KingKira’s View: Welcome back; it’s wonderful that One & Murata decided to cook up an action-packed tag team feast for us to start 2021. We continued from 137 with the Drive knight & Genos tag team blasting Psyrochi, Psyrochi took damage initially but responded by swelling up & blasting the 2 heroes off her jet, she attacks Tatsumaki but is blocked by a boulder courtesy of the Tank Top Master x Fubuki tag team, meanwhile, Dk & Genos decide to work together by combining into the Tactical Combination: Promoted Rook form. This is the 7th Dk form that has been revealed and I think it looks decent (like a dark version of brave giant), it appears that Dk has control of the form and is using Genos as an extra source of power to maximize output, I like that Genos is demonstrating more trust towards Dk as he is willing to place his life in Dk’s hands. Promoted Rook is able to hold Psyrochi in place allowing TTM to throw a building (with Atomic, Puri & Darkshine inside) towards the fight, Atomic samurai emerges, deflects a beam attack, and performs the atomic beeline slash, Puri follows up with the vibration dark angel rush & Darkshine hits Psyrochi with the Superalloy missile, as she falls Dk retrieves an Orochi sample adding to his specimen collection which includes Nyan. I feel Dk is going to leave this battle as soon as possible since he has accomplished his mission.
At this point Psyrochi is weak to the point where Psykos is forced to separate, Bang & Bomb perform the Cross fang dragon slayer fist on Orochi. Underground, Saitama & Manako have managed to clear most of the rubble that trapped Flashy and they find the cube that Blast held in 137 (or at least something very similar), The box is pretty strong as only Saitama & Blast have actually carried it so far, your guess is as good as mine as to how it ended up in the MA base. Tatsumaki pulls out the base and envelops it in psychic energy to attack Orochi, just before she does the chapter concludes with more underground banter and the discovery of god. I definitely wasn’t expecting god to show up again and, interestingly, he appeared in an altered cosmic space similar to how he appeared to Psyrochi in 132. It seems that those who come in contact with the box encounter this being, does this mean Blast has a relationship with god? I’m also wondering where the Cadres are since the MA tower is a floating spear now?
KingKira’s character of the week: I don’t mean to be cheesy or anything but I feel obligated to give a shoutout to the S-class heroes that put in work in the awesome combo sequence. You love to see that S-class teamwork.
KingKira’s best scene: The action sequences in this chapter were so good, my pick is the sequence from when Promoted Rook clashed with Psyrochi to when Bang & Bomb delivered their attack. These type of sequences make me wonder whether we even need a season 3.
KingKira’s best panel: Another tough choice here as Murata delivered 6 great spreads for this chapter but I’ll give it to Tatsumaki’s pillar of light. Murata won’t stop evolving.
Judgment: Amazing chapter to start the year off, I couldn’t have asked for more in one chapter to be honest. We got an epic combination, great action sequences and teamwork from the heroes and a big reveal that leaves us ready for more. This could be the beginning of a legendary OPM year. 10/10
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