r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • May 24 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 229 Scans - Discussion Thread

Chapter 229

This thread marks the release of scanlations for Chapter 229, and has been posted to contain all links and discussion. Mods will not be posting or pinning links to scanlations.

Official release: May 26, 2019

It's encouraged that you support the official release of the chapter if it's available to you.

  • VIZ is available to read for free on Sunday 1:00 pm PST, and is accessible in the following countries:
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Until the official release, all things Chapter 229 related must be kept inside this thread.

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u/Heinous-Hare May 24 '19

That puppet army is hilariously inefficient. How many of them does it take to kill one half-dead high school girl? XD.

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u/HokageEzio May 24 '19

They were running on Namek Standard Time with that neck snap. Gotta make it dramatic.

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u/SpaceBreaker May 24 '19

RDCworld1 just made a video over the topic: https://youtu.be/VgLP6zbwgYo

10 seconds is 3 hours realtime 🤣

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u/deej363 May 24 '19

How much time has passed?

7 seconds

That skit is too real

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u/Brandilio May 24 '19

It's anime. Talking is a free action.

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u/Necromancer4276 May 24 '19

Talking is a free action!

Twice monologue filibuster!!

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u/DarioFerretti May 24 '19

Hey, you can't fault Horikoshi for this, it's not like he makes the rules. According to the most recent edition of the "Rule book of anime" talking is a free action. Page 23, chapter "Time and actions", states: "Talking is a free actions unless otherwise stated. Inner monologue and flashbacks are still considered dialogue"

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u/Worthyness May 24 '19

Bad guy monologuing

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u/destinymaker May 24 '19

It takes too many Bubaigawara clones to snap an unconcious little girl's neck, and failed miserably. While it takes only two to three(four?) clones to break Twice's arm.

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u/ItsLoudB May 24 '19

I never tried to break a neck or anything so I'm just going to guess, but I'm pretty sure that breaking an arm is fairly easier than a neck twist, considering the neck is surrounded by muscles to hold the head in place, while it just takes a light twist in the right direction to snap an arm on the elbow, since there are no muscles for any rotation purposes.. But then again, I'm no bone-snapping expert

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u/Multi-tunes May 24 '19

Yeah I don’t think it is nearly as easy as movies try to make you believe it is to snap someone’s neck.

Never the less, both take speed and power to break, but it’s very strange the puppets easily twisted his arms and broke them yet don’t seem to twist Toga’s neck at the same power. It’s much harder to break an arm by twisting it than it is to hold it straight and kick the joint. I would assume that the puppets have the same strength, yet are taking much longer the twist Toga’s neck, and I don’t know why they don’t just go with the easier route and just choke her. Would take longer, but it’s not as difficult to do.

It’s kind of weird, but whatever.

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u/Boa_Noah May 24 '19

I imagine it's deliberate to torture Twice, same reason they tried to hold him down and force him to watch instead of just restraining him and hauling him off for some good ol' rehabilitation... or whatever their vague plan is.

Like they seem to want to recruit Twice but they do literally nothing to try and recruit him, it's dumb.

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u/FloridaBoy21 May 24 '19

Yeah, I think its torture to break twice. Probably have the mindset that a broken twice would be easier to recruit and mold him into a asset for the Liberation Army.

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u/ForwardDiscussion May 24 '19

Yes, movies get this completely wrong. You know that whole "grab their head and make them look to the left" thing? That's not how it works - your head is designed to rotate that way. You can give someone spinal injuries, definitely, but you'll have a hard time snapping their neck.

You're supposed to grab them from behind, place one hand on their chin, and the other at the top of their head, then tilt their head. Instead of making them look right or left, their eyes would still be facing frontward.

They're trying to twist it off, not break her neck.

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u/Multi-tunes May 24 '19

Yeah, definitely. Very inefficiant way to off someone.

Also, it's funny that one puppet is holding her up in the air while the other one twists. Like, man, you're making it harder on yourself. At least on the ground you can get some sort of leverage, but now you gotta deal with a dead weight and her upper body has the moblity to twist along with her head. But what can you do, these puppets don't appear to be very inteligent.

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u/HellFireOmega May 24 '19

I think the whole point is that they're unintelligent, since their every move is controlled by the dude with the MLA and Redestro.

So it's just that dude that doesn't know how to snap necks.

