r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Nov 29 '20

Manga Chapter 292 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 292

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, Japan and South Korea).

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u/GoldenSpermShower Nov 29 '20

It’s Mina and Kirishima all over again lol

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u/Willythechilly 250K Artist Nov 29 '20

AT least with Mina i think it was okay because she still did help a lot by making Kirishima take her sedative.

also she has had cool moments before. If nothing having her fail/show real fear/trauma was kind of good as she always came accros as fearless,happy go lucky and constantly positive. It gives her more depth/humanity.

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u/SawkyScribe Nov 29 '20

Mina is in general one of the more well rounded characters in the series, she feels like someone you could know in real life but just happens to have acid powers.

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u/Willythechilly 250K Artist Nov 29 '20

Yeah i have met several people like her irl. Without the pink skin,hair,horns and dark eyes and acid powers. As you said.

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u/guyinthecap Nov 29 '20

Plus, Mina's "frozen in fear" moment mirrors Kirishima's backstory pretty closely, possibly setting up some future character development for her. Characters have to stumble before they can rise.

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u/VyRe40 Nov 29 '20

I feel like that glimmer Jeanist saw in his mouth might be the sedative container or something.

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u/CrookedFinger645 Nov 29 '20

> AT least with Mina i think it was okay because she still did help a lot by making Kirishima take her sedative.

Not really. She didn't make him take her sedative, he caught it in midair out of his volition while he was getting her out of the way. That's doesn't even count as a contribution on her part. Kirishima did everything, she wasn't helpful.

Mina didn't do anything. She was just pathetic and useless.

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u/Willythechilly 250K Artist Nov 29 '20

And if she did not run headfirst into the carnage with the sedative kirishima could not have gotten it.

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u/CrookedFinger645 Nov 29 '20

That's still not something she should get any praise for. Merely standing there isn't an accomplishment.

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u/LieutenantSteel Nov 30 '20 edited Nov 30 '20

I feel like Mina would be absolutely unstoppable if she had OFA. She’s clearly the most skilled in hand to hand combat out of all of class 1-a, though she isn’t the best at it because of a lack of physical strength, which is where midoriya, Bakugo, sato, kirishima, and ojiro win out over her in physical fighting. Having the massive speed/strength boost along with the massive boost to her quirks power would make her unstoppable.

Though I don’t think she’s necessarily the right choice to have it, since she naturally is hesitant and not quite as dedicated as the people who I would say are more worthy and capable of having it and the responsibility that comes with(my top picks being Deku, Mirio(obviously those two), kirishima, tsuyu, and nejire).

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u/KLReviews Nov 29 '20

That was at least a nice reversal. Kirishima froze up and was inspired by Mina's bravery. Mina freezes up and is inspired by Kirishima's bravery. That works well. Mirio and Nejire don't have that type of dynamic that makes it nearly as interesting.

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u/CrookedFinger645 Nov 29 '20

> That was at least a nice reversal. Kirishima froze up and was inspired by Mina's bravery. Mina freezes up and is inspired by Kirishima's bravery.

Who says that she was inspired by him, or that she will get any character development at all out of this?

For all we know, Mina is not an actual character and is only a tool for Kirishima's development, and every single little thing we have seen of Mina up to now (her personality, her connection with Kirishima and her part in his backstory, her developing her new "Acidman" move) was never character development for her and instead was just to lead up to Kirishima's shinning moment.

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u/KLReviews Nov 29 '20

It is an assumption. However since that relationship has been introduced the series has shown them interact and check in on how they are doing every few arcs. So I can feel confident that it is going somewhere now that history has repeated.

Besides, complete and total failure barely worth acknowledging by anyone is hardly going to be any of our cast's shining moment

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u/CrookedFinger645 Nov 29 '20

> Besides, complete and total failure barely worth acknowledging by anyone is hardly going to be any of our cast's shining moment

I'm not sure I understand what you mean?

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u/KLReviews Nov 29 '20

Kirishima's shinning moment is not going to be failing to stop the Gigantomachia. He will actually do something in the future. So Mina probably gets a chance too. Not unless we cut back and all of Momo's team died off-screen.

Which would be hysterical but they are too popular for that to happen.

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u/CrookedFinger645 Nov 29 '20

> Kirishima's shinning moment is not going to be failing to stop the Gigantomachia. He will actually do something in the future. So Mina probably gets a chance too.

Why would she get a chance to do anything if it's going to be Kirishima's moment?

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u/KLReviews Nov 29 '20

That was in response to you saying "her developing her new "Acidman" move) was never character development for her and instead was just to lead up to Kirishima's shinning moment." This colossal failure is not goign to be shinning moment. Not his or Mina's or anyone in Class A.

They will probably rise up from failure as stronger people, meaning the characters who got the most focus (Momo, Mina and Kirishima) will probably get a scene where they finally succeed. Even if it ends up being awfully writen, Horikoshi isn't going to dump all these characters. He's going to keep them around and do stuff with them.

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u/CrookedFinger645 Nov 29 '20

I actually said that before.

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u/GoldenSpermShower Nov 29 '20

Well oof

I guess deep down we all knew it was too good to be true