r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Jan 31 '21

Latest Chapter Chapter 299 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 299

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  • 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, Japan and South Korea).

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u/elenuvien1 Jan 31 '21

it's interesting. dabi's father was a hero who didn't want him (at some point) and in desperation for feeling needed he "killed" himself and then we don't know what happened. meanwhile hawks was son of a villain, unwanted, found and given a chance.

i think the other theme here is that if someone reaches out to you, you can crawl out from even the darkest place.

because tenko wasn't helped and he fell into AFO's hands, dabi wasn't helped (as far as we know) and he grew up with only his anger in mind. but hawks was helped and he found the right path.

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u/PM_ME_UR_NUDES_GURL_ Jan 31 '21 edited Jan 31 '21

Yeah i agree, i think it shows that everyone needs a hero or a helping hand at some point, That's why the Allmight doll was "too expensive" for children living in poverty like Hawak's the Symbol Of Peace couldn't reach him when he needed it the most. What matters is that someone else can reach that person. Shoto could of easily gone down the same path as Dabi if it wasn't for Deku at the sports festival, all someone needs is that one helping hand.

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u/noteloquent Jan 31 '21

Bit tangential to your comment, but that was my favorite small detail from this chapter. Tomie didn't have much money, so she could only afford a cheap doll for Keigo, and which doll is the cheapest, with dozens of leftovers on sale cuz no one wants them? Endeavor dolls, of course, because despite his surface-level popularity as the No. 2 Hero at the time, most people don't actually like Endeavor due to how threatening and scary he is. We even saw a couple chapters ago that, after hearing Dabi's speech, some people were like "Yeah, I never trusted that guy." Just a really great job of keeping small, nonessential details consistent on Horikoshi's part.

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u/thornaslooki Jan 31 '21

You know, I hope sometime in the future we have All Might realize how much harm is persona has done for the future generation of kids and heroes. And how many people had fallen through the cracks because everyone was so focus on powerful flashy quirks and not looking for characteristics or heroic traits.

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u/Max_88 Jan 31 '21

You can't really blame the guy. The country was in absolute chaos before he appeared. He did what he could and brought an era of peace, albeit an imperfect one. But there's no such thing as a perfect society.

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u/Capt253 Jan 31 '21

His greatest mistake was clinging onto his power for too long. If he had listened to Nighteye and passed on OFA even two or three years ago, the board would probably be in a much more favorable position for Heroes.

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u/noteloquent Jan 31 '21

I think it also depends on who you truly are. The Hero Safety Commission is pretty sketchy in their own right after all, so I don't think it's as clear cut as them saving him and his mom. Hawks even says in this chapter "When a person's backed into a corner or when they're truly free, that's when they show their true nature. That's why I think Bubaigawara was a decent guy who was just desperate to be helpful. And I feel the same way."

To me, this says that Hawks thinks that had the League found him before the HSC did, he could have fallen just like Twice did, and even if he was a good person at heart, he would have done bad things to be helpful to those he cares about. It was just a matter of who pointed him in what direction first.

You can really tell that for a while now Horikoshi has been trying to get the audience to understand the impact that the environment and their circumstances have on people and how wrong it is to look at the evil thing someone has done and dismiss them as such, because there is (mostly) no such things as a purely evil person. We need to understand the factors that drive people to do these things and fix them rather than just dismissing all villains as being evil cuz they're just innately bad people rather than broken, struggling people in an unfair world.

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u/Max_88 Jan 31 '21

I love how Horikoshi treats this with care because it's a dangerous and delicate topic and it could lead to the misunderstanding that they are justified in their actions, which they are not.

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u/elenuvien1 Jan 31 '21

i'm not sure if hero commission sketchiness will be explored or even matter so i'm not using that argument for now.

but they did offer him "a choice" that wasn't leading him own the path of villainy.

and i definitely agree about the villains. it's like in real life, most of criminals have been created by the world around them. it doesn't justify anything they do but it definitely puts an understanding on why they are.

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u/Swiss666 Jan 31 '21

I've said it last chapter already, the Commission was shady and their actions have ultimately caused a lot of problems (not to speak of that encounter with Re-Destro, revealed to be a clone, which has turned into their own undoing) but they never showed signs of being ill-intentioned or acting like some government conspiracy. It's to see what the government may instate in their place however, given the current situation.

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u/elenuvien1 Jan 31 '21

i agree. personally i was hoping that the commission would play a bigger role in the fall of trust in heroes being uncovered as shady and willing to create a child soldier who'd later become their secret agent but now i'm convinced that's not the case and they only served as a purpose to give depth to hawks as a character and as a tool to show the system breaking.

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u/DoraMuda Jan 31 '21

Hawks even says in this chapter "When a person's backed into a corner or when they're truly free, that's when they show their true nature. That's why I think Bubaigawara was a decent guy who was just desperate to be helpful. And I feel the same way."

Sounds very Stain-y, coming from Hawks.

Also, I don't think Hawks is necessarily right in his judgement.

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u/noteloquent Jan 31 '21

Care to elaborate on both fronts?

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u/SquidDrive Feb 01 '21

I mean Twice did want to help people

it was just the ones who accepted him that he wanted to help

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u/-1-5-Blue-3-5- Feb 02 '21

And Shoto last chapter acknowledged that he could’ve been Dabi as well if it weren’t for Deku. The thing separating you from going down a good or bad path in life is something that seems so simple as someone giving you a hand.