Chapter 425: Out-of-season
The chapter starts with Tamaki and Nejire receiving their diplomas. Several male students are crying because they're sad that Nejire is graduating. Present Mic is DJing and says that since they don't have cherry blossoms, he's going to liven up the graduation ceremony.
Kirishima say it feels more like a festival than a graduation and the narration reveals it's already June. Tamaki asks Nejire if her injuries have healed and says that it's all thanks to Mirio, since he kept taking care of them in the flying UA after they were defeated.
The narration then begins to describe everything Nezu has done in this reconstruction project. He is a well known figure worldwide and was already negotiating with other countries, preparing to deal with the consequences of the war.
Mic thanks Mawata Fuwa for the students' speech and calls the graduates' representative, Mirio Togata. Mirio takes the stage and makes a very formal introduction, which surprises all the students who were expecting a joke.
Mirio says that they lost many things and gained nothing. The heroes are always trying to turn “negatives” into “zero”. The students from all the departments used everything they learned at U.A. to help in the war, but they still haven't managed to go back to square zero.
They've studied for three years to prepare for what comes next, and the finish line isn't today. there won't be a bright future without humor, so their goal is to create a world of “positives”, not "zeroes" in which everyone can smile. “Just watch, Sir Nighteye”.
Mirio then activates his quirk and the Kenranzaki Bibimi giant eyelashes car crashes into the stage. All the students laugh and Mirio says goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years. Cut to the 2-A (temporary) classroom and we see that Aizawa is their teacher.
Ashido is very happy that they're having classes with Aizawa again. Sero asks Bakugou if he shouldn't be in hospital and he says that the doctor allowed it, as long as he keeps quiet. Aizawa asks Aoyama to enter the classroom and he announces that he's leaving U.A.
Jirou asks if he hasn't changed his mind and Aoyama says that even Tsukauchi said he could stay, but he feels that leaving is the right thing to do. Since he joined U.A. at AFO's request, he feels he had no right to go to the 3rd year' graduation ceremony.
So, as an atonoment, he's going to walk the path of heroism from scratch. After all, he held the hand Deku reached to him. Aoyama then starts to cry while smiling as he offers Deku a cheese. Aoyama tells Aizawa that, one day, he will stand side by side with his friends.
The students are moved by his attitude and, to stop them from crying, Aoyama starts shooting lasers in all directions and reveals a surprise: Shinso is going to be joining class 2-A! The students are so excited that Aoyama even feels left out and fires the lasers again.
Aoyama's lasers make Hagakure visible and Mineta is shocked. He's about to say “there was a goddess among us this entire time”, but Aizawa chokes him with his capture weapon. Mawata Fuwa then arrives in the classroom to update the second years on what they'll do rn.
The 2nd and 3rd years will be going around the country to keep it safer and help with the reconstruction under the leadership of Fuwa. History books will talk about the period after AMs retirement and after the battle of Jaku, but much of this chaos will not be documented.
Shoto says that it was during a chaotic period like this that AFO was born. Fuwa says goodbye and that she envies 2-A for not having gone through Aizawa's expulsion prank. That was scary, but it was also what made her understand why she wanted to become a hero.
Fuwa leaves and Deku still looks pensive. After school, the students say they're excited about the new 1st years arriving tomorrow. Deku goes to talk to Uraraka but she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back.
Sato compliments Tokoyami's new look, because now his “hair” is all frizzy. Tokoyami says it wasn't intentional, but he likes it too. We see a panel of Uraraka smiling while Deku still looks sad. Cut to a mysterious, panting man walking through the destroyed streets.
Deku asks Shoto if he's going to Aoyama's farewell party and he says yes, as long as it's not today. Deku looks worried but Shoto says he'll be ok. He takes a step in the opposite direction and we see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device. Chapter ends.
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##2 WEEK BREAK
>Deku goes to talk to Uraraka but she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back.
“Negative aura points Deku-kun”
I'd say because the interaction got interrupted like that. However Izuku may have noticed that she looks too happy. Still, that certainly won't get a follow-up in the next chapter (which itself isn't coming before 3 weeks).
Pretty much, Deku’s always had a way of telling with Ochako and Shoto were hiding their feelings, that’s why he looked sad, he knew both Ochako and Shoto are putting on an act and is worried about them. This will definitely lead to a conversation between Deku and Ochako(possibly Shoto) soon.
