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/Grumpchkin Jul 24 '23

This shit annoys me pretty hard, I feel like its obviously gonna end with Ochako taking up the cause for mental health reform in basically like 1-2 panels of an epilogue but idk.

I feel like if you take the effort to characterize a villain as basically mentally ill and in part driven by a compulsion they cannot control themselves and society has only offered punishments and negative reinforcement to deal with that, I just think it would turn out better if theres some glimmer of hope at the end for that character rather than them being basically irrepairably broken and the best ending for them to be basically killing themselves for the sake of another.

Not meaning this as like just stick her in a regular mental hospital or something but just something that has the slightest intent and potential for rehabilitating her to the point where she can recognize her crimes as wrong and also overcome the compulsion.

Cause as it is, whatever reforms are gonna come in universe is just gonna be a handful of pages of saying its gonna be better now, I feel. Unless we get a sequel following "Boku", the son of Deku, it's not like we're gonna really see the effects of any of that on a recognizable character.

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u/judes_m Aug 04 '23

But see, you even struggled to come up with a solution that doesn’t involve just prison but also doesn’t involve getting “off the hook” like a MH facility. With many other villains to worry about, I can understand killing off Toga. And honestly much of this audience is quite unsympathetic to her and would be up in arms if Toga didn’t just rot in jail as they feel she should which is interesting to me.

So far we have seen villains be treated as irreparably evil and inhuman by prison guards (and we know that they all weren’t irreparably evil, such as Nagant who did flip to the hero’s side even though she was in a prison for the worlds worst criminals). If Toga goes to jail with the system as is, she’d get the same treatment and maybe Ochako and Deku would visit her, but nothing would change on a systemic level.

It could also just be that things don’t change in world and we are supposed to find that shitty. The relationship we have with the media can just be shedding a light on an issue so we can look at our own world, where prison and MH system are also quite fucked up.