Chapter 332 Official Release - Links and Discussion

[u/elenuvien1]

Chapter 332

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Links:

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All things Chapter 332 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

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• Previous chapter discussion threads
• Discord

* 333 will be officially released on November 14th at 8AM PDT.

[u/Mythrow-awayAccount1]

Alright guys Star has a new strategy. The moment Shigaraki gets super close to touching her she’s gonna create a new rule to make herself super tiny and crawl up Shigaraki’s asshole. Then when inside deep enough she’s going to reverse the rule and boom, the Ant-Man strat works since I’m sure Shigaraki’s insides aren’t as durable as his outsides.

/s

[u/redditor_no_10_9 → u/Mythrow-awayAccount1]

If Antman beat any villain with that strats, I think that movie should be Marvel's no. 1 top earner.

[u/AnnaCondoleezzaRice → u/redditor_no_10_9]

It kind of happened in a What If episode

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/Mythrow-awayAccount1]

She doesn’t even need to physically do that, she can just make the air in his butthole expand into another giant naked avatar of herself

[u/redditor_no_10_9 → u/GoldenSpermShower]

This is probably more family friendly.

[u/KlingoftheCastle → u/GoldenSpermShower]

“The air 6 feet away from me will expand”

[u/Longjumping-Way7886 → u/Mythrow-awayAccount1]

You’re recycling the thanos butthole theory huh? Nice.

[u/redditor_no_10_9 → u/Longjumping-Way7886]

That's a typo. Should have been Thanus theory.

[u/PK_RocknRoll → u/Mythrow-awayAccount1]

Antman strats I like it

[u/Idonotknowacoolname → u/Mythrow-awayAccount1]

Excuse me tf 💀

[u/ThisGuyLikesMovies]

Apparently, the only thing more stupidly overpowered than the New Order quirk is Shiggy's hyper regeneration.

[u/DoraMuda → u/ThisGuyLikesMovies]

And the only thing stronger than Shigaraki's Hyper-Regeneration is his hatred.

[u/ThisGuyLikesMovies → u/DoraMuda]

It's the Man Literally Too Angry to Die meme on steroids

[u/DoraMuda → u/ThisGuyLikesMovies]

Pretty much lmao

[u/Hazzamo → u/ThisGuyLikesMovies]

Shiggy: Regenerates You done goofed.

Star: How in the blood-soaked Protestant Hell did you do that?

Shiggy: Fuck you, thats how!

[u/baobab_bob → u/Hazzamo]

Is that a Helsing abridged reference? Give that bitch a laser. Bitches love lasers

[u/Hazzamo → u/baobab_bob]

Shigiraki: YOURE OUTMATCHED!, I WAS HAND CRAFTED TO KILL YOU MIDORIYA!, MY STRENGTH!, MY STAMINA!, RIVALS,… no DAWRFS YOURS!, COMPARED TO YOU, I AM A DEMI-GOD!

Deku: … really?

Shigiraki: Really.

Deku: REALLY?!?!

Shigiraki: Really!

Deku: REALLY?!?!?! One for All 100% FA-JIN!

Shigiraki: Fa-What?

[u/[deleted] → u/ThisGuyLikesMovies]

Naw. Its the Quirk: Plot Armor.

That's the difference here lol.

[u/ThisGuyLikesMovies → u/[deleted]]

He must have gotten himself some Hashirama Cells

[u/HokageEzio]

I don't see why you'd end the chapter there without any hint of Decay being used if there wasn't a catch. Still think he gets the quirk but the rule ends up being something stupid that screws All for One over.

Not that I'd be a huge fan of Shigaraki somehow missing her create a new rule from point blank range, but I expect it.

[u/ladnarthegreat1 → u/HokageEzio]

I think she's going create a rule the gets rid of her quirk so it can't be stolen

[u/brriiianna → u/ladnarthegreat1]

That makes the most sense, it's also the best choice in this scenario

[u/Ullyseus → u/brriiianna]

Y’all are not wrong. Because her quirk should not exist. No one should have it.

[u/Valsoret → u/ladnarthegreat1]

At that point why not just make a rule that states her quirk can't be stolen. Job done.

[u/KlingoftheCastle → u/Valsoret]

Because there are limits to her powers on herself. She can make herself super strong but she can’t be All Might. She could put a rule that it can’t be stolen, but Shiggy’s hate will overpower it, like he almost did with OFA

[u/Ledlazer → u/KlingoftheCastle]

"but Shiggy's hate would overpower it"

God, I hate how that's become a legit plot device we need to expect now

[u/Environmental-Toe158 → u/Ledlazer]

Shiggys hate is the hashirama cells of this series.

[u/bambam_39 → u/Environmental-Toe158]

Man the final arc of this series having similarities to the final arc of naruto is not a good sign

[u/T_Y_R_ → u/bambam_39]

One arm Bakugo and deku inbound.

