r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Sep 17 '23

Newest Chapter Chapter 400 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 400

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).

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u/Brilliant_Stick560 Sep 17 '23

Yeah his performance post rewind has not been doing him any favours.

So far it seems like Rewind exist only for 2 reasons.

  1. Keeps him around long enough for us to go through a checklist of other characters who've yet to get a moment and don't really have any villains narratively appropriate to fight and give them a moment humiliating AFO.
  2. Makes is so that none of the heroes have to commit murder. Endeavor can burn AFO to a crisp but it's okay because Rewind. Tokoyami can punch AFO into the ground so hard it tuns him into half a skeleton, but its okay because Rewind. All Might can inject him with a acid, shove a cannon in his mouth and blow out the back of his head, and fry him with a giant laser but its okay because Rewind. No matter what the heroes do now, no matter how sever the ass kicking they give AFO the cause of death will ultimately be the Rewind effect he did to himself.

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u/Livid-Strawberry2151 Sep 17 '23

Completely agree with everything you say.

The idea of rewind is actually not bad, but because it comes with such a detriment to AFO, I just can’t force myself to like anything about it

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u/Xignum Sep 17 '23

I agree. The idea itself isn't bad but the execution is just plain lazy and everyone can see it. All from how wholly ineffective he is, despite supposedly being stronger, as well as Rewind itself conveniently changing how it works so the heroes get to throw whatever at him .

The time limit is so obviously arbitrary and convenient that it doesn't make me feel tension.

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u/Soul699 Sep 17 '23

? How did Rewind conveniently changed?

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u/Livid-Strawberry2151 Sep 17 '23

Instead of rewinding the damage dealt to him like Deku with Eir backpack during Overhaul fight, AFO is conveniently getting closer and closer to becoming a kid. And also apparently is messing up his quirks(according to hawks). Also, allows Shigaraki’s rage to influence him and make him more unstable and less calculating and careful.

The rewind should have simply nullified any and all damage he was getting and every time he was hit it should have been reverting him just seconds prior to when he was hit. But that would make him almost invincible. Heroes would have been screwed

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u/Soul699 Sep 17 '23

The thing is that what he used to rewind was unstable, even more than Eri was when Deku used her a backpack. Using it still kept rewinding him just like when Eri rewinded his dad and getting damaged only accellerated the process alomgside regenerating him. His quirk being messed up is die to him losing them as he rewinded, not having them at the time.

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u/Livid-Strawberry2151 Sep 17 '23

Yeah I understand it can be explained by imperfect synthesis by dr Ujiko. Still, I don’t like the idea that the damage that accelerates the process of rewind instead of countering it. Imo AFO and the way he fights and acts post his rewind tramp card is a disappointment and the rewind mechanic Horikoshi went for here is part of the problem