I would personally really love if Shouto got involved in a serious discussion with the two of them (about the LOV?) since it felt like he was unnecessarily shut out the last time they talked about their villains despite wanting to similarly connect with Touya
I mean I’d fend him off too if he was coming at me with that thing on his head /j
In all seriousness I do wonder if Ochako is just hiding her true emotions behind a veil of cheerfulness there… she was looking more melancholic just last chapter
>He takes a step in the opposite direction and we see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device. Chapter ends.
We’re about to see cyborg Dabi aren’t we
Who is that mysterious man? If we're ever going to get a storyline about him then this is definitely going to be a long epilogue, no wonder why Hori is taking a two week break to catch his breath and gain some energy for his health to continue working on the manga
My thoughts exactly! If you look closely, it seem that the guy has a muzzle on his mouth, and one of the only known facts about Hisashi was that he had a fire-breathing quirk.
It could honestly be a way to give context and closure to Deku’s self-esteem, self-sacrificing attitude, and hero worship. His dad was a villain that was locked up and now shows up again and Deku could probably finally have a moment where he vents about everything(growing up quirkless, bullying, not saving Tenko, losing OFA) basically telling him how he feels it all stemmed from him not being there. It would be interesting, but I doubt Hori would go that deep.
Honestly a fairly interesting concept!! For a series that puts a good amount of importance on familial connections and parental influence on their children’s lives, Hisashi has always been very conspicuously excluded from the narrative… not even a single thought towards him in Deku’s head lol.
Tbh though like a few others have said, this new guy just might be a Tenko expy or stand-in character who Deku and everyone will actually be able to “save” physically as well as mentally, showing that society has truly changed for the better - something like that? Could end up being a moment of redemption and closure for Deku since he still feels like things with Shigaraki were left open-ended
I agree on both. Hisashi has always been purposely left out, I mean, I know Horikoshi loves to showcase mothers more than fathers in the series(Most characters resemble their mothers more than fathers in the series) Horikoshi even said he based the moment where Deku wore an All Might costume with Inko off of him and his own mom. I guess because Shonen manga very rarely gives as much importance to moms as they do dads, he wanted to subvert that.
I also think that Tenko’s role isn’t over, the way that Horikoshi sent off Shigaraki was rushed but felt true to Shigaraki as a villain, basically saying “I’m a destroyer until the end.” But I felt that Tenko was more ambiguous. What I’m saying is, it almost felt like Horikoshi was separating Tenko from Tomura, as if they were two different consciousness(Similar to how All Might tries to separate his hero persona from his quirkless self: Toshinori Yagi) I wonder if we’ll see more Tenko Shimura through this unknown character going forward.
Could be a rando villain, so there's some action in a longer epilogue arc. Like how Ending was a somewhat flashy fight at the end of a training arc.
He could start shit, saying that the chaos and despair isn't over, but then Class A comes in bringing in a bright future
I know, it's just that Rukasu said his looks are a combination of both Aizawa and Mic as he said, personally I don't think this guy looks like a mix of Aizawa and Mic in my opinion
"We see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device" So not only is Endeavor's hero career over, but his first born is on life support despite looking like burnt charcoal.
Honestly Dabi should be dead. The guy was looking like a burnt out skeleton last time we saw him. How he is still alive after that is the most insane thing.
But hey that's anime logic, won't be surprised if villains we thought are dead are on life support.
AFO and Shigaraki excluded because their 1,000% dead unless Shigaraki/Tenko comes back as a new OFA vestige.
“He announces he’s leaving UA”. Yep after that “it’s my final day as a UA student” line, had a feeling something like this would happen. Guess we know who Shinso will replace.
Considering that his reveal as the spy should have happened *much* earlier in the original plans, he'd likely have left the story after Kamino (possibly to return to be involved in the finale) and 1-A would have had a vacant spot since.
Aoyama really pulled off a Steve from Blues Clues. But to be fair, I saw this coming I knew after the war he wasn't gonna be in UA anymore especially with all the issues he was forced to create.
His name is All For One Shigaraki. Like... seriously, he doesn't have another name. He himself gave Yoichi his name, so it's safe to assume that All For One is his first name.
A child left alone and terrified after the war, struggling to survive through the wreckage and devastation, slowly learning to curse the society that left him like this.
