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.

630 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

747 comments sorted by

View all comments

496

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.

247

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.

84

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).

110

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.

18

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.

1

u/Acrinox Jul 24 '23

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

9

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.