First and most importantly chapter 214 has me bitter as hell and you summarized it perfectly. Class A and more specifically the main protagonist circle is getting to the point where things are always going their way In school. It’s just so weird monoma puts up like no physical fight? Is his team gone? They’re that weak compared to A group that shinsou is the goal? God the only thing keeping me here now is the monoshin content given (albeit backhandedly) Either way love ur thoughts and writings
Oh my gosh. I’m just relieved that a lot of people thought that the chapter had problems with the way the characters’ actions were fleshed out!!!!
I super agree with you that it’s weird that Monoma doesn’t seem to put effort in fighting back once Ochako has pinned him down! It’s logical for him to be strong at close combat because of the requirement of his quirk! While he might have been shocked that OfA is a dud, it’s weird that he just took Ochako’s judo throw and grapple like he was a lil weaky mannequin :( in my opinion they could have spared the extra frames of him yelling like a maniac to show him at least attempt a retaliation against Ochako!
And you are correct that they did the Class B team wrong :( Reiko and Yui shouldn’t be so weak, there’s lots they could have done against Mineta and I feel like these aren’t included in the story just so we can forget about that side of the battle and focus on the Shinsou vs Deku battle. The build up of which is clumsily done. :( Shinsou, a guy whose quirk they know well enough to avoid and who was shown in the last battle that he isn’t as fast as the others because of his disadvantage in having less time to train, is the main threat?! That’s just… doing Monoma, Shoda, Reiko and Yui a grave injustice :(
The Monoshin keeps me holding on too, and I’m really happy that you ship them too!!! And thanks so much for reading my ramble and validating my bitter feelings!!! I hope the next chapter isn’t as frustrating as this one :(