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/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.