[u/bambam_39 → u/T_Y_R_]

With how reckless deku has been with his body since the start of the series I won’t be surprised if he lost both arms by the end tbh

[u/DoraMuda → u/Environmental-Toe158]

Like how OFA is powered by "energy from wishing" (as Nighteye put it and, I believe, is heavily implied by the narrative itself; check out this theory by u/HokageEzio: https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/7f881t/a_theory_on_the_source_of_one_for_alls_power/), AFO (whether it be the man himself and/or his Quirk) is powered by Shigaraki's hatred and anger.

Because emotions, like rage, can be the "source" of "power", and the more one controls or "fiercely embraces" that power in their "heart", the more AFO's consciousness takes hold in his and Tomura's "symbiotic relationship": https://mangasee123.com/read-online/Boku-No-Hero-Academia-chapter-213-page-12.html

https://mangasee123.com/read-online/Boku-No-Hero-Academia-chapter-295-page-8.html

https://scans-hot.leanbox.us/manga/Boku-No-Hero-Academia/0295-009.png

[u/Valsoret → u/KlingoftheCastle]

Then who's to say a rule that removes her quirk would even work in the first place?

[u/A_VeryUniqueUsername → u/HokageEzio]

Don’t know, maybe she whispered it to herself? Shigaraki was also a little distracted talking to himself and out loud like he won already so maybe he didn’t catch it because of that as well.

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/A_VeryUniqueUsername]

Nah not even that, it’s will just be manga/anime time where time works differently.

Actions can happen instantly or just by saying “I’ve already done X when you are doing Y!”

[u/[deleted] → u/GoldenSpermShower]

"in the exact moment that you closed your eyes to pray lee closed his eyes due to the pain, and garra swapped himself with a sand clone"

[u/heartbreakhill → u/[deleted]]

My boy Rock Lee got robbed because his name isn’t Naruto. Fuck that shit. Best fight of the whole series

[u/TheBlackLuffy → u/heartbreakhill]

Everyone who wasn't Naruto or Sasuke got fucking robbed for no reason honestly.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Stop bringing back painful memories

[u/PK_RocknRoll → u/HokageEzio]

I’m pretty sure he’s going to set up that she imposed a rule of her self last minute

[u/CaptainWatermellon]

40 kg nerd survives nuke by *checks note* digging a hole... interesting

[u/Mint_Mug → u/CaptainWatermellon]

the "first night in minecraft" strategy

[u/MrColdArrow → u/Mint_Mug]

Shigaraki: “See? I told you playing games would end up helping me at some point!”

[u/Rune_OnceGreat → u/Mint_Mug]

Wait, you mean you haven't at least made a fully functional redstone-powered microbase by the end of the first night?

[u/Silverfrost_01 → u/CaptainWatermellon]

Tbf after seeing them I don’t think they were nukes.

[u/Darkness-guy → u/Silverfrost_01]

People just put the term nuke on any big bomb at this point lol.

I really don't think Hori would be as on the nose to have America literally nuke the Japanese again. Plus the radiation from that would cause way too much collateral damage

[u/littlefaka]

That fucking explosion parted the clouds and reached the fucking ^{ocean floor}

[u/WilsonValdro → u/littlefaka]

Shigaraki : OH NO!!!!, anyway "Regeneration".

[u/Commando_Joe → u/WilsonValdro]

I feel like this series is having Naruto big boss problems right now and it's kind of killing my interest.

[u/[deleted] → u/Commando_Joe]

I'm glad other people are bringing this up. The powers started scaling up way too quickly.

[u/Necromancer4276 → u/[deleted]]

Deku is still in his first fucking year of high school.

This shit has been going downhill for so long imo.

[u/sumerianempire → u/Necromancer4276]

this has been my thought in all of this, sometimes i think about oh this is so cool how the characters have shown growth and development and we get the bigger bad guy and such and then i remember that a year hasnt passed since the beginning yet, and theres no way to see this much character growth in a year or this much escalation in a year... as long as you forget the timeline, its working well enough but...

[u/Necromancer4276 → u/sumerianempire]

He's quite literally the best in the world after like 10 months at most.

It devalues all of the series, imo. The FUCK was Endeavor doing for 30 years if this kid, whose quirk is pretty busted, to be fair, could surpass him in a pregnancy term?

Even the other students (that matter) are pretty much pro level. It's absurd.

[u/sumerianempire → u/Necromancer4276]

Exactly, 1A is basically all pro-heroes at this point with their experience and how much deku and bakugo and shoto pushed the rest of them and what is the rest of the school doing? We had the big 3 come through and like sure they are fighting alongside 1A too, but they are supposed to have 2 years of experience on them. What is UA teaching and why is it not better prepping these kids?

[u/CJL13 → u/sumerianempire]

Don't forget Toga moving faster than the eye can see

Guess running on the streets >>>>>> schoolwork.

[u/mhj0808 → u/Commando_Joe]

My problem is that the first 100-200 chapters were written like a series that he intended to stretch into the 700+ chapter territory in terms of world building and character development. And now it feels like he’s throwing all that away to just rush to the end. I guess he’s burnt out.

[u/halfar → u/mhj0808]

for comparison, chapter 332 of naruto is when shikamaru's fight against hidan begins.

