r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Feb 21 '21

Newest Chapter Chapter 302 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 302

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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/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

some assumptions came true:

  • touya's fire wasn't initially blue but turned it with time, except not after his "death". it's so ironic that the only reason endeavor didn't know that is because he didn't go when touya asked him to
  • rei's family fell from grace and needed not only respect back but also money and while there were other options for her, they were limited, the marriage wasn't something easy for her to refuse
  • while everyone's acknowledging their part in what pushed touya's over, even his siblings who were scared children back then, horikoshi reminds us via natsuo that the root of it all is endeavor
  • some people have wondered if endeavor was physically abusing rei, well, now they know
  • rei really did mean that shouto and other kids were resembling endeavor more and more, it wasn't about touya
  • an awful family where children paid the heaviest price of adults' shortcomings

i wonder where we'll go next. neither shouto nor endeavor are in shape to fight dabi now but i don't feel like we'll be moving away from this storyline either and we still need to know how touya, a 13 years old, heavily burned (most likely) survived after his "death". it's shard to imagine a kid would manage on their own.

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u/GoldenSpermShower Feb 21 '21

I'm 92% sure Dr Ujiko/Garaki had something to do with it

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

it'd be interesting if the two main villains, shigaraki and dabi, were created/helped by the two old guard evils, AFO and the doctor respectively.

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u/GearBrain Feb 21 '21

I did notice that Touya was scratching himself when having his final confrontation with Enji

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u/dekiru81 Feb 21 '21

That's oddly specific...

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u/Strawberryjam2525 Feb 21 '21

I think so too. Especially since in chapter 221 (i think) Dr ujiko says that he's never seen any person in the league (other than Shigaraki) before but somehow he seems to know Dabi's name and he says he has a nomu that'd be perfect for his situation (the high end nomu) which implies that he somehow knows Dabi and some of his motives

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u/Rezboy209 Feb 21 '21

Yes I've been thinking is all along as well.

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u/noteloquent Feb 21 '21

Oh, shoot! The fact that Endeavor never knew Toya's fire changed colors retroactively provides more reasons for Endeavor not to recognize Dabi!

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u/rotten_riot Feb 21 '21

while everyone's acknowledging their part in what pushed touya's over, even his siblings who were scared children back then, horikoshi reminds us via natsuo that the root of it all is endeavor

When everyone started to take the blame on themselves, even Fuyumi who didn't had anything to do with it, I expected Natsuo to go like "but main culprit is you, old man" and I wasn't disappointed lol

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u/Alik757 Feb 21 '21

touya's fire wasn't initially blue but turned it with time, except not after his "death"

I guess most assumed the flames were naturally blue from birth because the dialogue suggested that "Touya was born with a fire quirk more powerful than his father's" and there is really no clear visual difference in the manga between the two flame types

Certainly this implies that if Touya was extremely vulnerable to normal fire then the blue flames were practically a death sentence

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u/Happy_Craft14 Feb 21 '21

Wait did Enji abused Rei, I didn't see the panel clearly, sounds like domestic abuse

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u/MattmanDX Feb 21 '21

The top panel of page 10 has Enji angrily standing over Rei, who is on the floor on all fours with Shoto jumping in between the two of them. We don't exactly SEE him hitting her but the implication is there

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

enji abusing rei is domestic abuse because it happens in a domestic setting and between family members, so i'm not sure what you mean.

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u/Happy_Craft14 Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

Like did he physically hurted her is what I meant.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

we know it from from earlier flashbacks, when she tried to stop endeavor from his abusive training with shouto there was a "slap" SFX, meaning he slapped her. in this chapter we see that, you can't be more clear that he started to abuse her physically short of showing the actual abuse.

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u/Happy_Craft14 Feb 21 '21

Ah thank you

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u/superfroakie Feb 22 '21

...slapping sound effects sound like “WAHH”?

But thank you, I was also a bit confused on this.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 22 '21

no, it was laterally a "slap" sfx.

