What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?
Only one man is walking away from the epic rematch between All Might and All For One. All Might’s superpowers may be long gone, but he’s no less of a superhero as he throws everything he’s got at the diabolical mastermind. Meanwhile, All For One wants nothing more than to reach Tomura, his ideal vessel. With the whole world watching and All Might hanging on by his fingernails, one young protégé of his might have to step up to save the day.
HORIKOSHI Kouhei Name (in native language): 堀越耕平 Associated Names: Kouhei Horikoshi
Born 1986 in the prefecture Aichi, Horikoshi first attracted attention in the second half of 2006 when he entered Shueisha's 72th Tezuka Award for Newcomers with his one shot "Nukegara" and made it to the final six, where he gained himself an "Honorable Mention". Various short stories in Shueisha's Akamaru JUMP followed over the years until he published his one shot "Oumagadoki Doubutsuen" in issue #2/2010 of Weekly Shounen JUMP.
Kouhei Horikoshi is a graduate of Nagoya University of Arts. He was previously an assistant to TANAKA Yasuki.
The gist of this story is how the revived Bakugo finished All for One thanks to All Might’s help. Bakugo didn’t just plummet All for One, but he also got help from Izuku.
There is so much more on this volume particularly the origins of One for All and All for One. The backstories of Yoichi, All for One, Kudo, and Bruce are also explored. How intriguing!
We also got a glimpse of Aoyama and Hagakure here. It’s great to see them fighting for the cause.
Let us not also forget Stain’s last stand to save All Might! What a hero!! 🥺
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Aghhh, June and the release of Volume 41 can’t get here soon enough!!!!!
All Might looks freaking epic on this cover and him fighting with all he’s got then some—holy crap it was EPIC!!!! The whole “You can.” scene! Oh my gosh, full circle to Volume One, the heart of the series on full display, I love this!!!!! 😭😭 So, so amazing, I literally have no words! And BAKUGO!!!!! His and Deku’s teamwork, his smile at All Might—my gosh he’s grown SOOOO much, I’m so proud of him and blown away by how much I love him now!!!
Hagakure got her full reveal! And cameos of the two kids from the Heroes Rising movie!! (I don’t know how to spell their names, lol) Not to mention the leaves and wind…I know that makes absolutely no sense if you haven’t read the series (why are you reading this review then?! Go read the series!!!!), but if you have you know and I just love this! I know I’ve said I love everything, but I legitimately do, lol!
I wasn’t expecting an All For One backstory though and boy is that one creepy baby/kid! 😬 His poor brother. This devious idiot deserves all the bad stuff he gets, goodness. And keeping his brother’s hand like Shigaraki…ugh, this one’s an absolute level 20 narcissist, no doubt about it.
And that ending…!!! 😱😱😱 Oh my gosh, Deku!!! How is he going to win this battle?! June can’t get here fast enough!
‼️Content‼️
Language: dang; crap; hellish; hell; gah; dammit
Violence: injuries and blood (PG-PG-13/R); fighting with weapons, superpowers, and hand to hand (PG-PG-13/R); a villain’s superpower uses human bodies to create huge flowers; a guy’s arms are blasted off (PG-13); an evil baby is implied (?) to have eaten its mother’s dead body (not much is shown which is why I’m unclear on what exactly is happening); blood sprays around a severed hand (PG-13/R); a body is bloodlessly ripped apart; blood sprays from a punch to the face (PG-13/R); a dead body in a pool of blood (R)
Sexual: a girl’s shirt opens in the front all the way down to her stomach; shirtless guys; one mention of a sex worker
Other: superheroes/supervillains/superpowers; death; a person reverts back to a baby then blinks out of existence
This was one epic battle sequence and I'm speechless. It's like coming full circle since when Deku first asked All Might whether a quirkless person too could become a Hero. All Might sure proved that YES, Anyone with a will strong enough could be a Hero. And, my Batshit crazy bird Bakugo came back to save the day!!!! THIS is the vital role befitting the Bombshell Hero: Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight, haha. That name, I never thought it would stick but how well he carries it, lol.
I love Bakugo's character growth the most, I swear.
All for One was a whiny weasel till the very end and I'm glad we're done with him. Or...are we? It's like he'll never cease to exist. But...has he?
