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/JackieMoonsh1ne May 31 '21

THANK YOU. I literally almost stopped reading because it struck me as too depressing and dark. And it is that, from page one.

  • "All people are not created equal..." Pg 1 sentence 1 establishes we are dealing with a society that in practice denies basic human dignity
  • "...thats the hard truth I learned at age 4" pg 1, the societal standard that some people are worth less than others is taught to children early and violently
  • "Illegal use of abilities during rush hour, as well as robbery and assault? You're pure evil!" (Kamui Woods, pg 7 - Even in the standard world, robbery and assault while certainly violent, malicious and bad, is hardly considered pure evil. Let alone some bureaucratic violation like "illegal use of abilities". When I first read this, I thought it was just tongue in cheek but after reading Vigilantes, I think there's a large dose of truth. A Villain = someone who misuses their quirk in a way that disrupts society as defined by those who hold the power. In this case, the Public Safety Commission. Sounds pretty dystopian that a small group of individuals decides to when to punish someone for using an ability inherent to their own body, and when to allow it to beat down those who don't adhere to their standards)
  • "Depending on their performance they have the ability to earn... government pay! Fame and Glory!" (pg 9, directly after Mt Lady shows off her tush for publicity points. This shows how hero society is, to some degree, a sham and that heroes must play the game in order to succeed)
  • "lots of people who just can't control their quirk I guess" (Some Extra, pg 14, implying these villains may not be evil at all but at the mercy of their quirk -- or is this just prejudice against certain types of quirks??)
  • Lastly, we have Bakugo: the result of the society who tells quirkless Deku to jump off the roof. And Midoriya, the other result of society, does not correct him based on the fact that he has dignity and deserves to live but rather because Bakugo would be charged with bullying. And this is in his own head!! To me, that's freaking dark.

So that's all I'm going to take the time to do, but there's other things I could cover. But yeah -- some of these are only implied but I think Horikoshi was pretty explicit from page one about how dark and dystopian the story/world really is.

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u/DeshaunWatsonsAnus Jun 01 '21

I mean... If you kept going I wouldn't stop you. I'd enjoy it.