#bnha chapter 381

[chodzacaparodia]

I'll cherish this for the rest of my life

[thatbitch151]

LOOK AT THIS BABY

AAAAAA

[slyfoxann544]

ᴏʜ, уᴏᴜ ᴛʜɪηᴋ ɗαяᴋηєѕѕ ɪѕ уᴏᴜя αƖƖу

ʙᴜᴛ уᴏᴜ ຕєяєƖу αɗᴏᴘᴛєɗ ᴛʜє ɗαяᴋ

ɪ ωαѕ ʙᴏяη ɪη ɪᴛ, ຕᴏᴜƖɗєɗ ʙу ɪᴛ

ɪ ɗɪɗη'ᴛ ѕєє ᴛʜє Ɩɪɢʜᴛ ᴜηᴛɪƖ ɪ ωαѕ αƖяєαɗу α ຕαη, ʙу ᴛʜєη ɪᴛ ωαѕ ηᴏᴛʜɪηɢ ᴛᴏ ຕє ʙᴜᴛ ʙƖɪηɗɪηɢ

ᴛʜє ѕʜαɗᴏωѕ ʙєᴛяαу уᴏᴜ

ʙєᴄαᴜѕє ᴛʜєу ʙєƖᴏηɢ ᴛᴏ ຕє

[epickiya722]

I love how we went from this...

TO THIS!!

[pikahlua]

MHA Chapter 381 spoilers translations

This week’s initial tentative super rough/literal translations under the cut.

1 士傑高校ヒーロー科現見ケミィ しけつこうこうヒーローかうつしみケミィ shiketsu koukou HIIROO-ka Utsushimi KEMII Shiketsu High School hero course [student] Camie Utsushimi

2 つーかアレAFO⁉︎顔あるくない？ つーかアレオール・フォー・ワン⁉︎かおあるくない？ tsuu ka ARE OORU FOO WAN!? kao arukunai? “S’that AFO!? Doesn’t he not have a face?”

3 士傑高校ヒーロー科肉倉精児 しけつこうこうヒーローかししくらせいじ shiketsu koukou HIIROO-ka Shishikura Seiji Shiketsu High School hero course [student] Seiji Shishikura

4 父の　仇敵 ちちの　あだかたき chichi no adakataki “My father’s bitter foe.”

5 殺してやりたいが ころしてやりたいが koroshite yaritai ga “I would like to kill you, but...”

6 士傑高校ヒーロー科夜嵐イナサ しけつこうこうヒーローかよあらしイナサ shiketsu koukou HIIROO-ka Yoarashi INASA Shiketsu High School hero course [student] Inasa Yoarashi

7 ………憎悪と厭悪に溺れはしない…！ ………ぞうおとえんおにおぼれはしない…！ .........zouo to en’o ni obore wa shinai...! “.........I will not drown in hatred and loathing...!”

8 それこそ奴の思う壺だからだ…！ それこそやつのおもうつぼだからだ…！ sore koso yatsu no omou tsubo dakara da...! “Because that’s exactly what he’d want...!”

9 父が看守として守ってきたものを ちちがかんしゅとしてまもってきたものを chichi ga kanshu to shite mamotte kita mono wo “That which my father protected as a jailer”

10 私はただ繋ぐ‼︎ わたしはただつなぐ‼︎ watashi wa tada tsunagu!! “I will just connect!!” (Note: This is a continuation of the theme of all these people connecting to one another for the sake of a larger goal: defeating AFO.)

tagline 加勢、来る‼︎ かせい、くる‼︎ kasei, kuru!! Help arrives!!

1 死柄木・デクが雄英から離れた模様‼︎ しがらき・デクがオリからはなれたもよう‼︎ Shigaraki ・ DEKU ga ORI (kanji: yuuei) kara hanareta moyou!! “It seems that Shigaraki and Deku have left the cage (read as: UA)!!”

2 シシクロス※‼︎OB・OGもいるぞ シシクロス※‼︎オービー・オージーもいるぞ SHISHIKUROSU※!! OOBII・OOJII mo iru zo “Shishicross※!! OBs and OGs are here too.”

※肉倉のヒーロー名 ※ししくらのヒーローめい ※Shishikura no HIIROO mei ※Shishikura’s hero name

3 状況は混沌だ！なんとしても止めるぞ!!! じょうきょうはカオスだ！なんとしてもとめるぞ!!! joukyou wa KAOSU da! nanto shitemo tomeru zo!!! “The situation is chaos! I will stop you no matter what!!!”

tagline No.381 闇　　堀越耕平 ナンバー381 やみ　　ほりこしこうへい NANBAA 381 yami   Horikoshi Kouhei No. 381 Darkness   Kouhei Horikoshi

4 手遅れになる前に「トガ」を封じつつ ておくれになるまえに「トガ」をふふじつつ teokure ni naru mae ni 「TOGA」 wo fuujitsutsu “Before it’s too late, contain Toga“

5 遠距離攻撃を総てAFOへ‼︎ えんきょりこうげきをすべてオール・フォー・ワンへ‼︎ enkyori kougeki wo subete OORU FOO WAN e!! “and [direct] all long-range attacks to AFO!!”

1 無事か⁉︎ホークス‼︎ ぶじか⁉︎ホークス‼︎ buji ka!? HOOKUSU!! “You okay!? Hawks!!”

2 塚内さん つかうちさん Tsukauchi-san “Tsukauchi-san“

3 増援タイミングナイスっす ぞうえんタイミングナイスっす zouen TAIMINGU NAISU ssu “Nice timing with the reinforcements.”

small text 命助けられました いのちたすけられました inochi tasukeraremashita “[That] saved my life.”

4 いや！我々が要請する前に いや！われわれがようせいするまえに iya! wareware ga yousei suru mae ni “No! Before we made that request”

5 彼らが動いてくれていた！ かれらがうごいてくれていた！ karera ga ugoite kurete ita! “they were already moving in!”

