Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 63: Yaoyorozu - Rising
We get a short 'slo-mo' sequence of Midoriya pulling the trigger from Bakugou's grenade gauntlet thing as we get a little quasi-flashback to their conversation while discussing the plan. Bakugou's apparently the one to note how his normal explosions won't do shit and was the one who came up with the 'maximum explosion, zero-distance' plan. Midoriya unleashes all the explosive sweat thing contained within the grenade gauntlet to rather impressively FABOOM All Might in the face, noting how much it hurt his shoulders to use the grenade gauntlets (poor dude can't catch a break, can he?) and the two of them bugger off.
All Might note that it's a nice compromise between fighting and fleeing, and they even made use of their old lessons to firing it towards the already-destroyed parts of the town... and despite Midoriya being burdened with envy, pursuit and antipathy, whereas Bakugou's burdened with fear, denial and pride. They drew a little blood from All Might (or maybe it's just his time running out?) but he notes that while there's no way their relationship will resolve so soon, this battle will be a great leap to fixing things in the future...
Before we zoom in on All Might's scary rapeface how he says he's going to get serious.
We cut away to the Momo-Todoroki team, and Momo is just shedding out these fun little Russian dolls -- constantly creating stuff like what Todoroki told her to do. Momo kind of talks a bit about her self-esteem issues, how she always followed the lead of others and how when it comes to her standing on her own she fails, citing the human cavalry battle and the 1v1 against Tokoyami, respectively, which is cool that these past events are actually developing characterization for the others as well.
Aizawa Spider-Mans down from the overhead cables all scary like and attacks Todoroki, easily snaring him within his ribbon-bandage-scarf things, then dropping caltrops on the ground to immobilize Todoroki should he break out with fire and ice. Aizawa points out how he's not like Stain -- he knows all their quirks and have devised counterstrategies, and points out how Todoroki didn't discuss things out with Momo despite keeping her safety as a priority.
Momo is just fucked up, panicking over what to do, over what she should do, but Aizawa just, once more, Spider-Mans into fray with those fucking bandages of his. Aizawa's ten levels of awesome, yeah? He immediately points out her lack of self-confidence while trying to string her up, but apparently Aizawa allows her to use her quirk one time to get free, while reflecting how Momo is just trying to run back to rescue Todoroki, no doubt because she wants to leave the decision making to him. Aizawa notes that it's probably because of her young age (15 years old, even though that absolute cleavage states otherwise) but his role in this is as a 'villain', not a teacher.
Momo goes up to where Todoroki's strung up like a pinata, and Todoroki himself reflects on his actions, and just shouts at Momo to do whatever she is planning to do... and brings up yet another thing from the past. Momo had two votes for the class president election (which was like chapter seven or some shit) and Todoroki was the one who voted for her. Momo's expression afterwards is absolutely awesome. The art in this series, tho!
Momo then lobs the Russian dolls up at the incoming Aizawa... and apparently they contain fucking flashbang grenades within them. Yeah, Momo, I think mentioning that you were creating flashbang grenades to your partner is something you really don't need permission to do. But cool stuff. Aizawa's not down, but Momo does make use of the time she bought to get Todoroki down from being strung up. Good stuff, Momo. I am absolutely liking the character growth all these guys are having, and I sincerely hope the manga doesn't take the Naruto route and render all his classmates reduced to nothing more than one-note extras. But I have faith in this manga.
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