Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 49: Midoriya & Shigaraki
Midoriya and Gran Tourino go on with their training and it's honestly pretty standard as Gran Tourino just outclasses Midoriya just like last chapter, with some near-identical scenes, but Midoriya learns and adapts and whatnot and actually manages to land a scratch that causes Gran Tourino to bleed. And while Midoriya can only maintain that full-body usage of All For One and all electrified and shit for three minutes, it's still pretty great.
Meanwhile, in the villains end of the story, Stain the Hero Killer has held Shigaraki McHands with his two serrated blades, while somehow causing Black Mist to be unable to move with his quirk. Stain keeps talking about how to accomplish anything, one needs a creed and the weak will be culled, how in this society the word 'hero' has lost all power and he'll purge everything. So I guess he's basically reverse-Syndrome from the Incredibles. Also far more brutal.
Shigaraki blocks Stain's knife with his hand because he doesn't want Stain to cut the hand on his face, then completely shatters the blade with his real hand, claiming that he doesn't have anything quite as noble as a creed, but he wants to destroy a society that holds 'that trash All Might' set up so high and mighty. The art for that panel, though, holy shit, Shigaraki is fucking creepy.
Shigaraki is ready to rumble after spouting off some game-themed words like not having a healer in his party, but Stain seems satisfied. Stain notes that their goal lie at polar opposites -- Stain wants to purge all the pretender heroes, while Shigaraki wants to wipe out the hero -- but Stain notes that they have a common ground in destroying society. So Stain most likely isn't too worried if Shigaraki kills All Might, I guess?
Shigaraki goes all 'fuck off and die, you tried to kill me', but Stain says that it's this secret test of character at death's door or whatever, and Shigaraki passed... Shigaraki has the roots of a 'creed' inside his mind, though Stain might leave culling him for later. Their alliance settled, Stain, showing off his gross-ass tongue, demands to be returned to Hosu.
Meanwhile, we cut over to Iida, who has been investigating the Hero-Killer Stain because this is manga world where any high school kid with enough motivation can investigate better than trained P.I.'s. But hey, whatever. Iida's found out that in every location that Stain struck, he's killed at least four heroes because four means death I guess. Apparently in Hosu only Ingenium's been attacked... wasn't there reports that Ingenium is one of several heroes taken down by Stain? Eh, might be misremembering.
Iida vows to completely destroy Stain with this absolutely insane face, so I guess he's turning to Uchiha Sasuke? He does seem to be a lot more mature than Sasuke, though, and far less prone to overachieving or jealousy, so I don't really see him suddenly going off the deep and and turning evil, but he does fill the 'lancer-type character consumed by revenge' role found in many mangas. Though I'm pretty sure Iida will get wiped the fuck out by Stain if he goes up against it alone, considering Stain gave Shigaraki and Blackmist combined a run for their money, and the two of them easily took on Iida's entire class. With help, granted, but still.
I dunno. We might get a normal shonen thing with Iida going all avenger on Stain and being beaten to an inch of his life, but reveal that he's actually called backup? We'll see. Don't disappoint me, Boku no Hero Academia... don't just be dumbed down to just another cliche-ridden shonen manga.
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