@AAA1
Definitely going to be prettied up for the manga. Have her clothes fixed up too; first time she appeared, it just looked like an electrician’s jump suit with frills sewed onto it. It’s improved in this chapter, though.
@Psychronia
Agreed. I’ve always thought that, while MP100 was focused on self-confidence and self-love, OPM’s overarching theme is the fit between the individual and society. That dichotomy between being true to yourself and being accepted by your peers.
We’ve seen that in the literal class system of the HA which raises up the individual in reverence, and with the S Class being former outliers who were once complete nobodies but were eventually acknowledged and (socially) raised up to the peaks of society. Then there’s the current situation of some of them feeling they have no one else they can properly rely on (CE), lost their confidence (DS), feel overly relied on and unable to focus on their own interests (MB), or too much of a maverick that they’re sliding back into being outcasts (Tats).
And now in comes the Neo Heroes who don’t even seem to have a class system at all. Everyone is just a Neo Hero and only the Neo Leaders are raised up above anyone else. But while some of the Leaders do deserve their position, the others are there just to make up the numbers or because they offered something else to the organization as a whole (namely, money and numbers). Of course they work better as a group, but I don’t imagine the Neo Soda Pop Boys being ready to face down Gouketsu with their lives just to buy a few more seconds for someone to escape, and I imagine that goes the same for a lot of the other Neo Hero foot soldiers.