After their long determination and hard work, Midoriya and Bakugo have finally reached All For One and we see Bakugo give all of the strength he has to weaken him while many see everything unfold on tv. It also finally leads to the confrontation we’ve been waiting for. A (100%/Outstanding)
Nesse volume 40, a grande luta de All Might e All For One chega ao fim, com um desfecho já esperado - tendo em vista a saúde do herói. Entretanto, contrariando Sir. Nighteye, o símbolo da esperança não morre, pois um novo herói, seguindo a chama do All Might, surge para resgata-lo.
Bakugo surge na luta de maneira, literalmente, explosiva. Ele "desperta" uma nova evolução para o seu dom, deixando-o mais forte e controlando melhor suas explosões.
Dessa forma, um confronto incrível entre Bakugo e All For One se inicia, resultando em paginas belíssimas de ação.
Por fim, com o termino da luta, os holofotes se voltam a Deku vs Shigaraki, que travam uma luta minuciosa, com Deku evitando que o vilão chegue ao chão e ative sua habilidade de decaimento.
Contudo, mesmo sendo um volume repleto de ação, acredito que ele também contribua para trabalhar a figura do herói, Legado e o significado que os herois tem para a população.
I like that Kohei doesn’t care about our emotions and how badly I’m hurt from the way he is distorting my favorite characters in the series 🙂… loving the way I’m being tortured 😄
The end of an era for sur! I love it and taught it finally give Bakugo the hero place he deserved. I also think that that drawing of the action scene are a bit all over the places since a couples of- volumes, almost messy, and sometime it makes it hard to truly see what is happening. Still a big fan of the series and curious to see where it will go after that.
Are we done yet? I mean there is a bit of worldbuilding going on that should have already been covered. Instead the fight that has been going on for - well forever - takes a few breaks for more exposition. It is also really shitty to kill off (apparently) some popular heroes all but off page. It is not bad here but could be better.
hello im back in the building again!! this volume is just like....sickening so here we gooo
- "an old fool providing hospice care for himself" is so diabolical i hate you so much afo - seeing all might get crushed by a blow like that on top of all the injuries he already has, who is QUIRKLESS mind you but still holding out hope i just.. "so while my light might be snuffed out someone's sure to pick up my torch and shine on!" -"32 heroes were tasked with mopping up the vllains...all but one of those heroe were wiped out." crazy. - fjdfnhid the character description" kunieda, tartarus escapee, mass murderer, corpse collector " like what a resume -"reminding myself of how shamefully i've lived..is what spurred me to folloe in the wake of the light they bring! it's givedn me the desire to shine from deep down within my core!" AOYAMA YUGA THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU - and the parallel of all might using the power of the one who in turn betrayed afo!!! "i didn't come here to lose, all for one!! know this name as you burn away!! can't stop twinkling!" star mention 😭 queen i miss you - noo don't do this to me, the kid watching all might fight and even though he doesn't know who he is, he is hopeful watching his fight. all might will always be the symbol of peace even without one for all - afo degenerating into a glowing child gagged me the first time i read this bc i thought he was the og glowing baby - "all bleed red." SAY IT AIN'T SO MY GOAT STAIN - "live on. triumph." im so done he can't be gone - nana shimura's vestige coming to encourage all might 😦 - "you are not dead yet." my heart is beating so fast rn - "master. don't butt in." shiggy said can u fuck awf - child glowing afo carrying a battered all might by the leg to taunt izuku is rlly sick and twisted - "the one for all vestige...within izuku midoriya..signalled it's departure...slightly in advance." NO IM WALKING INTO THE SEA YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME - not the nana shimura flashback i feel like im being shot 57 times "all for one.. you will fall to all might without a doubt. because...toshinori is even more unhinged than you are." - chapter 403. the end of an era and.... - no way all these people are having to watch live their greatest hero about to get mercilessly killed like this is genuinely making me so sick to my stomach like even seeing gran torino and tsukauchi crash out "no matter how it goes down, his death marks the end of an era" - actual tears dripping down my face because what do u mean in this angelic light, emerging from the floating ua is katsuki ALIVE - no.403 the end of an era, and...the beginning ❤️
- katsuki still holding onto the all might card..baby izuku and kats holding the soul of one for all, being the very people who will carry out all might's will-his power-his soul through to the future as he looks on im gonna throw up - not katsuki resurrecting and looking that insanely good this is face card economy and the double spread of katsuki and izuku seeing each other from that far away is literally about to have me levitating - KATSUKI LAUNCHING HIMSELF KNOWING IZUKU WOULD CATCH HIM THE HAND HOLD THE HAND HOLD THE HAND HOLD AND GEAR SHIFT YOU CAN'T MAKE TS UP - "it's someone's clenched fist..someone's deep exhalation. it's a sort of energy i believe that now..energy from stiving for a certain future..energy from wishing. someone's prayers.." all the people who believe in the symbol of peace..katsuki going to answer their prayers... started from the bottom "gotta win right..izuku?" now we here "time to win this!"
