#ahhhhhh everything is just so good right now yessssss | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

makeste · 5 years

Text

BnHA Chapter 196: Beastmode, Brainwashing, and Batrachian Bullshit

Previously on BnHA: Everyone said hi to their new brother Shinsou. Aizawa and Vlad announced the specifics of the day’s training exercise. Each class was split into 5 groups of 4 which will be pitted against each other one at a time. The goal of the exercise is for a team to successfully capture all 4 members of the opposing team and throw them into cute Rat Principal jail. Shinsou was randomly assigned to join one team each from class A and class B. He just so happened to be teamed up with class A’s first group, which also includes Kirishima, Kaminari, Kouda, and Tsuyu. They’re up against class B’s team of Shiozaki, Sabretooth Shishida, Tsuburaba, and some guy with a braid and a visor that reminds me of those Kanye glasses. The battle began and the 1-A kids pondered how best to sic Kaminari on the 1-B group. But before they could figure something out, Shishida -- who has a literal beastmode quirk -- and Tsuburaba came barreling at them in a surprise attack. They were just about to strike a finishing blow when Shinsou suddenly shouted something using Tsubu’s voice, revealing that the weird mask thing he’s been wearing is actually a voice changer, oh damn.

Today on BnHA: Shinsou uses his quirk on Shishida, but a quick-thinking Tsuburaba traps him inside a soundproof air box and then quickly snaps Shishi out of it. Shishi proceeds to slam Kaminari into a wall but gets himself zapped in the process. Tsuyu takes advantage of the chaos to snag Tsuburaba with her frog tongue and haul him off to jail. When Shishida lumbers after them, Kirishima and Kouda intervene, but Shishida uses his beastmode to fling Kirishima like 50 feet into the air, where he’s then captured by Shiozaki’s vines. Shishi grabs Kouda and takes off, giving B Team a 2-1 lead. The teams regroup, and Shinsou apologizes to Tsuyu and Kaminari for failing to capture Shishida more quickly. The other two reassure him and Kaminari declares his friendship, before Tsuyu announces that she has a new plan. Turns out that Kaminari fired his pointer disc thingy earlier and planted it on Shishida, which means that they can now track his location. We then cut to Team B and Shishida, who is sniffing around unawares trying to track the rest of Team A. Suddenly he announces that Tsuyu is heading towards them... and there are apparently three of her.

(As always, all comments not marked with an ETA are my mostly-unspoiled reactions from my first readthrough of this chapter. I’m caught up with the manga now at chapter 222, so any ETAs will reflect that.)

awesome, a flashback explaining Shinsou’s quirk! I know some of this already because it was mentioned in response to my speculation about Izuku being AFO’s son and potentially having the AFO quirk. but it’s still cool to get to this point in canon

so basically, Shinsou just concentrates and thinks “brainwash that person” and then tries to get the target to respond, and if they do then he gains control over them and they’ll do whatever he says (unless they can snap out of it like Izuku did; it takes a “certain degree of force” to accomplish that)

and he says that although he’s never tried, he doesn’t think he would be concentrate enough to brainwash more than one person at a time

now that part I did not know, and it makes this fight much more interesting! because I assume he’s targeting Beastmode who is the biggest threat here. but it means that they still have to deal with Tsuburaba though

also doesn’t this contradict what we saw in the sports festival, though? he had multiple people brainwashed at once for sure there. “never tried it” my ass

(ETA: I think what this means is that he has to brainwash them one at a time. he can control multiple people at once, but if he were faced with four different un-brainwashed people and he tried to get them to all fall under his control simultaneously he wouldn’t be able to handle it, basically.)

and this is interesting too

so much for any fleeting hope that Shinsou could potentially serve as a truth serum character in Nemoto’s place. damn

wow he’s really getting detailed here

this is actually encouraging to me, because it means that Horikoshi is taking steps to add more checks and balances to Shinsou’s super OP quirk (making it so that he can’t just interrogate villains that easily for instance), which suggests that he’s getting ready to add him as a full time character. bring it on!

