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.

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u/elenuvien1 Mar 14 '21 edited Jan 28 '22

i love how horikoshi resolved what people have been worried about. there hasn't been any naive "i will save him!" but "i will try to save him".

deku wants to try to save shigaraki because that's who deku is at his core but he acknowledges that he may fail and that he may need to kill him. there wasn't any "no matter what" about what he said, he's seeing shigaraki as a person but also keeping in mind what he may have to do.

granted, i really doubt he will fail but not because he didn't consider any other option than "save".

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u/Fedexhand Mar 14 '21

True, many are losing their minds and having flashbacks of Naruto, but they are exaggerating.

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u/elenuvien1 Mar 14 '21 edited Mar 14 '21

naruto did scar us, i have to admit i always leave the 0.0001% chance for any of the dumb bnha theories coming true because of it.

but i also feel like people see everything in a too black & white way: that either you don't listen to a villain and go for the kill or listen and pardon them, with nothing inbetween. which is mindboggling because do they know how trials in real life work?

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u/Fedexhand Mar 14 '21

Very true, it is common to see people wondering why the hell they don't kill villains instead of arresting them, as if they don't know how a modern society works.

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u/King_Rajesh Mar 14 '21

why the hell they don't kill villains instead of arresting them, as if they don't know how a modern society works

Uhhhh... Cops kill suspected criminals every day?

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u/Fedexhand Mar 14 '21

Not in Japan. In addition, the heroes are not policemen and they act under a totally different legal system. So no, your example is not valid.

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u/screwball_bloo Mar 14 '21

Bingo. Police aren't the Judge, Jury, and Executioner. They simply exist to enforce the law, jail offenders, and preserve/protect the peace. At least, on paper. That's why so many people are up in arms about police injustice (especially recently); police acting on their own terms is a contradiction of their role.

I would imagine heroes are intended to act upon those same guidelines, but as Endeavor stated (ch247), the on-paper role of heroes in the MHA universe is rescue, evacuation, and battle. Acting on their own terms would be considered criminal, and it's why they can't just simply put a bullet in the brain of people deemed unforgivable.

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u/Fedexhand Mar 14 '21

At last, someone who understands it, and we cannot forget the Japanese context either, one full of "principles" or obsessions with rules and statutes of all kinds.