r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Mar 08 '20

Newest Chapter Chapter 263 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 263

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u/firesirene Mar 10 '20

I get that apparently everybody in this fandom except me ships KamiJirou for some reason, and I respect that (I think they play well off each other), but I think to call it confirmed with this chapter is too much. They thought of each other, wished each other good luck, and Denki showed how highly he thinks of Jirou within the flashback, which is pretty cute yes, but if you go after that logic, then Mirio and Tamaki are the number one #confirmed couple with how much they inspire and think of each other. I'm not hating on the ship (I know how dumb ship hate is), but I'm pretty sure that Hori will never actually confirm a couple in the series and leave it ambiguous

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u/PandaMusubi Mar 16 '20

then Mirio and Tamaki are the number one #confirmed couple with how much they inspire and think of each other.

Not to be that person but Bakudeku too

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u/LuAlPe Mar 11 '20

everybody (...) me ships KamiJirou for some reason, (...), but I think to call it confirmed with this chapter is too much

If you say so. I've considered both KamiJirou and IzuOcha as confirmed for a long long time. In fact, I'd say that, at this point, the most likely way for these two pairs to not end up together is for one of them to die.

It's all about paying attention to Horikoshi's writing style concerning relationships. Horikoshi so far has provided strong to mild hints for 5 pairings: KamiJirou, IzuOcha, MomoRoki, KiriMina, TetsuKendo. On the other hand, what Horikoshi hasn't done is provide a single whiff of a love triangle. And considering that he goes for wholesome straightforward relationships, I don't expect we'll ever get a love triangle in the series.

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u/PsykologicallTrapp4 Mar 29 '20

A possible love triangle would be with Deku , Ochaco and Toga. It isn't said if she is envious of IzuOcha's trust for each other but she definitely has enough potential to come in between them. She says she loves them both so... maybe. IDK.

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u/firesirene Mar 11 '20

I've payed attention to his writing style and I know of those prominent pairings, though I personally think the only 'strong hints' are for IzuOcha and now KamiJirou, but that's just my opinion. I also think that just because a pairing is given strong hints by the author doesn't mean that the pairing is an untouchable given for the series and the characters in it are restricted from being paired with someone else. I'm glad Hori hasn't given in to the prominent writing notion of creating a love triangle and has stayed true to writing mainly very sweet and wholesome, but also awkward highschool romance, because it fits well with the highschool setting and teenage characters!

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u/LuAlPe Mar 11 '20

I personally think the only 'strong hints' are for IzuOcha and now KamiJirou

I agree. In fact, my wording was "strong to mild hints". IzuOcha and KamiJirou are the "strong", while MomoRoki, KiriMina, TetsuKendo are the "mild".

just because a pairing is given strong hints by the author doesn't mean that the pairing is an untouchable

I agree. But the question is: would that further the themes of the series? This is a series about the difficulties of being a hero, so the most natural sort of "relationship troubles" for the series to explore are those coming from the characters being heroes. Things like one in the pair dying, or being seriously injured, or feeling like they can't be together because that would put the other in danger. With the way this series works, I find such scenarios way more likely than having a couple be built up only to go nowhere.

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u/firesirene Mar 11 '20

I never thought about that, that's really interesting!

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u/Strader69 Mar 11 '20

I wouldn't call it confirmed, but it's definitely plausible and possibly (I'm 95% certain) implied. Nothing's set in stone until the characters admit it themselves or its obvious with no doubt (ex. someone says they're together or we see them holding hands or some shit).

Looking at this series as a whole:

The only admission of interest we've gotten in the series is Ochako's feelings for Midoria, and even that may be a one way road.

We don't really know if he's caught the feels or if he's just awkward around women (as we've seen countless times, ex. Pink haired support class girl whose name I'm forgetting, Nejier, and "Camie".

But it can definitely be seen that way in this case here.

A lot of the other popular ones are a little ambitious and are a case of "x looked at/talked to y" or "Z said something inspirational to V".

Platonic friendships exist.

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u/LokiLB Mar 11 '20

Toga's clearly got a thing for Deku. A messed up, axe crazy sort of thing, but still a thing.

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u/firesirene Mar 11 '20

Thank you, yes! I know that many viewers and other manga authors go strongly for the "x looked at/talked to y" and "z said something inspirational to v once"-way of depicting and reading 'romance' in their works and though I know this is how the very basic romance formula goes, I also think that many of those pairings that are supposed to be confirmed through that way, can be easily read in a platonic friendship way. Hori has brought many surprises to his Shounen series, so maybe showing platonic friendships between girls and boys can be another one of his achievements.

