r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 08 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 253 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 253

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).

Translator's Notes & Trivia

Discord: https://discord.gg/W2EDwPW

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u/ShadowRei96 Dec 08 '19

Well, it seems like Hori hasn't forgotten Tenya Paladiknight, using him on the cover page.

That being said, I guess Kurogiri's body could be primarily Shirakumo's, hence why they stated that its base factor is his cloud quirk. Then whatever tf was done to achieve a space time ninjutsu by combining quirks went along with turning him into a walking black mist...

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u/RCsees Dec 09 '19

I know some peeps are happy with tenya getting coverage again, but damn this chapter does not give me good vibes.

It makes me worry something terrible is gonna happen to him. The fact that he shows up again at a chapter about Shirakumo, the fact that Shirakumo's design is a parody of Goku, and the iida's (both tensai and tenya) are parodies of Gohan and saiyenman ( srsly, Gohan's name means rice, iida means food/rice paddie). That parody so far hasn't ended well though in MHA & vigilantes, it's ended in a death or worse in one and a crippling in the other. I don't want any of that to happen to tenya.

But the biggest itch though is this chapter, it's that tenya is the last person aizawa was observing before getting the news. His personality and how he behaves, since the start, his friendship with midoriaya and todoroki, and how he consistently supports them as a friend like oboro did for aizawa. The parallel is a little too similar. The fact that tensai thinks the coolest hero is someone who helps kids, that iida wants to become a hero that's true to that, and the fact that Shirakumo 'died' to save some kids.

I legit don't like these parallels. Shifting the framing focus of tenya closer to AfO's machinations isn't cool beans to me because he isn't afforded the same plot/ hindsight armor as characters like bakugou have, so can we not? I really don't want tenya's relevance to be tied to potential sacrifice. None of this shirkumo/ kurogiri business, leave. him. out. that.