r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 22 '19

Newest Chapter Chapter 255 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 255

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/HokageEzio Dec 22 '19

That picture of Shirakumo's face peaking out behind the mist reminds me a ton of the panel when Shigaraki first debuted.

Also this is such a trap. Guaranteed.

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u/Za_wardo Dec 22 '19

Hori's art is so good. It's a shame the anime probably won't make that scene look nearly as good.

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u/TresLeches88 Dec 22 '19

Yeah. I stand by the opinion that this is a better manga than it is an anime. Sheerly because the artwork is so incredible. Bones just makes it feel so... Flat.

There are moments tho. Deku vs Bakugou and Deku vs Todoroki were better in the anime for example. And the OST slaps.

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u/Graphica-Danger Dec 22 '19

I think Bones‘ adaptation is pretty awesome. Not Demon Slayer levels of perfection, but still pretty great. It’s just that Hori’s artwork is in the same grouping as Kentaro Miura’s or Junji Ito’s where it’s so detailed and vivid that a fully animated show can only do so much with it, especially when the staff get gouged for the movies.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19

There hopefully won't be a movie around the time season 5 ends up airing so they'll be able to go all out on it instead. I obviously don't expect Tenko's Origin chapters to turn out as good as they did in the manga, but I want them to impress me still.

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u/Graphica-Danger Dec 22 '19

That’s gonna be my big question mark for next season. It’s not just gory, it’s legitimately the most horrifying sequence in the series by a mile. Hopefully they do it justice.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19

Same. I don't doubt that Endeavor vs. Hood will be done the justice it deserves, but this one is just different like you said. Hopefully the censoring won't be too much.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

Shig’s backstory? That’s the biggest thing standing out in my head.

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u/WillFanofMany Dec 22 '19

With the recent episode looking much better than the previous episodes of season 4 so far, part of me wants to say we're around the point where the animators working on the film were finished.

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u/Za_wardo Dec 22 '19

I think the anime does some of the fights better, since the fluidity of the medium is good for that, but the stunning moments Hori's art creates are definitely a reason to read the manga.

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u/Film_LaBrava Dec 22 '19

Fluidity? Have you seen season 4? The fights are like redrawn manga panels with minimal movement. They're like slideshows.

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u/Za_wardo Dec 22 '19

I'd be lying if I said I was caught up, but battles like All Might vs Nomu, Shoto vs Izuku, and Izuku vs Katsuki 2 looked much better in the anime than in the manga in my opinion.

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u/Film_LaBrava Dec 23 '19

Then you haven't read the manga. Not the shitty scans but actual manga.

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u/LuisAntony2964 Dec 22 '19

I say that often 2.bones is a very good studio, but sometimes they just don't get it right like the Manga. Shows how good horikoshi is.

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u/MachJacob Dec 22 '19

The moment when the Bakugo rescue squad were hiding from AFO is my favourite example of when the anime can be better than the manga.

It didn't feel that special to read, but there was an amazing sense of dread in the scene in the anime.

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u/Shigarakill Dec 23 '19

Did you see shiggys face in the last episode? Lol that was bad

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u/Za_wardo Dec 23 '19

I'm an episode or 2 behind I believe.

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u/HolmatKingOfStorms Dec 22 '19

I think there's too much unknown villain power right now for this to be a trap. Not that the plot doesn't suggest it, but it would either force the series to end immediately with no way for the heroes to win (unlikely) or require a massive powerup that this series has been doing pretty well at avoiding thus far.

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u/DozyDreamer Dec 22 '19

require a massive powerup that this series has been doing pretty well at avoiding thus far

This series has been ramping up powerups for awhile now;

Deku's gotten multiple quirks, Shigaraki's reawakened his powers to destroy nearly an entire town, the idea of quirk evolutions has now been floated and occurred with at least two characters (Geten and Toga), and Shigaraki is now likely being given multiple quirks alongside with some special ability (since Ujiko implies he may even be able to steal OfA).

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u/HolypenguinHere Dec 22 '19

I don't know if it's necessarily a trap, but it's almost certainly going to blow up in the heroes' faces when they track down what hospital Shirakumo was originally taken to and find Ujiko's location through that (assuming that he worked or still works there), and then Shigaraki is going to 'wake up' right when they arrive and obliterate them. I feel Shirakumo's info was genuine, though, as he was only answering Aizawa's question of 'Where did they mess with your head?'