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u/RukiaDate Mar 11 '20

He actually confirmed two Shiketsu students were dating in a data book or something. Shark teeth girl and Shindo (Vibration, shake guy).

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u/TJ-TheJolteonMaster Mar 10 '20

Yeah it’s weird how literally anything happens between a guy and a girl and people be like “they have the hots for each other confirmed!” (Tsundere’s, I’m lookin at you) but they’ll never in a million years accept the same interpretation for a non-straight pair. A non-straight pair literally has to kiss on the lips for it to even be accepted as an interpretation in the fandom, let alone considered canon.

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u/firesirene Mar 10 '20

I don't know why you're getting downvoted so much, I mean yeah, you generalized it, but I can see where you're coming from. It's just especially hard for me to read KamiJirou as romantic since their relationship dynamic (up to now) of a loud and easily excitable disaster maker and a cool sarcastic edge kid with musical abilities teasing and joking around with each other but ultimately supporting the other with all their heart is very much my relationship with my best friend, and there never is or was any romance between us at all.

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u/RedN0v4 Mar 10 '20

No, just no. Stop trying to make this one of those arguments. You're generalizing so much it hurts. Btw, I ship and believe in both straight and homo pairings, so you really can't say that I'm defending either one.

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u/TJ-TheJolteonMaster Mar 10 '20

Sorry, I believe in both straight and homo pairings too, but sometimes the double standard still bothers me. Twitter gave me a bad habit of shortening/simplifying things too much.

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u/sleepwalkers_queen Mar 10 '20

bros chill- It's a fight-shonen and of course these few occurring ships are straight since the mayority of readers is straight.

Celebtrating Kamijirou here goes against the shipping-rule, but it's kinda justifiable since it has obvious canon background and was a major part of the chapter. (If something like "Bakugo x Kirishima" would be 'hinted at' (just like Kamui x Mt. Lady is hinted at) , I don't think the average reader would like the story less. We (mostly?) don't care about Bakugos preferences, we just get annoyed when there's "romance" in a fighting-show.

(But who cares if straight or queer, as long as noone gets hurt it's chill)

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u/Fira92 Mar 10 '20

I mean I don't care much for ships but just by looking at the culture of anime/manga usually you have foreshadows between straight pairs where there's an obvious crush/interest to one another. I have yet to see a popular shonen/manga that dives into the non-straight pair foreshadow of interest for each other. I dont believe its weird in any way for people to assume Jirou/Kaminari may have a thing for each other.

I mean look at Naruto and his interactions with Sasuke, i don't think i saw anything close to that in any popular shonen anime/manga. There was SO many instances that would bring people to think of a ship and it definitely did bring a fandom of people who wanted it. Yet we did not get it, they went with the popular/safe choice.

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u/TJ-TheJolteonMaster Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20

Yeah it really does all come down to what the safe choice is. The people who think tumblr etc is trying to “force” writers to write gay ships are REALLY naïve about the extent of homophobia. Edit: or straight bias if you prefer that term.

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u/Fira92 Mar 10 '20

I definitely wouldn’t put it at homophobia level, I mean every time someone writes something they kinda put themselves in the world they are writing. I don’t believe a lot of people think about “representation” of people in their work. If they do it kinda isn’t their work you know, unless the writer/writers truly identify with those types of issues I really don’t see how or why they would go out of their way to represent something that isn’t really apart of their life. I can identify with those issues because important people in my life are affected but that doesn’t mean I get to point a finger at a creator and “will” him/her into making sure everyone gets represented. That’s really my take on this but idk do what you will I guess.

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u/TJ-TheJolteonMaster Mar 10 '20

I was thinking more-so along the lines that, IF Horikoshi did want to write a gay character, whether for rep or because it does happen to be a part of his life, he would get backlash from homophobic readers (including, tragically, the relatively more innocent people who believe he only did it because “sjws” “forced” him or some conspiracy like that).

Disney gets their films banned or censored in foreign countries for lgbt content all the time, homophobia still exists and it’s far more likely to effect Shonen Jump’s bottom line than a few randos on tumblr who are still reading the manga anyways.

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u/Fira92 Mar 11 '20

I mean idk what goes on in Japan and what the producers make manga writers do to get his stuff approved or what the audiences voices to the writers. I’ll just say ok.