so flashback!Kaminari, who really isn’t as dumb as everyone always makes him out to be -- having the lowest test scores in a class full of geniuses is hardly anything to be ashamed of -- is saying that it must be tough now that everyone knows how Shinsou’s quirk works from the sports festival

and now flashback!Shinsou is pointing to his voice changer mask and explaining its purpose

...hold up, what? it loses its effectiveness? than what is the point

okay I just went and found Mangastream’s translation which makes much more sense, here it is

looks like I’m gonna have to go back and forth between these scanlations today. or maybe I’ll just stick with MS for now because this is the third issue the JBox translation has had in as many pages, so

(ETA: yeah, aside from this one panel I ended up just using MS for everything because it’s easier and I don’t have to worry as much about inaccuracies.)

that sounds like some bullshit as far as the explanation for how this thing changes his voice, but it’s The Future so I’ll roll with it lol

anyway so Kaminari is thoroughly impressed and says that with that he’s basically unbeatable

he’s not, though. as long as the opponent takes care not to respond to any voice, no matter who they think it is, they’re safe. though it does hamper their ability to communicate with each other

but anyways, I suppose situations like that are where the capture weapon comes in, though I imagine he’s still very much a novice. I seem to recall that it took Aizawa a number of years to master it himself, and Shinsou’s only had about six months

so flashback Shinsou is saying that whether the voice changer is strong or not depends on him

and as he says that, the flashback is ending and we’re cutting back to the present

and he’s unveiling the capture scarf! yessssss

-- uh oh

lol well that’s one effective way to shut him down

and now Tsubu is smacking Sabretooth upside the head to snap him out of the brainwashing

damn, class B. not bad

and now they know what’s what

but this must have given the other class A kids a few essential seconds to regroup, right? Kami where are you, let’s do this

why does this panel make it look like his attack is focused in his hand. the human stun gun method would work just as well in this case so long as you’re quick. though I get why you’d maybe want to keep your distance from Beastmode there

nooooooooo

MY BOY SACRIFICED HIMSELF

or Beastmode sacrificed himself. because he must have known what would happen if he touched him, but by doing so he took out class A’s queen in exchange for a measly pawn or knight or bishop or whatever you want to make him in this stupid chess metaphor I pulled out of my ass lol

(ETA: actually THEY’RE BOTH FINE SOMEHOW so never mind! April Fool’s, I guess.)

meanwhile Tsubu jumped off of his back just in time to avoid being stunned himself

Tsuyu you better take this guy out. he’s too good and you’ve still got Shiozaki and Braidvisor to deal with on top of that

oh thank god, he’s still in one piece. I know, it’s just a training exercise, but y’all know how brutal this school can be, and what with them having access to Recovery Girl, they’re probably cool with letting the kids take a fair amount of punishment before they’d actually consider stepping in

(ETA: listen, these supposedly responsible adults were apparently cool with everyone potentially burning to death two fights from now, so I feel like I was absolutely right to be concerned here.)

ahh, there we go!

yes Tsuyu yessss, you know I love it when characters actually listen to me lol

-- oh shit

YEAH WHAT GIVES

Kouda and Kirishima are stepping in to give Tsu some cover though!

I’m a little worried about Kouda but at least Kiri is in Unbreakable mode. sure hope his time limit on that has increased

oh snap!!

[theme from Ant-Man intensifies]

look who got over his fear of bugs! I’m so proud of you Kouda

HEY WHAT

THAT’S CHEATING

son of a bitch. I really ought to be rooting for class B here because they need to win at least two of the first three in order for this to play out the way I want it to with Bakugou and Deku’s matches both being do-or-die, everything-on-the-line. which means only one of the other 3 class A teams can win, and so I want that to be Momo lol

but it’s just so hard to go against that natural instinct to root for class A, man. these are my children, give me a break

anyway, Shishida says that Kiri is the only one who can pose a threat to his ability, and that’s why he’s...

