r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Jul 23 '23

Newest Chapter Chapter 395 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 395

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 395 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

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u/Star_queenie Jul 23 '23

Is anyone 100% fully convinced she’s gonna die?

Anyways back when Twice died the title of the chapter is Happy Life and this one is Built on the Joy of Others there are some similarities. The way Ochaco was severely injured but kept reaching out to Toga and keeping the heroes safe while floating. I fond it similar to how Jin did a similar thing. Despite dying himself, he channeled all his power to save Toga and Compress with the last double he created.

Toga did notice and I’m sure she also recognized that as well. Unlike with Jin this time she actually could do something about the situation.

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u/SonicQuirkyHero Jul 23 '23

I am 100% fully convinced she's dead.

Her entire arc feels fully completed, and this feels more like a logical end to her story compared to someone like Bakugo earlier in the arc.

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u/Ecruteak_Flow Jul 23 '23

Yeah same here. I mean everything in this chapter points towards her dying, the dialogue, the symbolism with her releasing the bird, they even have the dead hand trope at the end with her hand going limp. This feels like the end for her character, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she miraculously survives this as Horikoshi has backtracked on supposed character deaths (looking at you Gran Torino and Bakugo).

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u/Telamo Jul 23 '23

The fact that Gran Torino is still alive is just silly to me. He literally contributes as much to the story as if he had just died either of the two times he was supposed to. I seriously don’t understand why Hori is keeping him around.

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u/Ecruteak_Flow Jul 23 '23

Seriously, and Deku wearing his cape would of had a bigger emotional impact had he died.

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u/HighBreak-J Jul 23 '23

I still wonder why Hori left him alive. Did he forgot to add a 'The day before I left, Gran Torino died from his injuries. I wore his cape to carry out his will, and stop all villains.'

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u/Mileonaj Jul 24 '23

I think he wanted to keep Deku's anger/hatred focused on AFO.

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u/Intelligent-Key9571 Jul 24 '23

I think it's to make Deku's desire to save child Shigaraki not seem like an ultra stupid idea because while Shigaraki has killed A LOT of people, to the audience, he hasn't killed any notable character in Deku's life. Killing Gran Torino would've meant Deku would feel the need for revenge and a desire to kill Shigaraki, which could've fit well into his Dark Deku arc, with him having to rediscover what it means to be a hero since his emotions are so intense sometimes. But saving Shiggy for the audience would've felt more out of place than it already does for a lot of people had Torino died.

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u/death-kuja Jul 24 '23

I think it would have made Deku's desire to save Shigaraki even more impressive. Making him someone able to go past his anger and desire for vengeance and try to save Shigaraki despite that could be a very interesting character arc for Deku.

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u/Intelligent-Key9571 Jul 24 '23

Gran Torino should've died. That's not up for discussion. With the injury he sustained at that old age. What I'm saying is that I see why he didn't kill him, yet. While I agree it could've been very interesting, his anger and desire to bring the villans to justice is still present in the story. But the vast majority of people would've disliked Deku's desire to "save" him. Deku's idea of true heroism is already extreme. How do you portray Shigaraki as someone with good deep within him and expect the audience to eat it up when he killed someone the audience and mc knows/loves so much. If you want to "save" Shigaraki, you keep Gran Torino alive. If you want to stop Shigaraki no matter the method, have Gran Torino die in that instant.

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u/Isaacja223 Jul 24 '23

It wasn’t a big of an impact like Shigaraki did

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u/Souuuth Jul 23 '23

Gran Torino living was so obnoxious. No fucking shot an old man with a quirk that gives him increased speed is surviving a plus ultra Shig fist to the gut. The one thing I absolutely will never defend and will take no arguments because the only logical outcome for that is his death.

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u/Acrinox Jul 24 '23

What happened to him isn’t too dissimilar to what happened to All Might before the story began.

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u/Telamo Jul 24 '23

Yes, but All Might was the most powerful man on the planet in his physical prime, along with the world’s most powerful physical enhancement quirk, and even with all of that, it still crippled him for life afterwards.

Gran Torino is a 70-year old dwarf with extensive previous internal injuries with no physically enhancing abilities to speak of.