6 AFOの肉体が"戻って"いる事は聞いた…だがーーっ オール・フォー・ワンのにくたいが"もどって"いることはきいた…だがーーっ OORU FOO WAN no nikutai ga “modotte” iru koto wa kiita...da ga--- “I heard how All For One’s body is ‘returning’...however---”

7 群訝の抑えが勝敗に直結する そこのおさえがしょうはいにちょっけつする soko no osae ga shouhai ni chokketsu suru “crowd suppression is directly linked to victory or defeat.”

8 なんとしてもAFOを止めてくれ‼︎ なんとしてもオール・フォー・ワンをとめてくれ‼︎ nan to shitemo OORU FOO WAN wo tomete kure!! “Stop AFO no matter what!!”

9 "個性"は「本体」に触れる事で奪う "こせい"は「ほんたい」にふれることでうばう “kosei” wa 「hontai」 ni fureru koto de ubau I steal quirks by touching bodies.

10 僕に数で挑むリスクは考慮していた筈だが ぼくにかずでいどむリスクはこうりょしていたはずだが boku ni hazu de idomu RISUKU wa kouryo shite ita hazu da ga I should have been considering the risk of their challenging me with numbers.

1 これまでのリスクヘッジを放り出してでも止めたいと これまでのリスクヘッジをほうりだしてでもとめたいと kore made no RISUKU HEJJI wo houri dashite demo tometai to “Even if I throw away the risk hedging I’ve done for far, if I want to stop...”

2 そうかそうか… sou ka sou ka... “I see, I see...”

3 フフ… FUFU... “Heheh...”

1 ぐああ!!! guaa!!! “Gwaah!!!”

2 更に多くの"個性"を併用し始めた…‼︎ さらにおおくの"こせい"をへいようしはじめた…‼︎ sara ni ooku no “kosei” wo heiyou shi hajimeta...!! He started using even more quirks together...!!

3 免れた者は手を緩めるな‼︎防御持ちは押されるな‼︎ まねがれたものはてをゆるめるな‼︎ぼうぎょもちはおされるな‼︎ manegareta mono wa te wo yurumeruna!! bougyo mochi wa osareruna!! “Don’t lose your hands to those who escaped!! Those who have defense, don’t be pushed!!”

4 見ろ！奴は"止まって"る‼︎攻撃し続けろ‼︎ みろ！やつは"とまって"る‼︎こうげきしつづけろ‼︎ miro! yatsu wa “tomatte”ru!! kougeki shi tsudzukero!! “Look! He’s stopping!! Continue attacking!!”

5 この期に及んでまだ このごにおよんでまだ kono go ni oyonde mada “Up until this point, you’re still”

6 どうにかなると思っている どうにかなるとおもっている dou ni ka naru to omotte iru “thinking you’ll be able to do something.”

7 僕に唯一届いた男を欠いて尚！ ぼくにゆいいつとどいたおとこをかいてなお！ boku ni yuiitsu todoita otoko wo kaite nao! “[Yet] you’re still missing the one man who could reach me!”

1 勇敢なんじゃない… ゆうかんなんじゃない… yuukan nanja nai... “You’re not brave...”

2 僕の黄金時代を知らぬからだ ぼくのゴールデンエイジをしらぬからだ boku no GOORUDEN EIJI wo shiranu kara da “It’s because you don’t know of my golden age.”

3 物心が付く頃にオールマイトが台頭し始めた世代…！ ものごころがつくころにオールマイトがたいとうしはじめたせだい…！ monogokoro ga tsuku koro ni OORU MAITO ga taitou shi hajimeta sedai...! “The generation when, just as you were coming to your senses, All Might began to rise...!”

4 産まれた時からオールマイトが台頭していた世代！ うまれたときからオールマイトがたいとうしていたせだい！ umareta toki kara OORU MAITO ga taitou shite ita sedai...! “The generation that, since when you were born, All Might [already] had risen...!”

5-6 何も見えぬ闇の中しかし誰もが「そこにいる何か」に怯えた時代 なにもみえぬやみのなかしかしだれもが「そこにいるなにか」におびえたじだい nani mo mienu yami no naka shikashi daremo ga 「soko ni iru nani ka」 ni obieta jidai “The era when you couldn’t see anything in the darkness but everyone was still frightened by ‘something in there’...”

7 猜疑と怨嗟 さいぎとえんさ saigi to ensa “Suspicion and resentment.”

8 搾取と差別に塗れた さくしゅとさべつにまみれた sakushu to sabetsu ni mamireta “Painted with exploitation and discrimination.”

9 黄金の闇を！ おうごんのやみを！ ougon no yami wo! “The golden darkness!”

1 ？　いや知ってるっす ？　いやしってるっす ? iya shitteru ssu “? No wait, I know that!”

2 あんたは知らんかったけど!!! あんたはしらんかったけど!!! anta wa shirankatta kedo!!! “I didn’t know about you though!!!”

3 その辺は近現代史でちゃんとやってるんで‼︎ そのへんはきんげんだいしでちゃんとやってるんで‼︎ sono hen wa kingendaishi de chanto yatterunde!! “We properly [covered] around then in Modern History!!”

4 俺は親友の轟とその父親を"見て"応援すると決めた！ おれはしんゆうのとどろきとエンデヴァーやを"みて"おうえんするときめた！ ore wa shin’yuu no Todoroki to ENDEVAA (read as: sono chichioya) wo “mite” ouen suru to kimeta! “I decided to ‘watch’ and support my close friend Todoroki and Endeavor (read as: his father)!”

5 その血潮が恐怖に勝ってるだけっス!!! そのちしおがきょうふにまさってるだけっス!!! sono chishio ga kyoufu ni masatteru dake SSU!!! “That hot-headedness will win against fear!!!”

6 風の牢に"個性"を乗せてーーー…… かぜのろうに"こうげき"をのせてーーー…… kaze no rou ni “kougeki (read as: kosei)” wo nosete---...... He’s riding on the attack (read as: quirk) that’s a prison of wind---......

7 …"奪って"…行くか…… …"うばって"…いくか…… ...”ubatte”...iku ka...... “...shall I...steal it......”