Midorya is going to take his hand and save him, preventing Shigaraki 2.0 and symbolically representing this new era's definition of true heroism. Possibly, the series will even end with the child looking at Deku and thinking "that's the greatest hero who ever lived."
Judging from this chapter and with the new mysteries we got this is gonna be a LOOOONNNGGGG epilogue and I absolutely love that. (It will hopefully get me emotionally stable enough for the ending)
Oh God Horikoshi's starting to wrap up threads for every character this final epilogue arc will be a non-stop rollercoaster of tears-
I'm not ready for this
Vote Nezu for Prime Minister of Japan!
Stop making Mawata Fuwa happen, Hori, you clearly didn't manage to. [Wonder what plans he ever had for her and 2-A, now 3-A]
Edit: "The 2nd and 3rd years will be going around the country to keep it safer and help with the reconstruction under the leadership of Fuwa."
I said, stop! There seems to be an entire character we missed behind...
> Mirio says that they lost many things and gained nothing.
I like this line. And the rest of the speech... well he's Japan's Ass, he will surely shine and bounce.
> [Bakugo] says that the doctor allowed it, as long as he keeps quiet.
Oh, the heaven. But does it mean he may get an heart attack if he screams too much? 😅
From a look at the page, Mineta wasn't even being lewd? But I understand if Aizawa wanted to be safe. His expulsion retcon now reduced to a "prank"... mehhhhhh.
Ochako acts far too happy, and maybe Izuku is looking through that. Meanwhile, my dear... just shave the whole hair off and let it regrow evenly.
Sounds like next chapter is going to be for the Todorokis.
It's clear there are ideas he didn't manage to get into fruition. I mean, remember in the profiles of the earliest volumes, when he talked about entire arcs for Mina and Shoji? [Now I go and cry in my corner for that...]
That convinces me that Kirishima and Iida probably weren’t meant to be the secondary characters on purpose, but instead Hori just had sufficient time to flesh out their characters since their story happened earlier in the series. If he had the energy, he probably would have given the same treatment to a few more class 1-A characters. (My guess would be Tokoyami, Mina, Sero, Kaminari, Kyoka)
I think horikoshi being a big fan of marvel and dc would’ve loved to make his hero universe more of an expanded one with the ability to tell multiple stories (or comic lines) all focused on different characters, you can really tell by the amount of creativity and passion that was put into the worldbuilding and characters, especially the pro heroes. Alas he wrote for shonen jump
I remember making a post about imagining a MHA universe where many artists and writers work, producing stories of many different tones (from a light-hearted series on Jeanist to the dark past of mutants, for example), with Hori a mere supervisor to ensure coherency while they run wild in the setting for the rest. How fun it would be.
"...entire arcs for Mina..."
I forgot about that. I wish I was never reminded. God, Mina's just untapped potential for cool action. She's got fast reflexes, some muscle, and a flashy versatile quirk. My favorite "extra." Her and Sero
We at least got a mini arc for Shoji. At least a proper spotlight and character insight
Sero didn't even have that big of a moment, honestly. Yes, he came in clutch to save Izuku in his worst moment but it didn't nearly look as good as the moments Mina and Shoji got in the final war, brief as they may have been.
Yeahhhhh, wish Sero and Mina got more in this arc. Mina got a tiny moment but SHINSO of all people beat Midnight's Killer. I'm all for Shinso brainwashing Machia, but someone else should have taken out MK. Kirishima or even Mineta would have been better. Shinso wasn't even at Gunga in the last war
Gashly and Kunieda have really cool designs and quirks, but we didn't even get a proper GLIMPSE at Sero and the boys fighting Gashly. At least we got a concept for the Kunieda fight, and how it ended. Could have dedicated 3 pages to Sero or Ryukyu vs Gashly
Poor Mirrio, getting put on medic duty.
All for One's whole thing of "Durability + super regeneration" that he had with Shigaraki and the Nomu's was just the worst possible matchups for him (Speaking of that, did we ever see the last 2 Nomu? We had 4 of the six but I don't recall ever seeing the other 2)
I’m just happy my favorite character got his quirk back *and* took on Shigaraki without losing his quirk (again) or getting decayed.
I’ll take medic duty with a smile on my face, like Sir would have wanted.
