My Hero Academia II - A true Hero

pariston_hill

I think Shinso is very much suited as an infiltrator or espionage type.

"Hey, guard."
"Freeze!…!!!"
"Unlock the entrance for me, then go to sleep."

He'd also be an awesome hostage negotiator.
He just has to get one direct reply out of the suspect and he can order a quiet surrender.

Come to think of it, can't he do that for most villains since villains just love to talk? (Stain, Shigaraki, Overhaul, etc)
He could wipe out a lot of villains really quickly by telling them all to surrender without a fight. Like geez.
Just bring him along for everything.

Dude could be a godlike spy living the dream, but nope gotta be a hero like a dozen other just to prove to quirk racists that my quirk isn't evil.

glass

Why don't they just use shinso is probably going to be like a "why didn't they use the eagles to fly to mordor" situation. You really can't go wrong adding shinso to every situation, even AFO would have lost.

maxterdexter

AFO probably has a second mind quirk around just for any psychic attack.

And it's not what do you do best, but what do you want to do.

pariston_hill

@glass:

Why don't they just use shinso is probably going to be like a "why didn't they use the eagles to fly to mordor" situation. You really can't go wrong adding shinso to every situation, even AFO would have lost.

Except that the WAS a real reason that they don't use the Eagles, Sauron had no idea where the ring was. But if suddenly the Eagles, the eyes of Mänwe in middle-earth, started carrying some people towards Mordor it would be a no brainier that those people have the ring and so he would send all of his forces against that. The Eagles constantly saving Gandalf's bacon can be over-sighted as they doing a solid for a friend.

Also I love, how low key Mina is shipping AllNight.

Cyclone_Baroness

The match ups are interesting. The most troublesome is probably gonna be Team B-5 since Petty McGee can duplicate quirks. Having 2 people with mind control is insane lol. Deku commented on the vestiges still bothering him. Hopefully they don't give him an out again.

I could see Team A-1 losing to hype Shizou.

glass

@pariston_hill:

Except that the WAS a real reason that they don't use the Eagles, Sauron had no idea where the ring was. But if suddenly the Eagles, the eyes of Mänwe in middle-earth, started carrying some people towards Mordor it would be a no brainier that those people have the ring and so he would send all of his forces against that. The Eagles constantly saving Gandalf's bacon can be over-sighted as they doing a solid for a friend.

Also I love, how low key Mina is shipping AllNight.

Presumably if they actually brought shinso along the villains would just stop talking and then he would just be a deadweight due to having no other physical capabilities with his quirk. This is assuming he can't just brainwash through a speaker.

MDL

Oh boy… I hope this doesn't turn out too badly.
We suddenly have a potential setup for copying OFA.

Nectar

Forget the physical problems that might cause, the voices in his head will drive Monoma insane.

sgamer82

@MDL:

[qimg]https://i.gyazo.com/84c43f26b65bf61bc92a584e847648e5.png[/qimg][qimg]https://i.gyazo.com/058bc2541a30d1b570f7835d9faf62fa.png[/qimg]

Oh boy… I hope this doesn't turn out too badly.
We suddenly have a potential setup for copying OFA.

@Nectar:

Forget the physical problems that might cause, the voices in his head will drive Monoma insane.

That's assuming Monoma even can copy One For All. Granted, there's reason to assume he can't, but One For All has always been an oddball and it would be interesting if Monoma's Copy only got a person's default quirk, meaning the quirkless Deku would get him nothing, which might spark some suspicions from other characters down the line.

DestinyDogma

Cool chapter, this arc is being really great so far, the kids being kids is fun to watch (Earlydoki killed me) and I hope we get to see all the battles, specially the Todoroki´s one, they will fight against the class-B kid that got into U.A. throught recomendation like Torokoki and Momo (the skull kid with the quicksand quirk)

I imagine that if Monoma tries to copy OFA, he will get an empty version of it without all the strenght acumulated throught the years. But All Might said that it can´t be stolen, so maybe it can´t be copied either .

Cyclone_Baroness

I just noticed Jiro did her makeup differently.

Monoma's team looking at him kinda cracks me up, cause he'sall serious but Team A-5 is all "yay! Let's do our best!" I like how Team B-2 are all posed the same.

Tetsutsu could be a good match up for Iida if he won't be phased by speed. Not knowing 75% of class B makes predictions difficult.

I assume something will happen with OFA just cause All Might happens to be around this time.