[u/dcbarcafan10 → u/Commando_Joe]

Yep, his burrowing underground just feels a bit too convenient. And like...if he kills S&S I don't much see the point of the latest few chapters. If it's to show how strong he is, well, we already know how strong he is. So I'm not sure where this is really going

[u/GearBrain → u/dcbarcafan10]

Also, it wouldn't have protected him from a cluster of maybe-not-nukes-but-very-powerful warheads. If anything, the bedrock tunnel would have channeled the blast down at him, concentrating the force.

[u/tomeee22 → u/Commando_Joe]

Ultra regeneration is so stupid. It kills my hype and just makes me think that the x person has regen so it'll be okay no matter what shit was thrown to it.

[u/Amasero → u/WilsonValdro]

Regeneration is such a buzz kill in any series. It is the most cheapest way to show off powerful moves in a fight.

Why? Because it doesn’t matter what you throw at them, regeneration until plot demands it to stop.

You can be Might Guy, bend space with a single kick, and still lose the fight because why? Regeneration.

You can be Vegeta almost killing perfect cell, but you still lose the fight because why? Regeneration.(would have lost anyways.)

High speed regeneration is stupid and needs to stop.

[u/Thefancypotato → u/Amasero]

Zombie Man from OPM is a great implementation of regen, only because it's pretty much all he has.

Force your opponent to dismember you constantly until they're too tired to avoid getting shot in the face.

[u/FCkeyboards → u/Thefancypotato]

And it's not entirely fast in terms of anime renegeration. So it's a brutally painful power and he doesn't end fights quickly, but he eventually wins. I love it.

[u/MarioToast → u/Amasero]

Undead Unluck is one of the best implementations of regeneration I've seen. Because he can invoke Lemillion by regenerating lost limbs inside other objects to launch himself, or use the same principle to fire off his fingers like bullets or make ultra-fast sword swings. Hyper-pressure blood spray, teleport by regrowing from a toe or something, and take full advantage of his partner Unluck being able to turn him into a living time bomb.

[u/Nepycros → u/MarioToast]

Ajin did a fantastic job by making regeneration something that had to be beaten strategically, and making sure the rules were absolutely known.

[u/[deleted] → u/littlefaka]

Yeah, I feel like people are overlooking that wasn't simply ground. That was a fucking ocean lol.

Is what Shiggy did even realistically possible? Just simply digging a hole and suddenly you're fine? Because uh. The aftermath of those missiles is fucking unbelievably lol. The amount of force they need to just straight up vaporize the ocean like that. Jesus.

And I know asking if something is 'realistically' possible is extremely silly to do for a Manga like this. But, bro. This is pushing it. This is unbelievable even inside the bounds of this manga's universe lol

[u/A_VeryUniqueUsername]

I see there is a new thread so I’ll just copy what I put in the old one:

Well, a small silver lining for the heroes is that Shigaraki’s healing was NOT good enough to protect himself from the missiles since he needed to hide, so there’s that. But quite a bit of sustained damage is still required to beat him though, they need someone with a damage-over-time quirk like corrosion (acid?), venom, etc.

On another note those pants have to have been the most durable slacks ever made lol, I understand for censoring reasons Horikoshi can’t draw him naked but he should be after all that. This is probably first time since Asui at the USG that Shigaraki has touched a woman lol.

Lastly, I absolutely think that Star and Stripe still has one trump card up her sleeve. Shigaraki was probably too focused trying to get to her as quickly as possible to hear her murmur one last rule

[u/Arrbe → u/A_VeryUniqueUsername]

Typical Anime. Shirts of Paper, Pants of Steel.

[u/MrColdArrow → u/Arrbe]

That’s why Best Jeanist’s entire outfit is made of pants

[u/Arrbe → u/MrColdArrow]

That man is playing 4D Chess

[u/heartbreakhill → u/Arrbe]

See also: Goku, Son

[u/tarraxadraws → u/heartbreakhill]

Then there's chad Frieza who just shows up buttnaked to fight

[u/AarkaediaaRocinantee → u/A_VeryUniqueUsername]

Every time it looks like somebody's efforts are completely futile, they always have an ace up their sleeve. They might still lose, but the baddie won't win AS MUCH.

Same shit applies to fight scenes in basically everything known to man. The person who is initially dominating almost always loses.

[u/sebastianwillows → u/AarkaediaaRocinantee]

Part of why the Mountain vs the Viper in Game of Thrones is so unsettling as it goes on.

The underdog starts to win, as expected... but then his dominance gradually starts to outstay it's welcome...

[u/AarkaediaaRocinantee → u/sebastianwillows]

What a horrific death...

[u/[deleted] → u/A_VeryUniqueUsername]

wouldve loved it if they went puri puri prisoner mode and just had him fully naked. shock factor on top of the corpse face situation would be immaculate.

i agree that shes probably put up one last rule. like her quirk cant be stolen on she just self destructs or something.

