Previously on BnHA: Dabi the house elf and his band of villains prepared to attack the training camp. Aizawa put class A’s remedial group through the wringer. Deku asked Todoroki for advice on how to make a five-year-old listen to him. Todoroki was all, “he won’t give a shit about what you say unless your actions can back it up.” Pixie Bob and co. arranged for classes A and B to compete in a test of courage, which was all set to be great fun, right up till the villains infiltrated the camp and killed Pixie Bob and set the woods on fire and dumped a giant poison gas cloud all over the whole damn place.
Today on BnHA: Brad King reveals his true identity as Vlad King. Mandalay warns everyone that games are afoot, and Aizawa goes to investigate. Dabi is all, “hi,” and promptly sets Aizawa on fire. Back at the forest, the villains are like, “hi we’re the villains.” The Pussycats tell the remaining kids to run back to the lodge, but Deku is all, “I’m the main character so the rules don’t apply to me, and also I know where Kouta is.” Deeper in the forest, Kendou and Tetsutetsu prepare to swing into action because they’re also heroes and they want screentime too. And up at the emo cave, Deku makes a heroic entrance just in time to save five-year-old Kouta from being murdered by a crazy dude with a robot eye.
(As always, all comments not marked with an ETA are my unspoiled reactions from my first readthrough of this chapter. I’ve read up through chapter 140 now, so any ETAs will reflect that.)
Aizawa is towing away his quintet of fools. they are not pleased
he says he’s going to train them on how to conduct themselves during times of crisis
times of crisis like... now? like this crisis? that’s going on outside, right now? Aizawa. Aizawa look outside
oh my god
is this kid... really in the top tier of intellects. like, is he really though?? BECAUSE IT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE IT? @cecldcecld what are your thoughts??
apparently Brad King was... Vlad King? this whole time. omg. can I still call him Brad??
OH SHIT
I TOLD YOU TO FUCKING LOOK OUTSIDE
also! nice to see Mandalay’s quirk actually come in handy! they could have done this with radios or something though! but still!
snap
omgggg
Aizawa’s immediately going out to help protect his babies. he’s telling Blad to stay and protect the kids who are already inside
look how urgently he’s springing into action I love him so fucking much
also he’s so fucking hot?!?!! like, shit?!!
shiiiiiiiit
that is a lot of poison smoke. shit. is this stuff lethal? do they have any medical on staff? does any of the class B kids have a healing quirk? this could get real ugly really fast
(ETA: I really feel like by this point I should have figured out that it was fire. and yet)
now the fact that their location was secret is gonna come back to haunt them because no one fucking knows where they are. I hope Blad’s getting on the phone with the U.A. principal and All Might. maybe they can swing on over in helicopters or something
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HOLY FUCKHKLHKSADLHLFK
OH MY GOD HE TRIED TO MAKE EYE CONTACT BUT DABI DIDN’T EVEN LET HIM TURN HIS HEAD
AND HE TRIED TO CALL VLAD BUT OMGGGGGGGG
HKLHKLSDHFALJ FUCK
AND DABI IS TELLING HIM “YOU’RE NOT THE ONES WE HAVE BUSINESS WITH HERE”
HOLY SHIT IS IT REALLY DEKU THEY’RE AFTER
(ETA: EVEN BETTER!!!
though now feels like a good time to ponder why they didn’t want Aizawa, though. All for One specifically targeted Ragdoll in addition to Bakugou because he wanted Ragdoll’s quirk. and if he was in the market for cool, useful quirks, they don’t get much more cool and useful than Aizawa’s. like, if he had managed to get his hands on it, I think it’s fair to say All Might would probably be dead now.)
WE’RE CUTTING BACK TO DEKU’S GROUP NOW SO I GUESS WE’LL SEE
wow the villains are politely introducing themselves
oh. hi
so these guys are holding Pixie Bob hostage now
but Lizard Face is telling the other one to hold up
he says that whether the heroes live or die depends on “how it lines up with what Stain decreed”
ooookay. do y’all have like an online quiz they can all take real quick
Iida is immediately triggered by the name “Stain”, naturally. can’t blame him, I kinda feel the same
oh shit, Lizard Face is introducing himself as “Spinner” and seems to have a personal grudge against Iida since he’s the one who “ushered Stain’s demise.” well actually there were three of them as I recall. and they were just trying to stop Stain from murdering some poor dude. but sure, they’re the bad guys here
whoa wtf
it’s like the iron throne. but a sword. a sword made out of a bunch of other swords. what. that’s the single most ridiculous weapon I’ve ever fucking seen. how aren’t half of them immediately falling loose and cutting up his own damn self
Tora’s pissed off that they hurt Pixie Bob. omg Tora. is that like your girl, mate. do you like her y/n
my girl Mandalay’s taking charge now yessssss. obviously none of this is going to matter but it’s still cool to see
she’s telling the kids to run and not engage. Iida’s in charge since he’s the class rep
fucking Deku wants to stay of course
he’s telling Iida to go on without him
he’s turning to Mandalay and says “I know.” talking about Kouta I assume. but he can’t just spit it out because then the villains would know
but honestly, Kouta’s probably the safest of them all right now if these guys really are following Stain’s creed
okay a bunch of shit is happening on page 10 and I am LOVING IT
first of all, Kendou is holding her unconscious classmate in her giant hands
second, Tetsu pops out of nowhere wearing a gas mask and carrying an unconscious Shiozaki who’s got one too!
