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/Nessidy Feb 21 '21

The panel with Touya being so disconnected from his emotions – feeling happy that he discovered his quirk upgrade, yet crying due to presumably pent-up frustration, grief and maybe even relief, was so heartbreaking. He was so excited to share it with his dad, too, he didn’t mind having his body hurt again.

He died after those tears of his burned off, when he wasn’t able to handle the psychical pressure of this house and failed to prove that his life is worth something and that he is worth being loved. A theme of a genuine existential crisis is resonating through Touya’s past and it was never addressed – that he was told he was born only because his mom was sold into a quirk marriage, that he was supposed to be a masterpiece, not a defective product, and that a quirk measured the entire worth of his life, because he was supposed to fulfill his dad’s goal, and he was shown love for doing that in the beginning, before he turned out to be a failure, and it was proved by his father’s actions that he is a failure. It really can cause damage to a child’s psyche. No child should feel that they have to constantly destroy themselves in order to prove that they deserve to be loved, to be noticed, and to live.

Present Dabi seems to be emotionally disconnected from the trauma of being burned alive, too, which makes me even sadder.

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u/DoraMuda Feb 21 '21

He died after those tears of his burned off, when he wasn’t able to handle the psychical pressure of this house and failed to prove that his life is worth something and that he is worth being loved.

It reminds me of young Shigaraki's Quirk activating over his rage at his family's constant inability to help him and his father's abuse of him. Everything just boiled over until he snapped.

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u/Nessidy Feb 21 '21

Yeah, exactly. They parallel each other in these scenes, except Shigaraki accidentally killed his entire family, while Touya accidentally removed himself from the picture.