Boku no Hero Academia 42 Review: The Hero Slayer

Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 42: And Now the Finals

We start off with Bakugou fighting Tokoyami, explosion against shadow-bird (poor shadow bird is crying as the explosion hits him!). Bakugou is just relentlessly shooting out explosions that forces Tokoyami on the defensive, and the 'gallery of people defeated by Tokoyami' (hee) is confused why. Uraraka notes how the light from the explosion is nullifying Tokoyami's shadows, and how Tokoyami letting his weakness slip made Bakugou aware of it. And we get a couple of pages of cool jumping around and shadow attacks before Bakugou gets behind Tokoyami and Stun Grenades him. Tokoyami gets taken out by Bakugou and is forced to surrender. Bakugou kind of mocks Tokoyami about revealing his weakness.

Though I'm sure Tokoyami is screwed either way since knowing about his weakness or not, I'm sure Bakugou's still going to do his well patented trick of 'shoot explosions and MORE explosions'.

We get reactions from a lot of people, which is nice, but Iida gets a call from his mother, informing him of his brother's death (or mortal injury) from last chapter. Well, poor Iida.

We then get a full page of the Hero Slayer, Stain, just hanging out perched on a rooftop and he looks cool in that crazy-ragged-psycho-samurai look. He's just ranting about how society is hypocritic and how everyone thinks they're heroes. He sounds like Ultron in my head. Black Mist shows up behind him and apparently recruits Stain to their little group with, uh... Handy McHand whose real name I forgot. 

We get Todoroki thinking about what Midoriya said, when Bakugou stumbles into the wrong waiting room. He gets pissed off at Todoroki for ignoring him, and calls him a half-and-half bastard. Todoroki notes how Midoriya said that, and how Midoriya likes bringing other people's problems into the open... and asks Bakugou, who is hid childhood 'friend', if he's always been like this. Bakugou gets pissed off as he remembers stuff, and then kicks the table. He doesn't give a fuck about anyone or anyone's feelings, he just wants Todoroki to fight him at full strength and he'll make Midoriya bow when he's at the top.

So that's the finals -- a kid with some extreme parental issues that's still struggling with his identity, and a hot-headed psychopath of a bully who has deep-seated issues about being pitied upon.

Yeah, looking forward to the next chapter, definitely.