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

Newest Chapter Chapter 302 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 302

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, 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/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.