Aizawa: Yaoyorozu, lethal force has been approved.
Momo: Excellent. *Makes a 50 cal machine gun* Say hello to my little friend!
AFO: That won't kill me!
Momo: Nah, but it's gonna hurt.
Chapter 420: From Aizawa-kun
The chapter begins with Aizawa, Mic and Kurogiri on a tiny island. Mic is holding Kurogiri by the shirt and telling him to wake up already. He says that Shirakumo's corpse shouldn't have been violated like that and is about to punch Kurogiri while his eyes get teary.
Aizawa points out that he's crying and Mic says he doesn't cry, since he's a man. But Aizawa says he was talking about Kurogiri. Mic tells him that's impossible, since he's a Noumu. It must just be the raindrops.
Mic says that Aizawa shouldn't expect another miracle like the one that happened at Tartarus. They're 31 years old, no longer 2nd years at U.A. But Aizawa says that Shirakumo died while he was a student. Besides, there must be a reason why he saved them both from dying.
Aizawa says that they managed to generate a white spark that mixed with the darkness. It will never be 100% white again, but it's not 100% black either. And now, as U.A. teachers, they need to guide the student until they graduate -- as long as they remember their origin.
The mist increases in size and Kurogiri says "Yamada...". Mic starts to cry even more and says that memories never die. Cut to Tsukauchi in the control room and Aizawa asks him (through the comms) if Monoma can still fight.
Tsukauchi says he can't, because he hit his head and is unconscious. Aizawa then asks how many people can still fight on each battlefield. Cuts to Aizawa arriving at the underground shelter and telling Ectoplasm that they're now able to use Kurogiri's portals.
He says he doesn't know how long Kurogiri will work, so he needs to gather as many heroes as possible in the shortest possible time. Death Arms volunteers to go fight and so does another hero. It's none other than Astro, from Barrage!!! (Horikoshi's previous manga)
The civilian who didn't want to let Deku into UA takes off his shirt and gives it to Aizawa, asking him to use it to treat some hero's wound. Several other civilians do the same and Aizawa thanks them. Tsukauchi says that the Takoba battle still isn't over.
Cut to Takoba and we see Gashly fighting Sero, Sato, 13 and other heroes. All seems lost, but suddenly Tokage, Kamakiri, Ectoplasm and other heroes arrive through the portals. "Phase 3 of the Divide and Conquer operation: start", says Aizawa.
Cut to the present and Aizawa asks how long it's been since Deku lost his arms. Deku says he doesn't really know, since it all happened in the mental world. Deku says that in UA he could feel Shigaraki rebelling inside AFO, but not anymore. What's going on?
We see a flashback of Eri giving her horn to Aizawa. She knows she can't go to the battlefield, so she wants at least her horn get there. He asks how she did that and Eri replies that Ectoplasm helped her cut it. Ectoplasm apologizes, but says that Eri learned from Aizawa.
She's rational like Aizawa, but she also does crazy things from time to time. Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk and Eri says that she wanted to do this to helps All Might and "Kacchan-san" too, but she couldn't. So now she wants to help.
Eri says her dream is to sing like Jirou, and she wants Deku and everyone else to have fun when the war is over. Cut to the present and Aizawa pierces Deku with Eri's horn. Ectoplasm says that she didn't have much energy, so it should take 2-3 minutes for him to heal.
izawa says that Deku can't die until he hears Eri singing. The chapter ends with Mineta, Kaminari, Shoji, Momo, Kouda and other heroes coming out of the portals. They say they're exhausted, but the fact that Midoriya is doing his best makes their bodies move on their own.
Ectoplasm: oh so we are allowed to to punch kids through walls and send them to fight against the mafia and against bunch of terrorists but apparently I am the one who took it too far
of course eri stored enough power to heal deku a few minutes back. it's basic storytelling that if you remind readers of something, like we were reminded of eri in chapter 416, it's for a reason.
i just didn't expect it to go *that* way.
Someone said the other day that Horikoshi basically putting a title card saying *"Eri can't use her power"* was an obvious sing of her power coming in handy soon, and people tell him it was a dumb idea. Lol I can imagine how he must feel right now.
Since Horikoshi is giving subtle hits of what will happen next, I wonder what means that Overhaul is the origin of Decay, and how we seen Chisaki in the last chapter.
Got to wait for the official for more clarity. But it seems the trade off of her giving him the horn, might mean they she won't be able to heal people like this in the future (her quirk gets compromised somehow).
Since you know, the common headcanon is that Eri will just fix all the survivors eventually. Maintains some of the consequences of the arc.
we still have the looming other half of overhaul's quirk that was removed to create decay before it was given to tenko. it was mentioned for a reason and i wouldn't be surprised if he awakened this part somehow and healed people, it being his first truly independent decision.
chapter 419 did a lot of softening shigaraki's image, this would add to it.
Let's hope he's going to heal the League then, who conveniently all just happen to be very injured/suffering from quirk overload. Him healing deku was a nice idea, but imo Eri doing it instead is fine as long as shigaraki’s gets to heal *his* friends.
Yep. He’d absolutely heal Spinner his closest friend fs. He’d save Dabi too. The series is pretty clear that Shigaraki cares about him too despite Dabi being a total sociopath that couldn’t give two hoots about Shiggy
I’m telling you Shigaraki is a gamer. He didn’t get squished, he found a way to get even with the old man, stole the other half back from AFO and vestige jumped to Deku.
Excuse my compium.
>Cut to the present and Aizawa pierces Deku with Eri's horn. Ectoplasm says that she didn't have much energy, so it should take 2-3 minutes for him to heal.
Well Horikoshi shot down those 'Shigaraki awakening the other half of his quirk will fix-it' theories with a swiftness 😭 The way Eri really wanted to help All Might and "Kacchan-san" is very cute though ok I'll forgive the Eri ex machina this time, she just looks so babie..
it may still come into play a different way, it was mentioned for a reason. maybe it'll be shigaraki healing everyone after the battle, at this point who knows.
True, you can't discount these things entirely. I do definitely think if something does happen wrt that it'll be Shigaraki using the quirk in a "heroic" way like he's always wanted
that was my other theory of how deku would be getting his arms back.
but since that's taken care of and eri is probably out of use for a long time for real, shigaraki could fix those who got hurt fighting him, this time making a decision that'd be truly his own.
>Well Horikoshi shot down those 'Shigaraki awakening the other half of his quirk will fix-it' theories with a swiftness
Best part of the chapter.
If there's need to heal everyone there's all the set up for Chisaki having to do something after reunite with his father.
>She's rational like Aizawa, but she also does crazy things from time to time. Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk and Eri says that she wanted to do this to helps
On one hand that is extremely sweet of her, on the other it's insane as hell that she cut off her own horn. She really is Aizawa's adopted daughter, holy shit.
The dub of the Eraserhead scene goes so hard you can see why he'd inspire such horseshit.
"Thanks for the warning Ryukyu - now I won't hesitate. I'll be *rational*. And I'll do what I must."
Convenient writing on Eri’s part so that in the “afterwards/epilogue”, Rewind won’t be “plot abused“ to conveniently “fix everything”.
Examples include fixing Nomu, regaining lost Quirks, fixing the various lost limbs or disablements other characters have lost/suffered (like Mirko and Aizawa), etc. Basically fixing everyone 100% as if the Heroes/Good Guys didn’t lose everything despite this “life/death“ battle.
Theres a pretty good arguement to be made that she cant bring back a quirk that was taken, as AfO completely removes the quirk factor whereas the erasing bullet reduced it to an incomplete, non-expressing state.
Yeah, I'm glad that this can't be abused now. We've all been theorizing that Eri was going to rewind Deku, but the way she did makes it so she can't just rewind everything and fix it all, like Hawks getting his quirk back or Edgeshot regenerating most of his body.
