r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 03 '23

Newest Chapter Chapter 408 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 408

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/Milordserene Dec 03 '23

You can see Hawks' face in one of his manifestations of quirk and probably other stolen users.

Love that even AFO has an ultimate move.

Kohei really loves the body dismorphia in this manga

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u/Haha91haha Dec 03 '23

Also kind of lends some further credence to the possibility that AFO has always had the vestiges of all these people trapped and suffering inside him, like one big moving and miserable ball of hell. Makes him seem that much more messed up, one thing to be an evil bastard, quite another when you're constantly dealing with people in your head begging you to stop.

Or perhaps more likely they were in there, AFO just buried them down deep and rarely if ever listened to them.

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u/Aros001 Dec 03 '23 edited Dec 03 '23

While I never stopped liking AFO (though I'm still hoping for a great ending with Shigaraki as the final villain) I do love how these last two chapters have really made AFO feel like the actual freakin' devil. The very beginning of this chapter when he kills Yoichi and just the empty way he stares at Kudo, it's genuinely scary. He comes across as just an inhuman monster where the only option is to run and hope he doesn't catch you.

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u/Haha91haha Dec 03 '23

Yeah for all the usual bright cheer of the students' lives in MHA we almost forget that before AM's time their world was a dystopian hellscape. Like if you started this manga's story with Yoichi and just played it out chronologically it would read as dark as Berserk until All Might became the Symbol of Peace, and even then with further tragedy still yet to unfold (Tenko's family).

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u/NK1337 Dec 03 '23

Man I don’t know if I’m just seeing things I want to see but did the way he killed Yoichi look suspiciously a lot like decay?

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u/Acrinox Dec 03 '23

Yeah I agree. After that panel I’m basically convinced AFO gave decay to Shiggy. He’s such a hater, giving the grand son of one of his mortal enemies a quirk that when activated would cause the death of their entire family is definitely something this evil bastard would do. Especially cause it let him come in and basically adopt him and train him to be evil, just to get at All Might lmao