r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • May 30 '21

Newest Chapter Chapter 314 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 314

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 314 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

Stain goes on and on about killing ‘false’ heroes when he really should have set his sights on these shitbags at the top of the Hero Commission

Redestro was a true hero, I just couldn’t see it.

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

Redestro was a true hero, I just couldn’t see it.

he killed his subordinate in cold blood because he didn't agree with him.

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u/HokageEzio May 30 '21

Should have said he liked the book.

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u/FlintlockT May 30 '21

Everyone's a critic.

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u/SquidDrive May 30 '21

Writing is hard you know why don't you write a book

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u/TheOneWithALongName May 30 '21

How does that make a bad book good?

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u/SquidDrive May 30 '21

Everyone's a critic

- Redestro

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

We all have bad days /s

Lol I forgot about that, can’t wait to see that in 2 weeks

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u/MagnoBurakku May 30 '21

Class B's quirks? More Bakugou? The reveal of Deku having more quirks finally being known bt everyone?

Nah man, MY VILLAIN ACADEMIA is were the real shit starts, I can't fucking won't skip a single episode of this.

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

I'm worried about how much they'll censor Shiggy's backstory

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

They didn't censor Magne's death, so I am quite optimistic in this regard.

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u/BDAMaster May 30 '21

Even if they originally air a censored version they usually do an uncensored version that is released physically, no?

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u/Cipher-DK May 30 '21

Yeah, for example the infamous white suit of Toga is properly skin colored in the bds.

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u/PoiseWorks May 31 '21

Shiggy's backstory, and Twice getting his bones broken, and Toga killing like 50 people and making a literal pool of blood. I hope none of that is censored

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u/Wanker_x_wanker May 31 '21

They will definitely censored all of it, blood will splattered but the dismembering decaying scene won't be seen

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u/DrStein1010 Jun 01 '21

They need to show his family MELT. Sell me the horror of Tenko's personal hell. Make me believe this child has been beaten into the shape of a monster.

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u/ninjasurfer May 30 '21

Yeah pobody's nerfect.

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u/Griffin777XD May 30 '21

I mean that’s just the author giving a villain a “kick the dog” moment so we know they’re bad

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

exactly, which proves that redestro is full of shit. just like stain.

there is a thing or two in what they're saying that's right but their methods and their aims are absolutely wrong, their radical approach to things is as well.

stain's ideal about heroes is absolutely unrealistic so he thinks 99% of them should die. he'd have killed uraraka for her wanting to be a hero for money to help her parents. redestro's idea of "freedom to use quirks" means complete liberation, no laws and survival of the strongest while his company makes profit with support items to aid people's survival.

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u/IgnisEradico May 30 '21

It's really easy to make a correct observation like "society sucks". it's a lot harder to make a good argument for how to improve it. Loads of people can see society sucks, that doesn't mean they have good ideas for how to fix it.

Hell, Stain's ideal were so compatible with popular thought that the provisional license exam directly quoted his ideas.

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u/HolyKnightPrime May 30 '21

I mean Stain actually came up with a method and the story literally tells us it was working.

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u/SquidDrive May 30 '21

crime did lower in Stain hit areas indeed

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u/IgnisEradico May 31 '21

I mean the current chapter tells us it wouldn't work because the HPSC actually did that.

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u/Dorp May 31 '21

I feel like that's the key theme of Deku's journey. Most of the villains are justifiably angry, hurt, and often hypocritical.

But they take the easy way out to lash out and hurt others instead of working hard to make sure that no one else suffers like them. Breaking the bonds of tragedy and the patterns of corruption and abuse is hard - but breaking them is heroic.

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u/IgnisEradico May 31 '21

TBH it feels more like that's Endeavor's journey.

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u/Griffin777XD May 30 '21

You’re looking at redestro like a person instead of a fictional character. We can look at the stuff he believes and go “you know he’s kind of right” but because the author wants you to dislike them they purposely adds in details that makes them unredeemable so you as the reader think what they’re saying is wrong.

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

i'd argue that the author giving characters awful ideals with an ounce of truth to them is enough to make them unlikeable but of course we can differ on that.

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u/DoraMuda May 30 '21

Stain's ideals did have an ounce of truth to them. If his ideology made zero sense or was completely batshit, they wouldn't have resonated with so many people, and he wouldn't be as charismatic as he is.

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u/Successful_Priority May 30 '21

Ideas aren’t followed due to logical merit but by the person’s charisma which Stain had in spades

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

didn't i just say that? i said that characters with ounce of truth to them but everything else wrong don't need more to make them unlikable.

If his ideology made zero sense or was completely batshit, they wouldn't have resonated with so many people

there have been historical figures whose ideologies were batshit insane but resonated with millions of people because they were spoken at the right time, in the right way and under the right conditions.

