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It took me a good minute to get into My Hero Academia. It’s always hard to start another Anime, especially one everyone is raving about. Everyone keeps talking about it in the Black Nerd Problems Slack too. I kept putting it off till a friend hit me with the words that caught my attention. “The main character, Deku, is a Rock Lee type.” Say no more. I’m sold. I’m fucking with the show. Young kids learning to control their quirks/abilities and being taught by heroes? Awesome. I’m with it. Now, there’s one thing I’m still not over. There’s one scene I keep rewatching. It’s all the way back when the villains attacked the school. There’s a hero I feel doesn’t get enough credit in that episode. I’m not talking about Deku. I’m not even talking about All Might who showed up first to save the kids. I’m talking about Snipe. Snipe is that fucking guy.
Yo, let’s please not forget. Snipe came in to back up All Might like the rest of the hero faculty. The difference is Snipe showed up to show the fuck out. Fam, this man came in bumping Dipset and letting the nina ring. Snipe came for the smoke. All the smoke. Hoooooooo, my god! Can we please run that highlight reel back.
“‘Bout to fly the Desert Eagle for y’all people”
Lemme set the play for you. Deku linguinis both his legs leaping in to save All Might (who is weak af right now after throwing +1,000,000 hands) from the villains Tomura Shigaraki and Kurogiri. Kurogiri warps Tomoura in front of Deku to take his ass the fuck out. Tomura …
YOU’VE REACHED YOUR LIMIT
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Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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