- horikoshi subverting the "master tragically dying to bolster the hero" trope and having all might outright acknowledge it too with "but everyone knows the old master is supposed to die after passing the torch" is so good because 1. i would jump if they killed all might 2. it further encourages the overall message of mha that 'anyone can be a hero' even an old hero past his prime still has so much to give. his time isn't up yet--infact the future generation has barely even started running yet - "you banged up bag o' bones" and then vomiting blood yeah that's my katsuki alright - "thanks for bringing me back..senpai" beautiful boy - "i only held you together. what brought you back is that power you've honed." bakugo redemption arc is genuinely equally compareable to zuko's i won't lie - "who's that glowing runt i'm about to destroy" oh how i missed u katsuki - HIS BEAUTIFUL SMILE - yeah next whole bit is just katsuki glazing because i genuinely love this part of the manga ❤️ just the little snapshot of katsuki reminding afo of the 2nd user and "i'm the final boss, all for one!" "one for all couldn't handle you alone...so i'm here to step up and finish the job" one thing i wanna add here is that this translation isn't bad but i distinctly remember in the translation i read when the chapter dropped katsuki says "i'm the guy who steps in..when that nerd (izuku <3) can't handle it all on his own!" and I JUST PREFER THAT TRANSLATION MORE i also remember the public cookery of the translator for not being able to express these moments adequately so--and as someone who has been victimised by john werry's shitty translations...caleb cook is not much better -the double spread of "go beyond" is so beautiful - "yeowch"....why he sounding like tom nd jerry right now katsuki what the helly - "izuku can i still catch up to you? for some reason i feel like i could overtake you now." not him clowning his pre-death speech whilst zooming through the air - "you have to watch..because i just know that boy of ours is grinning the way he always does!" im tearing up mitsuki bakugo you will always be famous - 2nd user flashback again..."what is it about this insignificant pebble that vexes me even more than all might does?" katsuki s tier rage baiter - "right it's him...it's always him...it's all your fault kudo!" KUDO MENTION FINALLY i love that afo is so pressed about his baby brother's situationship - "that's kacchan bakugo to you, ya grade-a moron!" KACCHAN NATION WE WON - afo back story....why is it already cooked from the beginning like wym he was sapping his mother's life force from the womb itself. -how tf u give birth to twins, die and then ur twins get swept away by a river this some biblical shit if this happened before the glowing baby is this implying that afo is technically one of the first if not the first person with a meta-ability?? -" they announced that those with meta abilities were a sub-branch fo humanity with new genetic factors. the declaration was reckless and premature. people are social organisms, so this statement divided them and added fuel to the chaos." why is this like so typical. why are we as the human race always haters first before anything else like - afo a freaky ass demon child i would steer clear of that thing. "he viewed all within his reach as his possessions" and then that fugly baby suckling on his mother. i am unsettled like why is he murdering people as a child - little sickly baby yoichi :((( even from then wanting not to hurt people and to save them instead wanting to be a hero from a young age. oh yoichi if only you knew how this would go - is anyone else getting weird vibes over afo's possesiveness over yoichi?? and how he views him as something that belongs to him bc...for the rest of the chapter this one thing is reiterated over and over again that afo has this insane abnormal obsession with his brother. i understand that so much of this hinges on the extremely warped way that he was brought into this world--that both yoichi and afo are extremely codependent as yoichi could not have survived without his brother and in turn afo knows that the only person who sees him as more than just a monster who is really and truly the only thing he has any real tether to is yoichi - "i want a world that exists for my sake and mine alone." - afo's thoughts : "get away from him! that one's mine! if you refuse to be mine then.." LIKE...he named his brother yoichi (bestow one) because his brother was the "very first thing given to him in life" sickening - on another