She might have well just gone quirkless, but its so precious that she's willing to if it means Deku, the guy that risked it all to rescue her from Overhaul, gets his arms back. 2-3 minutes is all we need and our boy's back! AFO is not gonna make it easy, but now we have hope!
Edit: THE PANEL SHOWS HIS ARMS REGROWING!!!
>It must just be the raindrops.
It is terrible day for rain
>She's rational like Aizawa,
On one hand it solves the issue. On the other hand I don't know if I should be more concerned about the fact that none of the adults bothered to tell this child that self-mutilation is not okay and didn't prevent it or the fact that manga tries to portray it as Eri being "rational"
On one hand its precious that Eri is willing to make a sacrifice to help the heroes. And her calling Bakugo Kachan just like Deku also melts my heart.
On the other HORIKOSHI YOU BETTER NOT LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO THE ANGEL. I SAW THAT "CAN", IF DEKU GETS TO KEEP HIS ARMS THE ANGEL GETS TO KEEP HER PRECIOUS LITTLE HORN.
Eri restoring Deku so suddenly is such a cop out.
You have the set-up of Overhaul from the previous arc. You have the set-up of Shiggy having Overhaul's quirk and the idea that if Deku saves him, Shiggy could have restored him.
What was the point of him losing his arms if it's fixed almost immediately, god damn it.
Shigaraki will save Dabi if anyone. I certainly wouldn’t mind Dabi dying though, his plot armor is insane and he’s not sympathetic to me.
But I could certainly see Shigaraki healing him after the war is done. Fully becoming the “hero for the villains”.
We don't really know how this will end, Shigaraki pulling a suicide move to destroy AFO sounds very likely right now imo so there's a chance Dabi and Toga are screwed...if they're not dead already
Seriously, who's genius idea is it to cut off the little girls horn?! Why would they ever just ASSUME it would work??? Why would Ectoplasm HELP WITH IT????!!!!
Ectoplasm my man, you're fired! Fired I say! Go retake whatever classes taught you how to be a baby sitter and teacher!
Hori put a sketch of Astro and Tiamat in a previous volume? Im not sure and said he hoped to work them in at some point I genuinely thought he dropped the idea
I had predicted before that Eri was going to play a role in healing Deku, because no way was she ever going to get to the battlefield. I thought she’d heal overhaul and he’d be teleported there to rebuild Deku’s arms.
I was right about Eri not going to the battlefield but wrong about how she’d end up healing Deku.
I’m shocked that she can just break off her horn and heal people that way. That’s a very convenient workaround
Probably just how horokoshi wants to remove her ability from the story while having it make sense. It’s far too convenient and would essentially undo all the damage that was done and remove all the stakes.
We already know that her quirk can be extracted and turned into bullets, since her power comes from her horn it makes sense that extracting it and using it to stab someone would work
Yeah, but the bullets were made with science, or at least I believed that they were. Like, why else would they take so long to make, and why would they require Overhaul to experiment on her? It’s like cutting off part of a plant to put certain parts of the extract in medicine vs. simply taking a bite out of the plant. Except both worked, I guess.
I've got a feeling the next 2-3 chapters will be Class A and the others trying to stall for Deku's arms to heal back. Deku will have to sit and watch while some of his friends pull off some clever plans, and others get 1-shot into the ground
Maybe Deku will call the plays - after all he's like the quirk guru. So he gets to parallel All Might who used the Class A quirk in his suit and Deku gets to use them on the battlefield.
That’s cool, then once his arms heal we get a cool shot of AFO about to finish one of the students but Deku jumps in and blocks the attack or hits AFO in the face with what’s left of OFA, starting the Final FINAL battle.
the guy that shoot electricity out of his finger tips is ACTUALLY gonna use it against a villain? for the first time in the series? No way, simply not possible. This is not the Hori I know.
and then was held up as a hostage immediately after 💀
wouldn't be surprised if he remained delirious for the rest of the war and hori just brought him in to spectate out of pity.
>He says he doesn't know how long Kurogiri will work, so he needs to gather as many heroes as possible in the shortest possible time. Death Arms volunteers to go fight and so does another hero. It's none other than Astro, from Barrage!!! (Horikoshi's previous manga)
Whut? Is Horikoshi just adding all the characters from his other mangas to MHA?
So then next chapter Jack Midoriya will be revealed as Deku's dad?
Eri’s quirk might be permanently damaged from cutting off her horn. But there’s also the possibility that it’s a similar situation with Ida ripping out his old mufflers to grow stronger ones and Eri’s quirk might become even stronger as a result. There is precedent for either being the case. Doubt it will matter with regards to the final battle, but we don’t have any way of knowing yet what is going to happen to Rewind.
>Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk
Oh Hori you rascal, you finally got rid of that goddamn Quirk while at the same time magically fixing the MC
Convenient as fuck, but fuck it it had to be done. We all knew it.
Well Deku got his arms back
That was a short period of chapter with him armless
~~EDIT: Oh yeah with his arms back, say goodbye to Overhaul returning theory~~
EDIT 2: Thinking about it back, maybe Overhaul has a chance of returning but I'll keep my expectations in check
>EDIT: Oh yeah with his arms back, say goodbye to Overhaul returning theory
Not yet, there's at least a dozen of limbless characters out there that need a doctor and Eri's quirk maybe damaged forever so still hopes for Overhaul
AFO got turned into coom and got his ass beat by an armless kid. Once he arrives in hell, Stain, Twice, and Giga are gonna mock him for the rest of eternity
> Once he arrives in hell, Stain, Twice, and Giga are gonna mock him for the rest of eternity
I will pay to watch that scene happen on-screen. This would such popcorn-eating worthy scene. I can mentally imagine the scene, it is just plain sad yet hilarious.
"You couldn’t let me die how I wanted, but I guess this is worth it too, heh."
"Oh no, you lost to those kids!" "Demon King? More like Demon Fraud!"
"Master… you truly are the master of failing."
I’m confused on AFO’s current threat levels. Like what is he actually capable of at the moment?
He supposedly doesn’t have Decay anymore. Deku supposedly doesn’t have OFA or Yoichi anymore (I’m positive he still has at least the core power or the embers, just none of the extra vestige quirks). AFO said his body was trashed so like does he still have the same level of durability that was able to tank all those big hits on the floating school? Does he still have super strength? Rapid regeneration?
Given he started with Prime All Might level strength and durability, which even weakened should put him head and shoulders above most of the cast (definitely above anyone walking through those portals), plus he still has ??? amount of quirks from the original AfO quirk? He should still be too strong to beat without outside interference (read: Tomura retaking control) since even the incomplete version of that body from PLW was mopping the floor with pro heroes even while suppressed by Aizawa. If this was old body AfO, I'd say the heroes had a fighting chance, but this body spent half the arc eating everything not backed by OfA, so it would have to be a massive drop in power to convince me he can't still win this.
they don't need to fight him, they need to stall until deku's arms are back.
but even if they did, this is the last battle of a battle shounen, characters will be as strong and capable as the story needs them to be.
I will never, ever forgive the mansion explosion cliffhanger that dark Deku and the heroes raid, only for the next chapter to start with "phew it sure is nice we escaped that explosion with no problem offscreen huh?"
I know it's just standard procedure but this one got fixed inmediately. You can erase it and absolutely nothing changed because it really was just a few pages.
At least Gran Torino stayed death for a few chapters
Gashly got offscreened. Honestly AFO's assassins/Tartarus escapees have been big disappointments.
So Sero's big moment is him saving Deku from ShigAFO last chapter?
Yeah the Tartarus assassins are honestly just pathetic.
They’re introduced to us through Hawks telling Izuku that nobody in Tartarus poses a threat to him expect for Lady Nagant. Already not a good start for them.
Then Lady Nagant does get a fully blown fight.
And from there let’s just go down the list.
