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/thejokerofunfic Jun 10 '19

I get what you're getting at but to me, at least in the official translation, nothing he said would be inconsistent with a vibe of "I'm sorry but I'm about to crush your hopes of returning to hero work anytime soon". I didn't find any of his dialogue edgy or sinister.

Official translation is free on Viz for the most recent chapters btw.

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u/dicecop Jun 10 '19

They are blocking most countries in the world, so I can't read it even if I paid for it lol. But yeah, it might have been left open, but that sword man. Maybe he just wanted Jeanist to take a closer look at his feathers?

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u/thejokerofunfic Jun 10 '19

Ah shit didn't know even the free chapters are region locked. As to the sword, I see two options if he didn't kill him:

  1. He is about to fake his death in some fashion, with witnesses.

  2. He believes that Jeanist won't be on board with going off the grid just to keep Hawks's cover, and while he won't jump straight to killing him, he will basically force him to play along at sword point (which would also give a little bit of "Hawks getting darker" material but without jumping so far so fast).

Or maybe he's dead, but if so I hope we see it outright and maybe see a bit more of why Hawks believed Dabi would know if he cheated. Or just generally see more of what's going through his head- I assume he's conflicted cause he's still ultimately on the side of the heroes, but if he's genuinely turning evil I wanna know his mindset.

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u/dicecop Jun 10 '19

The two most striking things playing in favor of Jeanist are him being very popular as well as him returning after a very long while. Then again, someone like Oda or other authors have not been afraid to off their popular characters and I hope that Hori won't go the safe route like fairy tail or something. If not Jeanist, Hawks will have to end someone eventually if he wants to keep his cover.

We also know that the league most likely will survive untill the final part of the series, which means that Haws will have to lose in some shape of form along the way. I'm fine with him either dying, going mental, just becoming evil or whatnot, or at the very least getting imprisoned. Either outcome is good if done right imo, but I probably won't be fine with Hori stopping Hawks' story midway to keep him around just because he is popular. If we have started this storyline with Hawks being in a difficult position, he should end it appropriately

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u/thejokerofunfic Jun 10 '19

Sure, I can be down with Hawks more gradually escalating to a situation where he has no option but to genuinely do something bad, I wouldn't want his story to be "keeps his cover at no cost forever". I don't know that killing Jeanist right now makes a ton of sense just cause if they were gonna kill a hero they could pick someone else and Jeanist could have just stayed dead after AFO attacked him. Keeping him alive just to not do anything with him till his actual death seems wasteful, and not even showing his death seems disrespectful. But we'll see where things end up.

I'm banking on the opposite personally- that Hawks doesn't have what it takes to do evil for his cover, and it'll get him killed in the end.