and he says Momo made them! and another guy from class B is leading her to where the other class B kids are to help them!
so to sum, Momo out here saving lives, and the class B kids are also grooving together and impressing me with their gumption! way to go you guys!
and Kendou is smart enough to know that they need to head back to the main facility because it’s dangerous to stay out in the open with them not knowing where the villains are
oh! but it doesn’t look like Tetsu’s manly pride is going to jive with that!
he says he’s gonna fight. he’s been feeling the gap between them and class A
well. he’s not wrong
also it looks like they might not have a choice either way. not liking the looks of Stahlhelm in this panel here
oh shit now we’re cutting to Kouta
Mandalay is using her telepathy to explain to him that he needs to run back to the facility, but...
not sure what to call this dude with the groin cup face mask. like, I don’t want to call him “groin cup face mask” lol
he’s asking if he can borrow Kouta’s hat
Kouta is smartly trying to run away, but
oh shit?!?!?
and now we’re cutting to a flashback of baby Kouta watching the news as it reports his parents deaths?!
what the fuck?? is this how he actually found out? who the fuck was watching him?
what the fuck no way this is the same guy??!
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
what the FUCK are the odds of that
anyways he’s seemingly about to kill this kid so I guess I was wrong! Kouta you are in danger after all! this guy seems like an asshole!
so... wasn’t Deku saying before that he was gonna go and --
-- oh
GOOD JOB DEKU
-- !!!!!
HOLD UP. WHAT
“list”? they had a fucking list???
okay, wait. so they weren’t after Aizawa, and presumably aren’t after any of the other pros either. they specifically targeted the freshman training camp, most likely going to great lengths to find it since its location was kept so carefully under wraps. and now we learn that the target isn’t specifically Deku, but that there is a list, which Deku is on, but apparently he’s not the only one
okay so now there are a couple questions that I have here
are all of these villains actually on the same side? do they all have the same motive? because Dabi and the rest kept talking about Stain before, but this guy seems different. doesn’t strike me as the “idealistic villain” type at all. then again, Toga is a huge Stain fangirl and she’s pretty demented too so I dunno
whose orders are they all following? is this Dabi’s plan, or Tomura’s? or... is it All for One’s?
is their intent to kill, or capture? Stain was killing and/or otherwise permanently incapacitating heroes that he didn’t deem as worthy. so if this is all related to him, then most likely their list would be the three kids involved in that incident -- Deku, Iida, and Todoroki. and that guy did single out Iida before, so that could be it! but the thing is, he made no mention of a list
so I’m wondering if this isn’t actually a capture mission. especially because they were incapacitating the kids, but it didn’t seem like they were out to kill them. that gas didn’t seem to be lethal, although it may be too early to say
anyway, what I keep thinking about is the Noumus, and All for One’s ability to steal and transfer quirks. and the fact that we know that he was watching the sports festival with interest. and so this may just be wishful thinking on my part, but maybe just maybe there’s a chance he’s out to try and snatch the kids whose quirks caught his eye, so that he can use them to make a new All Might-killing Noumu
so anyway, that was a bit of a tangent, but I wanted to put that speculation on paper there right away since I’ll probably get answers very shortly
wow, Deku stupidly came to the cave without telling anyone else where he was going. and this time they’re making a point of showing his busted up phone just so we know there won’t be any Todorokis crashing this party at the last second
so he’s worried because it’s just him alone with no chance of backup
but. he has someone he needs to protect
yes Deku. let those protective instincts activate your shounen badassness!
FUCK YEAH. JUST LIKE DAD
BONUS:
holy shit are you telling me Tora is transgender
like, I’m not 100% sure how I feel about the representation given that they seem to kind of be portraying him as a “joke” character (even though I personally love him). but on the other hand, all of the Pussycat team characters are kind of portrayed as joke characters. and like, I thought he was pretty awesome to begin with, so honestly... this is kind of just cool
The older I get, the less patience I have for unorganized plans. We’re getting older. I need time, location, costs and alladat. Don’t even bother inviting me if you didn’t bother to map things out.
I thought that this was just another one of those riled up moments that will blow over but the fact that not only did John Torode completely disregard a part of Malaysian culture by calling it an ‘adaptation’ and try to change the subject by saying “maybe it’s Indonesian’ but signing off with Namaste?
First of all, Namaste is South Asian, not Southeast Asian you expired jar of mayonnaise. Rendang is a stew. It’s not crispy, it doesn’t have sauce on the side, and it’s not supposed to fall off the bone. Your national dish is chicken tikka masala and the last time I checked there’s ‘sauce’ all over it and it isn’t crispy either.
The utter disrespect that this man has is appalling. We’re not getting excited. We aren’t a bunch of children trying to get daddy to listen to us. Saying it’s Indonesian, knowing fully well that it’s a subject that we’ve fought over only shows that you are yet another white man trying to divide southeast Asians and we are not going to fall for that shit because the one thing we poc know is to not let a piece of wonder bread come between us.
What makes me genuinely angry is that John Torode has an entire series on Malaysian cooking. I’m sick and tired of white people coming to a country and taking a part of our culture for your own gain. It’s not cultural appreciation to change and re-imagine our culture. We’re not here to be inspring and fascinating.
Malaysian culture has already been tainted by the British. You colonize our countries, steal our spices, food, culture, artifacts, and history, and still have the audacity to be this ignorant. It’s 2018. Enough is enough.
