Saturday, 13 January 2018

Boku no Hero Academia 166 Review: Stick the Landing

Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 166: A Warm Provisional License Training Course


This chapter wraps up Team Bakugou's attempts to win the hearts of children and simultaneously showing Endeavour, watching from the stands, what it means to be a hero. And it's... it's competent enough. We get some neat world building by showing that each successive generations starts displaying superpowers at earlier ages (remember Eri reducing her birth father to nothing by accidentally activating her time warp powers?) and we get to see some neat fun little superpower battles, but Bakugou, Todoroki and Inasa just kind of build an ice slide to impress the kids with their powers and words, and it's... it's okay. The scripting and pacing falls a bit short, I think, and the fancy 'boss kid' is infuriating even when he's supposed to be redeemed.

What else? We get the confirmation that Camie's ability is called 'Glamour' and it creates illusions. The artwork's great as always, but overall it's not a particularly exciting chapter, although at least it gives some neat character development for Bakugou and Endeavour. 

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