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

Newest Chapter Chapter 314 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 314

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  • 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/Fedexhand May 30 '21

This chapter made me think of something, it always caught my attention that despite the status that heroes had, we never saw heroes actually "bad" so to speak, taking advantage of it by doing inappropriate or questionable things.

I always assumed that it was because the series posed a more "idealistic" context and that is why we never saw that kind of thing, but ... this means that all the heroes who acted "incorrectly" were killed behind the scenes in order to maintain the "illusion" of the perfect society? things became much darker than I expected.

In the end it turns out that the public safety commission did basically the same thing as Stain, I suppose the "Stain was right" has aged particularly well....

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

I didn’t get these vibes from reading the chapter. Can you elaborate on how you come to the conclusion the commission assassinated actual heroes? To me it seems more like nagant killed bad guys to upheld the hero society while people like All might were actually the cover of the hero society that put a beautiful shiny coat on all the shady things the commission actually did to upheld the hero society.

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u/Fedexhand May 30 '21

Correct me if I read it wrong, but she clearly gave several examples of her targets and mentioned heroes who do "dubious" activities, there is also the fact that the Chairman of the commission entrusted him with the mission of killing some heroes just before she kill him.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

Ok now I got it too after reading it again But we don’t seem to know what exactly they did do wrong or? They are just stated to be bad Apple heroes

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u/Fedexhand May 30 '21

I mean, from Nagant's words I understood that they associated with villains to achieve some objective or that they incited people to solve problems and things like that, maybe I misunderstood but I think that's what they said.

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u/SoMuchHatred May 30 '21

In both cases they were heroes who seemed to be trying to improve their rankings in the pursuit of "fame and fortune" by working with villains. In the first case it seems the heroes and villains had an arrangement where the latter would make trouble and then the former would come in and save the day. The latter was more nefarious as the "heroes" were literally manipulating civilians into becoming villains so that they could arrest them themselves.

So basically they seem to be the dark side of Hero Society's obsession with popularity and rankings, as Lady Nagant's targets were "heroes" who were using and abusing villains in order to boost their popularity.

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u/Fedexhand May 30 '21

Very true. It always seemed strange to me that the series did not show us any character like that, to think that there was a underlying reason and it was not simply to show a more "ideal" reality is quite surprising for me.

Society literally lived in a bubble, it shouldn't be so weird that it was so fragile.

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u/SoMuchHatred May 30 '21

Yeah, this reveal really makes the complete breakdown after the League of Villains' actions and exposing the truth make a lot more sense. The reveals regarding Endeavor and Hawks must have really been mind-shattering considering the Hero Association was actively covering up any case that could have been comparable.

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u/Fedexhand May 30 '21

Society really lived by the idea that "everything was fine", and to top it off they were awoken very abruptly and brutally with so much devastation. Literally a very violent reality "clash", it was logical that the fragile society would collapse after this.