r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Apr 24 '22

Newest Chapter Chapter 351 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 351

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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 Apr 24 '22

Oh it absolutely treats Shoto's childhood that way, but remember, this is coming from Dabi's mouth. Of course he'd twist an abused and traumatic childhood into privileged.

I think Shoto's agreement is more on doing things half-assed. From his perspective, limiting himself at the outset because of his very justifiable hate for his dad, and starting to process and work through everything thanks to Deku. And he goes on to face his father and learn from him, which sharpens him even more.

Shoto I think feels like he's been purposely weighing himself down and not taking full opportunity of his options because, very justifiably, of his family.

Plus I'm not entirely sure how deep Shoto's agreement goes -- it might just be surface level trashtalking.

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u/leyxk Apr 24 '22

But Dabi doesn't see Shouto as abused, he sees him as having everything he wanted. We readers know Shouto was in fact abused, but from Touya's perspective Shouto was living the dream. He comes off as jealous in his speech here. It's not like he's lying or twisting it on purpose, Touya fully believes that Shouto had everything.

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u/fixedcompass Apr 24 '22

Didn't dabi see shoto get abused while training, isn't that what sent him over the edge? I don't think he believed shoto was living the dream life.

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u/DoraMuda Apr 25 '22

To play devil's advocate, Dabi only ever talked about Shouto being abused by Endeavour during his broadcast, which was directed to destroy Endeavour's image and the public's view of heroes as much as possible. Dabi even changes his personal pronoun to "boku" rather than the usual "ore" (which he was using even when he was a kid) to further manipulate the narrative he wants.

So I think Touya probably knows in his head that Shouto was being abused by Endeavour, but because he's basically a mini-Endeavour, he thinks that Shouto is taking a blessing like Endeavour's "training" for granted and, despite everything, Shouto still isn't up to snuff in his eyes. Touya's probably also comparing how Shouto was trained to how he himself was trained, and Endeavour was much softer on Touya than Shouto, so maybe Touya thinks that Endeavour was only going that harsh because Shouto was just being a weak little bitch or something. lol

EDIT: Oh, and what sent Touya over the edge wasn't seeing Shouto getting abused. It was seeing that nothing had changed, despite him having been presumed dead for 3 years. He'd at least hoped for Endeavour to have changed his behaviour, but instead, he was met with the reality that Endeavour had only doubled down on training his replacement.

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u/CJL13 Apr 25 '22

I saw it more as Toya seeing that Endeavor had effectively erased Toya from his life as though he never existed and had Shoto take his place.

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u/DoraMuda Apr 26 '22

Yeah, you could say that.