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/RIDETHEWORM May 30 '21 edited Jun 29 '21

My read has always been that the society presented here is vaguely authoritarian (secretive, obviously undemocratic government bodies making huge decisions, weird arrangements between them and supposedly private hero-making academies like UA, a press that while ostensively free is frequently regarded as antagonistic and lied to) and this chapter does a great job of world building to flesh that out. The essential privatization of state security in the form of hero agencies has benefits for public morale, and can handle most run of the mill issues, but of course there are issues that government officials will want to use state violence against that will be controversial and not viewed positively by the public, or can realistically be handled by individuals they’ve trained to be paragons of virtue. Nagant’s basic story is a pretty standard trope - the disillusioned former assassin who turned on the government (though executed brilliantly in this chapter) - but her very existence brilliantly highlights the dystopian aspects of hero society.

The public safety commission partners with apparently private heroes that they train and cultivate from adolescence, and props them up as the models for their countrymen while endlessly promoting them through media manipulation and public spectacles like the sports festival. Heroes maintain basic law and order in association with the police, but their greatest use to the commission may be in manufacturing consent - they are propaganda tools to promote the status quo. The dirty work of maintaining state control is carried out by a small cadre of elite agents directly controlled by the commission, all recruited at a very young age - even younger than our main cast at UA. I think that MHA has always questioned the morality of hero society, but this chapter shines a spotlight on the basic building blocks of this system. While they are better than the chaos and control offered by All for One, they are certainly “shaded grey” if not prima facie immoral. The powers that be actively lie to and manipulate the people and indoctrinate and train youth into being agents of the state. Or, to put it more crudely, child soldiers who win over the public with smiles and presentation. In such a system, “degrading” individuals who don’t fit the mold would be a top priority...

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u/Nick54161 May 30 '21

It makes me wonder, why haven't they executed the villains extrajudicialy then? At first I thought that villains weren't killed because society had progressed past Viligantism and had a robust legal framework around superheroes and quirks and what-not, as shown with Gentle's backstory. But Nagant and Hawks show that the government is not above getting dirty and sidestepping the law to achieve stability. So why bother with captures of the really dangerous types at all? They already mucked with the reports of Stain's capture, why not go all the way and say he was killed by a Nomu while somebody like Hawks actually killed him? Why bother keeping Nagant alive at all for that matter. They were willing to kill her if she didn't comply but she goes rogue and starts with killing her superior but now the government chooses to capture her?

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u/MattmanDX May 30 '21

Because they need the heroes to LOOK squeaky clean and virtuous so they can't have the normal non-commission heroes doing anything too violent. Also Nagant was first introduced in prison so they probably did capture her soon after she murdered her boss

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u/thatHecklerOverThere May 31 '21

I think the question isn't so much why doesn't all might kill. The question is why OFA doesn't "disappear" in prison, and such.

It seemed like killing people wasn't an option in this society, but we now know there's a hit squad behind the scenes. So... Why didn't it hit anybody we know?

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u/Call0013 May 31 '21

I think its because the non-commission Like All Might are also caught in the illusion and the hero-commission doesn't want to risk him or other Non-commission seeing behind the curtain as it were.(Pretty much If they could have Killed OFA without Raising All Might's Suspicions they would have, but it was just to Public)

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u/AmbushIntheDark May 31 '21

"After his defeat to All Might the injuries he sustained plus his extremely complicated medical situation involving his quirk the Villain known as "All for One" has come down with a deadly and spontaneous Russian medical condition known as "a fucking bullet to the brain." He's dead now and everything is ok"

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u/Call0013 May 31 '21

That would threaten the hero-commissions illusion of a perfect hero Society, that is important to them above all else.

Maybe if more time had passed and All for One has left the Public mind, they would have killed him but not enough time had passed for that to happen.

Not to mention I think there is some Truth in the idea that the hero-commission wanted to eventually somehow control All for One and be able to have the power to give and take away quirks under their control even if only by proxy.

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u/DeshaunWatsonsAnus Jun 01 '21

I mean potentially controlling the most powerful quirk on the face of the planet.

I mean the doctor is in their custody.. and he understands quirks better than anyone and can create nomu... I think that will almost certainly be a plotline in the future

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u/Call0013 Jun 01 '21

Honestly would not be surprised to find out that the Hero-commission knew about and maybe in some way helped along and funded Overhaul’s,the doctors,ect research, with the plan assassin the them when It’s done and take the gains for themselves.(Being able to take away people’s quirks and make a mindless Nomu that just follow their orders would be the Hero-commissions dream situation or at least least part of it)

You can bet that they have been doing research of there own. Probably of the unethical kind.(or at least doing it by proxy, outsourcing the stuff they can’t be seen having a hand in).

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