Cyan D. Funk

Monoma copies Izuku and is confused by his pinky toe suddenly having another joint.

Then his limbs explode.

maxterdexter

Maybe he copies just "base" one for all, as it was without the accumulated power. Or as it is an hybrid quirk, he only copies one of the components, who are in themselves just as useless.

andre

As long as we get to see the guy with a manga page for a head do something I'll feel good.

Kizuchan

This series is so good with keeping designs distinct.

All I hope out of this is to care for a bunch more class B characters after this. I like Shinsou, Tetsutetsu, Kendo and even Monoma to some extent (Monoma is a good gag for what his role is but i hope we'll see some development from him).

And the thought of him copying OfA is interesting.

.access timeco.

For those wanting Deku to have a late awakening of his own quirk, Monoma could try to copy OfA and end up copying Deku's own latent quirk.

Cyclone_Baroness

I dunno why people want to have Deku awaken a latent quirk. It would come from low grade telekinesis and fire breathing. Telekinesis would be somewhat useful depending on how strong it manifests but for his fighting style mostly unnecessary. And we've already got 2 fiery guys in this class.

Nobodyman

Had to remind myself what Shinso's quirk was because the last page left me hella confused.

But a good chapter. I love these school tournaments/battles

fana

Odd that only team B1 on that spread has the name of the students. It's the same on the korean scans so I'm assuming it was like that on the raw version. Maybe Viz will "fix" it.
(I would have enjoyed a reminder of some of class B students on that spread - would have been a convenient ressource for the future)

I'm expecting a 3-2 result for class A with class B winning the first 2 battles. I can't see Todoroki and Bakugou getting captured and I don't think Shinsou will win both battles.
Maybe a draw on the last battle if there is a time limit.

Count Mario

I just want to mention that Kaminari wrapping his arms around Kirishima and Koda is great. Love the cute comradery there.

I don't think Deku's vestiges will help him snap out of mind control again like last time since Horikoshi did that. But this arc could help provide organic developments for how One for All and the vestiges work by having Deku interact with Shinso again and seeing how Monoma inherits his powers in whatever fashion. I like where this can go. Somebody mentioned that this could even start to threaten the secrecy of One for All, which I like (especially if that ties into the traitor plotline).

Mina might finally get a chance to shine here outside of someone else's flashback. Cool! Actually, Deku's team has very good Quirk compatibility. Uraraka can use gravity on Mineta's sticky balls, Mineta's sticky balls can trap people for Ashido's acid, and Deku is both strong/mobile enough to move one of his teammates across the field while having wind pressure projectile attacks now.

The only other teamups that interest me are Bakugo and Jiro since explosions can make huge sounds and impacts like Jiro's Quirk, and Momo leading a team of light and dark Quirk users. Teams 1 and 3 don't capture my interest much, but maybe Horikoshi can do clever things with Koda and Shinso's voice-based powers and Kirishima's skin maybe withstanding Kaminari's lightning while Todoroki could make ice structures for his mobile-proficient teammates to maneuver in.

I like Shinso's personality already. It's actually refreshing to have a shonen character who recognizes the superficiality of sportsmanship/combat encounters instead of thinking they're a way to understand each other's deepest feelings or whatever like One Piece and Naruto. Not caring about making friends while wanting to save people in a way that isn't in an exaggerated douchy way like Bakugo or pre-entrance exam Iida is a unique duality I hope gets explored.

I don't expect this to happen and I am totally overthinking this a lot, but Uraraka could build an interesting bond with Shinso since he too wants to focus solely on a hero career without getting caught up with having feelings for other students.

Shinso is a pragmatic student with idealistic goals while Uraraka is an idealistic student with pragmatic goals. Shinso has a limited but overpowered Quirk while Uraraka has a very versatile Quirk that causes fatigue.

Uraraka is struggling with catching up to Deku while Shinso knows he is way behind everybody else but apparently has the cunning, tenacity, and tools to still stand his ground.

They could make great foils for the different nuances in each other's philosophies for how they develop. Although they have different personalities and student interactions. Of course, that is assuming the whole crush subplot goes anywhere interesting. Which I immensely doubt in a mainstream shonen action-adventure manga.

@Cyclone_Baroness:

The match ups are interesting. The most troublesome is probably gonna be Team B-5 since Petty McGee can duplicate quirks. Having 2 people with mind control is insane lol. Deku commented on the vestiges still bothering him. Hopefully they don't give him an out again.

