My Hero Academia: Star and Stripe does worse than smothering enemies

The readers of My Hero Academia understandably believed that America's greatest hero, Star and Stripe, had already done the scariest thing possible with her World Order quirk when she managed to make the air around the All For One disappear. But she just proved in chapter 331 that she can manipulate air in an even more disturbing way.

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Although the official translation has yet to be released, fans' interpretation of the original Japanese text is that Star and Stripe solidifies the atmosphere around her into a massive version of herself that is 1,000 times her actual size and that she can to control.

Any movement she makes with her real body, her gigantic counterpart performs the same action. And she throws giant punches, claps her hands, and hits her All For One opponent with a laser that she condenses into a spear of sorts.

As revealed in previous chapters, Star and Stripe's New Order quirk allows it to impose a rule on itself or another object, as long as certain criteria are met, including the fact that she must touch what she plans to control before loudly announcing what she wants her quirk to be. perform.

In both of the above scenarios, Star and Stripe have to first grab the air around them before proclaiming their decree. The reason she focuses her attention on the air is because of the complicated nature of names and identities. Previously, Star and Stripe couldn't enforce a rule on All For One because she referred to her as Shigaraki.

All For One believes this is because whoever she targets with her Quirk must identify as the name she refers to. Calling your target by the wrong name nullifies the reality you want to alter.

However, there are still many unanswered questions about this technique. When Star and Stripe creates their new rule, it just says, "The atmosphere must solidify to become 1,000 times my size."

That doesn't explain how it looks like her and how she can control it. Hopefully this is just a translation error that the translators at Shonen Jump will be able to clear up with the official release.

It would have made more sense if she'd said something like, "The atmosphere should solidify into a version of me that's a thousand times my size and that I can control."

Until the introduction of Star and Stripe, My Hero Academia's trickiest quirk was undoubtedly the Hitoshi Shinso's Brainwashing ability, which allows him to control those who fall victim to his power.

Sure, the concept of how his quirk works is terrifying and is a crucial part of what sets Brainwashing apart from the rest, but what set it apart more, especially at the time, was the fact that not just Hitoshi, but his victims had to meet numerous criteria for certain effects to occur. occur.

This obviously puts Hitoshi at a disadvantage (especially when his opponents learn all the secrets of his Quirk), but brought a level of complexity to the series' battle system that was lacking at the time, especially when compared to other series of mango.