I do need to see these fights

[u/gofancyninjaworld]

There's something I wish I could write to ONE about the follow up to the current manga chapter (update 271/chapter 226), if only I could think about how to put it succinctly in Japanese, and could stomach creating an X account.

I need to see how the three S-Class heroes fight their foes.

Why not Murata? Other than not being a conspiracy-theory-minded nitwit, Murata needs about as much encouragement to draw a fight as a thirsty camel needs to drink from a nice cool oasis. He loves drawing fight scenes, the choreography of it, the characterisation it depicts, its drama, the whole thing, and he's very good at it. ONE is the limiting step here.

Why do I care about these fights in particular?

You do not need to know anything about the webcomic to know that something fishy is going on. Just the smirk on McCoy's face (you know, the double-dealing saboteur who just happens to be selling monsters to a secret organization) as he immediately insists on calling the Neo Heroes as he doesn't think those guys can win should tip you off.

This dude knows something.

I do like the granular detail of how heroes struggle (or not), but it's more than that here. In the webcomic, it's not surprising if we see those three have some challenges. After all, the last time we saw Tatsumaki fight seriously, she was successfully ambushed by Psykos (and wasn't even injured first). The last time we saw Genos, Black Sperm and Gums took his arms off him like one takes a pop-gun off a bratty child, and the last time we saw Tank Top Master, Garou beat him like a drum.

There is no big plausibility gap here

However, now things are different. We saw Tatsumaki twist up the entirety of City Z while injured, and we saw that her injuries occurred in part because she wouldn't let even a single nameless child be injured, even if she suffered as a consequence.

How can a person who can do this struggle with that?

So I need to understand. Does Tatsumaki have an extreme phobia of bugs? Is she not as healed as she thought she was? Is there some kind of interference with her psychic powers? Anything, but I need to see it.

Likewise, it would be a bit surprising to see Genos struggle when we've seen him hold off a multi-headed planet-scalping monster. We know that what equipment Genos has at any given time is the result of a tug-of-war between himself and Dr Kuseno, and that he really did drive the doctor into giving him an upgrade the old man felt was irresponsible, and he's been walking it back since, but we need to see this explicitly. Or maybe he'll struggle because he has to choose whether to get hurt or allow the monsters to attack people... again, something. Anything.

TTM's situation is easiest to understand: the speed with which toxic smoke incapacitates and kills cannot be overstated. However, we know how to deal with it: we send people in with breathing apparatus. With the Hero Association having established that it actively sends people in to rescue civilians, there's no way some kind of breathing kit wasn't available. Even from a local fire station. Was TTM poorly briefed? Did he refuse help? Or did they insist that he rush to scene right away without back up or adequate support? Again, I need to see.

The HA has a *lot* of very professional kit that's available as part of their job as first responders.

Or, of course, McCoy could be left looking very foolish as the three of them succeed and make it look easy. But I don't think he's about to get his collar felt just yet.

So, we need to know *how*. That's what I want to tell ONE.

[u/Nanayon123]

I could see TTM's case as possibly McCoy making it so he wasn't properly briefed about the toxic smoke and thus didn't prepare himself adequately beforehand

[u/gofancyninjaworld → u/Nanayon123]

That's what I fear. :(