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<\/a>There are many reasons why Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals<\/em> works. Prominent among them, I think, is that despite the name being in the title, you\u2019d never slip and think you were watching (or reading) HeroAca<\/em>. Illegals<\/em> has a very distinct and dynamic energy all its own. Despite familiar faces like Eraser and even Tsukauchi<\/a> (so far) showing up, this is a different animal. An imitation of a series except not as good because it\u2019s not by the original author is never going to excite anybody, but that\u2019s what a lot of spinoff manga are. Happily, not this one.<\/p>\n<\/a>Eraser \u2013 and Erasure \u2013 are the most important Boku no Hero Academia<\/em> crossover in these early chapters. He and Knuckleduster get into a fight straight off<\/a> \u2013 to be fair to Aizawa, it\u2019s Knuckleduster who starts it. As they do battle the salaryman with the hero figures in his briefcase bolts, which Pop quite correctly takes to be very suspicious. She takes off after him and beckons Kouichi to follow, which comes as rather a shock to him. But he does, leaving the hero and the vigilante bereft of an audience.<\/p>\n<\/a>Eraser does what Eraser does \u2013 gets a read on his opponent\u2019s quirk and proceeds to nullify it. Except he doesn\u2019t, which is initially puzzling (and painful). But the truth is obvious enough \u2013 Knuckle has no quirk, or at least not one that he\u2019s leveraging in their fight. He\u2019s just a tough dude with big muscles and brass knuckles. Eraserhead takes a pragmatic approach here \u2013 if the man isn\u2019t using a quirk to do bad things, he has no reason to arrest him. That doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s above suspicion, but the prudent course for now is to defer any confrontation.<\/p>\n<\/a>Knuckleduster then makes short work of the three Trigger-boosted zaku who\u2019ve showed up for revenge against Mr. Nice Guy. But the\u00a0 good guys have a bigger problem on their hands \u2013 literally. The salaryman is a Trigger user, the figures are dispensers<\/a> (and we\u2019re not talking Pez), and his quirk seems to combine giantism<\/a> and hardening in a very powerful way. This leads to major problems for Pop, and then Kouichi who\u2019s waded in after her. She finds herself falling from a great distance, and with nothing to push off of her quirk is no good to her. Kouichi intervenes, using \u201cSlide and Glide\u201d to climb a building (it can, apparently) and giving himself up so Pop can \u201cLeap\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>Fortunately Kouichi has been paying attention to his lessons, and manages to find a soft garbage heap to break his fal<\/a>l. As for Knuckleduster, he truly is formidable quirk or no \u2013 even a giant like this can be subdued by a normal human if that human knows his weaknesses (and is strong enough \u2013 and has a real hero backing him up). Another lesson master has been teaching student? \u201cShinsetsu-man\u201d isn\u2019t going to work as a hero name, even for an unlicensed hero \u2013 villains will just laugh. So the next time he\u2019s out on patrol it\u2019s no more Mr. Nice Guy, and Kouichi is \u201cThe Crawler\u201d \u2013 but the two middle schoolers<\/a> whose fight he\u2019s trying to break up unfortunately hear it\u00a0 as something quite different.<\/p>\n<\/a>Those two middle-schoolers are certainly irksome, but Knuckle\u2019s notion to beat the crap out of them seems like a very bad idea on so many levels. \u201cIt makes me feel better\u201d isn\u2019t going to hold up as a justification, either. On the other hand Knuckleduster does once more taken down a villain \u2013 again of the \u201cinstant\u201d variety \u2013 when there are no licensed heroes around to do so, or even police (though if they heard \u201cThe Cruller\u201d was around they\u2019d probably get there in a flash).<\/p>\n