My Hero Academia

I've always thought that All Might not being a "natural born hero" and showing his weak side would just make him MORE of an inspiration, not less. Glad to see the mangaka agrees. Still, this cannot end well. Great chapter.

On other hand, both greatest hero and greatest villain dying would lead to period of uncertainty where both proteges would have to figure things out themselves Plus it would be more unpredictable than usual darkest hours.

Being unpredictable is not in and off itself a plus. I run into that mentality all the time and I never really get it. There's a reason something are expected to happen; because they actually make much more sense and lead to more opportunities than the other options.

But besides that, this is definitely not going to end as "opportunistically" as All Might taking him out with him. It would clash with the vibe of things.

edited 26th May '16 10:13:08 AM by LSBK

Also, I wholeheartedly approve Nana being such a badass.

Anyway, the last words Af O had with Handsface make me think it is somehow going to end with both mentors dead.

I wonder if, in the aftermath, Deku will start researching his One For All predecessors. It's the kind of thing he'd do and it could give him (and through him, us) insight into One For All that All Might, if not others, lacked.

edited 26th May '16 10:22:02 AM by sgamer82

In reference to what? Like, she seemed like a great person but nothing said about her really implies "badass". I mean, we can assume but what did you have in mind? Did I miss something?

Edit: Also, One for All has reference "super regeneration" and doesn't actually seem any worse for wear. Maybe that's why.

edited 26th May '16 10:24:13 AM by LSBK

She was clearly a hero, which implies badass as a starting point. The main thing I wonder about is All For One's description of her death.

I think he gave that to Nomu.

Typical Villain-talk trying to get under All Might's skin, I expect.

edited 26th May '16 10:26:25 AM by Elfive

@LSBK: Eh, Hero Academia tends to do twists on some shonen cliches, so thats why I am wondering about that. Besides, you are making mistake of thinking that because its "most common way" its automatically the best and only way. That is if I'm mimicking the "Just because its unpredictable doesn't mean its good" way of patronizing Seriously, I didn't actually made statement it would be good because of that, I just noted it'd be more surprising.

edited 26th May '16 10:27:38 AM by SpookyMask

Well, yeah, I said that. But Cozzer sounded like they were talking about something in particular. It's not like female heroes are rare in the setting.

No, I'm not. I never said "the most common way is always the best way" I just said that being subversive for its on sake is not necessarily a good thing. People are always going "This should happen because it's unexpected" with things like this when the reason it's unexpected is because it would not be as good as what is expected.

I never said it couldn't be pulled off.

edited 26th May '16 10:31:23 AM by LSBK

I'm beginning to think now that Deku is potentially more dangerous to All For One in a fight than All Might is.

Power gap aside, All For One fights by combining multiple quirks in battle. Deku's specialty has always been analyzing quirks. He's also lived with Bakugo's harassment about being quirkless, and come out mostly on top, which might make it harder to get to him with words like AFO was doing All Might.

Well, it seems to me that All Might created his own badass persona using her as basis. I think she acted more or less like All Might acts now, minus the super-quirk.

What do you mean minus the super quirk?

@LSBK: Yeah, sorry, I snapped a little back there.

Anyhoo, I'm kinda curious whether All Might will end up dying from All For One's attack or by using his quirk too much. And whether he actually dies in battle or in hospital or something

Dying in front of millions on television would have a huge impact. On the other hand, dying in a hospital with say, close friends, or even just Izuku somehow, would also have a huge impact, just in a different way.

I'm not really sure which would have a higher emotional impact. The aftermath is going to be something to see either way, though.

Edit: I can off a bit too forceful, so sorry about that.

edited 26th May '16 10:40:49 AM by LSBK

Huh, you're right, I sort of assumed she didn't have the Of A quirk anymore in the flashback panels, but she was probably in the same situation All Might is now. I'm pretty curious about the whole story about them.

Looking at what All Might can do, I don't think he's just using the power of 8 people. It looks more like what you'd expect 8 superhumans to be able to do.

So I think every time One For All gets passed on, they get the combined strength of all the previous users at their peak, meaning the power doubles each time.

So All Might is twice as powerful as Shimura was, who is twice as powerful as her predecessor, and so on.

Also holy shit, future Deku.

I noticed Shimura's costume looks real similar to Gran Torino's... I wonder if 1) they were a team that shared costumes or 2) Gran Torino picked up his current costume as an homage to late Shimura.

We're all just assuming he's going to die here, and he probably is, but if he survives how do you think things might change?

Like, people know about his true form, and even without this he was dying. Things should still be pretty shaken up. When this all started I didn't see him dying but now that we're here, I'm hoping he doesn't back out.

Also, speaking of being subversive. The kids not getting in the way at all was a welcome surprise. They acknowledged it was stupid, stayed out of the pros way, only acted when they basically had no choice, and then got the hell out of dodge. There wasn't even any pretending they could be of use in that fight. Nice.

Yeah, no mentor dying for taking the bullet aimed at them crap

All Might's gonna die.

He's gonna die in front of everyone on live television after his last heroic punch doesn't go through. Then All for One makes a proclamation of doom on live tv and bails, and society despairs. In about a week or month, the villains go ham on Japan, and one by one the heroes start to fall.

I forget though; is Gran Torino unconscious or just stunned in a pile of rocks? He might be able to pull that lady out of the rubble so that All Might has mobility again.

Either way, the people who walked in on Deku and skinny All Might that one time might recognise him here, and if they do they may also realise that Deku already knew about this. That's gonna lead to some questions, I expect.

edited 26th May '16 12:57:42 PM by Elfive

To think that people were praising All For One parental skills.

edited 26th May '16 1:08:14 PM by grahav

I think he's still up on Endeavour.

It'll be interesting to see how that situation came about.