I could see Team A-1 losing to hype Shizou.

Don't you mean that you can see Team A-1 winning to hype Shinso since he is on that team and will fight Deku in the final round? If he loses this round, he will look like less of a threat.

A part of me hopes that if Class A wins the first round, then Deku's team should lose the last round to shake up expectations and keep up Shinso looking like an intimidating wild card. Preferably from time running out while Class B still has more students on the field than Class A so Deku does not look too pathetic. After Deku's streak against villains lately, it'd be interesting for him to stumble again. Especially since it helps give the impression that Deku isn't outpacing the rest of his class.

@.access:

For those wanting Deku to have a late awakening of his own quirk, Monoma could try to copy OfA and end up copying Deku's own latent quirk.

Ew.

desa

If Deku's quirk is copied I hope it's a straight copy. And it's not like it would be an advantage. The guy would probably break his bones.

I wonder the limits ond mind control power.

Beast man looks so old to me.

This exercise is the make or break on how serious I am suppose to take those class B people. They've been failures up to this point they better prove themselves.

Ruin

Monoma copies Deku's quirk and his arms just explode but he doesn't feel it because it turns out Deku's latent quirk is just horrific amounts of adrenaline induced pain tolerance

Count Mario

@desa:

Beast man looks so old to me.

Class B having their own Beast, Colossus, and Rogue cracks me up. I hope they have more X-Men knockoff Quirks. Although Vigilantes already did Cyclops and Wolverine.

Cyclone_Baroness

@Count:

I just want to mention that Kaminari wrapping his arms around Kirishima and Koda is great. Love the cute comradery there.

I don't think Deku's vestiges will help him snap out of mind control again like last time since Horikoshi did that. But this arc could help provide organic developments for how One for All and the vestiges work by having Deku interact with Shinso again and seeing how Monoma inherits his powers in whatever fashion. I like where this can go. Somebody mentioned that this could even start to threaten the secrecy of One for All, which I like (especially if that ties into the traitor plotline).

Mina might finally get a chance to shine here outside of someone else's flashback. Cool! Actually, Deku's team has very good Quirk compatibility. Uraraka can use gravity on Mineta's sticky balls, Mineta's sticky balls can trap people for Ashido's acid, and Deku is both strong/mobile enough to move one of his teammates across the field while having wind pressure projectile attacks now.

The only other teamups that interest me are Bakugo and Jiro since explosions can make huge sounds and impacts like Jiro's Quirk, and Momo leading a team of light and dark Quirk users. Teams 1 and 3 don't capture my interest much, but maybe Horikoshi can do clever things with Koda and Shinso's voice-based powers and Kirishima's skin maybe withstanding Kaminari's lightning while Todoroki could make ice structures for his mobile-proficient teammates to maneuver in.

I like Shinso's personality already. It's actually refreshing to have a shonen character who recognizes the superficiality of sportsmanship/combat encounters instead of thinking they're a way to understand each other's deepest feelings or whatever like One Piece and Naruto. Not caring about making friends while wanting to save people in a way that isn't in an exaggerated douchy way like Bakugo or pre-entrance exam Iida is a unique duality I hope gets explored.

I don't expect this to happen and I am totally overthinking this a lot, but Uraraka could build an interesting bond with Shinso since he too wants to focus solely on a hero career without getting caught up with having feelings for other students.

Shinso is a pragmatic student with idealistic goals while Uraraka is an idealistic student with pragmatic goals. Shinso has a limited but overpowered Quirk while Uraraka has a very versatile Quirk that causes fatigue.

Uraraka is struggling with catching up to Deku while Shinso knows he is way behind everybody else but apparently has the cunning, tenacity, and tools to still stand his ground.

They could make great foils for the different nuances in each other's philosophies for how they develop. Although they have different personalities and student interactions. Of course, that is assuming the whole crush subplot goes anywhere interesting. Which I immensely doubt in a mainstream shonen action-adventure manga.

Don't you mean that you can see Team A-1 winning to hype Shinso since he is on that team and will fight Deku in the final round? If he loses this round, he will look like less of a threat.

A part of me hopes that if Class A wins the first round, then Deku's team should lose the last round to shake up expectations and keep up Shinso looking like an intimidating wild card. Preferably from time running out while Class B still has more students on the field than Class A so Deku does not look too pathetic. After Deku's streak against villains lately, it'd be interesting for him to stumble again. Especially since it helps give the impression that Deku isn't outpacing the rest of his class.