1 ぐはっ!!! guha!!! “Ghagh!!!”

2 イナサ‼︎ INASA!! “Inasa!!”

3 手を緩めるなトガを巻き上げながら吹かせ続けろ‼︎ てをゆるめるなトガをまきあげながらふかせつづけろ‼︎ te wo yurumeruna TOGA wo makiage nagara fukase tsudzukero!! “Don’t back off, keep blowing while rolling up all the Togas!!” (Note: [immature giggle])

4 ええ‼︎…俺の"個性"は強風の時程強くなるっス…!!! ええ‼︎…おれの"こせい"はきょうふうのときほどつよくなるっス…!!! ee!! ...ore no “kosei” wa kyoufuu no toki hodo tsuyoku naru SSU...!!! “Yes!! ...My quirk gets stronger when the wind is strong...!!!”

5 あんたの旧い栄光より あんたのふるいえいこうより anta no furui eikou yori “Instead of by your old glory,”

6 応援してる方のつくる未来が見たいんスよ俺はァ‼︎ おうえんしてるほうのつくるみらいがみたいんスよおれはァ‼︎ ouen shiteru hou no tsukuru mirai ga mitainSU yo ore waA!! “I’d rather see a future made by supporting [each other]!!”

7 エンデヴァーさん…‼︎ ENDEVAA-san...!! Endeavor-san...!!

1 進展ならありますよ しんてんならありますよ shinten nara arimasu yo No progress? I disagree. (Note: This is a flashback from chapter 325.)

2 ここにあったんだ koko ni attanda We’re seeing it here.

3 OFAは人々の心が紡いできたーーー… ワン・フォー・オールはひとびとのこころがつむいできたーーー… WAN FOO OORU wa hitobito no kokoro ga tsumuide kita---... One For All spins together people’s hearts---...

4 OFAだけじゃない ワン・フォー・オールだけじゃない WAN FOO OORU dake ja nai It’s not just One For All.

5 あなたも確り繋いでる！ あなたもしっかりつないでる！ anata mo shikkari tsunaideru! You are surely also connected!

6 …嫌な目だ …いやなめだ ...iya na me da ...I don’t like those eyes.

7 僕を見ていない光を失わない… ぼくをみていないひかりをうしなわない… boku wo mite inai hikari wo ushinawanai... They won’t lose that light as if he’s not looking at me...

8 いや　失ってはいるのだ いや　うしなってはいるのだ iya ushinatte wa iru no da No, he’s losing something.

9 薪を焚べるが如く まきをくべるがごとく maki wo kuberu ga gotoku [They’re] like burning firewood

10 継ぎ足されていく つぎたされていく tsugitasarete iku turning into coals.

11 だが…"個性"が奪われる事を恐れ近付けない だが…"こせい"がうばわれることをおそれちかづけない da ga...”kosei” ga ubawareru koto wo osore chikadzukenai “However...you’re afraid of having your quirks stolen, and so you can’t get close.”

12 もういい君たちの行き着く先はーーーー もういいきみたちのいきつくさきはーーーー mou ii kimi-tachi no ikitsuku saki wa---- “That’s enough, don’t you all [realize] where you’ll end up----”

1 この感覚ーー… このかんかくーー… kono kankaku--... This feeling--...

2 避けなければならない攻撃だ よけなければならないこうげきだ yokenakereba naranai kougeki da It’s an attack that must be avoided.

3 そういう事か そういうことか sou iu koto ka Is that how it is?

4 闇ニモ やみニモ yami NI MO “When it comes to the darkness,”

5 色ンナ味ガアル いろンナあじガアル iroNNA aji GA ARU “there are many flavors.”

6-7 おまえが闇を語るな おまえがやみをかたるな omae ga yami wo kataruna “Don’t you speak of the darkness.”

8 おまえが生んだドブのような味の闇ならーーー おまえがうんだドブのようなあじのやみならーーー omae ga unda DOBU no you na aji no yami nara--- “If it’s a flavor of darkness like the sewage that birthed you---”

1 皆デ　モウ食ッチマッタ みんなデ　モウくッチマッタ minna DE MOU kuCCHIMATTA “I’ve already devoured it with everyone.”

1 急激に立ち込めた暗雲が光を遮った事で きゅうげきにたちこめたあんうんがひかりをさえぎったことで kyuugeki ni tachikometa an’un ga hikari wo saegitta koto de With the light blocked by the dark clouds that rapidly rushed in,

2 "力"の持続時間が延びる "ちから"のじぞくじかんがのびる “chikara” no jizoku jikan ga nobiru the duration of my power is extended.

3 炎は ほのおは honoo wa The flames

4 木々ごと吹き荒れる交戦の中で小さくなっている きぎごとふきあれるこうせんのなかでちいさくなっている kigi-goto fukiareru kousen no naka de chiisaku natteiru are growing smaller with the battle raging through the trees.

5 俺を土で覆ってくれ おれをつちでおおってくれ ore wo tsuchi de ootte kure Cover me with dirt,

6 闇を溜める‼︎ やみをためる‼︎ yami wo tameru!! and I will accumulate darkness!!

7 オールマイトが言っていた……「エンデヴァーの炎を掴んでも オールマイトがいっていた……「エンデヴァーのほのおをつかんでも OORU MAITO ga iite ita......「ENDEVAA no honoo wo tsukandemo “All Might said...... ‘Even if you grab Endeavor’s flame,’”

8 彼の"個性"が奪えるワケではない」… かれの"こせい"がうばえるワケではない」… kare no “kosei” ga ubaeru WAKE de wa nai」... “‘there’s no way you can steal his quirk’...

9 俺がホークス達のサポートに選ばれた理由だ おれがホークスたちのサポートにえらばれたりゆうだ ore ga HOOKUSU-tachi no SAPOOTO ni erabareta riyuu da “That’s the reason I was chosen to support Hawks and the others.”

