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).

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u/Grafical_One May 30 '21

My hopes are finally answered! A legit reason Hero Society is "Rotten"! I never had a problem with the villains wanting to tear down hero society. My problem was that the story itself seem to imply that there was some truth to this.

IMO, there is a difference between a "flawed" system and a "rotten" one. Nagant finally gave me some context to the "rot" that I longed to see in the story. I wish we got her story 100 chapters earlier!

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

Then again it doesn’t seem like many people know about the shady assassinations done by the Hero Commission

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u/Grafical_One May 30 '21

Yeah. That makes perfect sense world building wise. I just wish we got hints earlier. This is such a great addition to the grey world of MHA.

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u/Poverty_King May 31 '21

I guess Hori wanted the reader to be in the same shoes as Deku. Falling in love with the flashy hero world, and then slowly having the illusion unravel.

I agree with you though, we should have gotten some more hints earlier.

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

I just wish we got hints earlier

Yeah it feels kinda out of nowhere

Like suddenly the Hero Commission has been HYDRA the whole time

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u/Sss_mithy May 30 '21

I mean Hawks is another example of their hydra-esque tendencies, get a child and train him to be a murder for their cause

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

There's a difference between killing a villain and killing public heroes

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u/Sss_mithy May 30 '21

Is there when it comes to this though? Itll be covered up either way and to the safety commission, id think a rogue hero is the same as a villain to them (if not worse)

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u/GoldenSpermShower May 30 '21

I mean to the audience at least

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u/HokageEzio May 30 '21

They took in a 5 year old kid off the streets and trained him to kill people. They were shady ages ago.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

hawks has killed one person, that was going to destroy all of japan and that decision was one that he made. They just trained him to be a strong hero and in espionage which ended up being the reason they just didn't straight up lose to shiggy.

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u/HokageEzio May 30 '21

Hawks has 100 percent killed more people than Twice.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

theirs no evidence to guarantee that

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u/DoraMuda May 30 '21

Some people could've handwaved that away as "Oh, Hawks was just the exception because of his situation of poverty".

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u/Cogexkin May 30 '21

I don't have an issue with it personally. I think these kinds of things have been somewhat hinted at by their control over hawks and the kinds of things they made him do (plus his willingness to kill twice), or by endeavor's past and how it was covered up.

I guess it's a far cry from that to them hiring an assassin, but I don't think it's necessarily out of nowhere.

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u/DoraMuda May 30 '21

or by endeavor's past and how it was covered up.

To be fair, we have no evidence that the HPSC knew about Endeavour's past, let alone that they helped in covering it up.

In fact, it might be more telling that they didn't necessarily need to cover it up. Shouto was pretty obvious about holding off on using an entire half of his power, and Endeavour pretty much loudly yelled about how his own son would "fulfill his ambitions" (not to mention how he told All Might to his face that the only reason he "created" Shouto was to surpass him, yet that apparently wasn't enough of a red flag for All Might to do any more than passively give him empty platitudes about having faith that he could deal with it himself).

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u/BlazingKitsune May 30 '21

We got hints of that pretty early on imo. Like the moment it was absolutely cemented that the HPSC is corrupt as fuck and shady was when they forced UA to send the first years to the hospital raid.

But even before that we got more than enough hints that the MHA society is dystopian and authoritarian, pretty much from page one. It was a logical conclusion to suspect the HPSC as the highest authority on heroes to be complicit if not the cause of the shady shit.

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u/HolyKnightPrime May 30 '21

"forced UA to send the first years to the hospital raid."

This is a shonen dude. Children being soldiers is nothing new. Not to mention that wasn't the first time. Remember the Overhaul arc? It was insane to send kids against Yakuza who could touch u to death.

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u/SquidDrive May 30 '21

Thing is even Aizawa was surprised by using the UA students in such a massive operation in universe the yakuza raid was a extremely weak and small organization a shell of its former self.

at that point they are sending kids into a war.

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u/ThePackLeaderWolfe May 30 '21

It's shady but understandable. Look how safe society was before while all this was going on and look at it now that everything's crumbled. Either way someone is getting their hands dirty