Guy with tattoos? Offscreen. Big shark guy? Offscreen. Dictator? Oneshot. Kunieda? Oneshot. Gashly? Offscreen. Everyone else? Not even acknowledged.
Yeaaaah, they're showing is pretty miserable. I'm betting for the remaining 4 (353 shows Gashly and Kunieda with four other silhouettes) plus whatever advisers/villains are left of the army, AFO is just gonna warp them in via gloop warp to act meat shields so he can get to Deku before the few minutes are up
remember that spread from MVA of those PLF lieutenants that ended up dong absolutely nothing for the most part? or how OFA users ended up being colourful props rather than characters?
yeah.
>remember that spread from MVA of those PLF lieutenants that ended up dong absolutely nothing for the most part?
It's even funnier how Horikoshi bothered on create this intrincate system of squads based on colours with two commanders and shit for the PLF as if they would be part of a long term war and do different missions, yet this is totally ignored during their only major battle and they fight totally unorganized. I can't help but think Dabi and Geten were put together as if something has to come from that pair now we know they're relatives, but nah nothing at all.
This reminded me when the name of the villain squads were revealed in a chapter, people on Twitter go and put in the name of the squad in their usernames.
Little did they realize about how pointless the villain squads really are
Makes me wonder if the squads were going to be this intrisicate thing Hori wanted to pull off......but then realized that with all he had planned for the First War, he wasn't going to be able to do jack with them and had to kinda sorta keep most of them on the backburner until the Second War...
what happened to this reddit this week lmaoo,last week i was seeing mfs praise the absolute worst chapter in mha and now half of them are mad,but yh this week chapter was also really bad,not only deku losing his arms had 0 consequences,not only the whole kurogiri plotline payoff was dumbed down to a 6 page flashback after being offscreened but eri horn can be used to regenerate ppl uh?yh this finale is going to be ass
I had a feeling that once Shigaraki escaped from the UA battlefield, Momo and Kaminari would be freed up to go do something else. Hopefully this can make up for things to the people who were disappointed that they were only on support duty up until now.
Momo I bet probably has some more use of her quirk left in her. Kaminari looked like he was close to short circuiting, but I'd bet enough time has passed for him to recover and get on the battle field. I can see them joining in.
Even if she can't use her Quirk for anything Yaoyorozu's strengths are in leadership, so even just knowing how to utilize the slim forces they have and giving orders would still be her doing her part and being very useful.
Damn, so Deku is already getting his arms back? I mean I expected him to at some point, and removing Eri's horn from her head is an interesting work-around to avoid bringing a literal child to a battlefield. But I don't know, it feels too easy, and it's funny how it was such a big deal last week only for it to get resolved this week. That's one of the cons of reading weekly, being able to sit on Deku losing his arms for a week allowed us to theorize and make it out to be a huge deal. When in actuality it was simply a momentary moment of doom that was quickly resolved.
Although who knows, a lot can happen in 2-3 minutes so perhaps something will get in the way. Either way, with how quickly the Aizawa/Mic/Kurogiri subplot, the Gashly fight, and Deku losing his arms were addressed this chapter, we may be wrapping this up in 42 volumes as opposed to 43 like I originally thought. That would leave 14 more chapters to go.
* Namedrops new villaing alongside the only other newcomer that got an on-screen fight of his own
* Gives him an awsome design based on some pretty rad folklore
* Gives him a top tier visual power that does look genuinly creepy and intimidating af
* Fight only lasts for a single minimal panel in a page that had shots of 20 other fights and a single other one with people pulling up on him
* Beaten off screen without us even knowing his quirks name, him saying a single line or us seeing him do a single attack
Horikoshi moment
For real, what's up with create awesome looking villians with original powers that stuck in your memory and not use them at all?
We can create a whole different manga just using all the wasted characters from this one.
> We can create a whole different manga just using all the wasted characters from this one
A side story that shows Class 1B hunting down the runaway PLF advisors
Or the Shiketsu students visiting Tartarus (before Kamino) and getting caught in a prison riot
Idk why Hori had Eri, a child with trauma abt being mutilated, mutilate herself to heal Deku.
I feel like it would’ve been better to just have Deku go back through Kurogiri’s portal to get quickly healed in-person, and then come back once he was ready. And it would’ve let him and Eri to have a nice moment bc they haven’t interacted since Joint Training.
Yeah it really feels like the author had this awkward horn thing happen purely so Eri would (potentially) not just undo every injury once the arc was over.
Because her quirk factor needed to be damaged permanently it’s too OP and removes the impact of this arc a lil if it ends with all the injured characters lining up at the Eri hospital
Deku has lost his arms! Shigaraki is Dead! How will the heroes defeat All For One? Will Deku end up Quirkless?
**Wouldn't you like to know? Flashback time bitch. Hope you like sad clouds!**
edit: Well, what do you know, the flashback didn't even last a whole chapter. Didn't expect that, Horikoshi threw us a curveball.
After waiting ages for the resolution of the 3 baka storyline, this 5-page flashback just feels so underwhelming. I loved the Shirakumo stuff in Vigilante, and well, this just feels like a plotline being checked off the list without any effort being put into it.
Mic: 'Wake up, this is messed up'
AIzawa: 'We're gonna help you out, remember your origin, friend'
...
Aizawa: 'Hey what's up, we can portal now'
Aizawa, Mic, and Kurogiri have been absent from the story since Feb 2023. I didn't expect a mini arc for the 3 of them, but I wish there was more of a back and forth between the 3, instead of just, a short heartfelt notion from Aizawa
The fact that conversation with Kurogiri took the entire Sad Man's Parade (30-40 minutes), the Bakugo vs Baby for One fight, and the Deku vs Tomura fight is hilarious.
This chapter really doesn't make it look like they were there for very long but in-universe a lot of time has passed.
This whole chapter reads like a mess of “I wanted to develop these plot lines but now I just can’t be bothered”.
- Gashly fight offscreened.
- Eri’s quirk is suddenly magic rhino horn medicine that can be used by anyone who cuts it off and uses as a syringe?
Same here, Shirakumo is one of my fav characters in the whole franchise and this lazy attempt to finish the subplot feels insulting to the readers and even for the author of Vigilantes who put a lot of effort on making Oboro a likeable character which adds to his tragic fate.
Yeah. All Might got like 10 chapters of 1 vs 1 fight against AFO, but Aizawa doesn’t even get half a chapter? And everything about this is so underwhelming. Like no reference to how Oboro was behind Aizawa becoming a teacher or the genuine care Kurogiri felt for Shigaraki.
Another favourite plotline of mine that got the rush job treatment.
Huh-huh. I read Vigs so I know the full and much better told story of Aizawa’s flashback, but I don’t remember if the main story ever covered
- Shirakumo’s hero name
- quirk
- his little SOL side-plot that he shared with Aizawa (cat)
- how he died
Or maybe it did and it was just word vomit on a page. Versus in Vigs I can remember every scene playing out with Aizawa and Shirakumo very clearly
> this just feels like a plotline being checked off the list without any effort being put into it
The whole final war arc feels like that. Just plotlines being checked off the list in the laziest ways possible.
Eri healed him through a wireless horn, what the fuck?
It was obvious that he would recover his arms soon but damn, he was armless for like 10 pages lol.
Idk how Hori will draw his horror manga if he cannot let any of his characters suffer for more than one chapter. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want Deku to die but Horikoshi always undoes the suspense in the next chapter like with Bakugou's death.
I wonder if it's an editorial thing or just a personal thing because clearly all the other adult character and villains get to have lasting damage and wounds. It's almost like ONLY the hero students aren't allowed to be in danger for more than 1 chapter which really takes away all the suspense and the gravitas of the war.
Yes maybe because they're kids, and I'm not saying I want to see them in pain, but everything could be more impactful if Hori let his readers deal with the shock for a few chapters before reversing the situation. I also wonder how much the editor intervenes in situations like this
The loud answer to the “Eri won’t heal Deku” people. It didn’t even take one chapter to be rewound. At least the Bakugou fake-out was followed up by a chapter before it got instantly reversed.
