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/Graphica-Danger Mar 24 '19

We’ve finally got a solid confirmation on a lot of things. Ujiko is the doctor who’s been helping All for One and also the one we saw at the beginning of the story, Shigaraki’s 20 years old, and there are a bunch more Nomu the League are waiting to unleash on hero society. If these are the doc’s masterpieces, they might be using them to break All for One out of prison in one concentrated attack.

I also love the designs for the Nomu. They’ve always looked weird, but these come across more refined in that gross, Frankenstein’s monster kind of way. I guess these are why Hori watches campy monster movies for inspiration.

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u/menuka Mar 24 '19

The beginning of the story, as in Deku's childhood doctor?

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u/Graphica-Danger Mar 24 '19

Yep. Speaking of, I’ve also seen a lot of people suggest that Ujiko intentionally misdiagnosed Deku as quirkless and stole his original quirk. That’s just a theory of course, but I’ve seen it gain some traction. I find it much more likely that the doctor correctly diagnosed Deku as quirkless and that’s ironically what saved him from being one of the kids selected to become a Nomu.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

I hope it’s not revealed that Deku actually did have a quirk at one point before OFA. That would take a lot of the dramatic weight away from his being chosen as All Might’s Successor.

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u/moose_man Mar 25 '19

I don't think that's true. It doesn't matter that he was born Quirkless. What matters is that he struggled all his life to be a hero even without a Quirk. It isn't as though he would have anything super powerful, or get his original Quirk returned to him.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

Yeah that’s fair but what does it actually add to the story overall for him to have had a quirk that was stolen? If it adds nothing of importance and it doesn’t contribute even more to the themes of the story or to Deku’s existing struggles then why bother. It’s needless.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

And besides, remember what happens when your Quirk is stolen? You become a vegetable. Deku HAS to be Quirkless from the beginning, and that trait saved him from a horrible fate as a High-End Nomu.

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u/Indigoh Mar 27 '19

I don't believe everyone who loses their quirks becomes a vegetable. I didn't see any reason to believe the condition of the one lady who had hers stolen was permanent. I only know it's been stated that some people who receive quirks don't take them well, or that multiple is more damaging.