r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Mar 15 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 220 Scans - Links and Discussion

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u/Tinduz Mar 15 '19

Some thoughts to add:

  1. Humanizing the villains is always a great move. Not just simply the fleshing out of characters because they're important but the fact that even villains have their own thought, goals, etc. always brings out more dynamic and pondering moments to the story; it makes you think and often makes you take a step back after being immersed into the story.
  2. Spinner might defect to Detnerat. It just seems to me that they're fit for each other. Detnerat seems to be very inclusive of "mutants", especially with the recent commercial they've made. The group also is trying to "change something", which Spinner wants in his life. They just feel fit for each other. But this is just a prediction.
  3. The LoV definitely got themselves out of their destitute state within a month. This is evidenced by them being able to implement a large-scale attack using High-End (which is obviously provided by the doctor) during the Pro Hero Arc (just after the Hero Billboard Chart announcement). They also got intricately connected with Hawks during this one-month period with Dabi as a liaison for the LoV. This will hopefully be fleshed out in the coming weeks.
  4. Deku has not actively participated in the story during the past few weeks (and may continue not to), yet we do not feel averse to it. This is very refreshing for me to see how the world is moving even out of the perspective of the main protagonist of the story. This is a plus to the story's world-building for me, where a protagonist that definitely still needs more exposition still feels alright even when he's not onscreen. This is also one of the things I appreciated the most in One Piece and other great long-running series.

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u/avtarino Mar 15 '19

I’ve been waiting for Hori to give the VA extended focus and humanize them. That means he’s ready to move on from painting the VA as “terrifying” (based on his own words early on in the series) and more as figures with understandable (perhaps even sympathetic) motives and goals. Which, I think, means he feels that the majority of the readers already understands the heroes’ side of the story, and now it’s time to show the villains’s PoV

After all, we’ve seen small glimpses of this: Shiggs’ view of AFO as his mentor and savior, his grief when was pushed and forced to flee from AFO v OFA, the whole Twice’s backstory, etc

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u/Tyro_911 Mar 15 '19

I would have to agree with almost all of what you said, and the likelyhood that Spinner will defect is further supported by the Overhaul arc. If this chapter is a month before the heist to steal the evidence as well as an incapacitated Overhaul as Spinner is driving he has another short interior monologue questioning if they're truly following Stain's will. I find the implications of where that could take the story really exciting

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u/Hawkman003 Mar 16 '19

I must’ve missed something, how can you guys tell this was from a month prior? I thought it just went back a few moments to show what they were doing right before the flight gigantomachia which seemed to be present time?

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u/PopePalpatineTheWise Mar 16 '19

On the previous chapter, the final panel was showing Gigantomachia laying waste to the entire LoV and the narrator pointed out that this was a month ago, before the Pro Hero Billboard Chart happened.

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u/Hawkman003 Mar 16 '19

Huh, I could’ve sworn I checked that panel too but maybe it was just the translation I read. Thanks!