My Hero Academia Manga Thread: You can be my hero, too!

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Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Pretty sure deku dad is just constantly at work or being forced to go drinking with his boss.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2016 07:56

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:17

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

or he's just more famous for killing heroes, not many people care as much when "villains" get murdered

# ¿ Jun 29, 2016 05:24

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Fabricated posted:

If Shigaraki's HR department improves his mook quality I dunno- having pros close on-hand is nice until the kids and everyone are all in close quarters in a building.

Honestly though they'll probably factor attacking the dorms as being too risky when the most straightforward (and too realistic/boring/unfun) thing to do would be to use AFO's apparently extensive resources to just buy 100 pounds of simtex, stick a timer on it, and have blackmist plop it into the building somewhere and call it a day.

and then gravity girl throws it into space

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 05:18

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

i assume muscle form is something he came up with to reduce the impact of OFA on his body and deku being a nerd will figure out another way to do it that doesn't waste x% of power just to make you big.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2016 04:53

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

you cant sit around and teach kids a bunch of stuff about being heroes and then not expect them to do "heroic" things

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 00:15

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

I feel like asking a hotshot group of young up and coming rescue professionals to sit and wait while one of their team needs rescued is just a flawed way of going about things but on the other hand the fact that their might be a spy among them means that you can't give them information or it might leak and ruin everything.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 04:15

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Peel posted:

I dunno. Think about the whole rescue operation. That was a covert operation reliant on careful planning and organisation. You don't want loose cannons in the police, especially not special armed police. One of the themes of BHA is that 'heroes' the institution is distinct from 'heroism' the concept, but the institution's perspective on what the kids did makes sense.

Deku's suicidal compulsion to heroism isn't an unambiguously good character trait and the wreckage of his arms speaks to that. It's just, it's the trait he has, so he doesn't have a choice but to become a hero and try to live up to its possibilities.

but heroes aren't police. Police don't have to make money of product placements and name recognition. every other facet of school life is pulling them in different directions

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 04:29

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Ytlaya posted:

I can't really think of how technology would help Deku, though it's obvious they'll figure something out. It seems like his power tears his arms up from the inside, so merely absorbing shock wouldn't help much unless he's applying his force to something.

He doesn't break his arms just by using one for all it's that his body can't handle the recoil from hitting things with that much force.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 04:45

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Ytlaya posted:

If this is the case, there should be a ton of ways he can use 100% OfA without hurting himself. For example, he could just attack with shockwaves from punching air. Also, there wouldn't be much recoil unless he was hitting something really heavy/strong/hard. Like, if he hypothetically punched a giant teddy bear with OfA, there would only be a limited amount of recoil since the object he's hitting isn't very heavy, solid, or hard.

It also doesn't seem to explain the time he put OfA into the tip of his finger and threw the ball. It still hosed his finger up badly, even though he wasn't really "hitting" the ball, and was instead sort of "pushing" it (which is what happens when you throw something).

The impression I've always gotten is that just exerting that much strength makes his muscles rip apart and bones break, whether he's hitting something or not. He could punch air with 100% OfA and it would still probably gently caress his arm up.

edit: Another thing supporting my idea is the way his "full cowl" use is portrayed. It consists of him using a safe, limited amount of OfA throughout his whole body, which implies that running more than that through his body would be unsafe and cause damage, regardless of whether he was punching anything.

he's hitting air with huge amounts of force that will break things and you still get an equal yet opposide reaction when you throw a ball if just using one for all badly caused him to break then it would happen as soon as he used it not just when he hit somthing

full cowl takes the 5% or whatever he puts in his arm all over his body making the individual punches much weaker so that the recoil isn't loving him up.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 20:50

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Ytlaya posted:

Also, when Midoriya is training with Gran Torino and is first trying out his full cowl thing, he clearly acts like he's in some level of discomfort just from activating it across his body, even though he isn't even moving (chapter 48), and he's afraid that it'll cause him damage when he tries to move with it.

You forget chapter 47 where Deku charges up OFA to attack gran torino yet doesn't break his arm because the force of his attack was reduced. My interpretation of 48 was more that he was struggling to keep full cowl from going out of control.

Also I'm still saying that all might created muscle form to create a bit of cushion to reduce the wear of OFA generated impacts.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 22:26

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

EponymousMrYar posted:

No, Muscle Form is how he naturally is. The surgeries, healing and lifestyle change from his missing organs are what made him All Slight. His muscle form being able to handle OFA impacts is both because he's naturally pretty darn strong and from his extensive use of OFA.