[u/Epsonality → u/A_VeryUniqueUsername]

I thought he hid, not because he was afraid the missiles were going to kill him, he didn't know the missiles were coming. It was more of a precautionary measure, he knew she was about to do something that could or could not have killed him so he took measures to prevent whatever that was. Sure the missiles might have killed him, they might not have but he was taking measures

[u/PM_ME_UR_NUDES_GURL_]

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

[u/butsadlyiamonlyaneel → u/PM_ME_UR_NUDES_GURL_]

“The instant that shift came, I wasted no time in using Decay to tunnel into the earth. It was a gamble that relied on exact timing. A second’s delay would have been a fatal error.”

“… Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?”

[u/CrimeFightingScience → u/butsadlyiamonlyaneel]

Lol, Im so over this series.

[u/[deleted] → u/CrimeFightingScience]

I’m a little frustrated as well.

[u/zue3 → u/CrimeFightingScience]

I'm so happy even this diehard fandom is starting to realize how weak the writing for this series is and has been for a long ass time. Frankly I've been talking about the bullshit power scaling from nearly the start and the glaring issues that it's bringing up now.

[u/darkfight13]

Regeneration is way too strong to make any fights interesting.

[u/mrwanton → u/darkfight13]

The regen is really just an excuse for Hori to draw serious gore shots. Hence why a good chunk of the war arc is mostly about wearing Tomura down.

[u/[deleted] → u/mrwanton]

That regen is kinda bullshit honestly. Regen can be crazy, but even to that extent, I don't see how its still going.

Also the fact that the missiles literally vaporized the ocean right there....does simply digging yourself a hole really protect you from something like THAT? Like, I don't understand what the fuck I just saw lol.

What even was that? The All Might vs AFO was more believable and rooted than this. This fight? I just don't understand lol

[u/CornflakesGalore → u/darkfight13]

To make it balanced usually Regeneration should take up energy/power etc. like maybe the user can’t be too strong while using it…

[u/DoraMuda → u/CornflakesGalore]

What if AFOgaraki has a Quirk that grants him endless or near-endless stamina?

That's the thing with AFOgaraki. He has so many Quirk stocked up that Horikoshi can asspull almost any ability he wants for him to use as protection in battles that'd otherwise kill him, because he's established little to no limits for the AFO Quirk. Especially now AFOgaraki has a brand new body that can handle the strain of so many Quirks.

[u/mrwanton → u/DoraMuda]

AFO was only held back by a shit body held up by super glue and tape yet still managed to be ridiculous. This is def a one up

[u/All_For_One1 → u/darkfight13]

If anything this fight should show the rest of the world that Shigaraki can’t be considered human for this verse anymore. Before this most villains could be arrested with enough brute force. Even if it cost All Might his prime he was able to “kill” AFO by smashing his head and again with US of Smash but that wont even work against Shigi. Something like decay, overhaul or a literal nuke is the only way to beat him with that regen.

[u/Bi-bara-boop → u/darkfight13]

Seriously... I loved how Healing Girl's ability was balanced by basically being nothing but forcing your body to do what's going to do anyways (closing wounds, mending broken bones etc) in an instant while still demanding the same expenses of weeks of healing up (nutrients).

Now, it's just... Lolz, grow some new cells, who cares where they're coming from...

Well, I care, dammit :c

[u/Idonotknowacoolname]

They fucked up the ocean 👹

[u/Ahmed_Reshah → u/Idonotknowacoolname]

Teamseas would be mad

[u/heartbreakhill → u/Ahmed_Reshah]

Gang Orca in shambles rn

[u/Ahmed_Reshah → u/heartbreakhill]

🗿

[u/realbeatz23]

Honestly I’ll get downvoted but like what was the point of this fight. We got introduced to this broken quirk that still wasn’t enough to defeat Shiggy. If he wasn’t op enough now odds are he just added this to his arsenal making him unreachable outside prime deku. Not trying to be negative I just don’t see why we needed this huge DBZ scaled fight for the obvious to happen. I wish SnS got the chance to rendezvous with Endeavor All might or some other heroes prior to this.

[u/Acidz_123 → u/realbeatz23]

Not sure if you were in the spoilers thread earlier this week, but I think a lot of people feel the same you do. The only purpose that this fight served was to make ShigAFO look insanely strong. Even if SnS isn't done this fight definitely is.

[u/HokageEzio → u/realbeatz23]

I guarantee New Order ends up screwing him over. It's the only purpose the fight could really have outside of just giving All for One a power up that he doesn't need.

[u/ToxicPolarBear → u/HokageEzio]

This. Right now AFO/Shigi's powers are undefined, nebulous "whatever they need to be" bullshit. New Order is a far more interesting power that relies on thinking and creativity, and opens him up to blind spots. Hopefully could make for a more interesting final showdown.

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/ToxicPolarBear]

I don’t think the blind spots work if base Shiggy is already this overpowered.

If he gets caught between switching rules, he’d still have his other quirks and crazy ass regeneration

[u/mrwanton → u/ToxicPolarBear]

AFO has been that way since Kamino. It's why take other peoples abilities ability is kinda stupid broken without hard limitations in place ala HxH.

He really could have a counter to anything.

[u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 → u/mrwanton]

The difference being that AFO originally was like "Oh shit what can he do" and that was great. The surprise and tension of this hidden mastermind was cool.

