Boku no Hero Academia 70 Review: Boku no Hero Summer Camp

Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 70: Wild Wild Pussy Cats

We spend a good half of the chapter just winding down from last chapter's great confrontation. It's not exactly boring, but there really isn't anything special to talk about it. It runs at exactly the right length to be informative and to wind down and show what realistically happens -- police investigations, Midoriya's mother blubbering, All Might showing up and apologizing -- but doesn't take too long to show each and every conversation. I'm not sure whether we've seen officer Tsukuchi, though the dialogue between All Might, Midoriya and the man implies that we did. I only remembered the dog police chief. And here we have Sansa the cat police chief.

Tsukuchi and All Might have a brief conversation about how the bigger the light, the darker the shadow, and how All Might really should consider discontinuing his affiliation with Yuuei now that the students are apparently a possible target.

We then go to the whole summer camp thing, where Aizawa claims that the location for their regular school trip is cancelled, and they're going to a classified area. Bakugou isn't being a complete 'mwahahaha I'm a dick' douchebag about it, but he notes how Midoriya should've put up a fight. A glimmer of respect, perhaps, for the slight decrease in dickbaggery? Though I think Midoriya and other characters note how there are laws against using their quirks in public before they are licensed or some such, so there's another aspect to the rules of this world.

There's a short scene featuring Aizawa walking alongside the... mind-control kid? Is he transferred to class A? I'm not sure. It went so shortly and Midoriya's just being ignored by the other two and I'm not sure what to make out of it.

We then see class B, where Monoma continues to be a gigantic twat and is all like "whaaat class A needs supplementary lessons huuuuuh???" and Kendou (?) gives the little asshat a karate chop to the neck. Good job, Kendou. We see a bunch of different class B girls than the ones we actually have seen (Kendou and Ibara the thorn girl), which includes, uh, normal-looking black-hair, long-black-hair-with-fangs, hair-trying-to-cosplay-as-a-Batman-mask, devil-horns-made-out-of-hair and anime-style-hair-cover. Mineta's just freaking salivating over all these girls.

We get a short sequence of them just being, well, kids on a bus ride and being rowdy (including Mineta continually needing to pee throughout this entire ordeal, poor kid) until Aizawa stops the bus on a random cliff, all the while hinting that he's going to give a training-from-hell deal that's plainfully obvious to the audience. These two random catgirl cheerleaders show up all rowdy and shit, and they're apparently called the Wild & Wild Pussycats. They're accompanied by this eternally pissed-off little brat apparently named Kouta, who just spends most of his time looking pissed off in the background.

Midoriya fanboys over them a bit, the Pussycats point at a mountain far away, and as the realization dawns on the kids, one of the Pussycats creates this gigantic explosion of earth that pushes everyone to the forest below. So, uh, they dress like cats and one of them (the one with the lighter shaded cheerleader suit) has earth powers? Why not. It's like "something out of Dragon Quest" as Kaminari describes, because as Mineta goes to piss, a giant, ugly beast shows up. Credit to Kouda for trying to use his beastmaster abilities, but apparently the monster is made up of earth. But an awesome-looking combination punch from Midoriya, Iida, Todoroki and Bakugou, the power four of the class, rips the fuck out of the giant earth monster.

Meanwhile, the Pussycats and Kouta talk with Aizawa, noting that the accelerated learning course that Aizawa is putting class 1A on is usually reserved for the second year, but it's a necessary evil to make them improve. I'm not quite sure of another training arc, but maybe we're going to get another villain attack? Not sure about this Kouta character either. He doesn't seem impressed by class 1A. I dunno. It's fun so far, though, with that final two-page spread looking brilliant as hell.