My Hero Academia Finally Justifies Its Most Irritating Student
Warning! Spoilers for My Hero Academia chapter 344 ahead!
The biggest reveal of My Hero Academia in its latest chapter is how exactly the heroes manage to use Kurogiri's warp quirk to deliver Midoriya's reinforcements, but it turns out a very different (and much less liked) character is the keystone of this plan.
The beginning of My Hero Academia chapter 343 sets up for what's sure to be the biggest battle in the series to date. The heroes' plan relies heavily on surprise, and nothing provides a better surprise advantage than being able to instantaneously drop heroes onto the battlefield. While this poses a major problem and could have been the focus of an arc all its own, chapter 344 reveals the shortcut that the heroes come up with to bypass the question of Kurogiri's loyalty: trot out a side character with a particularly amazing quirk by the name of Neito Monoma.
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Monoma is a student from Class 1-B, all of whom are minor characters who are occasionally used as training opponents for Class 1-A. The defining aspect of Monoma's character is his obnoxious behavior, as he is constantly harping on how his class is actually the best, ranting and provoking students in Aizawa's class. He's frequently pulled off screen for reprimands over this behavior by both his fellow students and occasionally teachers, and there's little-to-no reason for fans to really have any positive feelings towards him. As a student hero, he must have some redeeming qualities, but the reader is never really exposed to any. His most noteworthy feature is his quirk: the ability to copy any one quirk from the last person he touched. It still takes time for Monoma to learn how to use
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