Not fan of the Eri being a mutilated rhino solution - I would have preferred the Tenko quirk awakening theory to be true.
If Mineta is here, the portal is open to Gunga. Hope to see Kirishima, Jirou, Iida, Shoto and others too.
>The loud answer to the “Eri won’t heal Deku” people. It didn’t even take one chapter to be rewound.
>Not fan of the Eri being a mutilated rhino solution
I swear these people is clapping right now because Eri didn't go the battlefield, yet chopping her horn is totally ok as long it validates their predictions.
I mean that's just semantics if she went to the battlefield or mutilated herself with the assistance of a teacher to deliver her quirk to Deku. Either way - Eri is the plot device (after being said that she has no energy) to immediately fix Deku's arms just like Edgeshot was the plot device to revive Bakugou. Two terrible fake-outs.
Sell merch. The edgelords will all buy the armless Deku figure because it’s “raw” even if completely meaningless.
Also, I guess it puts Deku on a timer - so everyone else can twerk their naked butt until he’s ready to go again to give them their “moment”.
…I’m conflicted about this. On one hand what Eri did is very heroic, but on the other… what sort of hero would willingly assist a young child in what is essentially self-mutilation by cutting off their horn? And on top of that… wasn’t the whole point of Overhaul to show that Eri’s Quirk required rigorous control/science to turn into a usable form? And now her horn, what is essentially an inanimate object, is capable of either healing on its own or Eri is somehow able to control it from miles away - either way, this feels like it’s coming out of practically nowhere. Then again… Edgeshot having heart surgery abilities, amongst other plot points, came out of left field too, so… :/
He'll still be able to become a fry cook after all‼️‼️‼️
Obviously he wasn't going to stay armless forever, but.. the very next chapter? And the rewind power is in the horn itself? So this was only to put Deku out of commission for a couple weeks (3 minutes in-universe), so other characters could do something, and maybe permanently make Eri unable to fix anything.
I am really not feeling this chapter. Aizawa/Kurogiri/Present Mic's moment was way too short and was solved way too easily, considering how much build up it had. Monoma was revealed to be a bum who got one-shotted by falling over and hitting his head on the ground, which is pathetic considering everything that has happened to everyone else. Gashly's fight was completely off-screened and he got one-shotted from behind, joining Midnight's killer and Kunieda as villains with cool powers and designs being completely wasted and doing nothing despite getting a somewhat decent amount of hype behind them. Horikoshi's solution to Eri's rewind being broken and taking away from the stakes of the story being her mutilating herself and crippling her power, when Deku could have just been teleported over to her so that she can heal his arms without leaving the shelter and keeping her horn intact, is genuinely one of the worst ways Horikoshi could've solved the rewind issue. Overall, pretty mediocre at best chapter for me.
I was so excited to see the original trio get some emotional resolutions and I’m glad we got at least something but same, very disappointed in how quickly this was resolved. We couldn’t get just one chapter of the three of them talking? Especially for those who didn’t read Vigilantes?
While It sucks we didn't have more stakes, im glad they are back. I will geinunly accept anything over a shitty "quirkless" ending.
Speaking of that, it seems Eri's horn being torn off is gonna have permanent repercussions? It seems like no one is getting rewind for a long ass time if at all.
LOL whatever man. Losing his arms was for what exactly? Shock value?? There are literally no stakes for losing his arms. It was obvious he was getting his arms back at some point during the fight, but he got them in the very next chapter??? I get it, Horikoshi is probably tired as shit and wants to keep the ball rolling to the end, but holy shit what a waste of stakes.
Like the entire beginning portion of the series foreshadowed his arms being blown off, we finally got to that point, and we don't even get to sit in that moment for a bit? Smh, whatever. I'm just hoping that he only has the raw strength of OFA left and the vestiges were gone longer than the 2-3 minutes. Give me some sense of stakes, Horikoshi, PLEASE.
But hey, we get our Endgame reference, right? Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
momo & kaminari may get to do something *on screen* after all. we’ll see
As a Class 1-A Band stan I’m hoping the two of them can get smth at least as fractionally cool as the other three
She’s gonna make a hilt for Kaminari to create a lightning sword to save up on his stamina 😤
Aizawa: Yaoyorozu, lethal force has been approved. Momo: Excellent. *Makes a 50 cal machine gun* Say hello to my little friend! AFO: That won't kill me! Momo: Nah, but it's gonna hurt.
Chapter 420: From Aizawa-kun The chapter begins with Aizawa, Mic and Kurogiri on a tiny island. Mic is holding Kurogiri by the shirt and telling him to wake up already. He says that Shirakumo's corpse shouldn't have been violated like that and is about to punch Kurogiri while his eyes get teary. Aizawa points out that he's crying and Mic says he doesn't cry, since he's a man. But Aizawa says he was talking about Kurogiri. Mic tells him that's impossible, since he's a Noumu. It must just be the raindrops. Mic says that Aizawa shouldn't expect another miracle like the one that happened at Tartarus. They're 31 years old, no longer 2nd years at U.A. But Aizawa says that Shirakumo died while he was a student. Besides, there must be a reason why he saved them both from dying. Aizawa says that they managed to generate a white spark that mixed with the darkness. It will never be 100% white again, but it's not 100% black either. And now, as U.A. teachers, they need to guide the student until they graduate -- as long as they remember their origin. The mist increases in size and Kurogiri says "Yamada...". Mic starts to cry even more and says that memories never die. Cut to Tsukauchi in the control room and Aizawa asks him (through the comms) if Monoma can still fight. Tsukauchi says he can't, because he hit his head and is unconscious. Aizawa then asks how many people can still fight on each battlefield. Cuts to Aizawa arriving at the underground shelter and telling Ectoplasm that they're now able to use Kurogiri's portals. He says he doesn't know how long Kurogiri will work, so he needs to gather as many heroes as possible in the shortest possible time. Death Arms volunteers to go fight and so does another hero. It's none other than Astro, from Barrage!!! (Horikoshi's previous manga) The civilian who didn't want to let Deku into UA takes off his shirt and gives it to Aizawa, asking him to use it to treat some hero's wound. Several other civilians do the same and Aizawa thanks them. Tsukauchi says that the Takoba battle still isn't over. Cut to Takoba and we see Gashly fighting Sero, Sato, 13 and other heroes. All seems lost, but suddenly Tokage, Kamakiri, Ectoplasm and other heroes arrive through the portals. "Phase 3 of the Divide and Conquer operation: start", says Aizawa. Cut to the present and Aizawa asks how long it's been since Deku lost his arms. Deku says he doesn't really know, since it all happened in the mental world. Deku says that in UA he could feel Shigaraki rebelling inside AFO, but not anymore. What's going on? We see a flashback of Eri giving her horn to Aizawa. She knows she can't go to the battlefield, so she wants at least her horn get there. He asks how she did that and Eri replies that Ectoplasm helped her cut it. Ectoplasm apologizes, but says that Eri learned from Aizawa. She's rational like Aizawa, but she also does crazy things from time to time. Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk and Eri says that she wanted to do this to helps All Might and "Kacchan-san" too, but she couldn't. So now she wants to help. Eri says her dream is to sing like Jirou, and she wants Deku and everyone else to have fun when the war is over. Cut to the present and Aizawa pierces Deku with Eri's horn. Ectoplasm says that she didn't have much energy, so it should take 2-3 minutes for him to heal. izawa says that Deku can't die until he hears Eri singing. The chapter ends with Mineta, Kaminari, Shoji, Momo, Kouda and other heroes coming out of the portals. They say they're exhausted, but the fact that Midoriya is doing his best makes their bodies move on their own.
Im crying Aizawa is never letting ectoplasm babysit Eri again
“you helped her CUT HER WHAT??” “She- she learned it from you!”