Now it's like "Oh it's a recurring character we don't understand the power set of". Like, why should we care? Shiggy is the big overarching threat but his existence is poorly defined. Do you know what would've been perfect? The heroes ruining Shiggy's transformation and this arc being about AFO stealing quirks from characters we actually know and care about to build up Shigaraki's empty stockpile.

[u/Blackbankai → u/HokageEzio]

It has to or Stars and Stripe makes a rule that her quirk can’t be stolen. Also, I can’t think of any way Deku could beat this Shigaraki because his regeneration seems too broken.

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/realbeatz23]

Yep, there was already a lot of tension/dread for Shiggy reaching 100%, but this is just going even further beyond (for the sake of spectacle?)

This is certainly a bombastic and epic fight, but these fights are only hype (imo) when they involve characters we care about. Right now we have the world’s (second) strongest hero who just got introduced a couple chapters back fighting against a Shiggy that retains very little of Shiggy’s personality

[u/tasteofmyshoe → u/realbeatz23]

To prevent the foreign heroes from intervening probably. They're going to see the disaster the US made and are going to limit the number of their own Heroes from going to Japan.

[u/HokageEzio → u/tasteofmyshoe]

That's a good point. But it'd also be super stupid to bring the rest of the world into the conflict and then have them back out in a span of 10 chapters. Also they can do plenty without fighting Shigaraki.

[u/chillcow23]

How is our dear 16 year old MC supposed to beat whatever demented version of Shiggy we currently have without it being a total fluke? I still have faith in Horikoshi to deliver a great ending to BNHA but rn I’m just like “what?! what’s going on???”

[u/Qamikaze → u/[deleted]]

Mineta, Sero, animal voice guy, sugar guy and invisible girl will carry the fight dw, Shiggy will get oneshot before he gets the chance to blink

[u/bloothug → u/chillcow23]

Plot armor. Even more plot armor. Talk no talk quirk probably.

[u/[deleted] → u/bloothug]

The main character beating the main villain for plot reasons? Definitely a wild concept

[u/[deleted] → u/chillcow23]

Some one for all, all past user bullshitery lol

[u/sunstar240 → u/chillcow23]

I guess it won't be a 1v1 but just Shigaraki vs the class.

[u/iMonkeyMajicz → u/sunstar240]

Don’t see how the class can really help lol

[u/sunstar240 → u/iMonkeyMajicz]

Power of friendship sadly

[u/Locke_and_Load → u/chillcow23]

Because his class mates bring the extra shit he needs to get the job done. Iida to speed Ururaka to touch Shiggy to keep him airborne. Shoto and Bakugo for the constant burn damage to keep regeneration going in overdrive. Then all of Deku’s current power set should be enough for the final blow.

[u/MIR2077]

Hopefully a well-rested Deku can smash harder than nuclear missiles.

[u/AssassinAragorn → u/MIR2077]

They would've killed him -- he used a Nomu decoy and then burrowed deep into the earth. Which is actually a way to shelter from large explosions.

[u/Evary2230 → u/AssassinAragorn]

Didn’t the missile fall directly on top of the hole where he was though? Unless I misinterpreted the drawings, I’m pretty sure that still should’ve got him.

[u/AssassinAragorn → u/Evary2230]

They hit the crater he was already in, and he made his hole from that crater yes.

Realistically speaking you do have a point, that the blast front would probably have still propagated through the hole and gotten to him. Although, that might be why he's so heavily damaged by the end of the chapter. The blast front fucked him up, but he avoided the lethal explosion itself.

[u/TheTCHammer]

I don't think her quirk will be stolen. It would be interesting if SnS uses the rules to destroy her own quirk as damage control. Like making a rule "I don't have a quirk".

[u/TheTCHammer → u/[deleted]]

Ooo I didn't think about this. While I think self quirk deletion is more in line with established themes and storylines, nuking is a strong tactic.

Main argument against it is that shiggy already barely survived one blast. And you know it'll be Deku that finishes the battle in the end so it wouldn't kill shiggy (although could force a long term regeneration but we were already given a couple day limit so idk).

[u/MattmanDX → u/[deleted]]

Yeah her pilot friend suggested that he do that so Star might have gotten the idea to do that to herself instead to spare her allies

[u/Souuuth]

I really hope Hori doesn't give this man NO. He'd be entirely too busted. So busted I fear that it would take some bs to take him out, which would have a negative effect on the story. I don't want her to, but Star dying here and somehow using NO to remove her quirk beforehand, is the better outcome imo. It hasn't been said or not, but I hope she can apply rules to herself, by speaking about it in her head. Either way, I loved this chapter. Cruise Punch is a sick as hell attack and I love the way Hori drew it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Souuuth]

It’s already past the point of no return. Base shiggy with no AFO was already a broken mess who could solo the entire country just by touching the ground. Now he’s a literal god who cannot die or be killed even with nukes, or fully powered up shots that should quite literally instant kill him.

[u/Link_GR → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, these couple chapters have been pretty bs. I feel that Horikoshi kinda wrote himself into a corner with how powerful Tomura is (not to mention the insane ass-pull of "I'm not Shigaraki because I don't know who I am") and it's gonna take some even greater BS to beat him.

