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I can't believe Cloud, Zidane, and Squall are all scumbags.
Let's not forget that two of them kill people for money and the third is a lecherous thief.
My Hero Academia II - A true Hero
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Welp, they didn't expanded the girls scene in the raid. What a shame.
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Welp, they didn't expanded the girls scene in the raid. What a shame.
Disappointing. But the last clash between DekuEri and Overhaul looked very crisp from the clips I've seen.
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Yeah, that fight was great.
Honestly, I wasn't expecting the whole fight to play out this episode. Overall, I think I liked the anime version of this arc more than the manga despite no Team Froppy filler (I swear, the one time I want filler…). But, hey, with the fast pacing, we could see the LoV highway fight next episode.
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I'm glad people got to properly appreciate Mirio being awesome. The episode where he fights to Overhaul seems to have been greatly appreciated and emotional.
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Welp, they didn't expanded the girls scene in the raid. What a shame.
Deep down I knew they never would
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There wasn't that much they could expand with the way it's structured anyway. I was hoping they would at least bother to give a better explanation of what exactly was going, because it was genuinely confusing.
Urakaka is too tired to do anything but then she isn't but then she is but then she isn't. This whole thing was so clearly an afterthought XD.
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Yeah, that fight was great.
Honestly, I wasn't expecting the whole fight to play out this episode. Overall, I think I liked the anime version of this arc more than the manga despite no Team Froppy filler (I swear, the one time I want filler…). But, hey, with the fast pacing, we could see the LoV highway fight next episode.Well that's because they were doing 3 weeks worth of chapters almost every episode. And I think 3 times they did 4 in episode meaning a months worth of chapters. So the pacing was incredibly, like usual for the Anime.
And that fight was incredibly. Bones has killed every big fight in the series up to this. And personally I'm fine with the non extention of the girls fight if it meant we got the end of Deku vs Overhaul in this episode.
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I'm just super excited for the festival arc. Cause I really wanted to know what all the kids sounded like when they sang. And I wanted to know what the song sounded like.
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Agreed. The music, the dancing. The Festival Arc should be amazing animated. Unless, they blew the budget on Deku VS Overhaul.
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I'm looking forward to the Gentle Arc. IMO it's the last time the series was really good. IIRC the manga pages for that arc towards the end were rushed and unfinished so it'll be good to see the quality.
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Yah know. I was wondering it's almost time for the 2nd year to begin. They should have a different teacher for 2-A shouldn't they? We haven't seen very much staff in general. It would be interesting to see how that goes.
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Agreed. The music, the dancing. The Festival Arc should be amazing animated. Unless, they blew the budget on Deku VS Overhaul.
Lol, that fight had a budget??
Just like the manga, it was boring, mediocre and incomprehensible.
Seriously the quality this season was significantly lower than past seasons.
I am looking forward to Deku Vs Air guy. That fight was absolutely amazing in the manga.
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Yah know. I was wondering it's almost time for the 2nd year to begin. They should have a different teacher for 2-A shouldn't they? We haven't seen very much staff in general. It would be interesting to see how that goes.
I might be wrong, but wasn't it implied that the 1st years were being fast tracked through school. So now they go straight to internships after 1st year instead of going through the full school progress.
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I thought the fast tracking was just getting them their licenses. Which was supposed to be in their 2nd year. The other schools had mostly 2nd year applicants, Inasa being one of the only other 1st years iirc. There's been no mention of the kids graduating early from what I recall.
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I thought the fast tracking was just getting them their licenses. Which was supposed to be in their 2nd year. The other schools had mostly 2nd year applicants, Inasa being one of the only other 1st years iirc. There's been no mention of the kids graduating early from what I recall.
Ah, seems like I was not recalling the details correctly.
However, I really see the series shifting from school to real life super heroics really soon. We will most likely get a time skip that will skip over the remaining school years.
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Overhaul fight was bad, hope they saved the budget for Gentle and Pro Hero Arc
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Things going to heat up rapidly….
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History Lesson and the doctor
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Not surprising "Float" is one of the 6 Quirks. I'm sure the OFA powered up version will let Deku fly like Superman. I wonder if AFO took that Quirk from Nana?
Already in the 2nd year. And for this next arc I am hyped and afraid. I have a feeling we're going to lose a few of the Heroes. I know so many are afraid for All Might, but I'm 50/50 on it, I go back and forth. Would Horikoshi setup all the stuff about changing the future etc for it to only happen anyways? I just don't know?
But I do feel like Endeavor is going to die. We've gotten so much character development for him. And Shoto needs his next goal/drive. We know that Horikoshi is a big Star Wars fan. I could see a Kylo Ren and Han Solo situation happening with Dabi and Endeavor. And Dabi becomes Shoto's Villain.
