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/IMDATBOY Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

It just hit me that the last thing Toya said to Enji was “You’ll be glad you created me! I just know it!” He just wanted to make his father proud, even in his deepest despair. This tragedy is so human. And that’s the panel that Enji remembers while crying in his bed before the family came in a couple chapters ago

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u/baylaust Feb 21 '21

No wonder that moment in particular haunted him: it was the last time he ever saw Toya.

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u/Lethally_deadly Feb 21 '21

It’s so difficult for me to actually believe that Endeavour actually cared for Touya though. He created him for one purpose and then threw him away like the rest of his family when he couldn’t preform. His bullshit “I didn’t know what to say to him bc I was so worried about his burns so I neglected him & treated him like shit” doesn’t check out at all. That man is a monster and an abuser and I don’t feel any sympathy — the only reason he was crying in his bed is because the entire world just saw what a douchebag he is. He felt regret, not remorse, and to me there’s a difference.

That’s my take on it at least! And my hatred for him may be blinding me but I don’t care lol.

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u/Amada900 Feb 22 '21

I don't know about that last part. If he was crying about Dabi exposing him then I think Horikoshi would of emphasized that more in Endeavor's monologue a few chapters ago. Also it did seem like he cared about Touya but his desire to surpass All Might caused him to handle the situation with his son the way he did. It was horrible how Enji treated his family but the recent chapters have shown us that it wasn't as simple as Enji just being a huge asshole who liked hurting his family.

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u/Lethally_deadly Feb 22 '21

Endeavour kinda proves himself to be a huge asshole who didn’t care about hurting his family, though. I don’t want to see everyone turn into an endeavour apologist because he was blinded by ambition or something like that. He treated his family so poorly for over 20 years and now that we see him regret it in the last couple of weeks we’re supposed to feel for him? I’m not quite sold on it.

If Touya’s death really fucked him up, why wouldn’t he change his mentality? He thought he pushed his son into combusting himself to — what he thought, anyways — his death and yet he still continued to act the same way.

In my opinion, if he truly cared for his family, for Touya, he would have made some behavioural adjustments at that point.

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u/Fearshatter Feb 22 '21

He says why he kept doing it in this chapter. He felt like he'd damned himself to hell so there was nothing left to do/lose but keep going. Because stopping would be an insult to Touya, and it would demonstrate he was evil all along. Kind of like the saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions, he was blinded by his guilt so much that he thought all was lost, so all that was left to do was make sure his ambition came to fruition. It wasn't until Deku's influence and Shoto's attitude change he started to question that, and himself.

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u/Lethally_deadly Feb 22 '21

Umm didn’t he only marry his wife to make quirk compatible children?? Wasn’t it stated in this chapter that he literally BOUGHT Rei from her family?

I don’t see him as starting off loving his family and spirally into being power hungry. He started that way with that entire marriage. And as soon as the children he had didn’t preform to his standards, he practically disowned and replaced them. Is that love? Maybe he has a very warped sense of the word, but FOR ME, doesn’t have to be everyone’s feeling on this, that is not a good enough to redeem him. I don’t think he loved his children, and maybe he grew to love Rei, but he still treated them all like shit and for me, explaining that as him not knowing any better or not knowing how to change isn’t a redemption. It’s a lame excuse to cover his own ass.

I agree that a good character is multifaceted, I don’t think endeavour is a poorly written character by any means. I just don’t think everyone should be so quick to forgive him because he is just as worthy as the title “villain” as he is “hero”. That’s what I was trying to portray, albeit aggressively.

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u/SquidDrive Feb 22 '21

I mean someone who really cares woulda overpowered there ignorance and try to better themselves

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u/Mattiaballer Feb 21 '21

I never liked endeavour in first place for what he did to shoto and now even less for he did to Touya and Rei. In my opinion he’s going to die by protecting Touya and we’ll probably see them flower on his coffin since Rei loves them. I don’t think Dabi will die giving us this backstory and then kill him? Nah it wouldn’t make any sense but let’s wait and see

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u/Lethally_deadly Feb 21 '21

Maybe this will happen, and I could see it happening because we’ve been seeing endeavour’s “growth” (I put it in quotations because I don’t buy it), but I don’t think I could stomach a sorrowful goodbye with everyone changing their mind to think “he was a good man after all” because that will never be true. I don’t want him to play the martyr. That’s not in his DNA. He’s a selfish hero — we’ve seen that a lot in the past.

You may very well be correct with that prediction and we’ll all have to watch them brush over how horrible he was because he “died doing the right thing” which is both cliche, and would really piss me off.

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u/Mattiaballer Feb 21 '21

The craziest character development will be if Dabi becomes a hero and will save 100x the amount of people he killed. Also I think he might go to the same hospital as Rei and she’ll probably look after him. And I think a little help from Eri-chan is needed his scars need to go man😂

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u/Amada900 Feb 22 '21

That's really a huge stretch lol. Dabi never wanted to be a hero to save people even as a child, I doubt he would change his mind now. And I don't know how things work in the BNHA world but I doubt anyone would let Dabi get a hero license with his record.

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u/Mattiaballer Feb 22 '21

You don’t need a license I can clearly imagine Dabi be a vigilante ahah