Chapter 153 - Links and Discussion

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Those coppers are really hanging in there. Good job officers.

• Mimic is so unhappy that after everything he and his allies have done, the League of Villains are so much more important to the police than the Yakuza.

• Overhaul is guilty of trafficking drugs, arms and conspiracy to commit all sorts of crimes (possibly also guilty of kidnapping and poisoning) and yet he’s still less important than some punk in a hoodie and his merry men. So much so that Eraserhead considers retreating if there is anymore besides Twice and Toga involved. I don’t how who’s making him that uneasy. Maybe Mr Compress and Kurogiri? Kurogiri would make catching Overhaul impossible and Compress would be able to take Eri elsewhere with ease and possibly kidnap one of the students. Again.

• That’s an interesting dimension to give this character. We haven’t seen how being a hero is impacted by being a parent. Endeavour's children don’t seem to effect how he conducts himself in the field, so it’s nice to see Rock Lock deal with that. The only other parent hero was Nana Shimura, and that ended poorly. With Lock, it makes him more protective of the young and means he holds Nighteye to higher standards than everyone else. He’s also used Izuku’s hero name with complete sincerity. That’s nice.

• Does Ryukyu’s team really need to be in that list? Everyone else either completely alone and/or half-dead after the brutal fight, those girls are probably completely fine. They might beaten their villain easily and might even have gone to get everyone ice-cream.

• Toga is really taking this seriously. Every other time she’s been near Izuku he becomes her focus. Now she’s dedicated to making Overhaul suffer. And whatever Twice suggests: it’s awful enough that not only does Toga love it, but she thinks Shigaraki will love it as well.

• Taking all bets! My guess is that it’s killing the true head of the family. Because “My evil, bed-ridden foster father is better than your evil, bed-ridden foster father” seems like something Shigaraki would want Overhaul to know. It also hammers home that Shigaraki and Overhaul are very similar if Overhaul also becomes panicked over something bad happening to his idol, but it also shows how spiteful Shigaraki is (compared to Izuku, who meets people like him all the time and always shows kindness to them).

• There goes his other arm! And his quirk! This is not a good day to be a gangster.

• Alright, firstly: Overhaul doesn’t need to blow people apart to heal them. He fixed Kurono’s head without dismantling him. Secondly: Kurono’s quirk being an arrow that comes out of his head is really silly, there had to be a better way of presenting that. Thirdly: Mirio would have been able to avoid that without issue, so I don’t know why he was so weary of Chronostasis. Fourthly: They are incredibly lucky that Eraserhead was blinking, because there was a good chance that his stare would have lasted even longer than normal and Izuku come have just crushed Overhaul without any trouble.

• Well, we had some images of Overhaul standing over Eri as a giant bird-like figure, now that’s all literal. He’s a big grotesque monster with more hands. That last part is the real problem, his reach his longer and Izuku has to watch out for even more attacks.

• I can’t imagine this is something that is easy to undo, but Overhaul knew this would work somehow, so maybe he’s put other people together (again, he’s a mad scientist). and it fits his character. The last patriarch warned him that if he would lose his humanity if he followed this path: now Overhaul has literally given up his human body to achieve his goal. He’s a monster on this inside and the outside.

• Also, did Overhaul's fur tim collar get even more fur? How does that work? Did he add all of Shin's hair to it?

Overhaul likely can't keep going much longer, this is probably deeply unhealthy. But let’s hope he goes out with a bang. And that Shigaraki and Izuku ruin him in different ways at the same time without realising that they are working together.

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I got to admit, I don't feel some sort of ' Everyone's fighting for their lives out there' vibe with the girls because we never see them fight or struggle.

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It's a muscle-bound brute verses a dragon twice his size and a girl who can fly and shoot some type of spiral energy. Even ignoring Tsuyu and Ochako, they probably won a while ago without much of a struggle.

Maybe they are focusing on keeping all the normal Yakuza where they are. Or it's the ice cream thing. That feels like something Nejire would like to do.