Ew.

Well I mean A1 could still lose. Cause Shinzou is still feeling it out and trying to work with a group for the first time. I dunno. It depends on if Horikoshi wants to show how well he can meld in with various groups. He is mostly crowd control/rogue?

Count Mario

@Cyclone_Baroness:

Well I mean A1 could still lose. Cause Shinzou is still feeling it out and trying to work with a group for the first time. I dunno. It depends on if Horikoshi wants to show how well he can meld in with various groups. He is mostly crowd control/rogue?

True. I could also be into that route. Shinso's lack of teamwork coordination screwing over Class A. It would uniquely execute something obvious like the heroes losing the first match against an antagonist and tease how much of a gamechanger he is. And if Class B wins the first round, then Class B with Shinso looks even more intimidating.

KageKageKing

I think Horikosho will pull a Toriko and skip the next 3 matches and go straight to the last match.

Ageless_Bum

I do not think there is any reason to think Monoma will have an issue controlling OfA. When he took Explosion and Hardening he didn't seem to suffer any drawbacks in his initial use. It seems that he either gains some modicum of control or he only gets to use not fully powered version of the copied quirks.

On another note, I would not have an issue with Deku getting telekinesis. It would allow for flight which is iconically heroic, and it is the perfect power for someone with a creative mind.

Cyan D. Funk

Izuku wasn't born with a Quirk because nature couldn't figure out how to combine small-scale telekinesis with breathing fire.

Cyclone_Baroness

@Cyan:

Izuku wasn't born with a Quirk because nature couldn't figure out how to combine small-scale telekinesis with breathing fire.

The meme I kept seeing was images of Deku with Toga/Camie, Ochaco and Inventor girl and then a note that this parents combined quirk is attracting hot things lol.

Cyber-Robin

We are basically gonna have Mineta fight Shinso aren't we?

DestinyDogma

@Cyan:

Izuku wasn't born with a Quirk because nature couldn't figure out how to combine small-scale telekinesis with breathing fire.

Deku´s mom quirk seems to only atract things to herself, combine that with breathing fire and you end with… A fire eater? The power to atract fire towards yourself and eat it, maybe shooting it back. There was a Noumu that had a quirk like that, it could absorb Endeavor´s fire and shoot it back, it still took damage though.

Cyan D. Funk

I'm going to laugh if Mineta pulls it off and shuts Shinso down with a well-thrown sticky ball to the mouth.

BlackPirate

The end of the school year is nearing. I wonder if characters will be shuffled between the classes and this arc is a device to introduce them.

Also, it would be really ironic if Monoma ends up moving to Class 2-A.

Long John Silvers Rayleigh

So a while ago I said Tsukachi has a lie detector quirk and people said that was sister but expanded canon is actually the source of that info

The My Hero Academia Official Character Book Ultra Archive

Since his sister's quirk involves contact being necessary, maybe his is superior or something.

CCC

@fana:

Odd that only team B1 on that spread has the name of the students. It's the same on the korean scans so I'm assuming it was like that on the raw version. Maybe Viz will "fix" it.

Nothing to fix. That's how it is!

Dumping all 20 names on casul readers would just be overload, so it looks like he'll just introduce the 4 names for each team, when it's their turn.

@Long:

So a while ago I said Tsukachi has a lie detector quirk and people said that was sister but expanded canon is actually the source of that info

What page? I'm staring at p162- where Tsukauchi gets a blurb - and not seeing it.

King Cannon

@BlackPirate:

The end of the school year is nearing. I wonder if characters will be shuffled between the classes and this arc is a device to introduce them.

Also, it would be really ironic if Monoma ends up moving to Class 2-A.

They won't shuffle the classes when everybody has already settled into their building rooms.

Satsuki

@Ruin:

Monoma copies Deku's quirk and his arms just explode but he doesn't feel it because it turns out Deku's latent quirk is just horrific amounts of adrenaline induced pain tolerance

I'm not the only one who hopes that. Not necessarily Deku having a latent power, but for the annoying dumbass to feel the pain. Depending on how he deals with it would make him more or less of a dumbass.

Boing

@Satsuki:

I'm not the only one who hopes that. Not necessarily Deku having a latent power, but for the annoying dumbass to feel the pain. Depending on how he deals with it would make him more or less of a dumbass.

