My Hero Academia 205 Mini-Review: Mutual Kill

My Hero Academia, Chapter 205: Detour

Bit of a smaller review, because I really don't have all that much to say about Team Todoroki/Iida's fight. It's a pretty simple fight that basically plays into the "fight until your body breaks to show your resolve" mentality that U.A. students sort of have, something that is... equal parts inspiring and worrisome. Yes, pushing your limits is one thing, but being self-destructive is another. 

We do learn that apparently Todoroki's upgraded flames basically will burn even the user himself, similar to Endeavour's most powerful attacks. It's another instance of Todoroki embracing his dad's powers within himself. TetsuTetsuTetsuTetsuTetsu refuses to back down at the risk of being burnt up or melt, though.

The rest of the fight is pretty much the secondary characters (Shouji, Ojiro, Pony) taking each other out, and I don't think we see them do anything special. Shouji in particular has always been kind of disappointing, but I guess they really want to push the fact that he's a support hero really, really hard? Also, seeing Ojiro next to someone like Honenuki... I know that the type of quirk isn't all that matters when seeing your admittance into Class 1A, but they are doing a reaaaally bad job at making it look like Ojiro belongs in the same level as the rest of the 1A folk, when so many of 1B have powers that look so, so much more impressive. 

Iida gets his character moment of choosing to rescue first instead of taking down the enemy, something he learned in the Stain arc... but turns out that when the enemy can straight-up just bring down an entire building on you as their final act, it's kind of... whoops? Also, man, if Honenuki and Tetsu brought that building down on someone decidedly far less durable than Iida, they'd feel like complete assholes, huh? Overall, it's honestly kind of an underwhelming fight, to be honest, compared to the previous two. None of the newly-revealed powers actually do anything, and both Todoroki and Iida have relatively underwhelming repetition of their previous character development.