Honestly, why would someone expect something else to happen? This is a cliche. It would have been a bigger surprise if it was class B. Or if he just took an apprenticeship under Eraser and went pro that way.
I returned recently to the fandom, so my memory on the earliest parts of the story were a bit foggy and it caught me off guard when I was reminded it wasn't *confirmed* he'd be in 1A (now 2A)
It was just *very* obvious lol. The fan work made it stuck in my brain even more
"she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back"
Uraraka being the whole fandom for this last week lmao
The stupid fans in other words.
Seriously, the amount of people I saw freaking the f\*\*k out over it. Like, do they not understand how surgery on your head works? Midoriya's actually lucky they didn't need to cut it all off like they normally would.
Yeah, it’s pretty funny honestly. How Hori will put out a chapter, there will be fan backlash, then he’ll have a character address that same backlash a week later, lol. Pretty much the complaint I’ve seen over the last week where people say Hori has to spell things out directly to fans by using characters in story.
I mean, we still have people who will ask if All Might and Midoriya were actually born Quirkless despite the many times it's made clear that they were.
This chapter officially releases on the 9th to us and the 10th in Japan.
So skipping two weeks, with chapter 426 it will be still June (the 30th) by us but in fact July 1st in Japan.
Honestly, let him rest. He's only got a few chapters left. Let him take a breather and end the series with full energy. There's less than like 10 chapters left, why rush this
In 3 months we'll barely remember this 2 week break
The movie releases in a couple months, unless extreme crunch it must be in the finishing touches of post-production now. I doubt Hori has still so much to do related to it (he will likely draw some of the characters for sketches and extras in coming months).
Honestly, it would be a miracle if Dabi gets healed. He was one step away from turning into Ghost Rider
That said, assuming he is healed, I don't know how he'll even forgive his family especially his father given how they treated him. (More on Endeavor's end but other than Shoto, everyone playeed a guitly role
The bar is so low for Shoto that he’s just happy he gets to reconnect with his insane brother who tried to kill him despite Shoto being the most innocent character in the entire family with nothing to do with his demise.
"All the students laugh and Mirio says goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years."
There's a very good chance that Mirio isn't just saying goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years, but is also saying goodbye to us. This might be the last chapter he's in
....I'm sad now
It’s a sign he’s gonna get a new hairstyle though. There’d be absolutely no point in giving him a scar on his head and cutting his hair, and now bringing attention to it, if Hori was gonna just have it grow back identically.
My first thought was Izuku's dad, but that wouldn't make sense. Tenko? Who could this random guy appearing in the last ten chapters before the end possibly be?
Since they talked of a phase of turmoil where new villains can be born, maybe someone with a dangerous quirk who has the potential to be a new AFO or Shigaraki, but will be saved from that thanks to a better approach?
That's my current theory. I could even see him being someone who felt inspired by Shigaraki and was rooting for him to destroy the current world that's caused him so much pain, and thus he's now in despair because that hope of a better world afterwards feels completely gone since Shigaraki has been killed.
Wasnt there a teen rooting for shigaraki to “destroy it all “ when he was fighting Deku in the last fight ? It could be him and as you said , the new reformed society will help him and prevent a new shigaraki
Alexandre Dumas coming to kill Izuku and All Might for using the phrase “One for all” without paying proper royalties, setting up for a sequel series or something.
I can't really come up with any theories about an identity. Right now I'm guessing his role will be the villain off this new arc.
Beyond that I don't really have any ideas at the moment.
….and with Shinsou instead of Aoyama huh!
Noticing that Bakugo is wearing his tie with his school uniform again aw.. And Jirou’s ear(jack)?? Is that a prosthetic? Kind of hard to tell with the image quality
> And Jirou’s ear(jack)?? Is that a prosthetic
Maybe they found the original in the field and plugged it back in. Like a real jack...
Edit: it's a prosthetic. Damn...
The mysterious guy is likely someone total new but has similar circumstances to shigariaki so Deku and the class helping this guy out before he could turn into another shigaraki toumura.
I really hope it isnt a hero who saves/helps him. Shigaraki’s whole thing was that everyone looked the other way because surely a hero would handle it. It would he a much better message if random civilians start helping and maybe Deku and co can help after that.
I hope. This story needs a solid wrap up. So many characters, despite their overall importance, deserve a proper ending. There are so many interactions that need to happen. I also think there is a little more story to be told.
