Boku no Hero Academia: At the Construction Site
A pretty good chapter! We continue the Midoriya vs Gentle fight, which takes place at a construction site, and it's always a cool, atmospheric location for any fight, be it anime or otherwise. We start off with a brief acknowledgement of Midoriya noting that it's a combination of Hatsume's gadgets and Ashido's dance lessons that allowed him to pull off the combo last chapter, before going through a bit of a comedic routine where Gentle ends up stuck by his cape onto a girder and acts all panicky and ends up sort of digging himself into a deeper hole, losing an argument with Midoriya. Which is fun and all...
And then after what seems to be a gag manga routine, Gentle suddenly shows off his skills again, bouncing around the construction site by causing all the girders to become elastic, and causing Midoriya to simply be unable to calculate or predict Gentle's trajectory due to all the bounciness of the girders, as well as causing the air to be bouncy. The visuals are also particularly cool, too! We get to learn a bit more about Gentle's quirk, about how he can't really remove the elasticity from an object and must wait for it to resume its own inertia... then reveals to Midoriya that he plucked out the rivets holding together one of the beams, and then makes note of the old civilian, putting Midoriya in a "chase the villain or save the civilian situation"...
And Midoriya, instead of jumping down to save the old man as Gentle had assumed he would, jumps in the way of the steel beam to catch it, and it's pretty damn badass. Also slightly insane. I do really like how Gentle does come off as a gentleman in all this, noting that, no his intention isn't dropping the beam on the old man -- but rather strictly to delay Midoriya. We get a brief cut of the 1A class anticipating the festival for a page and all that, all the while Gentle and La Brava makes use of a giant crane as a catapult to shoot them towards U.A.
The chapter ends in a very impressive two-page spread of Midoriya lifting up the beam with one hand, while using the other to unleash a flick of pressured air, nearly hitting La Brava and Gentle... to which La Brava notes that they might have to use her quirk. Overall, this fight's been really neat, striking a very great balance between utilizing a funky, wacky pair of villains, some very interesting usage of superpowers and a genuinely badass moment for good old Deku here. Definitely looking forward to next week's chapter.
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