10 黒影全開放 ダークシャドウぜんかいほう DAAKU SHADOU zenkaihou Dark Shadow Fully Unleashed

11 士傑の増援からすぐ　この状況に備えたのか！ しけつのぞうえんからすぐ　このじょうきょうにそなえたのか！ shiketsu no zouen kara sugu kono joukyou ni sonaeta no ka! Just after Shiketsu’s reinforcements... Are you prepared for this situation?!

12 押せええ おせええ oseee “Subdue [hiiim!]”

13 常闇くん‼︎ とこやみくん‼︎ Tokoyami-kun!! Tokoyami-kun!!

14 追い風っス!!! おいかぜっス!!! oikaze SSU!!! “A tailwind!!!”

1 俺も君に少しでも繋げられてるなら おれもきみにすこしでもつなげられてるなら ore mo kimi ni sukoshi demo tsunagerareteru nara If even I can connect with you just a little,

2 この汚い羽があって良かった このきたないはねがあってよかった kono kitanai hane ga atte yokatta I’ll be glad to have these dirty feathers.

3 深淵闇躯 ブラックアンク BURAKKU ANKU Black Ankh

4 光明!!! バルドル!!! BARUDORU!!! Balder!!! (Note: This is a reference from Norse mythology.)

tagline 叩きつぶせ‼︎ たたきつぶせ‼︎ tataki tsubuse!! Crush him!!

[smolthealmighty]

[mettywiththenotes]

It fucken WIMDY

[ignoringmyhyperfixation]

I'm taking every crumb of content I get for him and protecting it

[stillness-in-green]

Chapter Thoughts — Chapter 381: Dark

A short one this week. But more pictures than usual!

O  Shishikura, my lad, what in hell are you on about?  This first page is so completely bugfuck I almost can’t comprehend it.  Protect?  Protect??  This guy??

Human? Hardly. More like a disaster on legs... Or a wild beast. Just like the rest of the animals we've got locked up here. (...) They might walk and talk like people, but these disgusting beings only managed to mingle with society as long as they did because quirks have warped our standards for humanity.

Okay, yeah, we don’t know for sure if this guy was Shishikura’s father or not.  But we do know Shishikura’s father was a warden at Tartarus, which naturally leads to an expectation that, when we get scenes in Tartarus, we will eventually see someone with a family resemblance to Seiji.  And this guy had similar hair, and he sure as hell had a similar attitude.  Like, even the anime made his hair lavender, so they clearly saw the inference, too!

Even if he wasn’t, though, the response from Less Openly Fascist Guard to the above diatribe was to shush him for fear of recordings of his dehumanizing bullshit being leaked to the public, not to shush him because he was saying dehumanizing shit. It’s not some huge shock that the above was a widely accepted attitude around Tartarus.  Notice, certainly, that once it was decided that Kurogiri was going to get help, he was moved to a hospital: help is not a thing that Tartarus was built to facilitate.

I suppose the intent here is that Shishi-papa was “protecting” the country from its most dangerous criminals, but like—he did that while being very much hateful and full of spite.  You don’t complain about not being able to use missiles against human beings if you don’t have a huge measure of spite.  So what kind of mantle is Shishikura proposing to take up, exactly?  Tartarus was destroyed and it very much deserved to be.  Will Shishikura’s mantle fare any better?

O  I'd love to know if there's any kosher explanation for Shishikura being present here at all. Like, he failed the first stage of the license exam, meaning he wasn't eligible for the remedial training that would have let him take a second crack at it, so he shouldn't even have a provisional hero license. The exams are held twice a year, but the one the UA kids took was in September; not enough time has passed in the story for there to have been another. That being the case, either Shishikura is here with no license or the HPSC pulled some strings to haul in more warm bodies to bolster their ranks prior to the war, including students who wouldn't normally have been considered up to par. A bad look either way.

O  I talked about this plenty last week, so I won’t harp on it too much, but—Tsukauchi says that Shiketsu was already on the move before HQ contacted them with the aid request, right?  But how long ago, in-story, did Skeptic start mucking with the refugee transport?  How long did it take Shiketsu to get here?  I realize the travel times in the series are Basically Magic at this point, but it really does not look they made an effort to investigate the refugees’ safety (which, again, they were specifically designated as responsible for) at all.

O  Sigh.

Is that so, AFO? Is it really?

(Note, in the top picture, how far away the scaly dude in the hoodie and the long-necked gal are in particular from the truck AFO is clearing in a single swift, graceful leap.)

(X) DOUBT.

O  Inasa talking about learning modern history mostly reminds me how annoying it is that we never see the UA kids learning this kind of thing.  I know UA teaches normal subjects?—Present Mic is an English teacher, for example—but we see so little of anything that would inform the world beyond the commercial.  We get the commercial stuff: attack names and identities and agency team-ups and so on.  But history?  Legal issues?  Sociology?  Hardly anything, and it really contributes to the feeling of heroes as shiny walking billboards that don’t really think about how they fit into their own broader society.

O  TOKOYAMI’S REAL COOL, Y’ALL.  That disdainful sneer as he and Dark Shadow blot out the sky around AFO is aces, and I love that, as a fellow fan of darkness, he’s got stuff to say about AFO’s style of dark. Here’s hoping this is at least slightly more effective than Suneater’s Plasma Cannon. (Big maybe.)

O  I wish the story would make up its mind on whether Hawks is a bright-eyed hope-having hero capable of bringing light to people like Nagant, or a man with blood-stained wings who murdered someone he believed to be a good person.  Also, it’s a little hard to entirely buy Hawks thinking about passing things forward to Tokoyami when he’s mostly been doing backflips to avoid Tokoyami with the sole exception of Tokoyami’s internship.  Like, Tokoyami is putting all the effort into this relationship, you know?

[the19thduckpotato]

just some bnha/mha ch 381 thought stuff, nothing too deep but a bit spoilery maybe 

I like how All for One’s all you already lost the only person that could ever face me head on

when even he’s admitted that All Might has inspired an insane amount of people 

so like

really he’s fighting a whole massive army of tiny All Mights

and then iunno

you saying that if All Might himself shows up, the whole thing would tip over in their favor?  

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[migila]

...Who’s that?

