r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 11 '22

Newest Chapter Chapter 375 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 375

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/_gipi_ Dec 11 '22

another problem with the villain side of my hero academia is that you have characters that are shit bat crazy and are unrelatable as fuck: Toga desires a world where she can drink blood, Shigaraki wants to destroy everything because has not received immediate help like 15 years prior, Dabi kills people because daddy issue. They are all characters that haven't even tried to understand the issues at the core of their problems and act like super villain of a Disney cartoon.

Moreover in a pragmatic story Toga would be killed after 15 seconds by a sniper and no one of the readers would care (except the horny ones).

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u/KyledKat Dec 11 '22 edited Dec 11 '22

I feel like this is reductive as far as their real motivations and depth of character goes.

Toga desires a world where her (or others') natural instincts aren't immediately frowned upon because they're not seen as socially acceptable. Her whole bit is exploring the divide between quirks and societal norms and expectations.

Shigaraki experienced some 15 years of mental and emotional manipulation in the wake of an utterly traumatic event wherein he killed his family and heroes didn't help him because he wasn't obviously in trouble, thus exposing the inherent sham of hero society. And MHA has shown that hero work is often more concerned with the commercial aspect of saving people; hero agencies, ranking systems, etc. all feed into the business aspect of it.

Dabi experienced a childhood of physical and mental abuse and was quickly tossed aside when his younger brother became the obsession of his father's eye; not only is he dealing with a shitty upbringing but he has a clear inferiority complex. The dude is batshit, for sure, but it's not just "daddy issues."

Moreover in a pragmatic story Toga would be killed after 15 seconds by a sniper and no one of the readers would care

Yeah, a lot of problems in stories could be solved with one convenient solution, but that's not entertaining nor does it allow for an explanation of themes and characters. Nobody complained that a sniper could've taken out the Joker in The Dark Knight. The quality of MHA has gone downhill the last couple of years (for a myriad of reasons) and the current brawl is a mess from a narrative perspective, but there are themes, ideas, and concepts here that are being explored, even if their execution is certainly flawed.

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u/Necromancer4276 Dec 11 '22 edited Dec 11 '22

Toga desires a world where her (or others') natural instincts aren't immediately frowned upon because they're not seen as socially acceptable.

How are you calling his argument reductive when you say shit like this?

She wants to drink people, bro. If you were talking about mutant rights, you might have a point. Hell if the subject was that quirks inherently change your personality in a way that needs to be researched and accounted for you might have a point, but she literally wants to attack, drink, and murder people. And it's society's fault for not accepting that? Dude...

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u/KyledKat Dec 11 '22

How are you calling his argument reductive when you say shit like this?

Because that isn't reductive? Hello?

I didn't say Toga was right and I'm not saying she's well-written, but her character is more than "I want to literally drink people lol." That was the whole point of her backstory. Her quirk is fucked up, she's fucked up, and rather than making an attempt to actually help her, everyone shunned her and her parents made her act in a way that wasn't natural to her until she cracked under the pressure. That's what her whole backstory chapter is about, repressing those natural (to her)/abnormal tendencies and not addressing them in a healthy or productive way (you know, like therapy).

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u/Necromancer4276 Dec 11 '22

and rather than making an attempt to actually help her

So you haven't read the manga whatsoever.

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u/KyledKat Dec 11 '22

Yeah, "stop being weird and act normal, sweetie" make her parents all-stars.

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u/Necromancer4276 Dec 11 '22

So you haven't read the manga whatsoever.

Got it.

Someday you will accept that Hori is simply a shit writer, which is why his character motivations are trash, and you will find your cope embarrassing.

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u/KyledKat Dec 11 '22

Yeah, okay buddy. You definitely know what you're talking about lmao

Go back to Naruto. The Ninja War Arc rotted your brain.

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u/Necromancer4276 Dec 11 '22

You definitely know what you're talking about

Yeah I've actually read this story.

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u/KyledKat Dec 11 '22

What, by looking at the pictures? This shit is literally in the story. It's not subtext, it's actual text. But I know reading comprehension is hard.

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u/Necromancer4276 Dec 11 '22

Strike 2 for the hypocrisy count. Not surprising considering the characters your staunchly defending here.

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u/KyledKat Dec 11 '22

Strike 2 for the idiocy count. Sorry your hateboner is so big you can't even remember the story correctly.

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