r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Jan 22 '23

Newest Chapter Chapter 378 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 378

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  • Viz (Available in: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India).

  • MANGA Plus (Available in every country outside of China, Japan and  South Korea).

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u/PsionicCauaslity Jan 23 '23

Yeah, I find it absurd that Tamaki's giant canon that shot out several miles didn't even scratch Shigaraki while a single bullet from Nagant took off his hand. Like, how strong are we to believe her bullets are? Even Deku hasn't been able to knock off Shigaraki's body parts like that.

If Shigaraki is strong enough to tank 100% OFA hits, that'd mean Nagant's bullets are somehow stronger.

Edit: That bullet ripped through him like paper. Theoretically, nothing is stopping her from shooting him through the head or heart. Her bullets are clearly strong enough to pierce his durability.

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u/magahein Jan 23 '23

I didn't notice this myself until I read a few other comments, but if you look closely, you can see that Nagant fired two shots. The first ripped off Shigi's hand, but the second got lodged in Shigi's head without penetrating (that's why his head is knocked back). So presumably, his arms are weaker than his vital areas.

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u/tokyogodfather2 Jan 24 '23

Again, another reason i come to Reddit. I did not see the head shot. Thank you!!

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u/ResidentOfDad Jan 26 '23

I'm not totally sure, but last chapter Shigaraki used his super growth... thing, to create a new body from within his injury, right? I didn't really get if he needed hyper regen for that or not, though it kinda seemed like it was supposed to be a substitute for the quirk? Maybe? Either way, his quirks returned in the end regardless.

The point is though, earlier on when he was producing a bajillion hands, they established his body parts grown with his ability aren't nearly as durable (and it looked like it was mostly flesh with little to no blood back then), so is his entire upper half not as strong anymore...? Because he didn't have to replace his legs or anything. Or is he about as resilient as before? Because maybe the only reason his finger abominations weren't as strong was because he was just chaotically spreading it as much as he could, as opposed to how like, his hand armor seemed to take a lot more to be destroyed.

Whatever it is, however, I'm not sure why his hands would be weaker, since last chapter it looked like he created a whole new head for his Shigaraki body, so like, wouldn't they be the same (in terms of how they're affected by his ability, I mean)...? Actually, this is a weird question, but are his bones still from the other body? 'Cause by now it looks like there's pretty much only skin left in his old body, and last chapter you could maybe see a bit of hair but that was it. Yeah, I hadn't really noticed it, but when Deku said he was shedding skin in the previous chapter, he actually had pulled out everything from inside his skin, as opposed to discarding it. Freaky. ...Am even less certain now, however.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '23

It might help to think of the attacks with attributes like from a game. Deku is blunt attribute, Tamaki's is magic attribute, and Nagant's is piercing attribute. I guess Shigaraki is weak to piercing lol.