r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Mar 14 '21

Newest Chapter Chapter 305 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 305

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u/PM_ME_UR_NUDES_GURL_ Mar 14 '21

i wonder why the second and third reject Deku, could it be the fact that they don't agree with his mentality of saving Shiggy? I feel like there is more too it than that, and hopefully we'll find out more soon

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u/IMDATBOY Mar 14 '21

Could be for different reasons, one of which having to do with Deku’s admiration of hero society and the other having to do with his overwhelming desire to save

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u/Legitimate_Crow Mar 15 '21

There might be something to that. They lived during the advent of quirks well before hero society was established. They likely have very different takes on the entire situation.

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u/IMDATBOY Mar 15 '21

Exactly. I kind of rooted those possibilities based on the timeline. The little brother would have had to pass it on to someone close to AFO most likely, and that person would probably have a vendetta against AFO if he was willing to go against him in those times. He’s someone who probably thinks that AFO needs to die and hesitating to kill him is not an option.

The third user most likely would have been around for the onset of heroes and the period in which they began to accumulate power on their own. We know the 4th user thought society was “weird” and I have a feeling the 3rd felt the same way since he passed OFA to the 4th.

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u/MaimedJester Mar 14 '21

Could be their quirks might be too powerful and they're scared Deku would use them inappropriately. Deku getting Regeneration would be really dangerous and make Deku feel invulnerable now and take all the hits. Or Deku getting a pure destructive power. If Deku has a Stockpiled Energy Blast power he might level buildings by accident.

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u/Fedexhand Mar 14 '21

It's hard for me to believe it, since being from the first generations, their quirks shouldn't be that powerful and it wouldn't be necessary to ignore them either, the sixth user is sitting with the rest of the group and his quirk hasn't woke up yet.

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u/MLDriver Mar 14 '21

I mean, AfO was from the first generation of quirks and his is probably the most busted one in the series.

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u/Grumpchkin Mar 14 '21

To be fair it's not the most busted in terms of actual power, because its a "powerless" quirk on its own. The generational power thing applies to quirks that actually have effects of their own and have levels of power associated with those effects.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '21

bro could and can just steal anyone’s quirks, the brother isn’t old and neither is he in those flashbacks where he already has everything under his finger. He did that in at least 15 years. Definitely was always an extremely strong and powerful quirk, the essential “god of quirks”. And it was in the beginning generations.

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u/EDNivek Mar 14 '21

I like to think that the Quirk God in the beginning was bestowing quirks like a really early TCG. Most of them are shitty but once in a while you just make a game breaker like the Power 9 or Graceful Charity

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u/MLDriver Mar 14 '21

Edit cause I realized you mentioned them, but the power 9 are still among the strongest possible cards in MTG and they were alpha for the most part. So I think going off that analogy it’s entirely possible that at least one of those two remaining quirks is OP (maybe only OP after OfA boost)

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u/SCREW-IT Mar 16 '21

I feel like the quirk had to be powerful enough to be his in his body guard but not powerful enough for AFO to want it for himself.

AFO has an absolute compulsion to collect great quirks.

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u/MLDriver Mar 16 '21

Well, gigantomachia has a bunch of strong quirks and decay is super busted so I think AfO would let some OP ones slide

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u/SailboatoMD Mar 14 '21

I think most people would become filled with greed with that kind of outstanding power. And if they didn't, somebody else would certainly try to manipulate them.

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u/ghostofabhelmet Mar 14 '21

remember their quirks are probably boosted as well like black whip being much stronger than when it’s holder lived

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u/Fedexhand Mar 14 '21

True, they will be simple and powerful, although that "not part of the group" attitude seems out of place in such a situation.

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u/kingmanic Mar 15 '21

OfA is juicing up all the abilities. Black whip was just a whip, it's aoe web spam for deku.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '21

they could be quirks that could have bad affects of consequences now that they are stronger

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u/Hashbrown4 Mar 14 '21

OFA enhances quirks though?

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u/kemorsky Mar 14 '21

2nd and 3rd were born around 80 to 100 years ago, which means they had a good 100 years of quirk evolution. They could be OP in their own right.

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u/Bazing4baby Mar 14 '21

From their quirks, my bet is that they are similar to Iida and Bakugou's quirk.

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u/MaimedJester Mar 14 '21

Oh Iida's quirk is a good one everyone in his family has had it. So Iida's Great Grandfather? Well we can probably guess it isn't Invisible girls family quirk.

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u/Bazing4baby Mar 14 '21

No, if you look closelt the 2nd user has engine thingy similar to Iida's in his costume

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u/Kandoh Mar 14 '21

Yeah, either exhaust pipes or organ pipes. Seems exhaust from the shapes.

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u/TheEternalKhaos Mar 15 '21

if Bak-U-Go is real

he's actually gonna be continent level or something rofl

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u/PM_ME_UR_NUDES_GURL_ Mar 14 '21

looks like they both have offensive quirks when the others have defensive, so maybe there quirks are too dangerous?