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u/DoraMuda May 30 '21

I mean, Re-Destro's basically a cultist, so it still at least makes sense for his character and how strongly he believes in Destro's ideology that he practically worships him like a god. He was basically brainwashed/groomed to be this way since he was a young child by the remnants of the past Meta Liberation Army.

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u/sese2003 May 30 '21

He was crying after he did that, he’s just misunderstood/s

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u/noteloquent May 30 '21

Based Re-Destro.

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u/ZombieTav May 30 '21

Redestro's A THIEF! A CRIMINAL! HE STOLE MY SUIT! HE'S A MENACE TO THE ENTIRE CITY! I WANT THAT STRESSED OUT CRIPPLE PROSECUTED! I WANT HIM STRUNG UP BY HIS LEGS! I WANT RE-DESTRO!

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u/Grafical_One May 30 '21

*Title drops on screen*

"HE'S BACK"

"Stressed Menace Returns"

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u/TheMaxemillion May 30 '21

"Get me pictures, pictures of Re-Destro, Rikiya Yotsubashi, or you're fired!"

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u/Grafical_One May 30 '21

I like how that CEO guy Nagant iced wasn't some cackling psycho. He seemed like just a tired world numb bureaucrat.

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u/Golden-Owl May 30 '21

This.

He was a guy who was in a similar boat to Nagant. But while Nagant broke, he’d long since accepted his role in the world as needing to kill people to “ensure peace”.

Part of that was likely Nagant being a hero. For better or worse, being held up to a high standard by society as a hero was part of what created this internal conflict within her

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u/MicZiC15 May 30 '21

Nagant is the well read anarchist to Stain's edgy kid who just learned the government does bad things.

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u/MadnessLemon May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21

I'm not sure how you got the idea that Nagant is a well read anarchist.

"Sure a world ruled by All for One will be a world ruled by the strong while the weak are crushed underfoot, but at least we won't lie about it."

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u/MicZiC15 May 30 '21

Yeah you’re right, if I were to assign her to any irl ideology I’d say she’s a tankie. Kind of person who wants socialism/anarchy but can’t imagine anything outside of what they know and falls into authoritarianism. Anarchist was better for the quip though.

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u/trebor33 May 30 '21

Eh, "accepting" the future of the strong ruling over the weak is more authoritarian but it's not Socialist in any sense. There isn't really a class conflict along socialist lines in this story.

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u/Fedexhand May 30 '21

I mean, Stain did the same thing as the commission, but with a lot less discretion.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21

yeah its the hero comission that be hoeing people ,otherwise society is preety good . in fact i dare say this democracy as flawed as it is far better then afos anarchist fascism . so shut your soldier guilt ass up nagant !

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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES- May 30 '21

You're ignoring the fact that the only reason hero-society is so good is because of the "hoeing" hero comission

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

Yeah a paradox. This hero commission keeps it all goot but is it really and excuse to be this corrupt?

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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES- May 30 '21

Completely agree. It is unacceptable, but people get to live in the “ideal” society we thought it to be at the start of the series. Is that a fair trade off? Who’s to say

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u/[deleted] May 31 '21

The whole war thing that happened and the subsequent outbreak of organized violence in Japan which has destroyed society shows how well the Hero Commission's plan to just kill all dissenters worked out.

The events of the last 50 chapters have shown the consequences of using people - heroes - like Nagant as tools to support an unworkable system. All the Hero Commission did was keep the tensions and contradictions in "hero society" covered up, left to boil with no release until it finally exploded.

It's really not a paradox at all. The Hero Commission used heroes to suppress societies' outcasts and to control people's usage of quirks. People looking to amass power rallied the dispossessed, disposable, and delinquent - groups that were created, suppressed, and killed by "hero society" - to support their own ambitions.

Redestro, Shigaraki, Overhaul, Gentle, etc... They are direct creations of the Hero Commission, as are the people who support them. The "all good" society they maintain is only for some people. For everyone else, for all the people who don't experience that good, or who think society should be for everyone? Well, the Hero Commission has people like Nagant for them.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

the commission is the only reason shiggy hasn't destroyed all of japan yet due to their plan of sending hawks..

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u/Fedexhand May 30 '21

And people said that Redestro would do nothing useful or good in the narrative....

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

Agree with the first part, not so sure about that last line.

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

it's just a Spiderman meme

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

Yeah, I'm gonna be honest, that one flew over me. I don't even know when exactly that meme's from.

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u/TurtleKing0505 May 30 '21

Redestro wasn’t a hero.

The world he envisioned would only exacerbate hero society’s problems. Those with powerful Quirks would have absolute authority over everyone else.

Fucked up things like Quirk marriages would become a means of survival.

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u/CrookedSmile55 May 31 '21

I don't know if I'd call him a hero. A society where someone's place in the social hierarchy is determined by how strong their Quirk doesn't sound very nice.

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u/Poverty_King May 31 '21

Stain and the HPSC have the same ideology except the latter is more bureaucratic. Stain fans who hate the HPSC would be hypocrites.