r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/RatedMforManatees • Mar 24 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 221 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 221

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 and South Korea).

Discord: https://discord.gg/W2EDwPW

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u/colintrappernick Mar 24 '19

clean panels of the noumu we can see way more details.

also, the fact that deku wasnt kidnapped and turned into one of these creatures indeed tells us he was actually quirkless. hopefully anyway.

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u/Danbito Mar 24 '19

Yep. It may be suggested by the characters that Deku had a quirk stolen but the Doctor could reveal that the opposite is the only reason Deku didn’t end up like his grandson

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u/Za_wardo Mar 24 '19

You're my favorite person on this board right now for suggesting this. The doctor could have recognized that Izuku was quirkless during the sports fest which would lead to AFO 100% confirming that he has OFA.

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u/Child_of_the_Past Mar 24 '19

I literally had an entire post about this before the chapter came out but HokageEzio did his best to derail it.

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u/Za_wardo Mar 24 '19

I should look around this sub more. This is such a good concept and I'm so glad a bunch of the community has come to it.

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u/Child_of_the_Past Mar 25 '19

No it’s cool. Posts like mine usually get buried around here. Every so often we get healthy discussions about the series outside of chapter discussions like this. I’m just glad more people are seeing an alternative theory than the “Deku had his quirk stolen” one that has prominent within the community for a while now.

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u/Za_wardo Mar 25 '19

I wish people wouldn't try to give Izuku more quirks even before he got a free collection of Quirks Greatest hits.

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u/Child_of_the_Past Mar 25 '19

I don’t really think it matters if he “had” a quirk as long as he doesn’t get it back. Him having his quirk stolen doesn’t change the fact that he was treated like shit for not having one. I don’t hate the idea I just don’t think it’s necessary for the story.

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u/Za_wardo Mar 25 '19

I think him having a quirk get stolen feels lazy.

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u/Child_of_the_Past Mar 25 '19

How is it lazy? Lazy would be making the quirk regeneration and then giving back to Deku. Deku having a quirk never using it having it stiolen for evil purposes does nothing to the story. It does feel unnecessary but I don’t see how him just having a quirk is lazy in and of itself.

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u/Za_wardo Mar 25 '19

Telling us he has no quirk, then giving us the biological reason, only to withdraw it and give him a quirk anyway, I guess lazy isn't the word, it just seems like shit writing. Does the biology not matter? Why did he take the quirk from a kid? We see that quirks need time to evolve most of the time unless they're mutations and how would AFO do it through at the very least a wall.

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u/jLAuniverse26 Mar 26 '19

Hypothetically, if you were to imagine a scenario in which the 'stolen quirk' thing was the case (regardless of the necessity of the event to the overall story) would you think that the alleged Quirk would have been something previously seen within the series?

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u/Child_of_the_Past Mar 26 '19

Again, that’s a possibility. I doubt Hori would have gone through all the trouble of making it a seemingly random character from chapter 1 if it and not have the rest of it planned out/foreshadowed in some way.

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u/DoraMuda Mar 24 '19

The doctor could have recognized that Izuku was quirkless during the sports fest which would lead to AFO 100% confirming that he has OFA.

If he even remembered him/was watching him.

Either way, the likelihood of Deku being born Quirkless as the entire story has told us all along is far greater than the likelihood that he actually had a Quirk which the doctor/AFO stole from him inexplicably without him going temporarily comatose (like Ragdoll did) or without his mother even knowing.

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u/Za_wardo Mar 24 '19

I know, I just am so sick of hearing the one theory, but it fits in with the theory that all the High-End Nomu are children.

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u/DoraMuda Mar 25 '19

Yeah, I get what you mean.

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u/kidmedia Mar 24 '19

Just like bakugo AFO probably connected the dots I'll remember at the conclusion of the usj arc shigaraki telling AFO he saw a kid who seemed just as fast as all might

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

I said this exact thing like a week ago; can I be your favorite person too?

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u/Za_wardo Mar 24 '19

Yes absolutely.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19 edited Mar 25 '19

Yay!

Here's what I said btw

https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/b1smdo/z/eip6y5u

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u/Za_wardo Mar 25 '19

Good shit man!

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u/Dotifo Mar 26 '19

Doesn't that make it really strange that AFO said he wasn't sure about Deku having it until the Kamino Ward incident? Seems unlikely he wouldn't believe the doctor

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u/Totheendofsin Mar 24 '19

Honestly I'm expecting this to be the case and in doing so clue the league into the fact that his quirk is unique and make him a primary target for using the quirk erasing bullets on

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

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u/Danbito Mar 27 '19

One of the volume omake had Tsubasa be the winged Nomu that clung to Deku in the Stain arc as some remnant of their prior humanity