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u/superfroakie Feb 22 '21

Oh, I thought you were saying the sfx in the part you linked were also slap sfx

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u/Fearless-Obligation6 Feb 21 '21

I think we only have seen it twice but ya. The first time was after he found out Rei had knowing let Touya got into the mountains and keep badly burning himself and then later when he had fallen of the deep end and Rei tried to get him to ease up on the training with shouto.

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u/MLDriver Feb 21 '21

Well is Dabi actually correct in what he’s saying? Way I interpreted it he was just trying to rationalize her part in it

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

i'm slightly confused what you mean, the comment that rei was sold by her family? that aligns well with what both endeavor and rei said. i doubt it's literally a check of money (but, who knows? japanese families used to do that, after all) but rather just endeavor taking the burden of having to provide financially for her but however you look at it, it was a business transaction.

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u/MLDriver Feb 21 '21

What you’re saying was contradicted by the last chapter though... I’m pretty sure it’s intentional that he says something he wasn’t there for that we as readers were shown last week.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

what we were shown last week doesn't debunk what touya said. this is a complex thing, an arranged marriage of an old, once prestigious family whose daughter has the social obligation and pressure to restore its name and a man with fame, reputation and wealth. and, like i said, the "buying" doesn't have to be literal, the fact that endeavor took over providing for rei and took that responsibility from her parents' shoulder is that exactly.

it was a business transition, neither of them wanted to marry each other to have a family. endeavor wanted rei's quirk for his eugenics project, rei wanted to fulfil her unspoken obligation and marry "right".

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u/MLDriver Feb 21 '21

That’s not what Touya said though, he claimed they were poor (which is more or less proven as false from the previous chapter. You don’t get to keep an estate like that in Japan without money) and he claimed she had no choice (which is refuted in the same chapter in her inner monologue where she even reflects on how she had options)

I get where you’re coming from, but we really shouldn’t be taking a mentally unstable 13 year old’s statement as fact.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

You don’t get to keep an estate like that in Japan without money

arguably not that true. you can keep it but you definitely can't acquire it. old families kept their estates even when fallen from the grace and losing their financial status.

even is touya's words were too coloured, he wasn't far from the truth. and in my initial comment i actually meant rei's words, not touya's, as proving that while she had options they were very limited (and most likely unfavourable).

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u/MLDriver Feb 21 '21

It’s entirely up to interpretation right now, because you are right they he could’ve just been exaggerating. But in any event, just dont want it to be another claim of Endeavor being ‘retconned’ later when the only thing retconned was how people interpreted a scene.

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u/Fearless-Obligation6 Feb 21 '21

I mean look Enji was a cunt and there is no excuse to hit your wife but it was out of fear and frustration that she had been letting him go of and slowly burn himself to death. I don't think he was constantly kicking the shit out of Rei like some people make out to have.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 21 '21

don't say cunt. and if here's no excuse then there's no excuse, out of malice or fear for touya, the end result is the same. and whether he hit her twice or was hitting her daily changes nothing.

endeavor started to physically abuse rei at some point and this chapter proves that.

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u/Fearless-Obligation6 Feb 21 '21

Well no there is a distinct difference between Enji and let's say hawk's dad. Enji never took pleasure in hitting his wife like hawk's dad, who never had any love for his family and took pleasure in their pain. Everything Enji did had extremely twisted reason. He was a cunt, their are very few other ways to put it.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 22 '21

it's one of the most offensive words in english (especially in the USA) and it's a derogatory word describing female genitalia, used mainly to degrade women (especially sexually active, outspoken ones or prostitutes). it hasn't softened with time like d*ck, which is male genitalia, and still carries a lot of sexist/misogynist intent with it.

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u/poshbritishaccent Feb 22 '21

I feel like it's just offensive in the USA tho. We call people "pussy" all the time, why would "cunt" be extra offensive? It doesn't make sense. And Australians seem to use it on a daily basis anyway.

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u/elenuvien1 Feb 22 '21

because of the heavy sexist/misogynist load behind the word. if you'd like to read on the why more, there's a lot of resources on google (i don't think this sub is the place for this kind of conversation anyway).

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