk or something that can be abused to make money, or the sludge warp quirk has been in use for a while for stealing from banks or something.

Blissed

Imagine if Shinsou gets accepted into the hero course, but it's for Class B.

MDL

@pariston_hill:

-How Hellboy Might transferred OFA if he is bald?

All Might said that anything works as long as it contains the holder's DNA (and their will to pass on the quirk).
So he probably had to give something else.

pariston_hill

@glass:

Theres not really any reason for afo to sell nomus to terrorist groups considering he is the biggest terrorist group and seems to have no problem with funding unlike the yakuza dudes. Selling them at that point is just another risk for them at that point especially considering the power of the nomus and the difficulty in creating them.

The gain probably wouldn't come from money, but like power or influence. Groups hunt down powerful quirks to create beastly powerful obedient drones. Maybe he could have found the regeneration earlier if he had tentacles spread across the sea.
Besides the drug trigger we have no idea about quirk advancements overseas.

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@MDL:

All Might said that anything works as long as it contains the holder's DNA (and their will to pass on the quirk).
So he probably had to give something else.

Yeah I know, that part was a joke.

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MDL

@pariston_hill:

Yeah I know, that part was a joke.

Ah ok.
Hard to tell when some people can't even remember Shinso being a thing XD

glass

I assumed OFA was still scared of All Might up until the school attack when he realised that all might got weaker and so decided to mostly hide himself.

pariston_hill

Yeah probable, but AFO is 100+ at least. It would be weird for the shadow kingpin of Japan to not have connections in the international black market. At minimum the asian one.

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desa

I really like All Might but he really is useless/suck at the mentor.

I wonder who those 2 hidden users are. All Might appeared despite being alive so it's a deliberate thing.

Cyclone_Baroness

At least All Might isn't purposely cruel, completely absent or secretly plotting like so many other mentor characters. He got lucky with Deku in that Deku is actually smart. Smart enough to figure out vague meanings and advice.

Cyan D. Funk

All Might's doing his best.

It's just that Izuku is operating on a whole different level.

sgamer82

@Cyclone_Baroness:

At least All Might isn't purposely cruel, completely absent or secretly plotting like so many other mentor characters. He got lucky with Deku in that Deku is actually smart. Smart enough to figure out vague meanings and advice.

While likely not what you mean, I honestly take his "you're still imitating me" bit as deliberately done in that vague sense, since it's after he read Teaching For Dummies and it's a page right out of Gran Torino's book.

pariston_hill

I think that was done deliberately because he was in the Gama Fields in front of the whole class and couldn't afford to give to much attention to Deku.

Cyclone_Baroness

I just re-read the chapters of the Deku vs Bakugo part 2. There was a few things I completely forgot that happened afterwards. Like seeing Shinzou there along with class B mentioning that they would be having a class together. Is this still considered 2md semester of the 1st year?

MiyamotoMusashi

Nice that One for All illustrates one of the core aspects of OP, inherited will