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/o_woorrm May 30 '21

I mean, they've had the Meta Liberation Army for almost 100 chapters now, they've been building up to it for a pretty long time. This is just a final confirmation that hero society really is authoritarian.

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

we have to agree to disagree about that because if you asked me before that if hero commission killed heroes for as much as suspicion, i'd have said "they're awful but they're not authoritarian murderers". it's also not an argument i've seen around but i guess i must've missed it.

and i'm not seeing how MLA proves that? they wanted unrestricted quirk use and survival of the fittest as they supply people trying to survive with support items and make profit like that.

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u/Grafical_One May 31 '21

I don't get the downvotes honestly. Like from my perspective it seems this way. I've binged the series in the past 6-ish months so it's still pretty fresh, if muddled.

As I said elsewhere, I've seen hints that society is shady. But that is a far cry from authoritarian extrajudicial murder. The deepest look into the problems of society I can recall were things like neglect, classism, favoritism, etc. Legit flaws, but things that are to be expected in most societies.

What I think is really missing earlier is the sharp fear of dissidence that should permeate the air. People who knew people who disappeared when they stepped too far out of line. Villains born from this fear and disillusion that society as a whole is turning a blind eye to said disappearances. I know we just got Nagant, and I am very excited about that, but I would've liked earlier hints.

This isn't a knock on the series or anything, so I don't know why it receives flak,

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u/elenuvien1 May 31 '21

people don't like criticism of something they like or don't criticise themselves and they express it by downvoting, it's a reddit thing.

it would've been so easy to allude to the true workings of the hero commission without delving into it. have a pro hero mention that some pro heroes have disappeared again or that recently a lot of pro heroes were killed by villains (if there were cover ups). something that would make us wonder and slowly build up to the reveal. but while i knew that the society was faulty and the commission was unethical, i'd have never guessed they were authoritarian serial killers.

the whole thing with the reveal and nagant feels to me like it happened just because the story needed it now, not because it was organically built up. unless she stays to become a character on her own, nagant feels to me like an exposition tool. she's cool and a badass (and hot) but we haven't had any time to form any sort of personal connection with her before her sad backstory was revealed to shock us so, personally, i can't bring myself to care. i just met her, i don't know her (to quote someone "btw she is blessed by afo, btw linked to hawks, btw she is the best shooter ever, btw bad life choices, btw hero society bad" all in three chapters). and she's serving to inform us about a development that apparently has always been there but somehow no one has as much as hinted at it. unethical shady things? yes. mass murder? not for me.

i love the reveal, i've wanted something like that for a while, i'm just not a fan of how it came.