Hawks, if he's really on the Hero side? He's 100% dying this Arc, if not? He'll live for the time being. If he really killed Best Jeanist? Then he's Bakugo's Villain.
Definitely the biggest arc of the series.
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Not surprising "Float" is one of the 6 Quirks. I'm sure the OFA powered up version will let Deku fly like Superman. I wonder if AFO took that Quirk from Nana?
Already in the 2nd year. And for this next arc I am hyped and afraid. I have a feeling we're going to lose a few of the Heroes. I know so many are afraid for All Might, but I'm 50/50 on it, I go back and forth. Would Horikoshi setup all the stuff about changing the future etc for it to only happen anyways? I just don't know?
But I do feel like Endeavor is going to die. We've gotten so much character development for him. And Shoto needs his next goal/drive. We know that Horikoshi is a big Star Wars fan. I could see a Kylo Ren and Han Solo situation happening with Dabi and Endeavor. And Dabi becomes Shoto's Villain.
Hawks, if he's really on the Hero side? He's 100% dying this Arc, if not? He'll live for the time being. If he really killed Best Jeanist? Then he's Bakugo's Villain.
Definitely the biggest arc of the series.
It's not the second year yet. The last week of march should be around the end of the third term.
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Talk about a calm before the storm. I really love how hopeful this chapter is. A clear sign the crap's hitting the fan real soon.
Love the info on the Past Users. I'm getting the feeling if AFO was the one who took them all down, he purposefully left them alive just long enough to pass One For All. He's definitely playing the long game. And the shot of Nana, pure awesome. I love female superheroes with beefy bodies. One look and you know they can whoop ass. The art as a whole was fantastic this chapter.
That conversation between All Might and Aizawa was great too. They really don't have many scenes together alone. Not sure what's up with All Might wanting to meet Stain. Maybe Stain's related to a previous user? Anyway, I'll just mention the a prison break arc for the 88th time and stop here.
Not surprising "Float" is one of the 6 Quirks. I'm sure the OFA powered up version will let Deku fly like Superman. I wonder if AFO took that Quirk from Nana?
OH! Wow! That's really messed up if it's true. And, he was floating like Nana during the Kamino fight. Damn, he's such a petty asshole.
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Deku and All Might are so bad at lying and Bakugo isn't the type to flat out lie. I wonder how they'll try to explain all these other powers that are unrelated popping up. Flight at least is similar to his air stuff. But the rest…
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Ok we got Superman(flight) and Spiderman(webs). I wonder if Deku gets projectiles that looks like an animal for Batman. Or we go full Super with laser eyes.
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For some reason one for all users dying young reminds me a lot of Slayers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer having a short shelf life
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I wonder that in the abscence of heroes, they are gonna make a Suicide Squad and make Stain the leader.
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Seems like a really bad idea and they know better.
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Anybody else's jaw drop at the last page?
Ok we got Superman(flight) and Spiderman(webs). I wonder if Deku gets projectiles that looks like an animal for Batman. Or we go full Super with laser eyes.
Not animal-shaped necessarily, but something shuriken-ish, yeah.
Wonder if he'll get a Lasso of Truth.
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there's a lot of info going on in this chapter but what really got me was how buff Nana was in that flashback panel
don't tone that down when you get to it, anime, I'll be upset
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Curious about the second and third One for All users. They were probably the ones that were just silhouettes in that dream Izuku had.
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Curious about the second and third One for All users. They were probably the ones that were just silhouettes in that dream Izuku had.
Those are the ones creating time travel theories since one of them has Bakugo's silhouette. And the other kinda looking like Kirishima.
Bakugo is such a spaz sometimes. This chapter cracked me up. Him telling Todoroki his sister would cry from how terrible his knife skills were was hilarious. The Bakugo Todoroki "friendship" has overtaken the Bakugo Kirishima friendship as being the best interactions for me. I also gotta say I like Todoroki much more now that he's got Drax's issue of not understanding metaphors and slang vs his broody self.
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I find the Drax symptom really weird.
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Those are the ones creating time travel theories since one of them has Bakugo's silhouette. And the other kinda looking like Kirishima.
Not sure about the other one, but I think at least one of the hidden users is Oji Harima. You don't name drop someone along with All For One and Destro without him being important to the story in some way.
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So aside from floating did we learn any other quirk? Also how the hell does All might know what power Deku would get next since that never happened to him and they are not appearing in order?