note kudo sooo fineeee - "i only want to make you mine." "i hunt and pursue yet you slip through my grasp" -- with the other ofa user's deaths and obviously all might blowing afo's head off - lmfao the fact that katsuki reminds afo so much of kudo that he's crashing out and spiraling talkin about i ended his bloodline! i killed every woman and child he had been close to! i would have sensed it ! like okay....this guy takes having a brother complex to a whole other level -like he's so pressed about his younger brother's situationship and i guess the fact that katsuki is essentially similar in izuku's life ofa is fr like "yet i'm convinced tghat a willful resolve resembling kudo's has crossed time and space to thwart me!!" like dude bffr
- omg katsuki was one fugly baby SORRY MY KING - "izuku i won't stand in your way anymore" "the one quirk i've got is enough!" ladies and gentlemen character development. horikoshi took his time cooking katsuki - omg not hawks' quirk factor joining the rage bait afo squad he's too funny pls don't lose ur wings - "get it straight this is our tale!" - "nah nothing less than absolute victory for me!" the icon himself mr katsuki bakugo - wym the stolen quirk factors can't return to their owners horikoshi why WHY - katsuki a fuckin nerd "i really wanted to pull of all might's standing victory pose" and just lies down with his fist in the air like "give em hell izuku!" - "snuffing out any means to restoration..that's what it means to destroy" ohhh shigaraki you are sickening - nooo izuku lost the fourth user and danger sense byeeeee i don't wanna read this no more
Cuando creíamos que AfO era otro nivel de maldad, vemos de dónde salió... (y Toshinori, lo bueno que tu "locura" está del lado del bien, que si no...)
Ah, sí, y Kacchan, eres genial, pero tu cara de bebé me da un poco de risa.
(Aviso: lectura hecha en ejemplar en español, publicado en México. La presente nota se modificará cuando se dé de alta en GR la edición correspondiente).
Okay, so we're DEFINITELY ramping up towards the end here. We've done a few overviews of the different areas of battle, and seen how some of them have ended, Aoyama has managed to become a hero just like he wanted (although with some surprise help!), All Might and AFO's battle has ended (for better or worse), Bakugo is BACK IN THE GAME, BABY, and it seems that we're going to be focused on one last battle... that of Izuku and Shigaraki.
Chapter notes below for personal reference: (potentially spoiler heavy)
I feel like the point of Armored All Might is partly to reference Genos from One Punch Man? All Might's armor constantly gets destroyed as he tries new things, which is, like, Genos's whole gimmick. Unless Iron Man erodes his own armor as well? But I don't think I've seen that happen much before.
Stain with the assist!
All for One Goal is pretty sick for an Ultimate Move.
It's funny that AfO and OfA were born as literal whoresons, but VIZ has to be fancy and PC by using the term "sex worker." Based on her appearance, I'm sure Horikoshi means to say "look how gross she is, as the mother of the most vile villain known to Japan!," but of course VIZ has to treat her like a college student using OnlyFans to pay for her new iPhone! Also, I feel there's something more inherently "vulgar" to the phrase "sex worker," as it appears in A FUCKING SHŌNEN MANGA. "Prostitute" sounds more technical, clinical, detached. Scientific, almost.
It's extremely impressive Horikoshi gives Bakugo the win against AfO. Rival characters often get fucked out of defeating major arc bosses in shōnen manga. Has Vegeta ever beaten a big villain?
What's this about turning villains into babies, by the way? AfO, Muzan, arguably Sukuna.
Seems Shigaraki can Decay Quirks now?
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Hagakure's invisible boobers when teaming up with Aoyama...!
Hagakure's fat boobs, tummy, and thighs at the start of Chapter 400...!!!!!
Plainclothes Hagakure on the omake page after Chapter 400...!
Nana boobs when her spirit gives All Might a pep talk...!
Momo meaty boobs and thighs when the Twice clones disintegrate...!!!!!
Nana boobs on the cover of Chapter 403...!
Part of Hagakure's boobs visible at the start of Chapter 406...!
Nejire boobs and Mirko thighs when Best Jeanist is explaining the plan...!
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Une masterclass Peut-être mon tome préféré ❤️🔥 Horikoshi, tu es un génie 🥹 j’arrive pas à me dire qu’il ne reste plus que 2 tomes et que le manga sera fini 😭 ça me brise le cœur