Boku no Hero Academia 58 Review: Back to Class

Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 58: Workplace Experience Wrap-Up

Two more reviews from me today – Tokyo Ghoul’s probably going to have to wait until tomorrow. So, anyway, this chapter of Boku no Hero Academia is a wrap-up/set-up for the next arc, and really not much happens but at the same time we’re given a fair amount of information. We start off with a cover page profile of Ashido – I don’t think I’ve actually realized the ‘Acid’ Engrish pronunciation in her name. Apparently she can use her acid to glide across surfaces and whatnot, though it has the potential to dissolve her clothes because y’know fanservice. Even though she’s like twelve.

We get Midoriya’s farewell with Gran Tourino here, who gives him one last reprimand for being reckless and whatnot. There’s a bit of a mystery going on with Gran Tourino when Midoriya asks him why such a powerful superhero – and a mentor to All Might to boot – is such a no-name in the superhero community. Gran Tourino is slightly cryptic about it, but it basically boils down to the fact that he doesn’t really want to be a superhero, but needed the certification for a certain ‘goal’ that Midoriya needs to ask All Might about.

Gran Tourino then hilariously pulls off the ‘decrepit old man’ shtick going all “hey kid who are you?” though his monologue about how similar Midoriya and All Might are is reflective to how actually lucid he is. He’s basically telling Midoriya to consider ‘Deku’ as his identity which is cool.

We then cut back to Yuuei Academy and we see what’s up with the other students’ workplace internship thing. Bakugou’s super-geeky haircut gets bomb’d back into shape after getting made fun of, Tsuyu captures a stowaway from a neighbouring country, Uraraka is all crazy and battle-hungry and ridiculously hilarious, Grapefruit is apparently mentally broken down by Mount Lady and sees women as scary. Everyone knows what’s going on with Midoriya, Todoroki and Iida… well, the cover story, anyway. Kaminari is sorta-kinda impressed by the videos circulating around about Stain, whereas Iida does some geeky sorta-embarrassing reaffirmation of his hero career.

We then cut away to an All Might class, where he’s apparently wearing his ‘Golden Age costume’. Hee hee comic book in-jokes. There is a training session where they have to move around a gigantic terrain course to reach a certain target without destroying it (All Might pointedly pointing at Bakugou) and we have a little competition between Midoriya, Iida, Ashido, Ojiro (tail-guy) and Sero (tape-guy). We see that Sero is basically Spider-Manning his way across the course, except with tape instead of web, but Midoriya is using his super-awesome training and impresses the shit out of everyone from Sero to All Might to Uraraka to Bakugou. Bakugou even lampshades that Midoriya is copying his moves, in the time that he’s acting like an idiot with the jeans hero.

Of course we can’t have our heroes develop too quickly and Midoriya actually slips up and falls down, coming in dead last.

All Might mentions something about an end-of-term test, though whispers to Midoriya that he wants to have a conversation about him and One For All… so yeah we’re probably going to get some huge backstory next chapter which is cool. With hints all over from Gran Tourino, Shigaraki and the rest I'm going to assume that we're going to get some real backstory-heavy storytelling in the near future.