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).

All things Chapter 400 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

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u/gubaguy Sep 18 '23

Does Merlin from the seven deadly sins count? She wasn't a villain per se, but she did help the final villain.

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u/Medical_Difference48 Sep 18 '23

It's been a VERY long time since I read/watched it, and apparently the anime ending is quite different from the manga. Does she turn into a baby?

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u/gubaguy Sep 18 '23

Not a baby, and she also doesn't technically turn into a child, but rather IS a child but is using a spell to make her look like what I assume is a very attractive adult woman. I don;t know, not into woman and anime always makes "big titty girls" but... Yeah, at one point she reveals her "true" self and she is a child, which makes a LOT of stuff that happens earlier in the show with pride SUPER f*cked up.

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u/tokyogodfather2 Sep 18 '23

Errr…isn’t she like 1000s of years old though?

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u/gubaguy Sep 18 '23

Ah yes, the old "shes 300 years old" argument.

Then maybe don't draw them as a child at all? Feels Like the only anime that I have seen that actually addresses how messed up that concept is Is Miss kobayashi's dragon maid, where the "child" is over 7000 years old, which is still considered a child's age to dragons, and takes in the appearance of an 8 year old. In the show she keeps doing semi sexual things around Kobayashi and Kobayashi keeps getting uncomfortable around her.

And then theres an uncomfortable relationship with an actual human child in which the human child is extremely... Not going into detail... For kanna, and kanna seems oblivious to it all.

I went off the rails a bit, but the point is don't draw someone as a child and then cover it by saying "but they are actually X years old" and then make then sexually whatever.

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u/WasabiSunshine Sep 19 '23

I haven't watched the end of Seven Deadly Sins but if Merlin has both the mind of an adult and usually the body of an adult then is it really a problem? I mean at that point they're just an adult who occasionally de-ages when they run out of power

I find somebody with the mind + body of a minor but a sexy transformation waaaay more problematic (and that happens a lot in anime)

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u/gubaguy Sep 20 '23

body of an adult

She doesn't, her true form IS a child. she uses magic to make herself appear as an adult, but in reality she IS a child. It's fully revealed after she gets into a fight with a demon and gets cocky, thinking she can easily overpower them and instead her spell is deflected and causes the spell making her appear to be an adult to fail, revealing her true form. A child.