[snubulous]

bnha 381 overview

spoilers ahead. But you already knew that.

Wait… you’re telling me that tartarus prison guard who gave that dark-ass speech from way back when the prison break happened is seigi’s father? that… makes a lot of sense, actually. I can definitely see how much of seigi’s personality and thinking is derived from that line of reasoning, and how losing his father to the very “beasts” he was guarding would drive him say he straight up would be satisfied by killing afo, though he refuses to give afo the satisfaction of acting in such an unheroic way.

Not all of the kiddos have changed all that much from their predecessors, as this right here shows. Some are influenced in negative ways.

The speech for context:

looks like the battle against afo has devolved into a chaotic brawl of some sort. I honestly can hardly tell what’s even going on in this image. It’s baffling that the first year hero students are even alive at this point when the battlefield looks like this.

I know a lot of people don’t like afo as a villain all that much, but I personally love to see how creative he can get with quirk application and all the ridiculous combo-moves he can pull off. It must take a lot of effort to not only find quirks that are compatible, but to also have the patience to train and utilize them in just the right way that creates insane power that his first-generation body really shouldn’t even be capable of. Like it or not, he’s mastered defiance of his own limitations time and time again, a villain that just doesn’t go down, an eternal demon king in contrast with All Might’s limited 40-ish year reign.

Endeavor just keeps on making the same damn mistakes.

Poor hawks and goddamn first-year hero students have been carrying the afo battle while endeavor is just running around or freezing up in a panic, unable to do much of anything. If he doesn’t figure it out soon, it’ll be his undoing.

nice quote from Inasa here.

We also get more confirmation of just how unaware the general population is/was of afo’s existence. Considering he was the one who reigned supreme during the dark era… did the hero commission or otherwise Japan’s government keep information on him hidden on purpose, or is this afo’s doing, perhaps not wanting his past to be public knowledge? He does seem to prefer to take a backseat when it comes to publicity, despite his care for physical appearance and presentation. Only his chosen enemies know a damn thing about him, and maybe he likes it that way.

The visual here sort of looks like the great attractor. Hawks is still and endeavor stan, even after everything. It’s good to see that he still has a lot of spirit left in him.

“he’s behind me, isn’t he?”

Okay, but that visual of little tokoyami sleeping with dark shadow is just adorable.

And damn… tokoyami did not hold back with that insult. afo is called out and now faces the true god of the night.

I can’t tell you how much I love these panels.

This was overall a really good chapter, though I doubt we’re at all close to the end of the afo battle. He won’t go down without a fucking fight.

[flaminghelldancer]

Bnha manga chapters 375-381 review

Hey, sorry I fell of the face of the Earth again. I forget to read the manga unless Tiltok starts attacking me with spoilers, so you can thank Dabi.

I'll make 2 parts so they don't get too long.

Toga's getting serious, not exactly for what I thought but still. I love the "not some blushing schoolgirl in love anymore", because fandom Toga is just that and I love to see how everyone's breaking their fandom versions in this war. I really hope it's Ochako and not Deku who stops Toga.

Endeavor taking responsability for Touya O.O It's like "good but took you too long and someone's gonna die because of it". As I've said, at least one Todoroki will die here and if I get to choose it'll better be Endeavor as a last self-sacrificing act to atone.

Poor Deku has too much on his plate. Good to see AfO hasn't taken over Shigaraki completely though. At this point, it has to be everyone vs AfO to defeat him.

And the past enemies coming to help the heroes? Awesome! That is a plot twist I didn't expect at all. I'm thinking that maybe it'll be Overhaul who will aboid Dabi's death and i'll make more sense than with Eri because Dabi will really die and then come back to life.

The bit about how the business course makes heroics is great to show the influence of the media. It may seem silly, but even if you ignore it, it affects your environment and so it affects you. "The story of how we all became heroes" is a great subtitle for bnha.

Oboro is stil there! Kinda dormant and just waking up from time to time, but as long as he is still there he can be saved. Some goes for the villains, what they call their origin is pretty much a mix of their inner child and their true self, aka what they are at their core. If the heroes are able to reach or wake up that part of them, there is a chance they'll be saved, even if they still have to pay for what they did (I hope this is the case for Touya).

Also, let me applaud the Shiketsu kids for saving Hawks and joining the battle. They are getting so many allies! And I feel bad for the guy that lost his dad, but I feel like it's a throwback to when Iida went against Stain to avenge his brother. I've read that the difference between vengeance and revenge is that when you avenge someone you are seeking justice for the victim, but when you get revenge on someone it's to make the victimizer pay. So, to put it in simple words, when vengeance turns into revenge heroes turns into villains. They are avoiding it this time around.

The author already said that Dark Shadow was one of the quirks he liked the most and one of the strongest though it's overlooked. We'll see how strong it is with the wind blowing his way XD

[bnhaobservation]

Ramblings about BNHA chap 381

And here chap 381 comes…

..and I’ll warn you beforehand so you know if you want to keep reading or not, this is not a chapter I particularly enjoyed because fundamentally nothing happens, beyond the story trying to give a positive light to the heroes… which wouldn’t be bad at all if it wasn’t for the way it chose to go at it… All for One going for a Villain decay path and… a previous important point of the story being destroyed. So, if you decide to keep on reading, don’t expect words of praises for this chap. Consider yourself warned.

In fact we start with the POSITIVE VIBES immediately thanks to the Shiketsu kids and, more specifically, thanks to Shishikura’s inspiring speech who claims he’d like to kill All for One for killing his father but won’t do it because his father was a prison guard set to protect.

This of course remarks how nobles the hero kids are, you might remember how, back in the past, Stain scolded Iida for giving in to hate because a real hero wouldn’t have gone there for selfish reasons but to save Native.

So where’s the problem?

Shishikura’s father is a Tartarus guard and, although we don’t know exactly who, among them, he was, from the little we saw of the Tartarus guards, they viewed the Villains as sub humans, beasts, and would have probably not hesitated to kill All for One if they had been given the chance.