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Well as far as we know? No Quirk should be that impressive. I think huge offensive Quirks are done. Just the base OFA strength and speed and with the addition of Black Whip he doesn't need anything extra in his offense.
Float will definitely let him fly like Superman. I think the fact Horikoshi is a huge Stars Wars fan that a power mirroring some Jedi ability is in the mix. Maybe some Persuasion Quirk or a Sensory Quirk.
Deku is a pretty intelligent character, so I was thinking a Quirk that would make use of his brain power. And maybe a Quirk like that could be something he immediately masters, because it fits him.
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I'm gonna be honest, the talk in the latest chapter of how things were when All for One was active and his prime makes a lot of the series' worldbuilding up to this point feel like a wee bit of a lost opportunity.
Like, saying that having a strong quirk makes a person such a target for him they had to cultivate One for All through people with understated or no quirk at all reads to me like it was a very real and omnipresent risk that people were being targeted and robbed by this big, well-known villain as recently as five years ago. In that kind of scenario, if you'd been born with a strong or flashy quirk, wouldn't you be terrified of showing it off and being known for it? Rather than encouraging pride and making a quirk part of your identity, wouldn't parents encourage their kids to be secretive about their powers and stay out of the spotlight to avoid being targeted? Five years is not a long enough time for a culture to forget what it's like to live that way. Not even close.
Imagine an alternative Hero Aca universe that's going through its first generation of young adults after this protracted war with the quirk-stealing big bad. All Might has stepped up and won the day and he's confident in his power. He's happy to show off what he's able to do to protect the world and people are starting to come out of their shells and feel good about having quirks again. Some of the old timers tell the kids to be more humble and conservative just in case, but the young heroes don't remember living in fear the way the adults do. UA's results are respected, but it's attitude - the Plus Ultra, exceptionalist way of thinking - is frowned on. It's something of a counterculture for the school to be so proud and so public, but it's appealing to the young ones who don't see why they should have to hide themselves. Imagine a society in the middle of the tumultuous process of social change, one that's recovering from a significant shared trauma.
Imagine AU Deku feeling even more conflicted about taking One for All because of the enormous social implications of one man taking another's quirk. Without All Might's power to protect them, how can his world feel like they're able to safely explore their quirks? How would you feel to be the one to take that away and risk being too weak to carry it forward?
Horikoshi could have set up some really interesting social and intergenrational conflicts if he'd taken the chance to really think about how All for One affected the culture he terrorised, and having the effects of his reign in the story from an early stage would have been great foreshadowing for his return and better advance setup for all the stuff we're currently learning. Ah well, he's still doing a great job, I just had a flash of inspiration from these latest revelations.
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I don't think the implication is that they had to find people with unimpressive quirks to keep OfA hidden (after all, AfO targeted them anyway). It's more that they didn't have time to find or raise very strong succesors before getting killed. That's why they weren't 'chosen ones'. They were just whoever could take it at the time. If you look at that page, it seems all of them passed it on the verge of their death.
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Meh, and Deku continues to get Bullshit power ups. Flight has never been a game changer in these type of stories, so I wonder why the author chose to go that route.
But the more Bullshit powerups Deku gets, the more I respect people like Toshinori and Mirio. Seriously Toshinori became the greatest hero with a simple strength boosting power up. Mirio was nigh invincible with a quirk that took him decades to master.
Deku will become the greatest hero because he will essentially be superman at the end of the series. Pretty lame. But I loved Bakugo calling him out on the bullshit power ups
HOW COME LUFFY NEVER KILLS AN ENEMY?
ODA:ITS BECAUSE IN THAT ERA EVERYONE USES THEIR LIVES TO FIGHT FOR THEIR DREAMS. FOR AN ENEMY WHEN THEIR DREAM HAS BEEN SHATTERED,IT IS AS PAINFUL AS DEATH,I BELIEVE FOR A PIRATE NOT TO KILL AN ENEMY , IT'S GIVING THEM A SECOND CHANCE TO FIGHT FOR THEIR DREAMS.
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I don't think the implication is that they had to find people with unimpressive quirks to keep OfA hidden (after all, AfO targeted them anyway). It's more that they didn't have time to find or raise very strong succesors before getting killed. That's why they weren't 'chosen ones'. They were just whoever could take it at the time. If you look at that page, it seems all of them passed it on the verge of their death.
A fair interpretation, but still, heroes getting killed that often and that easily feels like it should have created a cultural mood of fear that would probably have lasted a little while after the threat was actually gone. I think it would be a cool angle to see a society recovering from that kind of thing as a backdrop to the main story.
