Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals Episode 10 Discussion

@KingBaller06 Would you just tell people about your investigation into something that involves people you have a past relationship with and they suffered immensely? It's cliched, but vigilantes in comics do this all the time. Arrow made seasons out of this kind of stuff with Oliver especially

This concert and Kuin will be connected, we'll also be getting more Pop centered development, which is kind of obvious to a degree with her getting this kind of focus for an event that's not just a guerilla style performance like she's done before. The manga had me excited and seeing it animated will probably be even crazier, since there's the overlap of music and the grandiose scenes

@holdingnothing One, who is arrow?

Two, I don't expect Knuckleduster to go through his entire backstory with Koichi and Kazuho, but if he's gonna use them for his own goals, I do expect him to be upfront about it. Otherwise he should keep his personal business completely separate from his Vigilante work with Pop Step and The Crawler.

I'm not gonna bother with the rest since you bring up the manga (which is separate from the anime), therefore hinting at things based on potential future content.

@KingBaller06 Should've added the qualifier of CW, that show that started a franchise that only properly finished in the full sense with Superman and Lois concluding last year. Or we could just look at it more in the dramatic trope: keeping people out of the loop for particular plans and activities is meant to protect them, even if it also can feel like a violation of trust

Him not telling them is him keeping it separate, using them as bait is not exploiting them if he's confident they can handle themselves or will intervene if necessary. But I'm not defending him entirely, he has issues that go deeper than the stuff with his wife and kid.

@holdingnothing You bring up a valid point. He does make sure that Koichi and Kazuho don't get in over their heads and will help if need be. However, he is still using them in the sense that one, he inspired Koichi to become a vigilante to help him with his investigation (and Pop Step joined in) and he is using the attention they get for his sake without letting them at least know there's a bigger plan in all of this.

@rasterman7 I think this villain doesn't really come back after they're defeated, but it's been a while. And the next villain is especially creepy, but the opening has me thinking we'll probably only get a tease of them visually, since they are more important in the next arcs

Ain't no way she killed her own parents💀💀💀

The lack of focus on a specific plot is ruining the show. Only knuckledusters is interesting atm and it got less screen time than these guys planning a freaking concert. How is that even possible ? S1 of this show doesn’t feel compelling at all, even the best episodes were not that amazing either. If a show feels like a chore to follow, then maybe we should stop watching it. I will finish this season but my rating went from a 7.5 to a 6.5 after this episode revealed the clear systematic clash between slice of life and battle shonen that kind of ruins the pacing.