Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 139: Bone Chilling Underground Labyrinth
I forgot to review last week's chapter, but it's basically the raid starting. Ryukyuu turns into a dragon, and Overhaul unleashes his eight pawns to hold back the superhero raid before he disappears. Lots of cool powers being thrown around in both that chapter and this one, and it's just a blast to read. So many characters running around, trying to get to Eri, trying to survive the onslaught of supervillain yakuzas and trying to figure out who sold them out and stuff.
Nighteye leads the bulk of the main characters (aside from Ryukyu and the three girls that are handling the big muscly yakuza dude outside) into the base, unlocking things due to his future sight that he got from the one dude he touched. We get to see the cockroach hero and Bubble Girl's powers at last. Cockroach hero's powers... are giant centipedes! From his sleeves! What a plot twist! I like him even more. I'm not sure how Bubble Girl's bubble powers work, apparently they kind of allow her to teleport behind some dude? Or is it just regular quick movement and the bubbles are a distraction? Not sure.
The Nighteye Squad come through a wall created by Overhaul to block the way, and after Mirio phases through it, Midoriya and Kirishima smash it in one of yet another awesome two-page splash panel. And then it's followed by the entire corridor suddenly warping and just blooping around, and one of the heroes identifies this as the quirk of a member of the Clenasers called Irinaka (a.k.a. Mimic, the cute little plague doctor dude we keep seeing before that I really like)... but it's way too much for Irinaka to handle, so apparently he doped on power-enhancing drugs or something.
Which, by the way, is apparently a tie-in to the Vigilante spin-off, which has been dealing with power-enhancing drugs a long, long while before the drug was shown in action in the main series. Very, very cool bit of tie-in, and one that is appropriate considering it's a superhero story.
Mimic's possessed the entire corridor and turned it into a labyrinth. Eraserhead can't erase the quirk without seeing the user's body, Suneater is panicking... but Mirio? Mirio just charges headlong, because all of this isn't a hindrance to his intangibility abilities. There are these weird panels with a shadowy figure of a grinning dude, that I'm not sure what it's supposed to represent. The rest of the cast fall down into a room, and are met with three of Overhaul's pawns, which are, er, Faceless Bald Dude, Scarecrow, Pretty-Boy Bird Masked Dude With A Tie (PBBMDWAT for short).
Fat Gum is about to engage them, but Suneater, encouraged by Mirio's words before when he's flipping his shit, says that he's going to give his all and basically take on all three at the same time. You go, Suneater. Use those sun-eating powers. Or, well, swordfish powers. Suneater's cool. A bit of a wimp, but cool nonetheless.Very much enjoying this arc. There's just so much chaos in the raid and I love it.
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