Izuku doing the equivalent of a parent announcing a lost child's name over the loud speaker at the mall midbattle is hysterical. Especially with the cutesy name attached

Speaking of larping...Spinner really brought out the Stain cosplay for his villain debut.

And it's interesting how close Spinner and Shigaraki become when the people they are emulating are so different. Stain is a ideological villain inspired by All Might who at least theoretically believes in the concept of a just society. All for One does everything for the sake of his own desires, has disdain for All Might, and doesn't sincerely believe in any ideology outside its benefits to himself.

Also, it's too bad nothing came of this and that Izuku and Spinner never interact after this.

Yeah, the villains always knew Izuku was serious business. It's always odd that his enemies give him more credit for his feats than his allies. In this case it makes sense though. Only the League would know the relative strengths of its members at this point, so only they would understand in the moment how big of a deal it was that Izuku defeated Muscular alone

Yeah, rules like that are prone to unequal enforcement when combined with prejudices

This puts certain heteromorphs in a particularly precarious position if their body/part of their body is their quirk itself.

Also, in practice, unlike what Horikoshi states here, the rules are more lax on those with “heroic quirks” See Bakugou’s everything. See also the Hosu Trio situation.

An important difference in Izuku's version of heroism compared to hero society's general approach is that Izuku returns agency to the people he has saved rather than inspiring the bystander effect/learned helplessness in others. He doesn't just beat the big bad and leave. Izuku tells the child who just felt helpless that he was a part of his own salvation and that he can now help save others

As I've said, Aizawa as a character demonstrates the false rationality of emotional men who have rationalized to themselves that all of their decisions/opinions are the most logical and everyone else is irrational/emotional.

What do I mean and why these panels? Torture doesn't work for intelligence. And logically speaking, how much would pain motivate a guy covered head to toe in self-inflicted third degree burns. Regardless of his rationalizations, Aizawa was breaking Dabi's arms here to feel more in control and because he felt afraid.

To be fair, at least Horikoshi didn't reward his actions here, as Aizawa doesn't get anymore useful intelligence than what the League wanted him to know anyway.

An important difference in Izuku's version of heroism compared to hero society's general approach is that Izuku returns agency to the people he has saved rather than inspiring the bystander effect/learned helplessness in others. He doesn't just beat the big bad and leave. Izuku tells the child who just felt helpless that he was a part of his own salvation and that he can now help save others

It's hilarious that Shigaraki says that the League are all reliable comrades when the last time he was shown interacting with any of them, he tried to kill them

Shigaraki, for some reason: "Congratulations, you've survived my murder attempt. You're now my best friends. We play League of Legends on Tuesdays and plot the destruction of hero society on Thursdays"

Shigaraki is kinning All for One so hard in these panels. He's pulling from All for One's "I'm the one controlling everything from the shadows and even if I don't succeed I still win anyway because reasons" energy.

Though, as I have previously said, he's slightly off in his imitation because Shigaraki and All for One are larping different characters. All for One is larping the comic book demon king. Shigaraki started out larping as a RPG video game protagonist, but from the mall scene until Kamino he larps as a sims game player. Which granted, the sims player version has more overlap with All for One's schtick, but it's still distinct. (i.e. Shigaraki doesn't really have an interest in being worshipped by "his pieces" and he doesn't want to completely deprive free will)

It makes sense that an attack that defies all logic is the one that isn't actually a place. (I guarantee you that there is no place called Delaware, Detroit)

And speaking of attack names, it's hilarious that Izuku's state choice for his main spin on All Might's attack names is a tax haven.

Like Detroit Smash sounds tough. Detroit's a tough place with a strong history. Delaware is where 20 businesses have the same address for the same cubicle for tax purposes. But I'm assuming Horikoshi had no idea about that and was just like Delaware is small I guess.

I appreciate your reassurances I just hope that the manga still has room for some nuance because mha had a pretty good track record when it comes to deconstruction in the earlier parts and I get that Japan is very conservative in a lot of ways so it's difficult to write a decent critique on the flaws of Japanese ideology without alienating the much of the Japanese part of the fandom but I'm hoping that Society will earn the right to have the Lov live amongst it if it's going to do so at all

Sure. Though what faith I still had in the recent writing took a bit of a hit with this most recent chapter.

Their society needs to change for sure. However, the LOV also have a lot to make up for. Most of the LOV has great character writing, but that doesn't mean they get to leave scott free for the harm they caused or that they have no responsibility for their actions. It probably won't be shown explicitly because this is a battle shounen, but best case scenario for them is a long road to atonement

Thanks for the ask

As usual, the amount of times Izuku says things are fine directly corresponds with how screwed they all are

This is where the manga starts explicitly spelling out the theme of going plus ultra by remembering their origin. It was already implied as a theme in the previous origin chapters, but this one is clearly set up to parallel All Might's "remember your origin" moment during his fight in Kamino

Genuinely, this fight with Muscular was Horikoshi's best work in terms of establishing visceral terror.

Izuku's anxiety is palpable with his thoughts racing throughout this fight. He starts apologizing to his mom and All Might because he legitimately feels he is on the brink of death.

It's unfortunate that some of the recent arcs haven't been able to replicate this feeling of terror despite the stakes being objectively higher on paper

Despite developing Full Cowling to use One for All in his own way, izuku still viewed One for All as All Might's power. It's always one step forward and two steps back for this with Izuku. He develops a way to use his quirk without hurting himself, but he believes he has to do that because of his own deficiencies and still views the quirk as something separate from himself - from someone else.

Have you read mostly Shonen mangas analysis on various mha characters they offer a pretty convincing argument by the characters act the way they do

I've read some of their essays. They bring up some interesting points. Particularly the ones concerning honne/tatemae and public/private faces and some of the potential historical context. And they're right that Bakugou is more like a traditional shounen protagonist and that this is relevant to his popularity. But hmm...generally I'm going to have a fundamentally different reading of the text from a Bakugou/Bkdk stan.

Thanks for the ask

The way Izuku uses Blackwhip in his final fight with Shigaraki to move/augment his muscles and reduce the blowback of One for All/Gearshift seems to function in a similar way to how Muscular uses his muscle fiber quirk