My Hero Academia 221 Review: Self-Worth

My Hero Academia, Chapter 221: All For One's Parting Gift

A pretty... interesting chapter? We're still focusing on the Villain Alliance, with the enigmatic Doctor calming down Gigantomakhia while giving us some backstory on him, and how he was hidden away by All For One, and it's basically the Doctor telling Shigaraki to stop being a spoiled child. It's interesting to see Shigaraki jump from one mentor to the next. Black Mist more or less coddles him while helping out behind the background to slowly make Shigaraki grow from being a spoiled child, whereas All For One is more of a hands-off mentor that wants to let Shigaraki grow by himself. The Doctor, on the other hand, basically is a mentor that wants Shigaraki to grow the fuck up, not mincing words or being polite, telling him that "I don't want it" isn't acceptable anymore.

Also, apparently the weird ink-mouth-teleporting ability from All For One is an ability the Doctor has now? It's interesting to see what the implications of this is. Did All For One somehow give this ability to the doctor without anyone noticing? Was the Doctor present somewhere during the All For One/All Might fight?

Oh, and the Doctor has a gigantic factory of High-End Noumus, and is very embarrassed at having his face seen. Not currently the biggest fan of the Doctor at the moment, because he alternates between being crazy-excited and serious. Actually, he honestly sort of reminds me of Grand Tourino in some way? Probably because I still have season two relatively fresh in my head, but still. The Doctor tells Shigaraki that they're currently worthless, and he's not giving his full support to them because he doesn't think he's worthy yet. It's definitely a fun, interesting parallel of sorts to how Night-Eye treated Midoriya. Sure, someone that both the Doctor and Night-Eye respects had chosen this successor, but both of them don't blindly accept what their respective idols have chosen, and want to test the successor themselves. Hopefully Night-Eye and the Doctor aren't too similar to each other, because that'd be boring, but I'm definitely a fan at the thought of more character development for our villain group.