But there's really a lot we don't know about that period in history. Feels pretty likely All For One was a law enforcement issue mainly, big in the underworld, a major concern for the law enforcement community, but something normal people figured was happening far away and would never affect them, like most real world big name terrorists or crime kingpins. Pretty sure Vigilantes is meant to be set while AFO was active and people there aren't worrying about him too much in their day to day lives. So I'm not gonna call the lack of social fallout a hole in the story or anything like that, I just thought it would have been a neat alternate approach.
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People get used to the happy normal too quickly. That’s why extremist with retro ideologies from all sides of the spectrum keep rising.
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Meh, and Deku continues to get Bullshit power ups. Flight has never been a game changer in these type of stories, so I wonder why the author chose to go that route
Probably because of that very reason you just said; because it's not a game changer.
So far the quirks have been presented as supportive and not very strong on their own. Float itself is simply provides an ability Deku would have eventually gotten anyway as he gets closer to 100%, only sooner and less dangerous to the surroundings.
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I think I figured out Nana's hero name by her belt buckle. ∀ is a mathematical symbol meaning for all. If that's true then All Might is a name Toshinori chose to honor his master.
So aside from floating did we learn any other quirk? Also how the hell does All might know what power Deku would get next since that never happened to him and they are not appearing in order?
I think he was guessing, probably feeling nostalgic about Nana.
A fair interpretation, but still, heroes getting killed that often and that easily feels like it should have created a cultural mood of fear that would probably have lasted a little while after the threat was actually gone. I think it would be a cool angle to see a society recovering from that kind of thing as a backdrop to the main story.
But there's really a lot we don't know about that period in history. Feels pretty likely All For One was a law enforcement issue mainly, big in the underworld, a major concern for the law enforcement community, but something normal people figured was happening far away and would never affect them, like most real world big name terrorists or crime kingpins. Pretty sure Vigilantes is meant to be set while AFO was active and people there aren't worrying about him too much in their day to day lives. So I'm not gonna call the lack of social fallout a hole in the story or anything like that, I just thought it would have been a neat alternate approach.
I think Vigilantes takes place after All Might and AFO had their first big fight. It would help explain why his organization started messing with creating artificial beings.
But, yeah, heroes losing their quirks should be a big issue for the public. A major character had it happen to him in Vigilantes but the possible fallout was never addressed. He just retired. And, we now know Giganto was hunting heroes in the past to give their quirks to AFO. I'm thinking the Hero Safety Commission and government in general is purposefully keeping quiet about this stuff and just asking the hero victims to silently retire.
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I'm gonna be honest, the talk in the latest chapter of how things were when All for One was active and his prime makes a lot of the series' worldbuilding up to this point feel like a wee bit of a lost opportunity.
Like, saying that having a strong quirk makes a person such a target for him they had to cultivate One for All through people with understated or no quirk at all reads to me like it was a very real and omnipresent risk that people were being targeted and robbed by this big, well-known villain as recently as five years ago. In that kind of scenario, if you'd been born with a strong or flashy quirk, wouldn't you be terrified of showing it off and being known for it? Rather than encouraging pride and making a quirk part of your identity, wouldn't parents encourage their kids to be secretive about their powers and stay out of the spotlight to avoid being targeted? Five years is not a long enough time for a culture to forget what it's like to live that way. Not even close.
It has been said in the series that AFO was regarded as a myth by some, the dude is probably 150+, give that Toshinori should be at least 10 years older than Endy, and that Nana is from the same generation of Gran Torino, that would put the seventh user gaining OFA around 70 years ago, lets give a rough estimate that the other users died in their late to mid twenties, than AFO and his brother were alive around 220 years ago. There's no chance that a guy live AFO doing his business in broad day light for 50 years wouldn't grant him a government hunt. At some point he begun operating in the shadows.
And Kota's backstory kind establishes that a hero dying in the line of duty is not uncommon.
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Damn Nana, gorgeous panel.
Glad we got our timeskip after all, just took a bit longer than we thought. Depending on its handled, this could make or break the series IMO.
Also is anyone actually into Deku and Bakugo's current dynamic? It just feels unsettling to me.
there's a lot of info going on in this chapter but what really got me was how buff Nana was in that flashback panel don't tone that down when you get to it, anime, I'll be upset
It absolutely will, the anime has a bad track record with stuff like that.
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When does school end in Japan?
I'm gonna be honest, the talk in the latest chapter of how things were when All for One was active and his prime makes a lot of the series' worldbuilding up to this point feel like a wee bit of a lost opportunity.
