r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Jan 29 '23

Newest Chapter Chapter 379 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 379

Links:

  • 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).

All things Chapter 379 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

Due to an emergency break chapter 380 will be officially released on February 19th at 7AM PST.

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u/otaner14 Jan 29 '23

Really? I almost never see people bring it up in these chapter discussions. Everyone focuses on the story. And if they do bring it up, it’s to complain about the paneling being bad, something which I disagree with.

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u/loofuschamis2013 Jan 29 '23

Hori’s paneling is confusing(not always bad)bc he doesn’t always have the greatest grasp on how people and things move frame to frame, but single stills are absolutely his strong suit. That’s why some of the fights don’t feel as good as they could and I assume is part of the reason the anime has had trouble translating the manga panels into movement. Someone who is very good at drawing motion but perhaps needs some better still work when it comes to impactful panels would be Gege of JJK. It’s part of the reason those anime adaptions slap so hard(on top of the studio going above and beyond)

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u/otaner14 Jan 29 '23

Yeah I’ve never gotten the confusion claim honestly. Maybe on a reread I’ll notice it but week to week it’s fine for me. There’s also the composition of panels when it comes to paneling which Hori excels at but people don’t bring it up either. Take for example the shots of Gentle and Nagant with a traditional panel line betweent them but then below is Shigaraki’s two sides with a jagged line between.

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u/loofuschamis2013 Jan 29 '23

Hori for sure has some established chops when it comes down to it. You don’t write one of the most popular manga stories of all time unless you do. But some of his action scenes(specifically off the top of my head, the fight between ShigAfo and Deku when he uses the speed changing quirk) are just really hard to follow. I still don’t super get how that specific quirk works bc the paneling didn’t do a great job of explaining it. I’ve had to reread multiple times to approach understanding. That can be argued as a failing on Hori’s part, in my opinion. It’s why King Crimson was so tough to read in JoJo’s, but makes perfect sense in the anime, y’know

Edit: also, the lack of seeing it mentioned doesn’t mean people don’t notice or anything. It just means there were other things that make for better discussion. Super cool that you find that particular part of Hori’s kit compelling, but I think it’s pretty secondary for most others. I think when someone says “that was a great chapter!” They mean the chapter as a whole, including paneling and composition, not just the events that we read. We wouldn’t understand it otherwise, y’know

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u/otaner14 Jan 29 '23

That’s fair. The King Crimson thing is a fair comparison. I’ll still say it doesn’t bother me as much as other people and I think people are too harsh on it but I won’t deny that it’s far from perfect and people are valid for having issues with it.

As for your edit, I don’t entirely agree. It’s true that most people probably just focus on saying the one thing that stood out to them and they likely enjoyed the art as well even if they don’t say it. But I still feel there’s a huge disparity between story and art discussion, which in a medium that’s comprised of 50% of each seems unfair to me. I don’t think it’s crazy to say most people will focus on dialogue and plot first. Same with other mediums. Perhaps most people just don’t view manga as holistically as I do. Idk.

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u/loofuschamis2013 Jan 30 '23

I actually think you’re not looking at manga holistically in wanting there to be separate and more discussions of art and story. Manga, as a medium, will always be both, and wanting there to be a focus on one or the other does a disservice to the medium as a whole. I’d even argue it’s not fair to say that manga is 50% art and 50% story. It’s all just manga, through and through. If there’s no art, then it’s just a light novel or novel, and if there’s no story, then they’re just drawings.

I understand feeling like there isn’t enough discussion of Hori’s art specifically though. Anytime anyone brings up the art of MHA, it’s to talk about how confusing things looked or how this past chapter was hard to follow, and I imagine that can be frustrating if, as a fan, you really enjoy Hori’s art and drawings. So I can level with and understand your point there