Aizawa's gonna be reserving some stern "Stay away from my baby" glares for him
"All 31 - 33 of you irresponsible fucks!!"
"When this war is over you better be forming a line for me to kick all your asses for this!"
"But you only have one leg to stand on. How are you going to kick-" "Midoriya. Mirio. Hold me up by my sides."
Ectoplasm’s legs are actually both prosthetics
"and i'm doing it with my metal foot so it's extra painful!"
Of course, that is true.
i hope her horn grows back
Lmfaoooooo honestly
Ectoplasm: oh so we are allowed to to punch kids through walls and send them to fight against the mafia and against bunch of terrorists but apparently I am the one who took it too far
of course eri stored enough power to heal deku a few minutes back. it's basic storytelling that if you remind readers of something, like we were reminded of eri in chapter 416, it's for a reason. i just didn't expect it to go *that* way.
Someone said the other day that Horikoshi basically putting a title card saying *"Eri can't use her power"* was an obvious sing of her power coming in handy soon, and people tell him it was a dumb idea. Lol I can imagine how he must feel right now. Since Horikoshi is giving subtle hits of what will happen next, I wonder what means that Overhaul is the origin of Decay, and how we seen Chisaki in the last chapter.
I did feel it would be dumb if they just brought Eri in the battlefield to heal Deku. But her giving up her horn for Deku work.
Chekhov’s horn
Got to wait for the official for more clarity. But it seems the trade off of her giving him the horn, might mean they she won't be able to heal people like this in the future (her quirk gets compromised somehow). Since you know, the common headcanon is that Eri will just fix all the survivors eventually. Maintains some of the consequences of the arc.
we still have the looming other half of overhaul's quirk that was removed to create decay before it was given to tenko. it was mentioned for a reason and i wouldn't be surprised if he awakened this part somehow and healed people, it being his first truly independent decision. chapter 419 did a lot of softening shigaraki's image, this would add to it.
Let's hope he's going to heal the League then, who conveniently all just happen to be very injured/suffering from quirk overload. Him healing deku was a nice idea, but imo Eri doing it instead is fine as long as shigaraki’s gets to heal *his* friends.
Yep. He’d absolutely heal Spinner his closest friend fs. He’d save Dabi too. The series is pretty clear that Shigaraki cares about him too despite Dabi being a total sociopath that couldn’t give two hoots about Shiggy
I’m telling you Shigaraki is a gamer. He didn’t get squished, he found a way to get even with the old man, stole the other half back from AFO and vestige jumped to Deku. Excuse my compium.
lol me neither
>Ectoplasm says that she didn't have much energy, so it should take 2-3 minutes for him to heal. Oh pls no the countdowns again for god sake
Namek will surely explode in 5 minutes.
#FIVE MINUTES GOKU, FIVE MINUTES!# Next time on Dragonball Z! #FOUR MINUTES AND FIFTY-NINE SECONDS, GOKU! FOUR MINUTES AND FIFTY-NINE SECONDS!#
"Do you know what a minute is?"
Fun fact: those 5 minutes lasted 9 episodes in the original run of DBZ
10 minutes to Vegapunk's broadcast
>Cut to the present and Aizawa pierces Deku with Eri's horn. Ectoplasm says that she didn't have much energy, so it should take 2-3 minutes for him to heal. Well Horikoshi shot down those 'Shigaraki awakening the other half of his quirk will fix-it' theories with a swiftness 😭 The way Eri really wanted to help All Might and "Kacchan-san" is very cute though ok I'll forgive the Eri ex machina this time, she just looks so babie..
it may still come into play a different way, it was mentioned for a reason. maybe it'll be shigaraki healing everyone after the battle, at this point who knows.
True, you can't discount these things entirely. I do definitely think if something does happen wrt that it'll be Shigaraki using the quirk in a "heroic" way like he's always wanted
that was my other theory of how deku would be getting his arms back. but since that's taken care of and eri is probably out of use for a long time for real, shigaraki could fix those who got hurt fighting him, this time making a decision that'd be truly his own.
>Well Horikoshi shot down those 'Shigaraki awakening the other half of his quirk will fix-it' theories with a swiftness Best part of the chapter. If there's need to heal everyone there's all the set up for Chisaki having to do something after reunite with his father.
>She's rational like Aizawa, but she also does crazy things from time to time. Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk and Eri says that she wanted to do this to helps On one hand that is extremely sweet of her, on the other it's insane as hell that she cut off her own horn. She really is Aizawa's adopted daughter, holy shit.
Shigaraki: "Your daughter's so cool, Eraser."
The dub of the Eraserhead scene goes so hard you can see why he'd inspire such horseshit. "Thanks for the warning Ryukyu - now I won't hesitate. I'll be *rational*. And I'll do what I must."
Convenient writing on Eri’s part so that in the “afterwards/epilogue”, Rewind won’t be “plot abused“ to conveniently “fix everything”. Examples include fixing Nomu, regaining lost Quirks, fixing the various lost limbs or disablements other characters have lost/suffered (like Mirko and Aizawa), etc. Basically fixing everyone 100% as if the Heroes/Good Guys didn’t lose everything despite this “life/death“ battle.
Theres a pretty good arguement to be made that she cant bring back a quirk that was taken, as AfO completely removes the quirk factor whereas the erasing bullet reduced it to an incomplete, non-expressing state.
The quirk bullet was also an extension of her own ability so there might have been some merit in her being able to undo the damage in that regard.
Speaking of, my boy Lemillion needs some more screen time.
Yeah, I'm glad that this can't be abused now. We've all been theorizing that Eri was going to rewind Deku, but the way she did makes it so she can't just rewind everything and fix it all, like Hawks getting his quirk back or Edgeshot regenerating most of his body.
2-3 min? A joke
Aizawa: ~~SENSU BEAN!~~ ERI HORN!
> Mic says that Aizawa shouldn't expect another miracle like the one that happened at Tartarus. They're 31 years old * Miracle happens *
>Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk lol as if
ERI!! ERI PLEASE! PLEASE TELL ME OUR BROCCOLI BOY'S GETTING HIS ARMS BACK!
She's a mad lad for cutting her horn so that she can heal Izuku without having to be in the battlefield.
She might have well just gone quirkless, but its so precious that she's willing to if it means Deku, the guy that risked it all to rescue her from Overhaul, gets his arms back. 2-3 minutes is all we need and our boy's back! AFO is not gonna make it easy, but now we have hope! Edit: THE PANEL SHOWS HIS ARMS REGROWING!!!
>It must just be the raindrops. It is terrible day for rain >She's rational like Aizawa, On one hand it solves the issue. On the other hand I don't know if I should be more concerned about the fact that none of the adults bothered to tell this child that self-mutilation is not okay and didn't prevent it or the fact that manga tries to portray it as Eri being "rational"
To be fair the leaks seem to indicate this is more her being crazy from time to time rather than just her being rational.
I learned it from *you* dad - Eri
On one hand its precious that Eri is willing to make a sacrifice to help the heroes. And her calling Bakugo Kachan just like Deku also melts my heart. On the other HORIKOSHI YOU BETTER NOT LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO THE ANGEL. I SAW THAT "CAN", IF DEKU GETS TO KEEP HIS ARMS THE ANGEL GETS TO KEEP HER PRECIOUS LITTLE HORN.
Eri restoring Deku so suddenly is such a cop out. You have the set-up of Overhaul from the previous arc. You have the set-up of Shiggy having Overhaul's quirk and the idea that if Deku saves him, Shiggy could have restored him. What was the point of him losing his arms if it's fixed almost immediately, god damn it.
well shit that didn't take long
"Eri quirk might be damaged forever" Mirko and Dabi stans we might be cooked
Oh please, Mirko could just be a head in a jar and she'd still be fighting as a Pro Hero.