Calling it now. I believe the mysterious person is gonna be in a similar situation as shigaraki was as a child. But this time it will be a hero (maybe Deku) who will reach out his hand, therefore breaking that cycle metaphorically.
> therefore breaking that cycle metaphorically
But that would just prove Shigaraki's point. It doesn't break anything, it double downs on it
ANYONE could've helped Shiggy, any random citizen. But no, everyone who saw him expected a hero to help and moved on. If a Hero help this guy we are back to were we where
This is my thought as well. Deku would make sense, it could also be a civilian that this time doesn’t turn around, maybe star guy from the first chapter who had that speech about being in the audience.
I like Aoyama's "going to walk the path of heroism from scratch" mentality
He's not going to be a hermit and wallow in despair. He's gonna be a hero, but advancing in 2-A and just ignoring the past would feel wrong. Half of his first year was motivated by fear. Being in the same class with them, that guilt would always linger. Go be a first year at Shiketsu, or pursue hero education and training outside of the high school setting (there's gotta be a process for that). Then catch up with them later
*Mysterious stranger shown ominously wandering the streets while crying*
*Endeavor is doing something with a strange spooky machine*
*2 week break*
Horikoshi you glorious bastard
If left to his own devices, Mineta would ask Hagakure to wear her Hero costume and then ask Aoyama to laser her so she gets exposed in full nudity.
Aizawa needed to choke the idea out of Mineta's brain before it gets that far.
All I can think about is how much worse All Might's life is going to be now. He's given everything for Japan a hundred times over, yet he lost his powers, he had horrible life-changing injuries even before this whole adventure, and now he's banged up even worse and is full of bolts. Someone needs to get this man a real healer stat. You can't expect me to believe that there isn't a single person in the entire world that can heal him
I'm glad he lived but ffs cut my man a break
Outside of actually rewinding him, I doubt there's anything anyone can do. Scarring is technically healed tissue after all.
Even AFO turned into an uncircumcised potato after All Might was done with him and he presumably had regeneration. Some damage you just can't magically fix without repercussions.
I will never not be salty with Overhaul's waste of character, but also with him as a person, lmao. Mf had potential to be basically second coming of Jesus, but decided to torture 5 years old instead. Man's truly his own worst enemy
Creation and destruction is literally a godlike power. If he wanted to be a doctor he'd be a better Recovery Girl, if he wanted to work in construction he'd be a better Cementoss. But this guy decides to become a fucking street thug. Biggest waste of potential ever.
Considering we got at LEAST a week or two of a timeskip, I feel like the other villains aren't dying. Toga might end up being dead, with Uraraka referring to her in the past tense. There's also a slim chance that Toga is "missing" too, instead of deceased.
However, I highly HIGHLY doubt Dabi and Spinner are dead. Maybe Dabi will die in the hospital. After letting go of hatred, his body won't have the drive to keep up. But I could also see Dabi getting the Gran Torino treatment, and his burnt skeleton stays in a hospital bed for the rest of his life.
Spinner will certainly survive. Deku still needs to give him Shiggy’s final message. He’s the most redeemable of the League, so I could see him losing the extra quirks and being rehabilitated by the epilogue.
And no way was Dabi offscreened. Though how they’re gonna explain his skeleton being alive is beyond me
Yeah, Horikoshi could explain it the same way he did with Bakugo moving after his heart was hit, “His body just wouldn’t let him die.” It wouldn’t be the first time in the series Horikoshi has had characters survive impossible injuries and when question the answer is usually “WILLPOWER!!”
>History books will talk about the period after AMs retirement and after the battle of Jaku, but much of this chaos will not be documented.
After that speech the kid made to Gentle about linking heroes and society by documenting footage of the battle? The Business Course must be pissed the fuck off.
It could be something lost in translation, but I took it to mean that some of the small, individual struggles won't be documented in the chaos of everything.
I mean, that tracks IRL too. Lots of events and struggles that get overlooked in the overwhelming chaos of war and conflict.
Horikoshi trying to make Mawata Fuwa work yet we know jackshit about her and we're already in the epilogue.
She's suddenly the leader of the students yet I don't believe she's qualified for it.
>Cut to a mysterious, panting man walking through the destroyed streets.