No his emaciated form is his true self. Yes when he had all his organs he was probably much sturdier but there's nothing to suggest that he didn't puff himself up then as well.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 02:05

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Roland Jones posted:

Given that his debut (the video Deku watched so much as a kid) was in muscle form, and his injury was after his debut (the injury was a few years before the series started, while Deku, now a high schooler, was an extremely small child when All Might debuted), he looked like that even before AFO wrecked his insides.

or he used muscle form even when he wasn't hurt he's definately the type to create a secret identity for himself and not being hurt might mean he could have done it for as long as he needed. there's no real proof.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 07:00

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

remember people can have multipart quirks so being a bird is also his quirk in addition to darkshadow.

Elfgames fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jul 28, 2016

# ¿ Jul 28, 2016 06:37

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

or neither parent had them and one or both of their quirks mutated to birdhead and shadow.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2016 08:30

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Ytlaya posted:

The pacing and art in the fights is great, but the actual things that happen during those fights aren't terribly interesting. Not bad by any means, but not great in the way HxH fights are, for example.

hunter hunter doesn't really have fights because hunter hunter is a world where everything is a game even the fights are games

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 08:31

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

You guys have to remember that deku has no real experience with OFA so when he uses it he just pictures and imitates All Might. up until full cowl he basically thought of OFA as mostly a special punch.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2016 10:58

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Stallion Cabana posted:

It's interesting that after the last few arcs have all dealt with actual villains and other people we're going back to another School as the 'bad guys'

Curious to see if he can keep up the feeling of threat even while acknowledging the stakes aren't quite as high.

lol the stakes are higher than ever the villains are bearing down on them and the heros need these licenses or else they have no legal ability to defend themselves.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 07:04

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Fabricated posted:

I'd think this is more of a "friendly rivalry" thing if it wasn't over their provisional license. It's not like they'd be shut out forever but I really, really can't understand making people who're supposed to basically be public servants gently caress eachother over.

Like I imagine the cops don't have a mixed martial arts tournament to decide who gets to be a cop during training at the Police Academy and those guys are actually allowed to arrest people and use lethal force.

Heroes arent' public servents. they exist in a weird private/public dichotomy they often have to take up advertising and sponsorships and all that to supplement their income heroes are always competing with each other

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 08:38

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Bad Seafood posted:

Enjoyable chapter, though I don't know who I'll be voting for in the popularity poll. Last time I voted for Fumikage so this time I might change it up and vote for somebody else.

I like the arrogance of tumorguy having all three of his targets arranged neatly in a line on the front of his uniform.

honestly having all your targets in a place easily protectable by your arms seems way better than throwing them in random places. arrogance would be having them all in a line on his back.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 07:22

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

The Lord of Hats posted:

His power has a definite on/off switch. It's a lot easier to see in the anime, because his hair shifts away from his face when he turns it on--it's what Shigaraki is noting at USJ--he has to blink and switch off his power more and more frequently as the fight goes on.

i don't think he has to, but dry eye is a bitch and blinking turns it off

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 04:54

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

batman often is literally a godlike figure who watches down on the earth from a satellite in orbit

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 08:19

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

SyntheticPolygon posted:

I like it, but i'm not super fond of how out of their element all the kids seem. I know the series hasn't focused on the rescue stuff much so it makes more sense for the kids to be novices compared to actual combat, but with how confused at it they are and how seemingly competent a lot of the other schools are at it just comes off to me that U.A's been slacking off in teaching them.

Surely there should've been classes about this stuff. It doesn't help that I think in last chapter Aizawa was thinking of how he thought this would basically be their Achilles Heel. If that was the case why wasn't their more focus on it in training! (I know the reason is because it's less fun for the readers to see and we were there for their pre-test training sessions, but it still bugs me a bit)

well the one class we saw of them having rescue training got busted in on by shiragaki and the first nomu

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 06:10

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Eej posted:

I know it's probably not really written down anywhere except maybe Horikoshi's head but it makes total sense if their Disaster/Rescue Training Center was both trashed and had its security compromised by villains that their rescue curriculum would be delayed until the everything was sorted out.

i'm sure they'd still have some training but allmight did put a nomu through the roof

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 08:49

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Begemot posted:

I can't wait to learn the name of Gang Orca's minions. Orcalings? Pod people? The pun possibilities are endless

Dolphins

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 18:28

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

resurgam40 posted:

And they're gonna listen to him right now, or he's turning this test around, and there'll be no provisional licenses for anybody!

Just caught up, manga still owns. It would be pretty interesting if Todoroki actually failed because of this, though; it'd be a pretty big wake-up call for him if he lost for still acting like his father, provoked or not. What if pretty much everyone from UA fails, except for Deku and Bakugou? (That probably won't be the case, but I'm thinking in terms of what would make Bakugou the angriest )

the problem with anyone failing is that they effectively get written out of 50-60% of the manga

# ¿ Oct 19, 2016 03:18

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Wild Horses posted:

Cut wind guy, let todoroki get one last chance to prove himself. Bickering during crises is silly as hell, and should be grounds to redo the test another year.

or they just lose some points and make it up by working together and saving people, like you have to lose 50 points i think before you get cut.

i'm gonna go ahead and say pretty much everyone with a name makes it through

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 06:07

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Vengarr posted:

I enjoyed the commentary on the flaws of capital-h Heroism. The only role heroes have outside of rescue work is capturing "villains", and they can't even formally arrest them. Preemptively stopping guys from committing crimes, petty or serious, is outside the scope of their authority. They aren't super-powered policemen, they're just villain cleanup specialists.

