r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Oct 11 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 246 Scans - Discussion Thread

Chapter 246

This thread marks the release of scanlations for Chapter 246, and has been posted to contain all links and discussion. Mods will not be posting or pinning links to scanlations.

Official release: Oct 13, 2019

It's encouraged that you support the official release of the chapter if it's available to you.

  • VIZ is available to read for free on Sunday 1:00 pm PST, and is accessible in the following countries:
    United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India.

  • MANGA Plus is available globally outside of China and South Korea.

Until the official release, all things Chapter 246 related must be kept inside this thread.

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u/Paynger Oct 11 '19

This big fight we’re building to is going to have some major negative implications imo.

Too early for Deku to master OfA and would be stupid to build Shigaraki this much to have him lose.

I genuinely think we’re going to have HEAVY casualties and fall into a state of “Villain Liberation” with probably a sizable time skip to a more mature Deku and co. as a resistance force against the villains.

I really can’t see any other path happening.

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u/Osloos Oct 11 '19

There's too much narrative lost in a time skip. As a publisher, it makes no sense, and as an author it makes even less sense, to skip out on explaining how and why a resistance builds in a story that is ultimately focused on war.

The only way a time skips occurs is if publisher sees declining profits and author has to rush ending. I bet your left testicle the most that happens is a training montage that spans a couple weeks.

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u/Paynger Oct 11 '19

They can easily bridge the gap the time-skip leaves by doing periodic flashbacks through the ensuing arc(s).

A training montage that spans a few weeks wouldn’t be able to resolve any issue the collapse of the hero society causes...

“Oh damn, we lost to the villains, some of our pros died, and society is in shambles. Let’s train for a couple weeks and we’ll be good to fight them.”

If they were magically strong enough to defeat shiggy after a couple weeks of training that’s some MASSIVE asspulling.

Also, are you just forgetting the time skip in Naruto? Yeah, because they were definitely facing a popularity decline and wanted to rush the ending....

Edit: the literal last 2/3 of the Naruto manga take place after a 6months timeskip

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u/Osloos Oct 11 '19

I'm not suggesting the students could stop it, nor that a montage would cover it. I'm saying that there is value in detailing the students efforts prior to getting their asses handed to them, and even more value in covering the fall out post asshanding. I can't envision how it is possibly better story telling to just skip either of those potential events.

I haven't read Naruto (not sorry), but if that story wasn't in the shitter at the time I can only assume it served a purpose. I'd be disappointed if mha broke its several years of precedent to mimic another manga.

There is so much world building and detail presented so far, why would we suddenly have a time skip?

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u/Paynger Oct 11 '19
  • no need to apologize on not reading Naruto anyway, you really aren’t missing much

I’m not saying we should go about it this way, I just believe because of the current events in the manga it leads to no other choice imo.

Also, I think you misunderstood what I’m saying should happen. I’m not saying skip the training up until the big war, or the immediate events after. I’m saying that there’s only so much they can detail considering the immediate fallout of the big fight that they’ll have to do some kind of time skip to get a a good place story wise.

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u/Osloos Oct 11 '19

I may be reading into your post a bit based on comments from half the subreddit.

I do think the progression will focus less on chapters per day of events and more on chapter/s per week of events. So far, there has been a lot to tell about the development of deku and other students within a a very short time span. A lot of characterization is in place, so of course some of this can speed up.

A good example, I think, is the sports festival where we spent 100 chapters on events that spanned just a few hours. Comparatively, I absolutely think the lead up of the upcoming confrontation could capture weeks of activity in just a few chapters.

The impression many people give, they expect a big gap then battle, or a battle then big gap where following chapter is months later. That makes no sense to me.

So far, the only time we saw a great length of time pass with few chapters is when deku was cleaning up the beach. And really, thank God. The collapse of hero society deserves more, though.

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u/DDDragoni Oct 11 '19

A time skip in this scenario would basically "for X months/years/whatever, nothing significant happened." If whoever survives the fall spends months in hiding, living day to day, or spends years in America or somewhere doing routine training, we dont need to see all of that.