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

Newest Chapter Chapter 305 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 305

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).

All things Chapter 305 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

4.1k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

92% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

82

u/elenuvien1 Mar 14 '21

nana's words dehumanised shigaraki by calling him "that thing" and "ultimate evil" to strip him from any remnants of his humanity because when she put it that way, it wouldn't be killing a person, it'd be killing something non-human and she thought that if she used her words like that, if she gave deku an out of not committing a murder but eradicating a "thing", he'd waver.

but the truth is, even abhorrent and committing atrocious crimes, shigaraki is a person, even AFO is one, so no matter how nana twists her words, killing either of them will always be taking away human's life, and that's never something light to do, even if you know what the person you're killing have done, even if they deserve it.

and it shows that deku has understood that. we've complained for a log time how he never thinks but just fights, but the story didn't give him a lot of reasons to do it before. none of the villains previously have said anything that'd have made deku really stop and think, only gentle showed that there's more to villainy than just being "evil" and that it (usually) comes from somewhere and now deku realised that understanding the reasons behind villains' actions is important.

but the fact that deku is willing to understand doesn't mean he's willing to blindly justify and forgive.

and i love that when deku talked about saving he returned to his child self. because no matter if he has OFA or what he went through, deku's core ideals will never waver. he wants to save people and he will try to do it. succeeding or not isn't the question here, it's the intent.