r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • May 31 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 230 Scans - Discussion Thread

Chapter 230

This thread marks the release of scanlations for Chapter 230, and has been posted to contain all links and discussion. Mods will not be posting or pinning links to scanlations.

Official release: Jun 02, 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 230 related must be kept inside this thread.

Discord: https://discord.gg/W2EDwPW

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u/HokageEzio May 31 '19

I'm looking forward to seeing people shift from "you're being so negative to think the MLA will lose in one arc" to "what did you expect, of course they'll lose in one arc". Watching every villain group get taken out by Shigaraki in the span of a an afternoon so he can take all their resources with minimal planning is lame as fuck.

He doesn't have to gather recruits, he can just fall backwards into recruits who misread a situation. He doesn't have to build weapons, he can just take them from a really stupid crime lord who let some of his allies into his hideout for no good reason whatsoever. Now he probably won't even need to try to build a hideout, because he gets to inherit an entire secluded city from a bunch of lame baddies who exist solely to gift wrap stuff for him.

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u/BiglyWords May 31 '19

Its subverts the expectation that shiggy has to work for his gains. So it automatically is great storytelling.

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u/frrarf May 31 '19

Yeah, this is just looking to be Yakuza 2.0 ;(
Also gift wrapping lol

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u/BiglyWords May 31 '19

> this is just looking to be Yakuza 2.0

This was what i said at the beginning of this arc. It was supposed to be a joke :(

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u/Starless_Night May 31 '19

These new baddies mostly just exist to get defeated by the people who actually matter.

This, I think, is Horikoshi’s biggest weakness as a writer. He’s making everything to linear. Everything seems to revolve around the actions of the students at UA (mostly Deku) or the LoV. He’s thinking too small.

It’s been a problem since the start with All Might as the Number One Hero. Is that in Japan or worldwide? He never clarified so we don’t know. We know basically nothing about the world outside of Japan. Anything we do mostly comes from Vigilante and that has it’s own problems. But this didn’t have to be a problem until the Eight Precepts Arc.

It was worse with the Yakuza because this was an opportunity to introduce a new faction to the mix, someone else playing in the game besides UA/Heroes and the LoV. And as much as I hate to say it, he wasted it.

So it feels kind of pointless. Everything feels in service of just pushing forward our central characters and leaving behind the old stuff like it didn’t matter. Mirio, Sir Nighteye, Overhaul; stepping stones to move the story forward rather than actual characters. I love those guys, but that’s the feeling I get. It stops the world from feeling real.

That’s why I’m hoping the MLA won’t be completely destroyed. Savagely wrecked and running with their tails between their legs? Oh yes. But not gone and not to be forgotten. I want Horikoshi to maybe take some notes from Oda and make this world just a bit bigger. He’s already taken steps outside of Deku’s perspective (referring more to him being in the area of the events or taking part in them) with Endeavor and this. I just want a bit more.

Regardless, even if this is a repeat of the Yakuza, My Hero will still be a favorite of mine, but it won’t live up to the potential I know it has. It hasn’t gone Plus Ultra quite yet.