Thursday, December 18, 2025

Review: My Hero Academia volume 12 *SPOILERS*

 


This volume starts off with the students learning about ultimate moves and how it will determine if they get their provisional licenses. I am guessing that this was mentioned at the end of volume 11, but with my library copy being damaged and it missing the last two pages, I am gonna assume that is the case. 

the teachers take the students to the TKL, the training kitchen where they learn that ultimate moves is based on combat prowess and not every ultimate move is a attack move. While everyone is working on their moves, of course Deku is standing there like a bump on a log. He gets told to learn more about his quirk first. All Might shows up and tries to go into his hero form and that last about 2 seconds. 

Mineta bragging how he had his idea for his Grape Rush move since he was in diapers is a flex I didn't need to know. This little perv is not a favorite. All Might is going around to all the students, giving them little tidbits of advice. While he has a Idiot's Guide to Teaching book in his back pocket....lmao. 

Deku goes to the developement studio to see about a brace for his arm, and Ida and Uraraka show up. Then the door to the studio explodes and Hatsume appears and then Ida and Uraraka are mesmerized by her boobs. This is the first time that boobs have been said even though they are on display all the time. And that is how the 100th chapter ended.

Hatsume is part of the support course, so in Sky High terms, she is a sidekick. The kids let Power loader sensei know the mods they want and Deku gets put into a full body suit that Hatsume designed. He gets the brace for his arm and he has has an epiphany about what All Might wants from him. The kids are working their ultimate moves and Deku saves All Might from a falling bolder by using his ultimate move. He is using his fists, but also his legs. All Might looks so proud. 

The day of their provisional testing arrives and they get to their test site. Aizawa announces that once they have their provisionals, that they will be semi-pros. The kids then scream their plus ultra chant. Except that it is not U.A doing the chant. It is the students from the rival school, Shiketsu High. We also meet the Todoroki of that school and he has some energy and character. He is a first year with top grades. 

We meet another hero named Ms. Joke whose quirk is to make people laugh and stop their thoughts. She walks up to Eraser Head and immediately says "lets get married" and he gives the straightest no thanks, which is funny. 

There are over 1000 students taking the exams, and they learn that it is going to be a free for all based on speed. The fucked up thing is that the first one hundred who finish will earn their provisionals, while the rest fail. Basically the reasoning for this is because the world is already saturated with heroes. To pass the test, they have to beat two other test takers that have their three targets lit. If your three targets light up, you fail. 

The test starts and we learn about the first move of the exam every year, which is the U.A Crush. Which is where every other school there, tries to take out all of U.A. because they have had their strengths and weaknesses exposed to everyone thanks to the sports festival. U.A obviously teams up witht ehexception of Bakugo and Todoroki.

The Todoroki of the other school takes out 120 kids at once by using wind. Deku is inner monologuing and not paying attention and he gets a ball to the target by a girl from Shiketsu. He thinks she is cool and then the next chapter shows Uraraka.. and I am expecting jealousy and rage. 

Uraraka and Deku are up against a group and Deku saves Uraraka from falling. He then realizes it is a fake Uraraka after they try to put a ball on his target. The clone then turns into a goopy slime person and it really is disgusting but interesting and I want to know more. The goopy girl can clone but she is naked when she goes back to her self and her targets are gone. The ick factor is definitely increased with the manga artist because he has drawn a naked teen girl. It was all full cleavage and short skirts and the hot tub scene, but now it is full body with the bits covered.

Eraser Head is talking to joke about what makes Class A so special and determined and it is because there is a pair that shows what to do and what mood to set and he is talking about Bakugo and Midoriya. Bakugo gets turned into a ball by a guy with the meatball quirk. He uses his own flesh to incase another person, making them immobile which is really fucking gross.

The count is almost at 100 and U.A hasn't lost a member yet. Deku and Uraraka and Seto are working together and Bakugo and Kaminari and Kirishima are going against the undone meatballs. They pass the exam and go into the anteroom and find out that Ida and the sparkly belly button dude whose name I forget is still taking the test. 

Aoyama is the sparkly dude, he is trying to sacrifice himself to save Ida and instead he beckons the rest of Class A to rally together. All of class A passed the first round. Now all 100 left have to endure round two as they now have to do a rescue mission as bystanders to prove their worth. 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Review: Is This A Cry For Help by Emily Austin

  DNF at 40%. I could not continue this whiplash. I was expecting some big drama surrounding the ex but finding out that she broke up with h...