Like, saying that having a strong quirk makes a person such a target for him they had to cultivate One for All through people with understated or no quirk at all reads to me like it was a very real and omnipresent risk that people were being targeted and robbed by this big, well-known villain as recently as five years ago. In that kind of scenario, if you'd been born with a strong or flashy quirk, wouldn't you be terrified of showing it off and being known for it? Rather than encouraging pride and making a quirk part of your identity, wouldn't parents encourage their kids to be secretive about their powers and stay out of the spotlight to avoid being targeted? Five years is not a long enough time for a culture to forget what it's like to live that way. Not even close.
Imagine an alternative Hero Aca universe that's going through its first generation of young adults after this protracted war with the quirk-stealing big bad. All Might has stepped up and won the day and he's confident in his power. He's happy to show off what he's able to do to protect the world and people are starting to come out of their shells and feel good about having quirks again. Some of the old timers tell the kids to be more humble and conservative just in case, but the young heroes don't remember living in fear the way the adults do. UA's results are respected, but it's attitude - the Plus Ultra, exceptionalist way of thinking - is frowned on. It's something of a counterculture for the school to be so proud and so public, but it's appealing to the young ones who don't see why they should have to hide themselves. Imagine a society in the middle of the tumultuous process of social change, one that's recovering from a significant shared trauma.
Imagine AU Deku feeling even more conflicted about taking One for All because of the enormous social implications of one man taking another's quirk. Without All Might's power to protect them, how can his world feel like they're able to safely explore their quirks? How would you feel to be the one to take that away and risk being too weak to carry it forward?
Horikoshi could have set up some really interesting social and intergenrational conflicts if he'd taken the chance to really think about how All for One affected the culture he terrorised, and having the effects of his reign in the story from an early stage would have been great foreshadowing for his return and better advance setup for all the stuff we're currently learning. Ah well, he's still doing a great job, I just had a flash of inspiration from these latest revelations.
We have more than enough dystopia story. 90% of fantasy story is secretly a dystopia. Lets just let My hero be a functioning society.
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Meh, and Deku continues to get Bullshit power ups. Flight has never been a game changer in these type of stories, so I wonder why the author chose to go that route.
More a shoutout to Superman than an intended game changer, I think. Flight was hardly Supes strongest power, after all.
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Damn Nana, gorgeous panel.
Glad we got our timeskip after all, just took a bit longer than we thought. Depending on its handled, this could make or break the series IMO.
Also is anyone actually into Deku and Bakugo's current dynamic? It just feels unsettling to me.
It absolutely will, the anime has a bad track record with stuff like that.
It's definitely weird. But it seems more normal for Bakugo in how he treats everyone. Instead of overly hostile and flat out hating him. He's just a weird dude (I think Horikoshi just likes drawing extreme faces) and Deku isn't acting afraid. He's taking it more in stride like Todoroki does.
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I'm rapidly getting the sense that Katsuki really can't comprehend a relationship where Izuku is his equal or honestly his better so he defaults to the "insult person for no reason" mode.
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I think Vigilantes takes place after All Might and AFO had their first big fight. It would help explain why his organization started messing with creating artificial beings.
But, yeah, heroes losing their quirks should be a big issue for the public. A major character had it happen to him in Vigilantes but the possible fallout was never addressed. He just retired. And, we now know Giganto was hunting heroes in the past to give their quirks to AFO. I'm thinking the Hero Safety Commission and government in general is purposefully keeping quiet about this stuff and just asking the hero victims to silently retire.
My guess is that Vigilantes is at least 5 years ago but probably a little more, but it's really circumstantial unless I've missed an official timeline statement somewhere. But yeah, it seems they're really good at keeping things under wraps and controlling panics in this universe.
It has been said in the series that AFO was regarded as a myth by some, the dude is probably 150+, give that Toshinori should be at least 10 years older than Endy, and that Nana is from the same generation of Gran Torino, that would put the seventh user gaining OFA around 70 years ago, lets give a rough estimate that the other users died in their late to mid twenties, than AFO and his brother were alive around 220 years ago. There's no chance that a guy live AFO doing his business in broad day light for 50 years wouldn't grant him a government hunt. At some point he begun operating in the shadows.
And Kota's backstory kind establishes that a hero dying in the line of duty is not uncommon.
These are excellent points. Man, I really hadn't thought in detail about how old AFO would have to be. That's incredible, and I'd love to see it acknowledged or laid out in canon at some point.
When does school end in Japan?
We have more than enough dystopia story. 90% of fantasy story is secretly a dystopia. Lets just let My hero be a functioning society.
A dystopia would be setting it while AFO was at his peak, and assuming he was a public tyrant, not an underworld figure. I reckon a society in the process of recovering from a dystopia and trying not to fall back into one would be a unique take to explore.