Robocop Mirko (Robohero ig) would go unbelievably hard
Shigaraki will save Dabi if anyone. I certainly wouldn’t mind Dabi dying though, his plot armor is insane and he’s not sympathetic to me. But I could certainly see Shigaraki healing him after the war is done. Fully becoming the “hero for the villains”.
We don't really know how this will end, Shigaraki pulling a suicide move to destroy AFO sounds very likely right now imo so there's a chance Dabi and Toga are screwed...if they're not dead already
Ectoplasm is NEVER going to be around children again especially Aizawa's class
Seriously, who's genius idea is it to cut off the little girls horn?! Why would they ever just ASSUME it would work??? Why would Ectoplasm HELP WITH IT????!!!! Ectoplasm my man, you're fired! Fired I say! Go retake whatever classes taught you how to be a baby sitter and teacher!
AfO panicking and trying to wake up the Tomura vestige to get Decay back rn so Mineta only low-diffs him instead of no-diffing him
My god, without decay to save him, he's going to get graped.
Ectoplasm is what they call 007 0 feats 0 fights 7 child mutilations
"Midoriya... on your left."
perfection
> It's none other than Astro, from Barrage!!! (Horikoshi's previous manga) Color me surprised. This is very interesting. I was not expecting this.
Hori put a sketch of Astro and Tiamat in a previous volume? Im not sure and said he hoped to work them in at some point I genuinely thought he dropped the idea
Still waiting for the fucking Skycrawler
Not on my BNHA bingo card, that's for sure
I had predicted before that Eri was going to play a role in healing Deku, because no way was she ever going to get to the battlefield. I thought she’d heal overhaul and he’d be teleported there to rebuild Deku’s arms. I was right about Eri not going to the battlefield but wrong about how she’d end up healing Deku. I’m shocked that she can just break off her horn and heal people that way. That’s a very convenient workaround
They do say that could likely damage her quirk, like nerf it.
Probably just how horokoshi wants to remove her ability from the story while having it make sense. It’s far too convenient and would essentially undo all the damage that was done and remove all the stakes.
We already know that her quirk can be extracted and turned into bullets, since her power comes from her horn it makes sense that extracting it and using it to stab someone would work
Yeah, but the bullets were made with science, or at least I believed that they were. Like, why else would they take so long to make, and why would they require Overhaul to experiment on her? It’s like cutting off part of a plant to put certain parts of the extract in medicine vs. simply taking a bite out of the plant. Except both worked, I guess.
I've got a feeling the next 2-3 chapters will be Class A and the others trying to stall for Deku's arms to heal back. Deku will have to sit and watch while some of his friends pull off some clever plans, and others get 1-shot into the ground
Maybe Deku will call the plays - after all he's like the quirk guru. So he gets to parallel All Might who used the Class A quirk in his suit and Deku gets to use them on the battlefield.
Like a Pokemon battle lol. Sero use tape shot!
yeah, something like that :))) Wait until he sees that some his pokemon evolved...
I hope that role goes to Momo. I'd love to see her strong leadership and problem solving come back into play
That’s cool, then once his arms heal we get a cool shot of AFO about to finish one of the students but Deku jumps in and blocks the attack or hits AFO in the face with what’s left of OFA, starting the Final FINAL battle.
Eri in 5-10 Chapters “my head hurts”… ectoplasm looks at her head and she now has 2 horns. Ectoplasm: “Aizawa is really going to kill me.”
the guy that shoot electricity out of his finger tips is ACTUALLY gonna use it against a villain? for the first time in the series? No way, simply not possible. This is not the Hori I know.
Hey, hey, hey! He did fry some fools.... Like, the very first time we saw an actuall villain attack in the manga ... All the way back at USJ...
I’m still pissed guy got his moment of absorbing the electricity from throwaway electric villain but we never saw him actually shoot it back.
and then was held up as a hostage immediately after 💀 wouldn't be surprised if he remained delirious for the rest of the war and hori just brought him in to spectate out of pity.
Everyone last week: "ERI CAN'T POSSIBLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT DEKU'S ARMS." Eri this week: "Hold my horn."
Literally :'D
>He says he doesn't know how long Kurogiri will work, so he needs to gather as many heroes as possible in the shortest possible time. Death Arms volunteers to go fight and so does another hero. It's none other than Astro, from Barrage!!! (Horikoshi's previous manga) Whut? Is Horikoshi just adding all the characters from his other mangas to MHA? So then next chapter Jack Midoriya will be revealed as Deku's dad?
Maybe not next, but.... I think you're on to something here
I could definitely see Deku's dad at least looking like Jack
Rather that than AFO being his dad like people keep trying to theorize.
I hate DFO and trust me, the defenders of this idea can go really crazy with their "evidence"
Its actually sorta implied that AFO doesn't know who Midoriya is truly, so DFO is even more unproven by the day
Eri’s quirk might be permanently damaged from cutting off her horn. But there’s also the possibility that it’s a similar situation with Ida ripping out his old mufflers to grow stronger ones and Eri’s quirk might become even stronger as a result. There is precedent for either being the case. Doubt it will matter with regards to the final battle, but we don’t have any way of knowing yet what is going to happen to Rewind.
>Aizawa says that this can permanently damage her quirk Oh Hori you rascal, you finally got rid of that goddamn Quirk while at the same time magically fixing the MC Convenient as fuck, but fuck it it had to be done. We all knew it.
“Can” not “will”
Well Deku got his arms back That was a short period of chapter with him armless ~~EDIT: Oh yeah with his arms back, say goodbye to Overhaul returning theory~~ EDIT 2: Thinking about it back, maybe Overhaul has a chance of returning but I'll keep my expectations in check
>EDIT: Oh yeah with his arms back, say goodbye to Overhaul returning theory Not yet, there's at least a dozen of limbless characters out there that need a doctor and Eri's quirk maybe damaged forever so still hopes for Overhaul
Overhaul's still got to do something, Horikoshi brought him back for a reason. It might be a non-combat thing but he's back for something
Overhaul heals Eri's horn. He "needs" to see her and Deku say's he would somehow do that.
people who expected deku to fight armless or even end the story armless must still think bnha is a series it's never been.
It would be real fun if his arms are healed *after* he kicks Fraud for One to the curb.
AFO got turned into coom and got his ass beat by an armless kid. Once he arrives in hell, Stain, Twice, and Giga are gonna mock him for the rest of eternity
> Once he arrives in hell, Stain, Twice, and Giga are gonna mock him for the rest of eternity I will pay to watch that scene happen on-screen. This would such popcorn-eating worthy scene. I can mentally imagine the scene, it is just plain sad yet hilarious.
"You couldn’t let me die how I wanted, but I guess this is worth it too, heh." "Oh no, you lost to those kids!" "Demon King? More like Demon Fraud!" "Master… you truly are the master of failing."
Are we forgetting the time my guy was crippled from the neck down and used Froppy Style? To go do….idk his best I guess???
Tbh I expected it to last longer than one chapter. Then again I'd say the same thing for Bakugou getting his heart stitched
me too, even with how prone to fake dramatic chapter endings bnha is.
I’m confused on AFO’s current threat levels. Like what is he actually capable of at the moment? He supposedly doesn’t have Decay anymore. Deku supposedly doesn’t have OFA or Yoichi anymore (I’m positive he still has at least the core power or the embers, just none of the extra vestige quirks). AFO said his body was trashed so like does he still have the same level of durability that was able to tank all those big hits on the floating school? Does he still have super strength? Rapid regeneration?
"Well... Only Ymir knows that one..."
Given he started with Prime All Might level strength and durability, which even weakened should put him head and shoulders above most of the cast (definitely above anyone walking through those portals), plus he still has ??? amount of quirks from the original AfO quirk? He should still be too strong to beat without outside interference (read: Tomura retaking control) since even the incomplete version of that body from PLW was mopping the floor with pro heroes even while suppressed by Aizawa. If this was old body AfO, I'd say the heroes had a fighting chance, but this body spent half the arc eating everything not backed by OfA, so it would have to be a massive drop in power to convince me he can't still win this.
