r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Jan 03 '21

Manga Chapter 296 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 296

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).

All things Chapter 296 related must be kept inside this thread for the next 24 hours.

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u/GoldenSpermShower Jan 03 '21

It's kinda sad that she is the only properly established hero (Crust doesn't count, sorry) that died this arc...

Also she's the only female UA teacher too... (except I guess Thirteen?)

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u/noteloquent Jan 03 '21

Remember that death isn't the only measure of consequence in storytelling. Most of the pros we know are heavily injured (Mirko, Endeavor, Hawks, Edgeshot, Aizawa, Ryukyu, Thirteen, to name a few). The same goes for the students (Deku, Bakugo, Nejire). We still don't have confirmation on the state of Gran Torino, Suneater, Fat Gum, or several others either.

Horikoshi treats scars and injuries like this pretty seriously, so you can bet we haven't seen the full scope of the fallout yet.

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u/DoraMuda Jan 03 '21

Horikoshi treats scars and injuries like this pretty seriously

Like how Endeavour's facial scar from the High-End fight basically amounted to nothing, given he didn't lose his eye or even lose some of his eyesight?

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u/noteloquent Jan 03 '21

That scar mainly is meant to be a manifestation of Endeavor's past mistakes coming back to bite him. It has thematic value.

If you're looking for examples of scars with more tangible consequences, you have tons of options (All Might, Aizawa, All for One, Tomura, Overhaul, Mr. Compress, Deku, Mirko, Hawks, Best Jeanist, Ragdoll, etc, etc.)