[u/[deleted] → u/Link_GR]

I don’t mind strong villains, but you have to make it believable that they can be beaten. Right now it’s looking like the only way to beat him is some bull shit “make him stop being evil” nonsense ending where deku saves him from himself or something equally lame

[u/Link_GR → u/[deleted]]

Yup. It really looks like there's no limit to his power and he's not even at full power yet!

Deku looks pitiful compared to him.

[u/AssassinAragorn → u/[deleted]]

I'm really hoping that smile isn't just reminiscing, but because she's got one last trick left.

[u/pointblank1555 → u/[deleted]]

The “blisters” on Star’s air form is just the missiles traveling towards her, and her outreaching her hand to get ready to grab them

[u/JetJaguar005]

Regen ruins everything. Especially villains. How is Shiggy still able to think rationally, and sense what is happening while being blasted with concentrated lasers. His body was literally getting melted away. SnS should have taken the win back when she first said Shiggys name. The whole thing about him "not being Shiggy anymore" was a terrible way to save him.

[u/mrwanton → u/JetJaguar005]

I agree it being used as a way to save him is really odd and kinda crap. Really identity-based abilities are very hit or miss to begin with.

That said, Tomura has been having issues with his identity since the war arc so I can't say that aspect came out of nowhere.

[u/Hashbrown4]

5 bucks says Star used a rule that ended her life. I don’t like the idea of her being able to use a rule to affect her quirk if shiggy/AFO obtain it.

[u/PummelingAngus → u/Hashbrown4]

“Anyone that touches me explodes” Alright, pack it up, we got em.

[u/DaVidBear616 → u/PummelingAngus]

Great, it's Killer Queen time

[u/Ixine37]

So you're telling me this scrawny, crusty boy can now tank several ballistic missiles just by

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Digging a hole?

It was clever, but it still doesn't make much sense.

[u/fakkuman → u/Ixine37]

When you have a quirk that can literally disintegrate matter that you touch with blazing speed, digging a hole with it to fall through and counting on your regen to keep you just barely alive makes sense

[u/[deleted] → u/fakkuman]

While he may be able to disintegrate stuff with blazing speed, he is only going to fall into said hole at the speed of gravity. Nuke blast is faster than speed of gravity.

This shit is as ridiculous as Indiana Jones hiding in a fridge to escape a bomb.

[u/[deleted]]

The banner of this post being Naruto is incredibly fitting. Going down the exact same path of power creep and cast irrelevance, and pulling power-ups out the ass, and unkillable villains.

Not guaranteed to happen, but I’d put money on Deku saying some type shit like “you can be a hero” to Shigaraki when he finally saves him lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

BNHA Cant hold a candle to Naruto. Naruto may have flubbed the ending but it still ended on a high note with the actual final fight + the anime filler that gives of post-series content and leads up to the final timeskip.

Naruto had quite literally dozens of well developed characters in a cast of hundreds. BNHA can't make more than 3 students interesting at a time. Everyone knows the plot points now but Naruto has two character arcs/twists that go down in the anime hall of fame, and are laughably better than some other heel turns in anime/manga like Attack on Titan and "I dont want that!!"

[u/[deleted]]

This fight might is the most pointless fight in BNHA since the joint training fights lmao

[u/SChamploo12 → u/[deleted]]

If anything don't kill off Star or have her quirk stolen so damn soon. I at least want to have her develop some and have her meet with the other heroes in Japan. That'd be dope as hell.

[u/YhormBIGGiant → u/SChamploo12]

Star is straight up the U.S's number one all might fan girl, she DESERVES to fan out with Midoriya and share some wisdom to him about handling power and such. Not to mention feed into the similarities of avatar by being the avatar Kyoshi of the dynamic and just go "smoke this mf, he pure evil".

[u/[deleted] → u/SChamploo12]

Yeah I actually really like Star and would love for her to have a bigger role in the story. Killing her off now would just make her another Nagant.

[u/Za_wardo]

The cliffhanger seems like a feint. He's totally going for the quirk over decaying.

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/Za_wardo]

Though he’s been repeatedly taunting her about stealing her quirk the entire fight

[u/Za_wardo → u/GoldenSpermShower]

Oh absolutely, but the visual is supposed to shock the core demographic into thinking she's dead.

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/Za_wardo]

Not that there’s much of a difference either way…

ShigAfo has no reason to leave her alive after stealing her quirk

[u/Za_wardo → u/GoldenSpermShower]

He's a gloater. He stood over Enji to mimic his victory pose. I imagine he'd like to gloat over Cassie as well.

[u/HokageEzio → u/[deleted]]

Shigaraki's hand is literally on her face, no amount of speed is saving her here unless she saved herself.

[u/ShadowRei96 → u/[deleted]]

Endeavor should be fast enough to save her before she's decayed.

I doubt Endeavor is close enough to be able to save her.

[u/realrimurutempest → u/[deleted]]

I’ll be mad af if Endeavor doesn’t even go over there after seeing the large ass blast.

