Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals Episode 2 Discussion

His name is "The Crawler"!
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Lmao those middle schoolers were Wolverine and Cyclops but Jojo 😂😂

Another fun episode, I like the tone being more laid back, mad respect for Knuckleduster not having a quirk, I also like Kouichi, having a "crappy" quick but still giving his best to help others.

Knuckleduster doesn't even have a Quirk, he's just doing this for the love of the game. Respect.

Lol at those 2 middle schoolers whose designs were clearly meant to resemble Jotaro and Josuke 💀 wasn't expecting that.

Koichi is all in now! I'd say he's fully on board with this vigilante work. A simple takedown of some trigger turned into a huge brawl in the city streets. That shady businessman was hiding more than just some dolls. Putting the trigger drug inside them is a good cover. If Knuckleduster hadn't been so persistent then they would've let that guy go. Erasure showing up nearly screwed things for them but he did help in the end. We got confirmation that Knuckleduster doesn't have a quirk, he's just that damn strong throwing Erasure around. I'm glad that once he figured out Knuckleduster wasn't misusing a quirk he just let him go. Erasure is nothing if not fair. Koichi and Pop Step really had their hands full with those trigger enhanced villains. Four different ones all causing mayhem. That giant businessman kinda threw the other three for a loop and inadvertently helped stop them. Koichi did great catching Pop Step so she could use her jumping quirk. He's really stepping up from just being a helping hand around the neighborhood to a real hero. Same with stopping that rock villain later in the episode. Koichi and Knuckleduster had a good team up moment knocking the villain off balance so he could he pummeled. Now they just have to work on their online presence. Pop Step should be able to help with that.

Knuckleduster not having a quirk was a bit of a surprise. Still, it doesn't stop him from continuously charging into fights, regardless of who he's up against, while sticking to what he believes in as the right thing to do. Reckless as that might be, I do commend him for that.

As for Kouichi, he had his moment to shine when he risked his life to save Pop Step. While she is acting a bit tsundere towards him, her blushing expression was very cute and probably does say that she sees him differently now.

This rag-tag trio of vigilantes do make for a fun team, so I do look forward to seeing how they'll get on against more villains while making sure that they don't get the wrong type of attention from the proper heroes and the police. Overall, this was another fun episode.

knuckleduster is quirkless then damn he uses his brains more when fighting i guess

Looks like there's a case dealing with the drug Trigger going on in the city.

On another note, great to see Eraser Head back. The predictable and dangerous nature of the city this episode was in full effect. Kouichi did what he had to do but I am impressed by him for saving that baby. Good to also see Knuckleduster making his appearance and also noticed this series the same or very similar OST as the main series.

I had a feeling we’d find out Knuckleduster is quirkless when he took on Aizawa, the guy that has the power to disable them lol, mad respect to this guy for braving the hero world with no power of his own, just simply a badass fighting for justice. And hey, turns out that salaryman was actually a bad guy after all, although I wish it woulda said what his “playtime” quirk actually did, it seemed to mentally regress him a bit when he played with that actual car like it was a toy one lol. This fight was a lot of fun tho, Aizawa ultimately took down the villain but Kouichi’s display was awesome when he saved Pop Step.

And despite Kouichi’s resistance to working with Knuckleduster, he and Pop Step formed a trio with him anyways, and they seem to be quite the team already from their first battle together (I also noticed the nostalgic ost in this scene, very nice), the cops didn’t like how much they roughed the guy up but I say they shoulda hit him more lol. And like others have pointed out, I did catch the Jojo references with those middle schoolers, wasn’t expecting that but really cool, Pop Step taming them was amusing too. And hey I recognize that detective, Tsukauchi right? Nice to see him again, interesting that he’s technically a bad guy in this series, I’m excited to see how his role in this plays out.

And lastly, lol ngl “The Crawler” isn’t a bad hero name but I don’t think it fits Kouichi, I feel like Nice Guy just sticks, also it would be embarrassing for villains to get beat up by a guy with that name, and he could even have a super attack called “No More Mr. Nice Guy” like that Alice Cooper song lol.

Yare yare daze...

@TheColonel76 Yes that is Naomasa Tsukauchi, and he's not a bad guy in this series. The word you're likely looking for is antagonist, but even then we'll have to see what happens if and/or when he meets the trio.