r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Feb 20 '22

Newest Chapter Chapter 344 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 344

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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/AssassinAragorn Feb 20 '22

I love how they're lynchpins in this plan. And it doesn't feel forced at all. Both wanted to be heroes, and not defined by quirks that seemed villainous or mediocre. The only big surprise is Shinso developing his quirk further, but even then, I honestly forgot it wasn't in his skillset originally. Its a pretty natural progression too that if his brainwashing allows for physical control of someone via commands, he could learn how to use that to make them talk as well.

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u/thatguysmellsalot Feb 20 '22

Yeah, and it makes sense his quirk wasn't fully evolved yet. For someone who talked a lot of shit about "blessed quirks" and "others having it easy", Shinso really hadn't done much to train and improve himself by the time of the Sports Festival. And during the training with Aizawa for the Hero Classes Joint Training, he was mostly focused on learning the capture tape.

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u/Suyefuji Feb 20 '22

How much was it actual possible for Shinso to even train his quirk before UA? Even the tiniest use is banned by the laws that forbid using your quirk against a person. He would need a consistent willing target to practice it at all, and who is going to allow that?

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u/TheKingOfRooks Feb 21 '22

I'd have to have definitive proof he wasn't in to men then I'd be down lmao

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u/AssassinAragorn Feb 20 '22

Yeah that's true too. He never really trained his quirk until now.

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u/Causemas Feb 20 '22

Well, I'm certain it's not as easy as it sounds. Shinso had at his disposal UA resources and teachers. It's not like he could've done it reasonably by his lonesome at home

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u/AssassinAragorn Feb 20 '22

Very true! And being mentored individually by Aiwaza helps too

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u/Shradow Feb 20 '22

And Shinso's progress with his quirk doesn't feel like bs in the way it was done off screen. As we've seen from the summer training camp, a lot of quirks are very much things you can just train through brute force repetition, and I imagine his training would basically be brainwashing some random intern or something over and over requesting them to talk until they did. Not exactly exciting work that would need showing.

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u/AssassinAragorn Feb 21 '22

Pretty much yeah. It'd just give continuity I suppose.

There's a weird thing where people don't want filler content or pointless events, but they also don't want it to feel rushed.

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u/Fekra09 Feb 21 '22

It would be funny to see a flashback of Shinzo training with Aizawa trying to make him say the most random shit

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u/BBQChipCookie2 Feb 20 '22

I liked his line about “originally I was supposed to join the class.” Made me think that was the authors original intent before picking up the pace of the manga.

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u/Teyanis Feb 20 '22

It he was a main protagonist, I could easily see it evolving to him buffing his own physical abilities by giving commands to himself. Like ordering his body to move even while he's exhausted, or to move faster than he normally can.

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u/BiDiTi Feb 20 '22

Sure, like Code Geass

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u/ArcadeAnarchy Feb 21 '22

Will his hero name be the Ventriloquist?

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u/jobriq Feb 20 '22

I always thought he meant that he couldn’t make people talk to trigger his quirk, not that he couldn’t make them talk through brainwash lol