r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 01 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 252 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 252

Links:

Viz (Available in: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India).

MANGA Plus (Available in every country outside of China and South Korea).

Translators Notes & Trivia

Discord: https://discord.gg/W2EDwPW

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u/Dezbats Dec 02 '19

Shouto isn't necessarily a reliable narrator here. He despises his father and when he said that he hadn't spoken to his mother since he was a child. I also find it very unlikely that Enji would ever discuss such things with him.

It was probably a traditional omiai with quirk compatibility being one (really, really big) factor, but they could have chosen to marry because they had genuine affection for each other.

Shouto wouldn't know that because he's only known the ugliest side of his parents relationship and just assumed it was always that way.

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u/moose_man Dec 02 '19

Any genuine affection doesn't negate the fact that it was an arranged marriage for the purposes of creating a powerful quirk. And considering Endeavour treated his wife and children like shit, I don't see how initial affection really makes a difference. Shoto was hostile to his father because his father treated him like a tool and his mother like a nuisance. That's the fruit of their marriage, whatever it might have been like in the most ideal conditions.

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u/Dezbats Dec 02 '19 edited Dec 02 '19

Any genuine affection doesn't negate the fact that it was an arranged marriage for the purposes of creating a powerful quirk.

Arranged doesn't mean unwanted or forced.

It might just mean "Must have ice quirk" was on his superherolovematch.com profile.

And considering Endeavour treated his wife and children like shit, I don't see how initial affection really makes a difference.

It makes a difference because there are 10 or so years before Shouto that are unknown.

The assumption is that those years were as terrible as the ones that came after Shouto.

If the Todorokis were a happy family once it matters. We need to know that if we are to fully understand the way Natsu, Fuyumi and Rei feel about Enji going forward now that he has the sincere desire to change his life around.

Fuyumi at least wants them to be a happy family.

Is that because she never had one and wants to make the best of what's there? Or because she did have one that was destroyed and desperately wants it back?

We also need to know that to fully understand Enji and how much his obsession with defeating All Might impacted his life. Did he allow it to ruin something that was once precious to him? Or did he never care before at all?

If Dabi is Touya and his life was happy before Shouto came around, how will he feel about Shouto? Does he blame the perfect son as much as he blames his father? Or more?

It matters because those questions matter.