#skycrawler

Yes! He became a hero!

Personally, I like Koichi’s path to his hero career more than Izuku’s, even though that one’s still incomplete. Sure, Izuku starts out quirkless, but very soon in to the story he meets the number 1, gets trained by him and gets a quirk from him. He gets in to the best school, meets the other kids destined to be some of the best of the best, gets opposed by top villains, yadda yadda… it’s just so cliche. Meanwhile, there’s our average dude Koichi from average college who does his best in life without aiming for the top and sorta ends up there as an accident, on hard work and some luck. Like, hell yeah! Lesson of the day: getting in to an elite school isn’t the only way to succeed in life; with a little luck, sometimes working hard pays off! 

VIGILANTES FINALE Ch.126

There be spoilers below!

Chapter title: SKYCRAWLER RISING!!!! I am SO happy to see Koichi is still Koichi! Still saving people, still awkward, still struggling with public image. Bless his grit.

Pop is in a new city herself. Still recovering, still friends with Koichi. Not “together,” but in touch, and I love it.

Finally we see Knuckleduster, still kicking ass in the dark alleyways.

Yeah, we got a happy ending for our main 3, plus all the MHA characters we know and love (retiree Tanuma is there too). Knowing All Might is watching Koichi makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

My only complaint? There’s so little Shonen Jump fanfare!! I mean, I know they can be brutal about axing a series, but I didn’t get any email blast or anything about the finale. And Sakamoto Days gets the headline spot on the app. Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court did fantastic work on Vigilantes and deserve to be celebrated for enriching the MHA world.