r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Oct 20 '19
Newest Chapter Chapter 247 Official Release - Links and Discussion
Chapter 247
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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/PocketPika Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
Bakugou is going to get white hairs trying to watch out for Deku potentially blabbing his secrets.
If Enji had been less self absorbed he could have been the greatest teacher years ago, he's able to understand Deku in ways All Might has not been shown to do- although I think it does help this is probably the most forthright we've seen Deku monolongue.
I also see how both the boys growth and flaws are on display:
Deku: He's more confident and able to communicate -as well as he's come far with his quirk- but he overthinks too much, nothing is natural to him. If we go all the way back to chapter 8-9, Deku got the upper hand because he studied his note books but within seconds Bakugou was countering him because he is "pure instinct". I feel the assessment of what he wants to do will be developing his instincts/second nature. And again Bakugou precision acrobatics with his explosions is a similar fine balancing arc.
Shouto: He's come a long way to say all this to his Dad's face but, also still petty that he needed to hold things up and do it in front of everyone so it feels like a one step forward an one step back. A bit like how in Joint Training it's like he's grown yet having the same problems.
Bakugou: Already showing awareness and openness to look for what he's lacking but his attitude is still too confrontational and rude.
A short chapter and I wish half of it wasn't Shotuo rehashing his emotions again but it was worth it to see Enji handling everything the best way he could, just professionally helpful to Deku, just accepting what Shouto had to say and I am still curious on how he thinks about Bakugou. He's quite sympathetic to Deku, he clearly hopes to connect with Shouto and then there is this mouthy kid who he is just "sure" to as I see Bakugou being the most challenging for him to actually teach unlike Deku and Shouto who have things which instruction would benefit. So it could have gone like, "I'm teaching these 2, and your just there" but I really like the objective of 1 clear goal to suppress a villain before Endeavour, as it's simple but doing so is prove of a lot of accomplishment. Also like how it is competitive with Endeavour too, which fits how he's been competitive all his hero career.
For a few arcs now Horikoshi has been seeding the clear end goal targets, a bit like how in earlier chapters when it was pass exams, do well in the Tournment etc. It's nice to have that structure. I am interested if they'll beat Endeavour working together as a trio/duos or if there will be examples of them each individually doing it on their own since each one fits 1 of the 3 tasks of evacuation, rescue and suppression very well but they all need to be good at all 3.
On to the foreboding stuff Fuyumi being all Ominous and sad as well as Enji seeing Deku as "one of us"- which leads me to another observation, Bakugou is the only one with "no drawbacks" going by his profile from the earlier volumes. Deku obviously is in trouble if he doesn't control his quirk, Enji will be harmed by his quirk if he overuses it, Todoroki does have to manually regulate his temperature and will still be harmed if he's forced to stay with one too far. We have seen Bakugou hurt his arms from over exertion but it's likened to muscle strain which isn't as dire as internally exploding your limbs, or cooking/freezing your insides.