My Hero Academia, Chapter 161: A Bright Future
A bit of a recap chapter for the good guys, and honestly the way it starts makes me really get caught off-guard by the huge event that happens at the end. It starts off as a comedic recap -- everyone's fine, Kirishima makes mummy jokes, there's a brief recap about how it's so fortunate that only four houses were destroyed and like two people were injured or something. Eri's not dead, but quarantined and tired after using her powers, and I for one am definitely glad that she won't become what Elizabeth became in Nanatsu no Taizai, a walking healing deus ex machina machine. She's rescued, but it's going to be some time before she rejoins society.
And then we get a mood whiplash around the halfway point from the fun-slash-introdumpy talk between Midoriya and Aizawa to... Nighteye on his literal deathbed. And I'm like 'oh yeah, we're going to see how Eri's miracle cure fixes Nighteye', because this is a Shonen manga and no good guys are allowed to die.
But he does, which is the biggest surprise for me. So far the manga's killed a couple of bad guys, sure, and some good guys did lose their quirks permanently, but the manga didn't kill All Might when they had the chance, and neither did they kill off like, Mirio or Gran Tourino when I thought they would. I mean, the sand dude last chapter probably died, but it's not like he's a character we care about.

We get a final farewell with Mirio and Nighteye... and it's now that I remember that Mirio's quirk is still a casualty of the current arc, which makes the farewell between Nighteye and Mirio so much more tragic because, shit, Mirio's lost his utterly powerful quirk. I guess he can be the Boku no Hero Academia world's equivalent of Batman, but still... Nighteye dies, the chapter and arc ends in a very bittersweet note, and I'm definitely a fair bit more excited for Boku no Hero Academia than I was two chapters ago.
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