My Hero Academia 91 Review: Magnetism & Cooldown Time

My Hero Academia, Chapter 91: The Symbol of Peace

We get a bit of a recap of last chapter's rescue mission, confirming that, yes, Team Midoriya managed to grab Bakugou off to safety. Todoroki and Momo just bugger off and run away while the villains are distracted with Team Midoriya. The villains panic a bit, because both their long-range members (Dabi and Black Mist) are both down, but then we get an explanation of Magne's magnetism, which... is nowhere as awesome as Magneto's. He imbues humans with magnetism, but men will always be the South pole and women will always be the North pole. So when Magne induces this magnetism on Compress and Spinner, they both become South poles and this launches Compress into the air via repulsion. It's... a very, very fun and unique power that's a bit more complicated than it lets on without taking half the chapter to explain like some Hunter-x-Hunter powers.

Then Mount Lady stands up and Compress just thwacks onto her head. Mount Lady tells the kids to run away before collapsing again. The villains are about to do the human magnet cannon again when... Gran Tourino shows up and just ping-pongs around and knocks down the villains. Sensei apparently recognizes Gran Tourino as 'Shimura's friend', and then All Might, seeing that the students have rescued Bakugou, in the middle of a cough, notes that he can finally go all out and defeat Sensei.

Gran Tourino heads off to finish off Touga and Shigaraki, but Sensei launches his weird stabby arms into Magne's body and does the forced quirk activation thing... turning Touga into a North pole that attracts all the members of the villain association, which sucks everyone into Black Mist's portal. Which presumably Sensei had already activated before. Sensei is a good boss! He even tosses Magne into the portal. Shigaraki is genuinely concerned about Sensei, going all 'you can't fight him with that body!' but he still ends up falling through the portal. 

Sensei then uses "Transport + Shock Reflection", doing the black ink goop thing to transport Gran Tourino in front of him as a meat shield, and causing All Might to hit the poor old geezer in the face. It's a good thing Sensei used the shock reflection ability, though, since it's All Might's arm that got fucked up. Poor Gran Tourino probably would be missing a skull if not for that. 

Sensei gives a mercifully short speech (considering how Bleach and Toriko were this week) about his motivations, that is, he hates All Might for being hailed as the symbol of peace despite going around defeating all his friends one by one, and hates All Might for being on the top of all their fallen. Yeah, maybe if you weren't, oh, supervillain Hitler, other people won't try and depose you, Sensei. 

Sensei deflects All Might's Detroit Punch, but All Might then goes into a bit of a rant, talking about how he acts so high and mighty despite going around stealing and killing the non-superpowered civilians, before smashing Sensei right in the face, smashing through the dude's space helmet thing.

And here we thought All Might was going to die like all manga mentors! 

Which might still happen, mind you, because the last page shows that All Might's reaching his activation limit while Sensei's face is... just glooped around like plasticine, talking about how he heard the same thing from the previous user of One For All... Shimura Nana. Well, name reveal! Whatever comes next chapter -- whether All Might kills Sensei right there despite his injuries, whether Sensei kills All Might (or Gran Tourino) or we get a flashback, it'll be interesting. And unpredictable. Good stuff, this manga.