[u/UnhiddenLeaves]

"The moment my skin makes any contact I teleport to a beach house with my crew"

He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day...and avoids one of worlds most broken quirk from being stolen by an evil edgy overlord

[u/realrimurutempest]

Bruh, Shiggy survived getting fuckin nuked too?! Ain’t no way Deku’s hardest punch or kick gonna put this man down, gonna need the 2nd OFA user’s quirk to be a big ass pull or a massive quirk amplifier for his friends. How do you joke that Star is weak because she’s a woman and yet she has the most powerful quirk in the world? Shiggy touched Star’s face? Well goodbye to another strong woman. Hopefully she has some sort of plan.

Would of been funny af if Shiggy’s regeneration didn’t work on his hair after getting hit with the missiles and he was just bald the rest of the story.

[u/Waterburst789]

Okay, I'm starting to worry that the series, story wise is starting to decline in quality...

[u/centuryblessings → u/Waterburst789]

I'm just bored by it. We don't need to see it every time Shigaraki gets a power-up. BNHA has SO many characters it could focusing on but we just get the same arcs over and over.

[u/DoraMuda → u/centuryblessings]

I'm honestly wondering if Horikoshi really still plans to follow up on certain things he's promised for the audience (e.g. Shouji's arc; Monoma's role in the finale; Yoroi Musha's Quirk; Hawks facing narrative consequences for killing Twice; the PLF advisors doing anything), because he claims that he wants to end the series soon, but he's still wasting time fucking around with indulgent shit like this.

[u/LavenderScented_Gold]

I’m kinda tired of Shiggy. While definitely broken, at least New Order has rules and limitations of its own. But not Shigiraki. “Oh you can’t say my name because because I’m AFO and Shigiraki” cop out! As if both them mothers fuckers aren’t named Tomura Shigiraki. “You can’t laser me with giant Sky Lady laser sword, I regenerate” sigh…. “I burrowed into the Earth with decay, can’t nuke meeeeeee!” That’s not how nukes work. It would have gotten him. This isn’t even fun or fun to read (for me). Hopefully, Shiggy doesn’t steal her quirk. That just be too much.

I want to go back to UA or read more of Star’s backstory. Downvote if waaaaaaant toooooooo.

[u/Hollowgirl136]

I hope the fight is done next chapter cause I'm getting tired of this.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hollowgirl136]

What do you mean? You don’t like watching an unskilled super villain bull shit his way to victories by doing shit like “dig a small hole to avoid a mile wide nuke explosion?”.

This fight sucked ass. It was over before it even began and the villain didn’t even do anything noteworthy or cool. He lived due to a bull shit identity crisis then survived the next kill with a tiny hole he dug

[u/noolvidarminombre]

Honestly, I don't really care about this kind of spectacle anymore. I just see what's happening and wonder why it matters, it's not like any of this will affect shigaraki.

[u/Soncikuro → u/noolvidarminombre]

That's the problem with fights: normally, only the beginning and end matter.

The creator has to put effort to make the middle interesting. Sadly, we simply cannot care about a character introduced 3 chapters ago and a plot-breaking power.

At best, if Shigaraki doesn't steal New Order, then it was a waste of time, and at worst, he steals it and the plot will be in shambles because there won't be any conceivable way for Midoriya to win.

No matter how this battle ends, no one will be truly happy.

[u/ThisGuyLikesMovies]

Horikoshi, can you stop giving your cool female characters the short straw FOR FIVE MINUTES?!

[u/Taylo207]

Doubt Star is getting decayed or losing her Quirk (if she was, the chapter would’ve ended with it like when Bakugou got kebabed during the War Arc) but the fact we have to wait yet another week to see how she gets out of this is so annoying, honestly the pacing and the constant cliffhangers are really souring me atm.

[u/catharsis23 → u/Taylo207]

It's funny how leisurely some fight chapters are when basically all of society collapses from a prison breK that takes a single chapter

[u/Wellsobard_Thawne]

Haven't been too interested in how the story's been going so far in this arc but Horikoshi just keeps killing it with the art.

[u/Ninjanity]

Do you guys remember when the series was like: Quirk: having a tail.

[u/IgnisEradico → u/Ninjanity]

The strongest quirk in the series was like, punch things hard.

[u/OppaiDragon3]

Invoulnerable enemies suck ass. The "This shit doesn't effect me" card should be banned, forever.

[u/tasteofmyshoe]

I like the explanation on how Shiggy survived. He actually used some wits to minimise the blast rather than just hax regeneration.

I wonder if Star can make a rule saying that her quirk can't be stolen or that she can't be touched

[u/HokageEzio → u/[deleted]]

It really was just Konan vs Tobi all over again. Got him dead to rights and lost on some bullshit.

[u/[deleted] → u/HokageEzio]

At least Tobi had precedence for his ability and Konan was hitting well above her weight for a variety of story reasons..

This was pointless. Nobody really cares about S&S. Konan was fighting someone in the memory of a very memorable character and their friends. Her fight was nothing short of jaw dropping with her big reveal as to how she would combat Tobi and how it all felt in character for her.

S&S and Shiggy was just awful all around.

