Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 200: Resourceful General
A bit of a simpler, shorter action chapter. Not really all that much to say here -- first up, the Class 1A team ends up getting pretty disturbed by Kinoko's ability to spawn mushrooms with a funny little spray gun, allowing the Class 1B characters to sort of escape and regroup. And it's... it's a bit disappointing that all that her powers involve is making mushrooms grow and not actually do anything cool associated to mushrooms.
Good job for the writer to actually have her refer to the mushrooms by their latin names, by the way. Ionomidotis frondosa (a variant of Grifola frondosa, known as the Ram's Head or Maitake in Japan), Tricholoma equestre (a poisonous flat-capped mushroom also known as the Yellow Knight), Flammulina velutipes (Enoki mushroom, popularly used in Japanese cuisine) and Coprinopsis atramentaria (the common Ink Cap Mushroom, also known as 'tippler's bane' due to it being poisonous when consumed with alcohol.)
I am kind of a biology geek, sorry.
Anyway, the battle continues as Momo and the others are assaulted by Manga Fukikdashi, whose ability is... basically summoning gigantic brick versions of giant letters of Japanese onomatopoeias that have the properties of its sound, which is honestly somewhat disappointing, although that might be because I was expecting more, and this variant of JJBA's Echoes isn't just that spectacular. The whole idea of a dude with a manga page for a face is still hilarious, though, and I am such a huge, huge fan of the spectators lampshading "how is that going to work in foreign countries?" Oh man, as someone who've seen so many different attempts at 'localizing' these sort of Japanese-language-specific onomatopoeias, I can totally get this joke.
Other than the brief showing off of new powers, the rest of the chapter is just a short sequence of Kendo attacking Momo, with the peanuts gallery noting how Momo's at the backfoot and cornered, while Todoroki just notes how one of Momo's most powerful ability is that she's the strongest and cornered, and apparently they need "four on one" to even think of taking down Momo. It's neat, I guess, and we haven't seen Momo get the spotlight for quite a while. Not a bad chapter at all.
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