Friday 8 July 2016

My Hero Academia 98 Review: Room Showcasing

Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 98: Enter the Dorms


It's a bit of a fluff and fun chapter, and a good half of it is just the author intro-ing the setup of the dorms and whatnot to us. The kids of 1A then devolve into 'let's see each other's rooms and evaluate them!' and we get to see, well, what's expected. Midoriya's is full of All Might, Iida's is filled with books and glasses, Ojiro's extremely normal, Aoyama's is dazzling, Tokoyami is a goth, Mineta has the creepiest, most perverted face when he wants to get the girls to see his room, and when he gives this big two-page long decision (that causes a manga-parody scene where they treat it like a big revelation) that the girls need to showcase their room as well. It's mostly just fun stuff.

We get a short moment with Midoriya and his mom at the beginning, and the principal gets a one-page monologue about the fact that this is partially to flush out the traitor, which might be one of the students too. We get a weird moment with Bakugou dragging Kaminari behind the bushes, beating him and forcing him to becoming a retard, before giving Kirishima some money to pay for the night vision camera used in his rescue. I'm not sure what the whole Kaminari bit was, even re-reading the scene two dozen times. Did Bakugou beat Kaminari up and steal his lunch money in front of everyone? That's weird, really.

The main meat of the chapter, I think, is Aizawa's speech, telling that everyone really should've been expelled -- not just the five that went to rescue Bakugou and disobeyed orders because they don't have hero licenses yet -- but because everyone other than those injured most likely knew of their plan and didn't stop the five. It's a nice, cool acknowledgement that even though they kind of gloss over all the bureaucratic rule stuff, it's still present, and Aizawa's "I EXPEL YOU" aura is still in effect, though I highly doubt any of the 1A students will actually get expelled.

Eh. It's a decent fun chapter, I guess. Nothing much to say about it. 

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