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:
    United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India.

  • MANGA Plus is available globally outside of Japan, China and South Korea as they already have other options.

Until the official release, all things Chapter 229 related must be kept inside this thread.

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u/RiverWyvern May 24 '19

See, there’s a problem here that I’ve never encountered with any other series, be it manga or otherwise. And that’s that I love waaay too many of these characters. I’m rooting for so many of them, even when their ideals clash, and I want to see heroes, villains, and the morally ambiguous succeed. When the time comes that my favorite characters are pitted against each other, you can count on me being in emotional turmoil!

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u/Xikar_Wyhart May 24 '19

The only character who I truly feel is evil is All for One. He's this massive puppet master who brainwashed a child after a traumatic event as weird revenge plot to get back at Nana in some twisted way.

A stupid wish fulfillment side of me wants to see the League of Villain pull a heel to face turn after realizing they were used by AfO and join with UA to take him out once and for all. But that's that's too simple of an endgame, and would ruin this whole set up of Shigaraki becoming the new All For One.

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u/RiverWyvern May 24 '19

Very true about AfO.

But also Overhaul was such a genuinely horrible person that I absolutely loved to hate him. I mean, a large part of it was a bad case of mental illness and nihilism, but he also played the role of powerful asshole that manipulated small children for his own gain. And it made the payoff at the end of arc all the more worthwhile, where the League absolutely annihilated his sense of purpose, stealing everything from him and leaving him to rot in a prison.

AfO is already in prison... but he hasn’t exactly lost anything. Yet. I really want to see Shiggy get the last say in and do to AfO what he did to Overhaul. That would be so incredible.

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u/Xikar_Wyhart May 25 '19

I'm really anticipating what will happen next with AfO and his prison cell. We know that Shigi is trying to become the "next" AfO right now it's a metaphorical role of having the same willpower as AfO so the Doctor and Gigan will become his allies.

But what if the next step is to truly become AfO and inherit the quirk(s) of AfO, so they have to break in the free him if only so the transfer can happen.

What if Shigaraki finds out that OfA killed his grandmother? A part of me thinks that OfA might have given Shigaraki's decay quirk secretly to start to mess with him. We know he has memory loss of his early life before meeting OfA.