Month: Dec 2020

KingKira’s View: Merry Christmas & happy holidays from the Castle. One & Murata decided to wrap up 2020 with a Bang & Blast (forgive me!). The chapter started off with the new Fubuki group meeting up with the heroes on the surface; Bang confronted Child emperor about his exclusion from the mission and reassured him that he would take responsibility for dealing with Garou. it’s cool to see more interaction between Bang & CE as I don’t recall any previous cases of significant interaction between them. Fubuki informs the heroes of Tatsumaki’s deteriorating condition, Meanwhile, Dk lands a hit on Psyrochi forcing her against Tatsumaki’s barrier, Psyrochi attempts to attack the weakened Tats but Dk and Genos work together to protect her. Genos has come a long way, from being wrecked by Tatsumaki in CH 37 to protecting her now, we should all be proud of him. Genos calls Tatsumaki which triggers her insecurity about being helped, at this point, Tatsumaki remembers her first meeting with Blast 18 years ago in one of the most significant flashbacks In the series yet. Here are my key takeaway points from the encounter:

*Tatsumaki was at a point where she believed she had nothing to live for.

*Blast knew Tatsumaki was holding back her psychic abilities. How did he know? Does he possess psychic abilities?

*Blast is indirectly responsible for Tatsumaki’s overprotective behavior towards Fubuki

*Blast & Saitama have a couple of similarities but unlike Saitama, Blast has a regular job. 

*Blast is holding a peculiar box, the way I see it he either obtained it from the facility or it’s a piece of tech he owns.

After the flashback, Tats senses Fubuki and gains a second wind, Meanwhile, DK & Psyrochi continue their star wars-like battle with both opponents flexing their versatile fighting styles in cool ways, Genos caught up to Psyrochi and managed to latch onto her jet form in midair, DK used Bishop to protect Genos from a Psyrochi attack and in the chapters final sequence, both heroes prepare to unleash canons on Psyrochi. It was great to see the teamwork between DK, Tatsumaki & Genos in their pursuit to take down Psyrochi, although it looks like DK is only interested in taking a sample of Orochi, I’m also getting a big brother vibe from his interactions with Genos so far. 

KingKira’s character of the week: I have to give it to Blast this week with Tatsumaki as a close second. This is the most we’ve ever seen Blast interact onscreen and it was nice to see him rescue & motivate Tatsumaki, we still don’t know much about him and we probably won’t for a while but I’ll take what I can get. Shoutout to Tatsumaki for recovering and helping out in the battle, Drive knight also looked cool in this chapter. 

KingKira’s best scene: The whole action sequence between Dk & Psyrochi was really impressive, from the backgrounds to the transformations it was a joy to behold. 

KingKira’s best panel: Murata once again makes it difficult to pick one but I’ll go with the panel where Tatsumaki encounters Blast. Big shoutout to the “don’t underestimate me” spread. 

Judgment: An early Christmas present from One & Murata I definitely enjoyed this chapter more than the last one. We got Bang back in the mix, more from Blast and some awesome action sequences, very good way to end 2020. 9/10  

KingKira’s View: One & Murata are back with a solid update after some months of redraws, there wasn’t much action in this chapter but we got a spicy development & decent character interactions. The chapter starts with Darkshine telling the S-class heroes of his defeat against Garou describing him as despair incarnate. We switch over to Garou who is buried in a heap of rubble as a result of Tatsumaki’s base lift, he begins an inner monologue about his current status & ambition. Now that his limiter is breaking, we see Garou acknowledge his power boosts during fights for the first time and he even believes that disaster level God is attainable. In summary, Garou plans to bring equality & unity to humanity through fear by being a force of terror superior to monsters, Tareo flashes through his mind as he recalls the sequence from Ch. 90, the memory triggers Garou as he undergoes another epic transformation. Garou has fully embraced himself as a monster and no longer identifies with his human side.

On the surface Darkshine continues to wallow in self-pity, Puri & Amai mask took turns in offering support to DS, Amai showed some tough love while Puri catered to DS’ soft side, as the therapy session was going on we got some cool panels of action from Drive knight & Psyrochi (I’m guessing Genos & Tatsumaki are just chilling). Ultimately Darkshine decides to fight once again (thanks to Puri’s threat) and Tank top master arrived at the scene in his flying transmission tower, the chapter concluded with a pretty wholesome moment between Amai mask, Zombieman & Child emperor. It was nice to see the S-class heroes supporting Darkshine through his rough patch and I also enjoyed seeing the banter between them especially Amai & Zombieman as the last major interaction they had was a heated encounter in Ch 93, I feel the likes of Flashy flash & Tatsumaki would have ruined the therapy session.     

KingKira’s character of the week: It’s a no brainer this time around, Garou stole the show once again with his inner monologue and epic transformation. Garou season coming with full force. Shoutout to Puri & Amai for helping Darkshine with a much-needed pep talk. 

KingKira’s best scene: The whole Garou part was great, but I especially loved the way the call back sequence with Tareo was used to add more weight to his transformation, “Because I’m a monster” awesome stuff. 

KingKira’s best panel: It’s a tossup between the huge Garou spread and the transformed Garou panel. I pick the double spread mostly because of the attention to detail. Shoutout to Murata for coming through with a great design for Garou I’m excited to see more of that. 

Judgment: I’m well fed with this weeks update, the chapter had a pretty decent length and I enjoyed this a lot. The art was awesome as usual we got to see Garou again, funny interactions between the S-class heroes, and a little bit of action 8.5/10