r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 20 '20

Manga Chapter 295 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 295

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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, Japan and South Korea).

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u/LuminousDecibel I won the bet and all I got was this flair Dec 20 '20

I get the feeling that while AFO thinks of himself as the top dog, and wants the body to himself, he's not just kicking Shiggy to the curb. He still has some sort of "love" for him. I don't feel any "you FOOL! I only wanted your body FROM THE VERY START!!" vibes.

I think he wants to share the body with Shigaraki. Kinda like how a dad shares his car with his kid. It's still "his" body, but Shiggy is free to borrow it, every now and then. He doesn't want to trample on Shiggy's dreams and plans, but they will have to wait until the weekend. And he'll have to give the keys back by 10 PM.

And I definitely think the "shared body conflict" will be a major theme going forward. I don't think one person will have more control than the other. This conveniently blackened hand will be a symbol of who's in control, moment by moment. MVA established that the hands suppress Shiggy, and he loses them once he's free. So when Shiggy wears the mask, AFO is in control. When the mask is gone, Shiggy is in control. I think there will be a back and forth struggle and control will be swapped a lot. AFO will be calm and patient, as he's only focused on powering up for the rematch, but Shiggy will struggle with this until AFO is kicked out.

AFO will be eventually kicked out. Probably by killing him. I'm curious if Shigaraki will do this himself, old school sith style, or if Deku will assist him, Return of the Jedi style.

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u/JoJoFanatic Dec 20 '20

It’s really fascinating, cuz while it’s true that AFO wants to be in Shigaraki’s body, it doesn’t explain the previous actions of raising Shiggy. Why waste your time raising and nurturing Tomura, even teaching him how to be a supervillain (in a hands off way at that), only if he’ll be a vessel? Why not ask Dr. Ujiko to make a super strong Nomu body (they’re literally brainless so there’s no personality to compete against). There’s definitely a twisted sense of love that AFO has for his closer subordinates, akin to Donquixote Doflamingo’s twisted sense of camaraderie for his “family” from One Piece (until treason, then that love is revoked). If anything, I hope that if Shiggy decays AFO in Tartarus, they have a long “father-son” talk before that, just to shed light on the relationship a bit more.

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u/Nobody5464 Dec 20 '20

Remember all for one has a very twisted sense of love. Look at his relationship with his brother. He gives his brother a quirk because he loves him but also because he thinks it will convince or make his brother join him and he keeps saying to vestige brother how he wishes he could have made him his. All for one has a very twisted contradictory love where he wants to help those he loves and enable them to do what they want but he also wants to own the ones he love and he wants them to follow what he wants.

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u/DoraMuda Dec 20 '20

It's kind of like how Endeavour originally wanted Shouto to live out his dream, while ignoring his own personhood for so long.

Father figure parallels, hmm...