Knuckle Duster is closer to a traditional Western hero, spending his time busting purse-snatchers and muggers and stuff.

yeah he's just like a western cop beating anyone he finds suspicious.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 09:17

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Eej posted:

You also forgot to mention that every clone is created as a copy of himself including memories (speculating here), meaning they don't necessarily have knowledge of themselves being a clone unless they were told they were a clone. Even the newest clone would inherit all the memories of creating all of the clones in succession and the only people who have more certainty of being the original are the clones at the beginning because they might not be around to see the latest few being made. It's not even a matter of "loyalty to the original" because each clone would believe with complete certainty that they are the original.

I dunno it actually seemed like his clones listened up to a point, and it's never actually stated if the clones have the memories or not because we don't know if he's a clone, remember he got stabbed in the head he may not be a reliable narrator.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 06:39

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Waffleman_ posted:

A special winter visual for you, my friends.

Edit: God, this looks like an ad for a new Snowboard Kids game.

if he he's combusting his sweat how does he

A.) hold it as a fireball

B.) do it through his glove?

also his power just really fuckin bugs me in general

# ¿ Nov 17, 2016 09:59

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Rhonne posted:

In most other things, a character like All Might would end up being a big egotistical phony, but here he's completely genuine and it's wonderful.

allmight is a big egotistical phony, he puts on a big show of "for I am here" and his big smile and he always saves everyone, but in reality he's just one scared broken man doing everything he can to keep the illusion of justice alive.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2016 10:10

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Ytlaya posted:

I wonder if they'll ever bring up the fact that One for All can seemingly make you more durable (based upon the fact that All Might was able to tank Bakugou's really strong explosion and handle a bunch of punches from that really strong Noumu). I'm guessing that they'll just ignore that aspect with Deku (for the same reason All Might using OfA doesn't get the electric visual effect, etc).

i feel like deku still isn't using the power exactly the way allmight does. he seems to wear it like a cloak instead of allmight who pushes it more internally and can use it to beef up. but if it can help repel mind controll i'm sure durability isn't out of the question

# ¿ Dec 10, 2016 07:09

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

the sekiha tenkyoken is the actual ultimate attack. or the true ultimate sekiha love love tenkyoken.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2016 04:17

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Poison Mushroom posted:

Which is still just "Deku".

As much as I love BNHA, really? Dude's literally going to make his hero name "Person Who Can't Do Anything"? I don't care how he and Ochako choose to reinterpret it, that is still a really lovely superhero name.

Deku doesn't mean anything. it's just an alternate reading of his name that bakugou used to make fun of him

# ¿ Dec 17, 2016 20:01

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

SyntheticPolygon posted:

It's probably why Ochako thinks the word has the vibe of someone who never gives up at least.

Bakugou just changed the Kanji readings in Izuku's name to it because it can also mean "fool". So it's basically a lovely kanji pun, kinda a reach there Bakugou.

pretty sure he just changed the kanji readings to a made up word and then decided that the meaning of the made up word is lovely loser

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 03:34

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

ChronoReverse posted:

Hauler should learn to curl his toes so he can make the three points of contact whenever he wants instead of always having to put a hand down.

he could even just stick out a fist and joust most dudes without a strength quirk, even at bicycle speeds a fist to the junk is crippling

# ¿ Jan 1, 2017 09:34

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Baron La Croix posted:

He's probably capable of scooting along on his butt, like a dog.

that would at least help him not look creepy when he's commuting, maybe he could even hold a fake steering wheel

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 07:28

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Jose posted:

What happens if he touches the ground?

his touch definitely has a radius as i believe the school gate wasn't completely disappeared

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 20:15

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Fabricated posted:

Also Orochimaru got away with basically everything he ever did over the course of the series.

he died, no double jeapordy

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 20:16

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Vengarr posted:

The way UA's dumb gate worked is that it slammed down in individual sections, like the I-blocks in Tetris for some reason. Shiggy disintegrated most of those sections while leaving a few intact.

nah he destroyed a big hole in it leaving like half the I-blocks on each end half intact

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 17:09

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:17

Elfgames: Sep 11, 2011; Fun Shoe

Vengarr posted:

Well, it runs in Shonen Jump. So it's just as likely to be this:

The Finer Arts > ADTRW > My Hero Academia: We Found Sasuke

man my hatred of bleach is so complete at first i was like "big three luffy, zoro sasuke, yup looks good" :downs:

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 11:17

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