Wish people didn't wish so much suffering on Monoma.
Anyway's I believe he's smart enough to figure out some way to use it.

desa

I'm on the opinion that he should get the full quirk without the knowledge on using it. There's no reason he should know how to limit the output and his body shouldn't be able to take the damage. Of coourse that's if h copies Deku's quirk since he probably watched the match at the festival and possibly know it's not that great of an idea.

Cyan D. Funk

Monoma declares that he's copied Izuku's Quirk and readies a punch.

Aizawa immediately reaches for the popcorn.

pariston_hill

@Cyclone_Baroness:

The meme I kept seeing was images of Deku with Toga/Camie, Ochaco and Inventor girl and then a note that this parents combined quirk is attracting hot things lol.

You know what, I would risk a limb or two if I could have that. Always wanted to know where the spiciest mexican food in my area was located.

Satsuki

@Boing:

Wish people didn't wish so much suffering on Monoma.
Anyway's I believe he's smart enough to figure out some way to use it.

lol. If he wasn't just a running joke then we might be more forgiving. But right now his only use seems to be acting like a jerk. He didn't even get to show his stuff in the forest battle like Kendo and Tetsutestu did.

Nectar

For all we know one of Monoma's teammates has a quirk to off set OFA's flaws.

Anyway, My Hero Vigilantes chapter 36 is out!

! Koichi may rival Midoriya as top All Might fanboy. Said it before but I love Pop now. Her attitude is less brash but still has a bite when she wants it too. Wonder what put Mokoto's brother in the hospital? Could he had been there when All Might fought AFO?
! I kinda like having Captain Celebrity around. He shows just how rare a selfless person like All Might is.

CCC

@Nectar:

Anyway, My Hero Vigilantes chapter 36 is out!

! Koichi may rival Midoriya as top All Might fanboy. Said it before but I love Pop now. Her attitude is less brash but still has a bite when she wants it too. Wonder what put Mokoto's brother in the hospital? Could he had been there when All Might fought AFO?
! I kinda like having Captain Celebrity around. He shows just how rare a selfless person like All Might is.

Tsukauchi is in the hospital because Villain Factory Delivery Boy shot him during bullet time down in Osaka! Only through the kevlar vest, but still.

And I'm pretty sure Vigilantes takes place ~4 years before the main story (Midoriya's 6th year of elementary or 1st of middle school), so AM vs. AFO round 1 already happened, and AFO is in hiding.

Cyclone_Baroness

The newest episode was kinda strange. Well part of it is because it's filler for the movie. But I did like that they had a different type of objective.

Admiral Issho

anyone got a link for the full vigilante comic that works in germany so far i found only parts of it

Nectar

Fluffy episode but it held my interest.

@CCC:

Tsukauchi is in the hospital because Villain Factory Delivery Boy shot him during bullet time down in Osaka! Only through the kevlar vest, but still.

And I'm pretty sure Vigilantes takes place ~4 years before the main story (Midoriya's 6th year of elementary or 1st of middle school), so AM vs. AFO round 1 already happened, and AFO is in hiding.

Ah! I forgot that guy shot the cops. Nice piece of continuity there.

.access timeco.

@Admiral:

anyone got a link for the full vigilante comic that works in germany so far i found only parts of it

The whole thing is available for free on the VIZ app (which I figured anyone can access on their phones with an US account. Sadly my phone's screen is in no state for reading comics, so until I buy a new one I can't really take advantage of it).

And since I am on the subject, does anyone know why I can't find Jigokuraku (Hell's Paradise) on the said app? My main interest on signing VIZ would be it, but when I looked for it… nowhere.

Admiral Issho

@.access:

The whole thing is available for free on the VIZ app (which I figured anyone can access on their phones with an US account. Sadly my phone's screen is in no state for reading comics, so until I buy a new one I can't really take advantage of it).

And since I am on the subject, does anyone know why I can't find Jigokuraku (Hell's Paradise) on the said app? My main interest on signing VIZ would be it, but when I looked for it… nowhere.

i prefer reading mangas on a big screen and the link in this thread doesn't work in germany

CCC

@.access:

And since I am on the subject, does anyone know why I can't find Jigokuraku (Hell's Paradise) on the said app? My main interest on signing VIZ would be it, but when I looked for it… nowhere.

The app is rated ages 12+ on the app store but Hell's Paradise is rated mature, ergo it's not on the app. Have to read on a computer :P
(but please do, if you can use a VPN or whatever! I put my heart and soul into that one)