We’ve the bit in chap 297, with a Tartarus guard who claimed all the Villains there are disasters on legs or wild beasts, animals, claiming that the convict might walk and talk like people but are actually disgusting beings who only managed to  be allowed inside society solely because Quirk have warped the standards for humanity, while we’re also informed Tartarus is basically MHA version of Alcatraz with plenty of accusation of human right violations… and we’ve the guard in chap 327 who yes, managed to heroically hold the information that Stain will later deliver to All Might, but also clearly shared the previous guard’s ideal as he asked Stain if he was a man or a beast.

Maybe neither of them was Shishikura’s father, all right, but since we saw them, they left an impression and this impression wasn’t of positive role models.

Yeah, they guarded the prison, which resulted in protecting people from criminals… but what about protecting the prisoners from human violations?

It would have felt better if Shishikura aimed to surpass his father, to protect everyone, to be always rightful, instead take him as a role model.

That, or we could have been shown a Tartarus guard that actually was a role model, someone against mistreatment of prisoners and who wanted to improve things at Tartarus.

The way Tartarus is depicted, a place in which Villains are abused and jailed for life so that they can be forgotten instead than reformed is why, when someone suggests that the LOV should end in it to pay for their crimes, I would find more merciful if Horikoshi were just to kill them. There’s no redemption path in Tartarus, it’s just a place to bury them alive.

Meanwhile, thanks to Inasa we move on DESTROYING SOMETHING THAT HAD SEEMED SO IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY.

In fact Inasa is effortlessly holding the Toga as Twice’s clones at bay.

Why this is a problem?

Because the whole excuse for Twice’s death was that his Quirk was oh so powerful if he were to be left free to run rampant, the heroes would have lost the war and Hawks, to save the war, had no other solution but kill him.

Hawks knew of Twice’s Quirk. Students were deployed during the previous war as well. Yes, they didn’t ask Inasa, but they should have if he could be the solution without causing any death.

It was all organized and planned with so much care, Endeavor and Eraser Head knew of Inasa’s Quirk and Twice’s Quirk was known as well and… no one thought at it?

What’s more, Twice’s Quirk was never used to his full potential, not back then nor now.

I mean, in both situations Twice and Toga as Twice are using the Sad Man’s parade… when they should have just cloned Shigaraki or Dabi or All for One.

Twice has strength in numbers, but Twice isn’t particularly strong or fast, we saw how Geten could easily kill a good bunch of Twices with his ice attacks… but we might have given it a pass because if Twices were to keep on coming the heroes would eventually exhaust themselves… but here we’re outright told they just had the perfect Quirk to stop the Twice problem and… didn’t even think to use it.

And yet, we’re not really tackling how bad it was from Hawks to kill Twice. Actually, since the sad man’s parade was so easily stopped, it seems as if Himiko’s revenge too won’t manage to affect him and, anyway, he’s just not caring to face her (and Twice).

Yeah, maybe this will come back to bite him later, maybe one Himiko will manage to get to him and make him regret what he did but it’s been a long time from Twice’s death and it risks to become a case of too little too late.

It would have been a great development for Hawks to ponder on what he did, to face it, and I was fine with waiting a bit but… all this waiting makes me wonder if at the end there will really be a payoff or if it will be all just shrugged off or rushed through. We’ll see.

Okay, going on with the next part which is… A RECAP OF THINGS WE ALREADY KNEW.

We’re remembered that Deku and Shigaraki left U.A., which we shouldn’t have forgotten already since it happened what? 2 chapters ago and was mentioned in the previous chapter as well.

Tsukauchi has a chat with Hawks in which we’re told Shiketsu students came there on their own… which was also said on the previous chapter. How, in case someone has missed it, All for One got back his old body and how they’ve to keep All for One at Gunga because this could decide the whole war... which was something that was made clear from the start of the war, in case someone has forgotten.

We then get an All for One monologue in which he explains how he can solely steal Quirk by touching the body of the owner, not by touching the effects of the Quirk (meaning he can’t steal Touya or Enji’s Quirk by touching their fire or Kaminari by touching his electricity and so on)… which I would like to think everyone figured out already even without this monologue but whatever. I can’t remember this being spelled out, but I never really felt the need as it seemed intuitive enough.

Then All for One claims that why the heroes attacked him with solely Endeavor and Hawks instead than a larger force. Which we already knew as it was said in chap 354 and still wasn’t such a great plan.

All for Once goes on saying they’re now attacking him with a larger force because they’re tossing all precautions away… because yeah, in the previous chapters it was said the divide and conquer strategy didn’t work and it was also made clear Endeavor and Hawks needed back up, but I guess it was important All for One were to remark it so we can waste some panels on all this.

So, in the best Shonen tradition, All for One starts using stronger attacks combining more Quirks together… only to focus on HERO POSITIVITY by showing how bravely they’re resisting to his attack.

Okay, this doesn’t have any backfiring, different from the previous one but… feels like a waste because it simmers down the threat that All for One is by showing the heroes resisting anyway.

All for One is a cool adversary as long as he’s scary, when he knocked down everyone in chap 89, we were all scared and in awe, and we got even more impressed when he could keep up with All Might, but now he’s not really sending the Number 4 and other heroes down on the ground causing them to be hospitalized for months. Now he’s sending Kinoko and Kamui Wood fly away but we hardly see the damage, so it doesn’t feel as scary as when Best Jeanist was sent on the ground with Midoriya’s group hidden and trembling in fear.

I’ll spend a moment talking about how Touya seems to be chasing Endeavor, who had previously promised he would FINALLY, FINALLY look at his son. Well, he’s apparently looking back at him as he seems to be escaping. Small consolation.

I know people have already joked on it and, actually, it’s possible the idea might be to lead Touya away from that battleground so as to cause his flames to shrunk while he’s away (because Inasa’s wind tears up trees and their roots, so they can’t feed the fire… but I guess this means they’ll end all up in the air? And there’s also rain) but who knows.

It sure doesn’t look good how Endeavor is letting his son burn himself alive, instead than doing something to stop him, like, I don’t know, talk to him, apologize or whatever.