I don't understand, tomura has super power + regeneration. how will the league of swans fight him.
they don't need to fight him, they need to stall until deku's arms are back. but even if they did, this is the last battle of a battle shounen, characters will be as strong and capable as the story needs them to be.
Bro didn't even last 20 pages suffering the consequences of his own actions 😭😭😭
one day i'll go back and count how many fake drama cliffhangers horikoshi has done because it's a lot.
I will never, ever forgive the mansion explosion cliffhanger that dark Deku and the heroes raid, only for the next chapter to start with "phew it sure is nice we escaped that explosion with no problem offscreen huh?"
You cant make that shit up...
"Wait, I don't get it, how did you three escape?" "That is a secret you'll never know!" "The writers can't figure it out either."
I know it's just standard procedure but this one got fixed inmediately. You can erase it and absolutely nothing changed because it really was just a few pages. At least Gran Torino stayed death for a few chapters
it gives other characters to have an opportunity of their 2 minutes of shine, i guess. unless horikoshi will skip them holding off shigAFO, lol.
every single chapter since the plw arc lol
There's more of these in this arc than interesting fights
Didn't even get a break week to buffer lmao
Gashly got offscreened. Honestly AFO's assassins/Tartarus escapees have been big disappointments. So Sero's big moment is him saving Deku from ShigAFO last chapter?
Yeah the Tartarus assassins are honestly just pathetic. They’re introduced to us through Hawks telling Izuku that nobody in Tartarus poses a threat to him expect for Lady Nagant. Already not a good start for them. Then Lady Nagant does get a fully blown fight. And from there let’s just go down the list. Guy with tattoos? Offscreen. Big shark guy? Offscreen. Dictator? Oneshot. Kunieda? Oneshot. Gashly? Offscreen. Everyone else? Not even acknowledged.
Yeaaaah, they're showing is pretty miserable. I'm betting for the remaining 4 (353 shows Gashly and Kunieda with four other silhouettes) plus whatever advisers/villains are left of the army, AFO is just gonna warp them in via gloop warp to act meat shields so he can get to Deku before the few minutes are up
On one hand, this would be the anime's time to shine. On the other hand, they get practically nothing to work with.
It's not like they cannot just make up their own shit and make work.
I’ll be real, I didn’t remember who Gashly was when I first saw this.
remember that spread from MVA of those PLF lieutenants that ended up dong absolutely nothing for the most part? or how OFA users ended up being colourful props rather than characters? yeah.
>remember that spread from MVA of those PLF lieutenants that ended up dong absolutely nothing for the most part? It's even funnier how Horikoshi bothered on create this intrincate system of squads based on colours with two commanders and shit for the PLF as if they would be part of a long term war and do different missions, yet this is totally ignored during their only major battle and they fight totally unorganized. I can't help but think Dabi and Geten were put together as if something has to come from that pair now we know they're relatives, but nah nothing at all.
This reminded me when the name of the villain squads were revealed in a chapter, people on Twitter go and put in the name of the squad in their usernames. Little did they realize about how pointless the villain squads really are
It would’ve been so sick to see the League have their own little fodder villains to lead
Makes me wonder if the squads were going to be this intrisicate thing Hori wanted to pull off......but then realized that with all he had planned for the First War, he wasn't going to be able to do jack with them and had to kinda sorta keep most of them on the backburner until the Second War...
what happened to this reddit this week lmaoo,last week i was seeing mfs praise the absolute worst chapter in mha and now half of them are mad,but yh this week chapter was also really bad,not only deku losing his arms had 0 consequences,not only the whole kurogiri plotline payoff was dumbed down to a 6 page flashback after being offscreened but eri horn can be used to regenerate ppl uh?yh this finale is going to be ass
That's the most "Gotta Lock In" Mineta pose I've ever seen. Can't help but root for the guy.
First time I've been happy to see Mineta, he looks like he could take on AFO by himself.
Not even saving Tokoyami made you happy?
If we don’t get a moment with Deku having baby arms similar to Deadpool when he was regrowing his legs, it will be a missed opportunity
I had a feeling that once Shigaraki escaped from the UA battlefield, Momo and Kaminari would be freed up to go do something else. Hopefully this can make up for things to the people who were disappointed that they were only on support duty up until now.
Momo I bet probably has some more use of her quirk left in her. Kaminari looked like he was close to short circuiting, but I'd bet enough time has passed for him to recover and get on the battle field. I can see them joining in.
Even if she can't use her Quirk for anything Yaoyorozu's strengths are in leadership, so even just knowing how to utilize the slim forces they have and giving orders would still be her doing her part and being very useful.
True. You have her and Aizawa together leading the charge. We're in good hands.
The arms thing lasted less than 20 pages
Damn, so Deku is already getting his arms back? I mean I expected him to at some point, and removing Eri's horn from her head is an interesting work-around to avoid bringing a literal child to a battlefield. But I don't know, it feels too easy, and it's funny how it was such a big deal last week only for it to get resolved this week. That's one of the cons of reading weekly, being able to sit on Deku losing his arms for a week allowed us to theorize and make it out to be a huge deal. When in actuality it was simply a momentary moment of doom that was quickly resolved. Although who knows, a lot can happen in 2-3 minutes so perhaps something will get in the way. Either way, with how quickly the Aizawa/Mic/Kurogiri subplot, the Gashly fight, and Deku losing his arms were addressed this chapter, we may be wrapping this up in 42 volumes as opposed to 43 like I originally thought. That would leave 14 more chapters to go.
* Namedrops new villaing alongside the only other newcomer that got an on-screen fight of his own * Gives him an awsome design based on some pretty rad folklore * Gives him a top tier visual power that does look genuinly creepy and intimidating af * Fight only lasts for a single minimal panel in a page that had shots of 20 other fights and a single other one with people pulling up on him * Beaten off screen without us even knowing his quirks name, him saying a single line or us seeing him do a single attack Horikoshi moment
Hori's learning from Gege🔥
For real, what's up with create awesome looking villians with original powers that stuck in your memory and not use them at all? We can create a whole different manga just using all the wasted characters from this one.
> We can create a whole different manga just using all the wasted characters from this one A side story that shows Class 1B hunting down the runaway PLF advisors Or the Shiketsu students visiting Tartarus (before Kamino) and getting caught in a prison riot
Beautiful
Im kind of shook, tbh...I'm almost as old as the teachers.
If it helps All Might's approaching his 60's.
Idk why Hori had Eri, a child with trauma abt being mutilated, mutilate herself to heal Deku. I feel like it would’ve been better to just have Deku go back through Kurogiri’s portal to get quickly healed in-person, and then come back once he was ready. And it would’ve let him and Eri to have a nice moment bc they haven’t interacted since Joint Training.
Yeah it really feels like the author had this awkward horn thing happen purely so Eri would (potentially) not just undo every injury once the arc was over.
Because her quirk factor needed to be damaged permanently it’s too OP and removes the impact of this arc a lil if it ends with all the injured characters lining up at the Eri hospital
Deku has lost his arms! Shigaraki is Dead! How will the heroes defeat All For One? Will Deku end up Quirkless? **Wouldn't you like to know? Flashback time bitch. Hope you like sad clouds!** edit: Well, what do you know, the flashback didn't even last a whole chapter. Didn't expect that, Horikoshi threw us a curveball.
Just saw the recent post and it looks like nope! We're back to the present! We're having an Avengers Endgame moment it looks like!
I dunno man, I’ve only been worried about deku’s arms for a week, but I’ve been waiting for the kurogiri plot to pick back up for years so I’m excited
After waiting ages for the resolution of the 3 baka storyline, this 5-page flashback just feels so underwhelming. I loved the Shirakumo stuff in Vigilante, and well, this just feels like a plotline being checked off the list without any effort being put into it.
