Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals Episode 13 Discussion

It's kinda sad that Knuckle just left them without saying a proper Goodbye. Like Koichi said even though he was with them for a short while his presence was stronger. Knuckle saved his daughter but lost his wife 💔💔

Really looking forward to season 2..

@phantomfandom I didn't even think about the idea that Knuckleduster is passing on his knuckledusters to Koichi, I thought he was simply leaving them there to signal that he's no longer gonna do vigilante work.

How are these instant villains being modified to allow for their bodies to take in more Ideo Trigger to the point where their transformations are semi-permanent? Speaking of, I’m surprised that All Might wasn’t apart of Naomasa’s meeting with Eraserhead and Midnight because he’s someone who can INSTANTLY take down any villain. I mean, he is the standard of power that is used for comparisons throughout the show. When Shigaraki first woke up in Season 6, Kyudai Garaki compared Shigaraki’s strength to All Might in his prime and in Season 7, Best Jeanist said Shigaraki’s speed is greater than Prime All Might.

I didn’t expect Captain Celebrity to visit Koichi’s place, but he’s got a point. If Koichi doesn’t have the capabilities to take down these villains himself, he should leave it up to the pros, but at the same time with all of them popping up, somebody has to at least distract him to ensure that the innocent civilians don’t get hurt. If The Crawler didn’t come in when he did, that random guy could have DIED.

What kind of connection does Soga have with Knuckleduster for him to look after Tamao like that? Vigilantes needs to continue because there are still unanswered questions.

Pop Step is enjoying her newfound fame performing at the Marukane Shopping District and Koichi doesn’t suck at singing.

That one guy with the scar from the end of the last episode seems to be the one behind the Trigger incidents, and that bat from a few episodes back comes back into play, but this time is dealt with swiftly by CC. However keep in mind that this dude was able to match Captain Celebrity’s flight speed, so he’s nobody to scoff at.

Knuckleduster leaving behind his brass knuckles and mask is obviously a symbolic representation of him parting ways with Koichi and Pop Step, especially with the flashback in which he confidently leaves everything to the two of them, meaning that he may be done with his vigilante work now that Tamao is back.

With this season concluded, next up is the final season of My Hero Academia…

@KingBaller06 Naomasa would know All Might is weakened and can't be expected to fight as much as he did before his major wound from fighting All For One, so he's taking a more measured approach while covering for him at the same time. There's a whole chapter about their ongoing relationship, almost like Commissioner Gordon and Batman in a sense

The mantis character will show up again, I believe, though he's generally minor for the most part, more a reflection of accessibility issues in a Quirk society where some people legitimately would have Mutant type quirks that could make life more difficult for them. Though he does get gainful employment, he takes his situation in stride, even with how it's unlikely he can ever expect to have a "normal" life or relationships, even joking about how a lady would possibly only date him because she's kinky about bugs

I'm always up for an epilogue episode after a satisfactory climax. But almost 70% of this episode feels like blatant filler along with recycling footage in flashbacks, just to push until the end the real important issue at hand with Knuckles and his daughter. Thus the whole father/daughter reunion and the mother being in critical condition feels less impactful on my behalf. I know there will be a season 2, but it's not really a good excuse to give less spotlight to the important issues at hand just for the sake of padding up the story. This finale really soured my overall experience and I'll have to give it just a 7/10 (it would had been an easy 8.5/10 with a proper finale episode).

@holdingnothing Before I continue this response, I simply ask you not to hint at or in any way reference any manga material from Vigilantes that goes beyond the episodes in question, because you're potentially revealing things that can/will occur in the future that I don't want to know about until said episodes come out. That's why I've had to be careful reading your responses.

With that in mind, I'm only gonna respond to your first claim. Vigilantes has no proven reference of whether it occurs before or after All Might's injury, which occurs 5 years before the start of the main series. Regardless, All Might was actively doing hero work for 3 hours a day prior to giving One For All to Izuku Midoriya. We see a flashback of Tenya Iida, who looks to be about 8 years old if I had to guess.

@Niwaka-Samurai He'll be back, though Koichi does get more focus, even if Knuckle also does still have fights, but his age and body are up there with Frank Miller's Dark Knight

I'm excited for the second season now that it has been approved!

I'm going to miss seeing Knuckleduster around! But Who knows? Maybe we’ll see him in the next season once again.

@holdingnothing that's good to know ❤️

Okay ending, Kunckleduster is reunited again with his daughter, seems like the story will continue in a 2nd part, why not, but overall this anime is just pure entertainment, otherwise the story is very simple and is just a very basic version of what MHA could offer, the characters all lack of clear development (except Kuckleduster) and don't really have any real goals, so I wonder what the 2nd season will offer

Yeah but she didn’t die. That's what I meant.

@0451 She took her last breath and passed, the phone call confirmed she was as about to die and to get there asap. I've been receiving end of that call several times, not a call you ever want to get. At least knuckleduster made it in time to tell her he got their daughter back.
He lied to his daughter about it most likely to not create more stress and hinder her recovery.

Vigilantes was surprisingly good. I thought it would be an "okay whatever" type of spin off but it was actually really good. KnuckleDuster is an incredibly good character with an actual reason for everything he does, The crawler is simply a guy trying to help out. And PopStep is just the annoying love interest every anime needs. While everyone is rating this a 6-7/10 i genuinely think this is an 8/10. Excited for the upcoming season but I really have no idea what they'll do with the goat KnuckleDuster.