But I think Endeavor’s plan was always to die with Touya (because it’s unlikely they’ll let them go to Tartarus together since in Tartarus prisoners has single rooms and therefore this would make hard for Enji to keep on watching over him) and watch over him while they’re in hell together, and not try to save him or something. Maybe he thinks if he wounds up as a corpse with Touya the same way his father wounded up as a corpse with the little girl he failed to save, it’ll count as atonement.

I don’t know. It feels like Horikoshi is planning to go for redemptive death, because as burned as it is, I’m not sure Touya can survive (and we were already told he shouldn’t have lived this long) and have him die due to this instead than being killed would be awfully convenient as it would be kind of a suicide instead than a murder and… well if Endeavor, who’s the one who caused Touya’s downfall, is the one who survives while Touya dies it won’t really be that inspiring so maybe Endeavor dies of blood loss due to his lost arm.

But whatever, let’s wait for future developments.

Meanwhile we move to… ALL FOR ONE GOING FOR A VILLAIN DECAY PATH.

What’s a Villain Decay path? The process by which a villain who is extremely scary on first appearance becomes a joke after a few more appearances.

So how’s being done.

All for One launches in a speech about how the heroes think they can beat him because they don’t know of his glorious past, his golden age… meaning until now he hadn’t accomplished anything worth looking scary or impressive or whatever. -_-

I mean, he’s not boasting about his powers, about how he broke All Might, about how he continued to manipulate the underworld, no, those things wouldn’t be scary at all, he boast about his glorious past, sounding like a grandpa who just can’t stop reminding everyone when he was young he did something great.

All for One isn’t the sleeping beauty who just awoke and can only talk to us about how he was in the past, to feel as a big threat to us readers, he has to impress us with what he did NOW. Or up close.

If he has to summon a golden age we hadn’t read about after he’d been around for so many chapters… we aren’t impressed. And the narrative seems to think it’s a bright idea to remark this by dismissing the whole of All for One’s speech.

In fact Inasa informs him he has studied all that at school… or better, All for One was condemned to damnatio memoriae and never mentioned in class but the dark age is some trashy thing they study at school so no big deal.

I hate to repeat this, but for the battle to work and the heroes be amazing, All for One has to feel like a genuine threat. If the heroes who’re attacking him en masse aren’t at disadvantage it isn’t scary.

Think at classic shonen like “Dragon Ball” or “Saint Seiya”.

The enemy is always this overpowering force that the hero must struggle with all he has to overcome and who feels fearsome until the hero finally manages to find inside himself enough strength to triumph.

Instead, although occasionally All for One’s group managed to land some good hits, the heroes have been more or less in a stronger position from the start.

They divided the group as they wanted. Yes, Deku didn’t end where they wanted but eventually got there and yes, Bakugo died but it was made clear it wasn’t permanent so no harm done.

Touya didn’t manage to cause any serious harm to Shouto, Shouto almost knocked him out and yes, Touya managed to recover and to reach Endeavor but he’s basically burned to a crisp.

Spinner was beaten up and half out of it due to incompatibility with his new Quirk and the people helping him decided against it because… violence is bad.

Yes, he freed Kurogiri, and Kurogiri managed to move people around but… Kurogiri is short circuiting now and even saved Eraser Head and Present Mic.

Skeptic basically didn’t manage to accomplish anything as all he did was thwarted by La Brava and Gentle and he was captured.

Himiko’s back up was taken care of, she used Sad Man’s parade but, guess what, Inasa is making it ineffective so she can’t face Hawks.

Shigaraki was out of commission for a while as All for One took control of him, but now he’s back and ready to fight Deku which, again, is a nail in how All for One’s plan fail and the man who previously predicted Lady Nagant would betray him, felt surprised when Lady Nagant continued to help the heroes.

As for All for One himself, Endeavor and Hawks managed to get a good hit at him but yes, he rewinds but then… does nothing but babble of how cool he was in the past? He doesn’t have to say anything about his present? He can’t show us how he’s cool RIGHT NOW?

But we pause a moment in his decay path to have another moment of hero positivity that doesn’t really work well with Inasa claiming he decided that he’s just going to cheer up for Shouto and Endeavor because their hot-blooded passion is going to make them win the day and he wants to see a future for the guys he’s cheering on which prompts Hawks to go in Endeavor’s fanboy mode, dismiss how Inasa mentioned Shouto too and claim it’s not just One for All but Endeavor also who’s linking people’s hearts together.

And why this doesn’t work very well?

Because the reason why Inasa decided to cheer for Endeavor is totally unconnected to Endeavor. Endeavor did nothing to gain that trust apart for fighting for the same side Inasa is fighting for.

Inasa, after his hero licence exam with Shouto, simply decided to give Endeavor a chance too based on how his interaction with Shouto affected him and then we never heard how he reacted to the news of how Endeavor abused his family, Shouto included, because it doesn’t look good for this HERO POSITIVITY moment.

And yeah, I guess it’s a big deal but it dismisses completely Endeavor’s previous abuse of his family. Which I get people who’re afraid of All for One don’t care about, why should they feel sorry for Shouto, Touya, Rei, Natsuo and Fuyumi when they can just have Enji fight in the frontlines to save them?

And don’t take me wrong, in many tales the wrongdoings of a man are forgiven due his doing some heroic acts… but this happens when he can make up for his wrongdoings directly to the people he wronged.

If character X murders someone and then saves 100 people, it might feel as he atoned, because he can’t undo the fact he killed someone but he can prove he has understood murdering his wrong and has given his all saving people.

But here all of Endeavor’s family is alive and the most he has done is to stop beating Shouto and Rei and building a new house for Fuyumi and Natsuo.

And let’s not forget Endeavor is the number 1 hero, which was what he longed for through all his life, as much as this fight can be risky and painful, this was what he wanted.

He’s not a child who didn’t know what he was getting into. His battle with All for One doesn’t work as atonement, it’s just his job, it can save him from the public opinion who might not care if he’s an abuser at home as long as he saves them, but it doesn’t wash away what he did to beloved characters.

