Good chapters for both series. I liked seeing Deku's mother again. And Endeavor dropping the facade with the kids is hilarious. It was cool to see them keep up with him at the end too. Though that vertical panel right before Endeavor reacts to the distress feels like it needed a sound effect.
As for Vigilantes, His Purple Highness is great. And I really like Shirakumo. Oddly enough, he feels like such a Jump main character with that design. The goggles and nose bandage help sell it. Helps his light/dark dynamic with Aizawa. Looking forward to learning more about his story.
Also the color page is excellent. Love the style, coloring and environmental detail. Perhaps one of my all time favorite Jump color pages.
I just noticed this on my feed, and I honestly have no idea how the author came to this conclusion:
Man what a weird headline and even weirder article.
Ochaco really doesn't seem like she's bucking the trend. I can kinda understand where the writer is coming from given that there was a time when I also considered Ochaco to be a well-used character, and saw the treatment of MHA's female cast as a whole as positive, but man that was a long time ago. The article brings up her fight against Bakugo as the best case but the more time passes and the more it seems like it's not so much a fight that sets an example for her character going forward but rather the exception to the rule. My feelings on that fight have basically gone from how I view "Sakura vs Sasori" when I'm only 40 eps into Shippuden to how I view "Sakura vs Sasori" once I'm done with Naruto. The idea that Ochaco has been keeping up with the powerful characters of the series is ridiculous. And hell that's not even an just an Ochaco problem but a wider "Not Good Enough for Endeavor's Agency" problem.
The irony in what I'm about to say following a recent conversation on this thread about comparisons is not lost on me but fuck it, blame the author for making their praise of Ochaco about "Shonen" as a whole instead of just praising the character in her own right. Hell nah to her breaking the curse of female leads/chars. Hell nah to her being a proof of Battle Shonen maturing with the times.
I certainly feel like the "curse" is being broken right now, across multiple series in Jump I read (like literally, pick a random non-MHA ongoing action series and you're likely to be satisfied). Bleg and I recently talked about it in the One Piece thread
aka the Shonen Jump OT and some dude even made a
thread kinda related to the idea fairly recently. But if there's a fight going on against the curse, and Ochaco (whose last satisfying fight was 4+ years ago, aka at a time when Black Clover barely had 5 chapters out and Demon Slayer/Promised Neverland/Dr.Stone/Jujutsu Kaisen/Chainsaw Man didn't even exist yet) is somehow meant to be a part of that fight then she sure as hell seems to have been slacking.
I've still got hope for her to get a cool fight again eventually but when "Where's the cool Ochaco fight" is starting to approach "Where's the Last Guardian" territory, you can't expect me to take that article seriously.
Oh snap you reading MHA finally?