...punting him into the sky oh good lord

KIRIIIII

oh snap he’s remembering their intel about Shiozaki coming at them from the left

and he’s looking to the left and AHHHHHH

JESUS CHRIST CLASS B I WAS HOPING TO GET A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP TONIGHT

and now Shishida is free to kick Kouda’s ass oh shit

Kami’s running over to try and save him, and he’s firing his disc weapon!

Shishi’s dodging but that’s okay since as we know, this is a two-stage attack

Tsuyu’s descending on Shishi from behind, but it seems like he’s aware of her presence

these guys have a counter for everything, goddamn

and now he’s bounding off with Kouda in tow

and just like that, the formerly outnumbered class B is now tied with class A in terms of available manpower

but class B actually has the advantage now because they’ve captured two of class A’s members whereas only one of their team was captured. meaning that if they just wait out the clock, they’ll win

so now class A has to go on the offensive, which is gonna be tough because Tsuyu is more suited to rescue operations than combat, and Shinsou is still just a novice. so they really only have Kami, and they’ll have to be very careful with how they use him because if he gets taken out they’re screwed

seems like the odds were in class B’s favor from the start for this battle. their team is all powerhouses, whereas this is arguably class A’s weakest team in terms of combat quirks. damn

why is he guarding the cells? once they’re captured they’re out. there’s no rescue element to this game as far as I recall, he should be out in the field with the others

lol meanwhile the captured Tsuburaba is trying to figure out whether he accidentally got to first base

the answer is no but good try kid

also who’s commentating. this definitely isn’t Aizawa or Vlad, or All Might either. the only other teacher there is Midnight, as far as I know, but this doesn’t quite sound like her either. did Mic skip out on his afternoon classes in order to come watch too. is there anyone left to actually teach school right now

now Tsuyu is busting through Shinsou’s air prison with a lead pipe

she says the air barriers are much stronger than they were back at the sports festival when Bakugou was able to break through with his bare fist

and now she’s all “class B sure is strong” and YEAH

LOOOOOOOOOL

SO IT WAS VLAD OH MY GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS. THIS IS A WHOLE NEW SIDE OF YOU AND I LOVE IT

sorry Mina but this is class B’s day today honey

Sero and Satou are discussing Shishida who seems to be the breakout star of class B so far in this battle

but meanwhile Deku’s focus is on Shinsou, which is smart given that he’s going to have to go up against him in just a little bit

and meanwhile Kami is turning to Tsuyu for leadership now

yeah, you really didn’t play that out so well. you already knew his quirk going in, basically. you could have spent that time coming up with a strategy

poor Shinsou

he has very expressive eyes. I can’t believe we had to wait nearly 200 chapters for this boy to finally become one of the main characters

Tsuyu says she should be the one apologizing

well. yes, you guys should have had a plan. but I’m not so sure about the not-having-him-on-the-front-lines part. you all are so good yourselves precisely because you’ve been on the front lines from day one. trial by fire runs in class A’s blood, so let him get a taste of that too, maybe

Kaminari says it’s impressive that Shinsou did even as well as he did, and that he saved his ass

Kaminari honestly gives Kirishima a run for his money as the goodest boy in 1-A. this kid is affectionate with everyone

Shinsou is brushing off the compliment like a good tsundere and he’s all “...whatever” and says they should come up with a plan

EWWWWW

TSUYU WHY

she’s telling Kami to “look at his pointer.” what?

and now we’re cutting to class B again

actually they’d really be better off just booking it out of there and hiding someplace to wait until the time runs out now. the 1-A team has no trackers left and like I said earlier, they currently have the advantage. there’s no point in confronting the rest of them and risking getting caught

I was waiting to see if someone would point this out like they usually do, but it appears this time they’re not! Horikoshi is this a plot hole or are they just not thinking this through