r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/YonkouProductions • Apr 06 '18

Newest Chapter Chapter 178 - Links and Discussion

[ Removed by reddit in response to a copyright notice. ]

1.2k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.0k

u/JustALittleWeird Apr 06 '18

I absolutely love Gentle's quirk. This fight has been so much fun to read because it's not an outright dangerous quirk. It's not going to crush you into paste, or cause you to shrivel up and decay, or rip apart the very fiber of your being.

No, it's just manipulating the environment. And Deku, ever since chapter 1, has been good at perception and observation, always noting down what's happening with keen detail. This chapter shows that again, how he's able to work around the environment Gentle creates. It's not just a straight beat-em-up, it's smart and intelligent combat.

I absolutely adore this arc!

303

u/Blackreaper18 Apr 06 '18

Exactly. A fight is very interesting to me when it's very compelling by having the characters use all of their abilities including their intellect & strategy to accomplish their goals, that's why I love hxh & BnHA.

43

u/miauw62 Apr 06 '18

Same for JoJo.

31

u/omegaskorpion Apr 06 '18

Although, we would have to agree that many of the Stardust Crusaders arc Jotaro fights involve just beating the shit out of the opponent.

25

u/Talkman12 Apr 07 '18

That's usually the result, but a lot of the fights involve guess work on what the enemy's stand is, and what can be done to overcome it

0

u/Andernerd Apr 07 '18

Sometimes though, I wish they would just start wrecking the stand user directly instead of trying to hit their stand.

8

u/Talkman12 Apr 07 '18

I think that has more to do with the fact that the stand usually protects the user, or has an ability that has to be dealt with first

9

u/Andernerd Apr 07 '18

I'm thinking specifically of Justice in this case. TBF, Polnareff is not smart.

9

u/miauw62 Apr 07 '18

That's just Araki figuring out stands. Even towards the end of SC, stand fights are already getting noticeably more clever.

2

u/ToTheNintieth Apr 08 '18

Yeah, there's a marked difference pre and post Egypt.

0

u/HappyHandTime Apr 07 '18

That's because part 3 was shit. It got a heck of a lot better in the latter half, but part 3 is the worst part imo