Poor Shouto still has to see him acting like a father.

So this ‘oh, Endeavor, you too link people’s hearts’ speech, which is here merely to give out HERO POSITIVITY vibes, actually doesn’t work well.

And back to ALL FOR ONE GOING FOR A VILLAIN DECAY PATH we go.

All for One decides to steal some more Quirks, but his oh so powerful blast only manages to bloody Inasa a bit and not stop him at all, which again remarks how he’s not that all powerful and scary.

He then has an inner monologue in which he complains about how heroes has a light in their eyes which might go out but then is relight, which feels as another round of HERO POSITIVITY this time from a bad guy because heroes are so damn amazing and hopeful they impress even the big bad… which somehow doesn’t seem to fit with All for One. But whatever All for One never fully had his character well defined so he can do everything and the contrary of everything.

More ALL FOR ONE GOING FOR A VILLAIN DECAY PATH comes when All for One can’t read the mood and claim the heroes don’t dare to approach him for fear of losing their Quirk when we had Endeavor and Hawks getting up close in the past and other heroes still coming close enough if he were fast to move (and he can be fast, we saw him being fast in the past but now I guess he feels like being lazy), and then All for One challenges them to come to him and meet his fate because evidently he doesn’t want to run after them and expect them to come to him in a line and stand still so he can steal their Quirks comfortably. -_-

I wonder… where’s the chessmaster of the previous parts of the story, the guy who could predict people’s moves? The guy that since he had tons of Quirk was oh so fast and oh so strong? Where All for One went and who’s this stranger who realizes too late that Dark Shadow has gotten behind him and, when he does, seems to realize it’s an attack he needs to dodge at all costs because evidently Tokoyami now has an attack that’s scarier than Endeavor’s.

I get that part of MHA’s goal is to have the adult heroes pass the torch to the kid heroes, but it somehow feels again as if All for One got depowered if he’s scared of Tokoyami, because previously we were never told Tokoyami’s dark shadow could creep out even someone like him.

Tokoyami gives him a speech about darkness and how he doesn’t get to speak of the dark because they already devoured the darkness All for One brought and, as he does so, he thinks back at when they brought Midoriya back to U.A. as that moment evidently solved everything.

No, I don’t mean to say it didn’t help but… Japan was in disarray with all those Villains roaming so Midoriya finally getting a chance to rest among friends doesn’t really feel like they swallowed all the darkness All for One brought, just that they managed to turn on a light in it.

But whatever, Dark Shadow seems to be planning to devour All for One, so we get a speech about how the dark clouds and the flames having shrunk, as well as Tokoyami buring himself under earth, allowed him to build up his power. Then, again, Tokoyami reminds us that All for One can’t steal Endeavor’s power by grasping his flames, which was told to us pages ago, so that’s why he was chosen to support Hawks and Endeavor, since All for One can’t steal Tokoyami’s Quirk by touching Dark Shadow.

Then Dark Shadow seems to swallow All for One but, I guess, this can be his end or it’ll be a total left down if he gets knocked down in this way. But whatever, he’s on a Villan Decay path so it might be?

Still I don’t think this will be the case, they’ll probably will need to join forces with the LOV, it’s too early to defeat All for One.

Meanwhile we get an introspection bit saying

‘If I was able to connect to you even a little bit then I’m glad I was born with these filthy wings’

or

‘If I was able to pay it forward to you, even a little, then dirtying these wings was well worth it.’

It depends if you’re reading the fan translation or the official one.

The general speculation is that it’s Hawks’ inner monologue referred to Tokoyami.

Fan translation and official translation differ as in the fan translation Hawks is born with filthy wings, while in the official one he dirtied them. I prefer the fan translation because it would make sense Hawks would loathe his wings, which connect him to his father, a Villain, and call them filthy but also see them as what pushed him to connect with Tokoyami.

The official translation instead seems to imply Hawks is glad for the crimes he has committed because, although they dirtied his wings, they also allowed him to connect with Tokoyami.

I prefer to think Hawks isn’t glad for dirtying his wings but maybe that’s just me.

The chapter ends and as you can see I had next to nothing to say that’s positive about it.

It feels like nothing was accomplished, too much time was wasted on explanation and All for One felt even less threatening, which isn’t good.

Horikoshi had to previously take a break because he wasn’t well so the previous chapter and, especially, this one, might be under standards due to this. We’ll see.

[ao3feed-hitoshi-shinsou]

Sensei, I saw them vent!

sensei, I saw them vent! by Potato-chan

In the deep walls of U.A. High, two creepy creepers watch from the vents. But they've never run into each other until now.

A fic in which Shoto and Hitoshi's creepy spying hobbies collide -literally- and cause havoc for the school.

Words: 381, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of bnha oneshots that don't make any sense

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Todoroki Shouto, Shinsou Hitoshi, Midoriya Izuku

Additional Tags: Conspiracy Theorist Todoroki Shouto, Vents, Spying, Theories, Funny, Light-Hearted, spying on deku, no beta we die like sir nighteye

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44103751

[zombieheroine]

Hi. I just wanted to say 'I was reading bnha but like I just gave up. I don’t know where I left off. I either read or need to read 381. I'm not sure if I should continue because it just got so weird...

I wonder how many chapters will finished completed manga be hmmm

Looks like 430 chapters will be the total amount.

I took a break from reading it as well at some point, but the final arc really captivated me. I didn't find it weird at all, but then again I like the kind of storytelling that utilizes metaphor and fantastical visuals. I will absolutely want to see the hero try to punch the manifestation of the villain's core trauma.

If you're talking about all the wild infrastructure they have... Sure, I can see your point. I just said 'alright then' and focused on the character drama.

My main criticism of BNHA is that I think a lot of the societal stuff and mystery that come up in the last arc weren't set up and carried out consistently enough throughout the whole story. But I am absolutely here for all the characters and their conflicts, and I think all the main drama arcs were interesting and are now getting very fulfilling endings.

Which is why I am an emotional wreck.