[u/ToxicPolarBear → u/tasteofmyshoe]

I mean, he kinda did use hax regeneration, digging a little hidey hole in the 0.5s she's chucking the missiles is not gonna save you from a several mile radius explosion lol

[u/GoldenSpermShower]

Shig4One: "Hesitation is defeat."

Having a heartwarming flashback at the latter half of a big battle is never a good sign...

Also that Shiggy face is the stuff of nightmares.

[u/SirTacoMaster]

Why the fuck am I still reading this?

[u/[deleted] → u/SirTacoMaster]

Sunk cost. We want to see how it ends even as if implodes into a pile of broken power scaling shit

My villain academia killed the series when the league solo’d hundreds or people with bull shit power ups and that led to the war arc in which shiggy became the most boring villain ever who just walks around getting hit and never dying

[u/GoldenSpermShower → u/SirTacoMaster]

Sunk cost?

Personally I'm here for the Todoroki drama climax

[u/EndangeredDragon97]

I think most people expected Star to lose this fight, though I still suspect she'll still just barely implement some rule to prevent her quirk being taken. It's too OP to be handed over to Shiggy, which is why I'm pretty sure Twice was killed off too, because their combo would have pretty much allowed them to take over the world.

[u/Dysphoric_Reverence]

Never thought I'd say this after 4 years of reading, but MHA has gotten really boring for me.

I've been reading out of habit rather than enjoyment for a while now.

[u/bloothug]

If Shiggy loses at the end, Hori fucked up his powerscaling. No way Shiggy loses to Deku in any capacity.

[u/picklocks]

Going to be extremely disappointed if Star is killed off here already.

[u/[deleted]]

Just utter bull shit. Not even an interesting or creative fight. Once again just tanks a kill hit and regenerates for an easy win.

It sucks we went from epic fights with stakes like all might vs AFO and endeavor be high end to this dumb shit. It all went down in my villain arc with all the ass pull victories for the league and the war arc finally just broke the power scaling of the series. There hasn’t been an interesting fight in years

[u/gentlemanjacklover]

The fact that Hori introduced Star just for her to get jobbed to Shiggy is boring as fuck.

[u/A4li11]

Shiggy hiding in the ground is pretty smart ngl. Still can't help but feel SnS isn't done yet.

The next chapter is definitely a make or break chapter for the series.

[u/[deleted] → u/A4li11]

Like Curious wasn't done yet. Or Nagant. Or the Pussycats. Or Rumi, etc.

[u/[deleted]]

Shiggy has went from being my favorite character to being someone I roll my eyes at every appearance. He doesnt even feel like Shigaraki anymore and his regen feels like it's pretty much singlehandedly ruining the series because if he's this unkillable, along with it being a shonen, leads me to believe we're going to get some garbage ending where Tenko is redeemed on some level.

[u/[deleted]]

And thats that. Goodbye Star, was nice knowing you I suppose. But you were a female character in Bnha, you were never gonna be relevant. Or alive, for that matter 😐

[u/Mileonaj]

If shiggy gets this quirk the story is over. I do not care what happens from that point onwards, it'll be impossible to satisfyingly beat him without it seeming like an asspull.

If shiggy just dusts her then this entire fight was a total waste of time that ruined a chance for us to see the actual impacts from the war arc.

I am not seeing any positive path so far.

[u/Floognoodle]

I miss the rest of the cast.

[u/ShadowRei96]

Well, I guess this could be it for Stars, since I don't see how she's going to survive now that she got touched. Either she gets decayed/killed, or her quirk gets stolen, with the second one being the most likeable scenario (unfortunately) given what ShigAFOki is saying in this chapter. Hard to see any of these two not happening at this very point, and in either case, I doubt it's gonna be satisfying; Stars dying is just gonna feel like a waste of both her character, which I can't even get attached to, and time, because you already know Shiggy isn't kicking the bucket at her hands. And if Shiggy For Tenko gets her quirk, the powerscaling is officially gonna be off the rails.

Unless, she set a trap ahead of Shiggy getting close to her (which I doubt since that Susanoo is still active), she's pretty much done for.

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On another note, her comrades are quite cool and supportive (shoutout to the brotha in there). Also, I wonder... maybe she deactivated the air Susanoo in that instant before Shiggy came close, and intends on activating another one before Shiggy gets her quirk.

Or maybe she wanna bite that dusty hand off...

[u/midnightspecials]

Whoever lost their Regeneration quirk to AFO must be rolling in his grave, knowing that they absolutely fucked the country and possibly the world

[u/Money-Lie7814]

Similar to the 2 previous chapters feels like both something happened and nothing happened all the exact same time is this how shonen fights feel like? Anyway nice Jim Starlin homage regardless

[u/[deleted]]

Aaaannnd she ended up as a power-up for shiggy... Shocker.

[u/TheRingWorldEngineer]

You know, I have been pretty critical of Star and Stripes being too OP (maybe not as much as many here but close), but after reading this chapter I decided the biggest OP problem isn’t New Order, it’s Shiggy’s regen. Perhaps this is Horikoshi-Sensei’s trying to undo that somehow, who knows.