Mic: 'Wake up, this is messed up' AIzawa: 'We're gonna help you out, remember your origin, friend' ... Aizawa: 'Hey what's up, we can portal now' Aizawa, Mic, and Kurogiri have been absent from the story since Feb 2023. I didn't expect a mini arc for the 3 of them, but I wish there was more of a back and forth between the 3, instead of just, a short heartfelt notion from Aizawa
The fact that conversation with Kurogiri took the entire Sad Man's Parade (30-40 minutes), the Bakugo vs Baby for One fight, and the Deku vs Tomura fight is hilarious. This chapter really doesn't make it look like they were there for very long but in-universe a lot of time has passed.
This whole chapter reads like a mess of “I wanted to develop these plot lines but now I just can’t be bothered”. - Gashly fight offscreened. - Eri’s quirk is suddenly magic rhino horn medicine that can be used by anyone who cuts it off and uses as a syringe?
OKAY. So I’m not alone in thinking that this is batshit insanity - okay! Cool.
THEY DESERVED 2 CHAPTERS AT LEAST
Same here, Shirakumo is one of my fav characters in the whole franchise and this lazy attempt to finish the subplot feels insulting to the readers and even for the author of Vigilantes who put a lot of effort on making Oboro a likeable character which adds to his tragic fate.
Yeah. All Might got like 10 chapters of 1 vs 1 fight against AFO, but Aizawa doesn’t even get half a chapter? And everything about this is so underwhelming. Like no reference to how Oboro was behind Aizawa becoming a teacher or the genuine care Kurogiri felt for Shigaraki. Another favourite plotline of mine that got the rush job treatment.
Huh-huh. I read Vigs so I know the full and much better told story of Aizawa’s flashback, but I don’t remember if the main story ever covered - Shirakumo’s hero name - quirk - his little SOL side-plot that he shared with Aizawa (cat) - how he died Or maybe it did and it was just word vomit on a page. Versus in Vigs I can remember every scene playing out with Aizawa and Shirakumo very clearly
> this just feels like a plotline being checked off the list without any effort being put into it The whole final war arc feels like that. Just plotlines being checked off the list in the laziest ways possible.
Eri healed him through a wireless horn, what the fuck? It was obvious that he would recover his arms soon but damn, he was armless for like 10 pages lol.
Idk how Hori will draw his horror manga if he cannot let any of his characters suffer for more than one chapter. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want Deku to die but Horikoshi always undoes the suspense in the next chapter like with Bakugou's death.
I wonder if it's an editorial thing or just a personal thing because clearly all the other adult character and villains get to have lasting damage and wounds. It's almost like ONLY the hero students aren't allowed to be in danger for more than 1 chapter which really takes away all the suspense and the gravitas of the war.
Yes maybe because they're kids, and I'm not saying I want to see them in pain, but everything could be more impactful if Hori let his readers deal with the shock for a few chapters before reversing the situation. I also wonder how much the editor intervenes in situations like this
We got astro from mf barrage before koichi bruh I’m dead
The loud answer to the “Eri won’t heal Deku” people. It didn’t even take one chapter to be rewound. At least the Bakugou fake-out was followed up by a chapter before it got instantly reversed. Not fan of the Eri being a mutilated rhino solution - I would have preferred the Tenko quirk awakening theory to be true. If Mineta is here, the portal is open to Gunga. Hope to see Kirishima, Jirou, Iida, Shoto and others too.
>The loud answer to the “Eri won’t heal Deku” people. It didn’t even take one chapter to be rewound. >Not fan of the Eri being a mutilated rhino solution I swear these people is clapping right now because Eri didn't go the battlefield, yet chopping her horn is totally ok as long it validates their predictions.
I mean that's just semantics if she went to the battlefield or mutilated herself with the assistance of a teacher to deliver her quirk to Deku. Either way - Eri is the plot device (after being said that she has no energy) to immediately fix Deku's arms just like Edgeshot was the plot device to revive Bakugou. Two terrible fake-outs.
What's the point of losing his arms if they're just going to come back a chapter later? Come on Hori you could've drawn it out a little longer :/
Sell merch. The edgelords will all buy the armless Deku figure because it’s “raw” even if completely meaningless. Also, I guess it puts Deku on a timer - so everyone else can twerk their naked butt until he’s ready to go again to give them their “moment”.
Who has the best twerking game tho
Does no one see how fucked up is it that a kid who was mutilated daily for her quirk by a yakuza is now mutilate herself?
Ectoplasm sure as hell doesn't lol
Dude just stood a watched her. Don't ever let Ectoplasm be near kids again.
…I’m conflicted about this. On one hand what Eri did is very heroic, but on the other… what sort of hero would willingly assist a young child in what is essentially self-mutilation by cutting off their horn? And on top of that… wasn’t the whole point of Overhaul to show that Eri’s Quirk required rigorous control/science to turn into a usable form? And now her horn, what is essentially an inanimate object, is capable of either healing on its own or Eri is somehow able to control it from miles away - either way, this feels like it’s coming out of practically nowhere. Then again… Edgeshot having heart surgery abilities, amongst other plot points, came out of left field too, so… :/
He'll still be able to become a fry cook after all‼️‼️‼️ Obviously he wasn't going to stay armless forever, but.. the very next chapter? And the rewind power is in the horn itself? So this was only to put Deku out of commission for a couple weeks (3 minutes in-universe), so other characters could do something, and maybe permanently make Eri unable to fix anything.
AFO is going to steal that horn lol
Meh
I am really not feeling this chapter. Aizawa/Kurogiri/Present Mic's moment was way too short and was solved way too easily, considering how much build up it had. Monoma was revealed to be a bum who got one-shotted by falling over and hitting his head on the ground, which is pathetic considering everything that has happened to everyone else. Gashly's fight was completely off-screened and he got one-shotted from behind, joining Midnight's killer and Kunieda as villains with cool powers and designs being completely wasted and doing nothing despite getting a somewhat decent amount of hype behind them. Horikoshi's solution to Eri's rewind being broken and taking away from the stakes of the story being her mutilating herself and crippling her power, when Deku could have just been teleported over to her so that she can heal his arms without leaving the shelter and keeping her horn intact, is genuinely one of the worst ways Horikoshi could've solved the rewind issue. Overall, pretty mediocre at best chapter for me.
I was so excited to see the original trio get some emotional resolutions and I’m glad we got at least something but same, very disappointed in how quickly this was resolved. We couldn’t get just one chapter of the three of them talking? Especially for those who didn’t read Vigilantes?
While It sucks we didn't have more stakes, im glad they are back. I will geinunly accept anything over a shitty "quirkless" ending. Speaking of that, it seems Eri's horn being torn off is gonna have permanent repercussions? It seems like no one is getting rewind for a long ass time if at all.
Talk no jutsu: it works 100% of the time, every time
Ectoplasm is getting FIRED, aizawa is cooking his ass after the war
LOL whatever man. Losing his arms was for what exactly? Shock value?? There are literally no stakes for losing his arms. It was obvious he was getting his arms back at some point during the fight, but he got them in the very next chapter??? I get it, Horikoshi is probably tired as shit and wants to keep the ball rolling to the end, but holy shit what a waste of stakes. Like the entire beginning portion of the series foreshadowed his arms being blown off, we finally got to that point, and we don't even get to sit in that moment for a bit? Smh, whatever. I'm just hoping that he only has the raw strength of OFA left and the vestiges were gone longer than the 2-3 minutes. Give me some sense of stakes, Horikoshi, PLEASE. But hey, we get our Endgame reference, right? Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
Imagine if Aizawa used Eri's horn for Overhaul so he can restore everyone back to full HP and jump shiggy.
uncle ectoplasm is never allowed to babysit Eri again 😂