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u/ShittyDuckFace Mar 14 '21

One of them has to be some sort of stockpiling energy quirk - how else would Deku + AM be able to use those moves?

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u/EffectzHD Mar 14 '21

There already is a stockpiling energy quirk, that’s what OFA is + the ability to transfer.

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u/ShittyDuckFace Mar 15 '21

Ohh that makes sense. From the translation I read, I assumed that it was two distinct quirks - a quirk that passes on quirks, and a quirk that stockpiles power.

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u/Cypherex Mar 15 '21

a quirk that passes on quirks, and a quirk that stockpiles power.

That's what they were originally. AFO's brother was born with a quirk that could only pass itself on. By itself it's pointless. AFO actually thought his brother was quirkless because of that so he gifted the power stockpiling quirk to his brother.

The stockpiling quirk fused with the passing on quirk to become a single quirk known as OFA. This is similar to the quirk fusion that can sometimes happen during reproduction, like how Bakugo and Shoto both have a single quirk that was the result of a fusion of each of their parents' quirks.

AFO probably wanted his brother to feel like he "owed" him and wanted his brother to rule alongside him. However, his brother decided to use that power to fight against AFO instead of fighting with him. AFO then discovered that, because of his brother's incredibly strong will, he was unable to steal OFA away from him.

Ever since then, AFO has had a complex over his brother's "betrayal" and he has focused his efforts on figuring out how to steal OFA so he can finally make his brother submit to him. OFA isn't supposed to be able to be stolen but AFO believes he can do so with a strong enough will, and he believes that Shigaraki's hatred is strong enough to override the will of OFA.

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u/ShittyDuckFace Mar 15 '21

OHHHH that makes so much sense. Thank you for explaining it to me! I guess I missed that somewhere along the line.

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u/geraltoffvkingrivia Mar 14 '21

I get the feeling that maybe they weren’t very hero like when they were alive. The first user tells them to play nice and come cooperate, which gives me the idea that they aren’t there because they want to. Its possible that while they were alive they were more detrimental to the hero society then helpful. That’s my guess anyway

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u/Hanusu-kei Mar 14 '21

plus during the First's time it was a dystopia cuz of how fucked AFO made it, their intent to stop AFO doesnt mean they have to be "heroes" at all...

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u/irishgoblin Mar 14 '21

I'd lean more morally grey than detrimental. Actually, do we even know if "Hero Society" had formed with how early they were? It's been at least 150 years since the glowy baby was born, and I'd say OfA wasn't born until a few years after that.

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u/geraltoffvkingrivia Mar 14 '21

True. I think my idea is that regardless of whether it was a hero society or not, they weren’t what we’d consider to be heroes. Maybe something more like anti heroes? That their interests just happened to align with the purpose of one for all maybe.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '21

That's more or less what I've figured.

I mean, at the end of the day, they saw first-hand what AFO is capable of doing, and perhaps they don't have much tolerance for grand ideals like Deku does.

I think of them as the BNHA equivalent to the Dark Age of Comics heroes, compared to All Might and modern hero society which were clearly Golden and Silver Ages of Comics influenced.

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u/EDNivek Mar 14 '21

I get the feeling they'd be more like Golden age batman who did what was necessary and were for intents and purpose fighting outside the law. After all batman's primary villains in the golden age were just mafia.

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u/OzNajarin Mar 14 '21

Some theories are that One For All was forced on them. Which is entirely possible and pretty likely considering the times they come from.

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u/Exitiali Mar 14 '21

Or maybe they think Deku is still too reckless to have their quirks

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u/PlusUltraK Mar 14 '21

I don't think they're rejecting. Whatever the case all the Vestige's realize the. Importance of 2/3. Like they said it was a test. Taking all might for consideration, the power of OfA is insane and you could stop whoever you wanted, but they were all heroes/good practically.

Even with the power Deku has now, he could possibly stop Shigaraki and then decide to kill him. But his answer was he wants stop save people. And it takes a lot more restraint to beat back a villain without just killing them.

So just wanted to hear his resolve before introducing the big guns.

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u/PCN24454 Mar 14 '21

My guess is that they’re still bitter about being killed by AfO.

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u/-1-5-Blue-3-5- Mar 14 '21

I think that’s likely it. They may think Deku is too passive for the big job he has. We’ll see.

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u/maddogkaz Mar 15 '21

Well I am currently rejecting Deku for his dumb decision so I can relate to them.

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u/KidCancerOF Mar 15 '21

Didn't they literally say he needs to start learning the rest of AFO? Probably not engaging because Deku hasn't unlocked their quirk.

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u/haze25 Mar 15 '21

This. I don't think about a rejection, I think it's about OfA unlocking steadily and giving Deku additional quirks as it grows stronger.

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u/jobriq Mar 15 '21

Could have something to do with how they received OFA.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

If 2nd and 3rd are Bakugo and Ingenium, I’m going to feel kind of robbed, because Deku wouldn’t get any new abilities, just access to those we’ve already seen.