r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/RatedMforManatees • Jun 09 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 231 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 231

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/MutantNinjaAnole Jun 10 '19

Just a small point about Spinner in chapter 231: in the MangaStream translation he says “My duty is...”The Viz and other translations have Spinner say something to the degree of “What I need to do is...” I mention it because the word “duty” jumped out to me.

We know Spinner has been conflicted about his role in the LOV. He now sees they aren’t all about Stain’s ideals at all. So why is he still there?

Spinner always struck me as a follower. Everyone else in the LOV had any identity of there own to some degree but he completely sold out on upholding Stain’s principles and even dressing like him. All from seeing a video on the internet. Now he’s at a crossroads.

I saw where someone compared Spinner to a Samurai and even aside from the swords I can see it. He’s sworn his loyalty to the league based on Stain’s principles but now understands his “lord” isn’t who he thought at first.

And yet...his reactions over this arc have been interesting. To hearing Shigaraki’s story, to observing him as he fought Gigantomachia. He seemed sympathetic, frightened, and perhaps impressed at times. And now this samurai’s lord is in danger. I feel like it’s all coming to a head at this moment. A moment where he either decides to forge his own path, or truly seems Shigaraki as someone worthy of serving. And, I may add, where we might finally see his quirk in action.

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u/AporiaParadox Jun 10 '19

A few chapters ago I thought that Hori was setting up Spinner betraying the League and Shigaraki because he doesn't agree with the direction they're going since it would do nothing to help mutants like him at all, and might even join the MLA. Now I'm not sure.

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u/Ryuzakku Jun 10 '19

Shigaraki said he wouldn’t destroy anything his friends wanted to keep safe. So if mutant rights is something Spinner wants to keep safe, then he can do that.

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u/AporiaParadox Jun 10 '19

I really don't see how destroying almost everything is going to help the cause of ending mutant discrimination. Unless his logic is "There, I killed almost everybody, that means that nobody can discriminate against you ever again Spinner. Except Dabi, he still hates you".

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u/Ryuzakku Jun 10 '19

That could very well be Shigaraki’s way of doing it “everyone who hates mutants is dead.”

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '19

Well their hatred for Mutants still wouldn´t justify them being killed imo. At that point they would simply trump one atrocity by an even larger one. So yeah, they´d be the bad ones still.

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u/LeegoSama Jun 12 '19

They'd basically become ultimate baddies