#mha 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

[dekusleftsock]

HOLY SHIT. HPLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT.

SO MUCH INTERESTING STUFF

When I’m not freaking out I’ll fully elaborate on why this chapter is so INTERESTING AND AHHHHH EXCITIBG

[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 ��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!!

[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?

[greenhappyseed]

MHA Ch.381 leak reactions:

Rukasu’s summary says “The chapter begins with Camie confused by the fact that AFO has a face now.” That tracks. The real question is if she thinks he’s even a little bit hot.

Immobilize Himiko Toga = uh oh! She’s at her most dangerous when she’s feeling big emotions and/or trying to evade capture (her greatest fear is being caught).

“Stop AFO ASAP.” Tsukauchi’s not wrong, but he basically told Hawks to keep going for the head. Interesting that Shishikura makes a point of NOT giving in to the urge to kill AFO….

AFO goes Zeus mode with lightning attacks (he’s already got the toga, the cropped hair, the illegitimate children). Hawks realizes AFO is finally using some quirks, whereas before was he was “just” using the brute strength and wisdom of a 200-year-old, 7’4” floating demon lord.

Hawks goes back to being Endeavor’s hype man, saying Endeavor is bringing hope to him, Inasa, and the 1A kids. Inasa confirms he’s backing Shoto and Endeavor. Honestly I would love seeing Inasa with Shoto here, rather than whatever is going on with Hawks and Endeavor. I do not see what Endeavor is doing (yet) that is giving hope to the kids. They had to kick his ass to make him help them retrieve Izuku, and it’s not like he was really caring for Izuku before then. Maybe the “hope” derived from the fact he’s still standing? Idk, no matter what Hawks says, this just won’t land for me until I see what happens with Toya.

AFO simps for All Might and talks about how he was the only man to “match” AFO. Wow, that’s quite the compliment! AFO just didn’t know what he had until it was “gone,” huh? Then, it turns out All Might DID tell Hawks and Endeavor about how AFO’s quirk worked in terms of stealing — it needs a physical, corporeal touch. (God I wish we saw that actual conversation instead of hearing about it from Hawks. Like I want Endeavor’s face while All Might explains his brutal battle against AFO over their magic quirks.)

TOKOYAMI RISING!!! YEEAHHH! Go on, short king!! Unleash your darkness!! Hawks says he is grateful for his “dirty” wings if he was even able to help Tokoyami a little??? Sure, but Hawks had better not be taking credit for Tokoyami’s power or general awesomeness. The kid did that on his own, without the mentor that wasn’t into the next generation. [Edit: I see people saying AFO already stole Dark Shadow — that may be, but I typically work off of text spoilers. I try not to look at the leaked low res newspaper print panels bc I prefer seeing the hi res art in context with official translations first. Like if I’m gonna spend time studying panels, I want the pretty ones…]

[resolutepath]

so there's a part in mha where dark shadow is raging and tokoyami shouts at someone that they may die if they continue to approach him. do you think that there have been unfortunate accidents in his childhood that cemented that for him ?

Oh absolutely. With the control of Dark Shadow being based on emotional regulation and light, there's no way there hasn't been incidents of where Tokoyami hasn't had accidents that caused it. And in Chapter 381 we get to see how young Tokoyami was with a full manifested Dark Shadow:

Now I'm not sure on actual age, but I cannot say any older than 5 here. So at 5 years old, likely earlier (which will tie into the second ask you've sent in terms of my personal hcs) Tokoyami's given a sentient entity inhabiting his body that can gain control in the dark and if he's angry. That's a lot of emotional regulation for a 5 year old to manage.

So I absolutely think that there were times as a child that he got hurt and ended up hurting someone. When he was called names as a heteromorph - who we know get the bad edge of society - and he lashed out because he wasn't able to put a dampener on it in time. I think in terms of schooling it became mandatory for him to be taught by either someone with a light-based quirk or be taught with some form of quirk suppression method (which he hated). To this day he still resents it and yet he understands it.

But all of it does solidiify for him that he is a threat first and a child after. And that informs a lot of his decisions as he gets older, including being more worried for his peers than himself when he loses control.

@intcritus

[floofysmallbob]

!spoilers for mha chapters 381-385!

so I’m up to date on the mha manga as of a few days ago, and-

see, I was screaming at my screen for sapphics, but THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT

we got homoerotic fight scenes, we got the “right person wrong time” trope, we got the “I would die for you” and WAIT THATS NOT A GOOD THING

“oh you want some sapphic rep? ok here’s toga and uraraka, because everyone is asking for it and toga canonically already likes her”

“let’s toss in a fight/confession/talking things through scene”

“and now we’re going to have toga himiko die in the saddest way possible”

“haha no more sapphic relationship for you”

welp thanks a lot for making me sob my eyes out for two days straight

[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.

[kits-stufff]

I still can't believe MHA ended with such a tepid wet fart

I keep going back to the website hoping to see chapter 381 "Jk could you believe that?" But it's never there

[sero-pairo]

30 Day MHA One shots!

by xandrafied

enjoy these 30 One shots :)

Words: 381, Chapters: 1/30, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi, F/F

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Uraraka Ochako, Todoroki Shouto, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Ashido Mina, Kirishima Eijirou, Jirou Kyouka, Rody Soul, Asui Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu Momo

Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki/Todoroki Shouto, Midoriya Izuku/Rody Soul, Asui Tsuyu/Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Kaminari Denki/Sero Hanta, Jirou Kyouka/Yaoyorozu Momo, Jirou Kyouka/Kaminari Denki, Ashido Mina/Uraraka Ochako, Ashido Mina/Kirishima Eijirou, Todoroki Shouto/Uraraka Ochako

Additional Tags: Fluff, Angst, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Eventual Smut, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Romantic Fluff, Feelings, Porn with Feelings, Porn With Plot, Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings, Bakugou Katsuki is Whipped, Hurt Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku is a Mess, Midoriya Izuku is a Ray of Sunshine

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/47284861

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

MHA AU's

MHA au's by Nala the dragonborn

Basically these are the AU's i want to write, but don't have the courage to post by themselves, or can't write a second chapter to, at least not yet. some of these I will be turning into their own fics, which i will tell you which ones those are. Hope you like them!

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

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

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Class 1-A, Class 1-B, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Midoriya Izuku, Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Midoriya Inko's Bad Parenting, God there's so m a n y, Midoriya Izuku Has a Quirk, Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Circus, Vigilante Shinsou Hitoshi, Vigilante Hatsume Mei, sorry im bad at this, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, adding tags as I go

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27635143

[ao3feed-todoroki]

Minds are Easy to Mold When They're Young

Minds are Easy to Mold When They’re Young by BritishGiraffeWrites

Mourning the death of your friend shows weakness, at least that is what Endevour claims. Class 1-A lost their classmate and friend. Inko Midoriya lost a son. Aizawa lost a student. All Might lost his successor. Todoroki Shoto lost a friend. Friend? Is that how he felt?

When Midoriya Izuku gets captured and killed by villains, Endevour decides to use Shoto's pain to become his greatest creation.

Based off of a really good Cosplay Tik Tok I watched. This is going to be short but really dive into the aftermath of what would happen with this prompt, considering if Todoroki and Midoriya liked each other.

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

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

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Characters: Todoroki Shouto, Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Midoriya Izuku & Todoroki Shouto, tododeku

Additional Tags: Enji's A+ parenting, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor's Bad Parenting, bnha angst, mha angst, Todoroki angst, Shoto angst, Mourning Shoto Todoroki, Sad Todoroki Shouto

Read Here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/23059618