Pop, now brainwashed by the evil bees, is in her villain era as Koichi tries to save her.
I honestly have zero clue how it took me so long to continue on in this series, especially after the cliffhanger of the last one! The scarred villain, Rokuro Nomura, has used his evil bee thingers to brainwash Pop so now she’s quite literally blowing shit up and causing some real issues, but other than Koichi they don’t realize she’s being used to do these villainous acts so they have to catch her before the police or she could be lost. There’s a legit heartbreaking moment of Pop noticing Koichi during her first attack n being like “oh NOW you notice me??” Oof, that was too real even tho it’s so clear how much this dummy cares about her.
He gets this beautiful note from his master trying to uplift him and saying he has the truest heart of a hero and it’s all he needs to help others. And then he gets help from Soga and co (the spike quirk former villain/street thug turned good guys, he’s kinda fine I won’t lie 😏) to inform them of how to save Pop from the bees without killing her, cuz I think they were there when the master did the same for his daughter.
We get an unhinged cameo of Endeavor trying to straight up murder Pop and Koichi with his flames because he sees no moral ambiguity, he’s fucking wild but it was a little funny. We also get this other heartbreaking moment of Pop thinking of what her future married and old with kids with Koichi could be like UGH! It can still be that!!! I can’t let it go, they’re too cute!!! I just want them to be happy and in love and I have faith he’ll find a way to save her. But of course to screw with my head, the moment she seems to waver a little seeing Koichi in mid jump to grab her, this ends with Nomura SHOOTING her!!!! I’m not convinced this killed her, but wtf!! He’s such a confusing main villain, I have very little clue about what his motivations are, so just along for the ride with him.
I what’s wild is there only seems to be 15 volumes, so if that’s true I only have 5 more left which is insane!! I guess it makes sense since this is a MHA spinoff and with Nomura clearly our main villain, I could see this wrapping up if they’re able to defeat him soon, so we’ll see! I hope to stop putting it off and finish it soon, fingers crossed I listen to myself this time!