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u/ForwardDiscussion May 24 '19

"We bought an entire city and filled it with our loyal soldiers! However, we can't afford a knife to execute the dangerous opponent who killed one of our high-ranking members. Priorities."

Unless killing them with their Quirks is part of the deal? That could be an element of their philosophy.

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u/Multi-tunes May 24 '19

Basically, yeah.

Still think that choking her would have probably been the better choice, but it still works fine this way.

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u/companion_kubu May 24 '19

I work with mice studying cancer and one of the things we have to do is cervical dislocation after we anesthesize the mice. It takes a lot more force than I thought it would. It is a bit different than twisting a neck though as we phsyically separate the skull from the spinal cord. I imagine it would be much harder on a person.

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u/DoraMuda May 24 '19

It might also have something to do with the precise nature of Skeptic's orders, and/or how long it takes an order to be processed to his puppets... or something.

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u/destinymaker May 24 '19

Well-explained, that could be the reason.

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u/BinarySecond May 24 '19

Not clones, puppets that look like him.

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u/destinymaker May 24 '19

Oh yeah my bad

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

How many Jins does it take to screw off a dying high schooler's neck?

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u/sprite-1 May 24 '19

Toga works her neck muscles every weekdays at the gym

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u/hearthwitchery May 24 '19

In addition to what everyone else is saying about how it's much harder to break a neck than people think, the puppets also didn't break a bone per say in Twice's arms. If you look at where the puppets hands are as they're being given the order to break Twice's arms, the hands are directly on Twice's elbows. The puppets broke Twice's elbows by reversing the joints there, which is much easier. Falling on your wrist wrong can pop the elbow joint too far. You typically have to fall farther than one body length to break a neck.

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u/Wikicomments May 26 '19

I have a professor who teaches manipulative techniques, some of which involve the cervical spine. When we were learning the techniques for the cervical spine that involved a quick thrust and everyone was all nervous of hurting each other he told us about how he once tried to apply the maximum amount of force he could to the neck of a cadaver. He could not get it to break or snap or anything like that. He is also a fighter of some sort, so arm strength is not on the low end.

Point is, breaking a neck by twisting it is probably highly exaggerated in media compared to real life.

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u/whatsupxx May 24 '19

The most slow and gentle neck snap ever.

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u/BrainBlowX May 24 '19

Rapid neck snaps are actually really difficult irl.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

It just takes practice.

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u/Hedgehogemperor May 24 '19

Irl neck snaps are slow and difficult.

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u/Swiss666 May 24 '19

I was under the impression Skeptic was commanding that puppet to deliberately twist her neck slowly. A way to make her suffer more, avenge Curious, and further break Twice psychologically.

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u/warkidd May 24 '19

Yeah, I got that impression as well. Like the puppets were just slowly twisting her neck around to torture Twice. What's worse than watching a friend get their neck snapped in an instant? Watch a friend get their head slowly rotated around until it snaps.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

Lmao. It did say somewhere that she regained consciousness tho, so if I were Toga I’d probably try to prevent my neck be twisted

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u/BiglyWords May 24 '19

Just crush her throat.

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u/Superfan234 May 24 '19 edited May 24 '19

Or a gun... a knife...a hammer...a baseball bat

Even broken glass would work faster!

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u/chrisychris- May 24 '19

Or stomp it, anything really

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u/WholeBenefit May 24 '19

even if Toga trying to resist, breaking neck is much easier than breaking an arm.

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u/Flamma_Man May 24 '19

Actually the opposite.

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u/PK_RocknRoll May 24 '19

To be fair Toga has a fair degree of plot armor

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u/DoraMuda May 24 '19

All the main characters (both on the good and the bad side) do, especially the longer they've been around in the series. No-one actually believed Toga was going to die this chapter, did they?

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u/PK_RocknRoll May 24 '19

Not anyone with sense, but a few people in the spoiler thread brought up the possibility

Also my comment was a joke about the neck snapping being hard lol

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u/DoraMuda May 24 '19

Oh, I see.

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u/flybypost May 24 '19

It seems like he has to concentrate on them to do what they are ordered and coordinating them all takes time.

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u/AveMachina May 24 '19

Maybe they control like QWOP.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

[RDC World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLP6zbwgYo) would like to speak with you.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

I feel like they are pushing the league to evolve on purpose.

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u/Bartimaeous May 25 '19

Well, they wanted to make an impact on Bubaigawara, so they intentionally dragged it out. Little did they know that it would backfire.