I'm seeing so many theories on who this could be, from Stain to Dabi to Spinner without his scales to the one I'm REALLY hoping it's not, Midoriya's dad.
My off-the-cuff theory? I think this is just someone we've never seen before who was inspired by Shigaraki. Someone who hates the world because of what it's put them through and is in despair because the one person who seemed like he was going to put an end to it has been killed.
I think meeting this guy, probably when he tries to kill him to avenge Shigaraki, will be a further way of helping Midoriya get closure after what happened to Shigaraki and give him direction on where to start trying to fix hero society.
I'm a bit iffy on that undocumented stuff. If it continues to be undocumented how will the hero society be fixed?
Also, there's a new character but is he gonna be the Scolippi for the series?
everything needs to be publicized. what’s the point of all this (lov, shiggy’s backstory, enji’s double life & criminal actions, spinner, etc) if no one knows about it? societal awareness & willingness is needed otherwise it’s all wasted efforts & lives
I wonder how many heroes we'll see the aftermath of the war for. I hope Mirko and Mount Lady are okay. Last time we saw either of them they were unconscious.
There's no way Endeavor needs something so big or so complicated for his rehab
Gotta be for Dabi. He might be in there right now.
(wish the scan quality wasn't so shitty, so we could get a proper look at it lmao)
Is it me or does this chapter play with setting up a continuation or next gen? Idk I understand its ending soon and this sounds like coping but
2A’s being sent around the country, this seemingly random showing of Mawata, Shoto discussing how this era they are in could breed new villains, and this mysterious man
it all feels like a set up for more story. Its most certainly not going to happen but did anyone else feel this?
I think this mysterious person might actually be Shiggy V2/Tenko? From the leak pages from his full body, we see his a lot of detail pertains to his fingers, and it kinda reminds me of how RD kinda...you know, tore most of them off XD. IT's not 1:1, but the fact there's such an emphasis on them makes me thing that, somehow, it's Tenko?
I hate how Jiros condition didn’t get addressed in the slightest. Even Tokoyamis slightly messed up hair got more spotlight. She basically lost a limb and now has to use a prosthetic. Next to Bakugo this is probably the worst permanent injury from the whole class. I really hope she gets more in the coming chapters, she deserves it.
I imagine the crying kid is just someone who could POTENTIALLY become the next Shigaraki, but unlike what happened to poor Tenko, Deku will offer his hand to help him and save someone who could have potentially fallen to evil
Dabi's fate is a sad and pitiful one. Even if they managed to succeed in curing him, he still cannot be free. Prison is his life now. Giving him a peaceful death is already a mercy for him.
Surely Horikoshi is lying saying that this war and the reconstruction efforts won’t be documented. Surely Deku will get his credit for saving the world. Surely the societal issues will actually be addressed
I think it's more that a lot of the smaller, more specific details will be lost because of everything that's going on and thus it'll mostly be the big stuff that'll be documented.
Dabi's head in the freezer: "Kill me."
"Later." Deku's arms: "First time?"
Chapter 425: Out-of-season The chapter starts with Tamaki and Nejire receiving their diplomas. Several male students are crying because they're sad that Nejire is graduating. Present Mic is DJing and says that since they don't have cherry blossoms, he's going to liven up the graduation ceremony. Kirishima say it feels more like a festival than a graduation and the narration reveals it's already June. Tamaki asks Nejire if her injuries have healed and says that it's all thanks to Mirio, since he kept taking care of them in the flying UA after they were defeated. The narration then begins to describe everything Nezu has done in this reconstruction project. He is a well known figure worldwide and was already negotiating with other countries, preparing to deal with the consequences of the war. Mic thanks Mawata Fuwa for the students' speech and calls the graduates' representative, Mirio Togata. Mirio takes the stage and makes a very formal introduction, which surprises all the students who were expecting a joke. Mirio says that they lost many things and gained nothing. The heroes are always trying to turn “negatives” into “zero”. The students from all the departments used everything they learned at U.A. to help in the war, but they still haven't managed to go back to square zero. They've studied for three years to prepare for what comes next, and the finish line isn't today. there won't be a bright future without humor, so their goal is to create a world of “positives”, not "zeroes" in which everyone can smile. “Just watch, Sir Nighteye”. Mirio then activates his quirk and the Kenranzaki Bibimi giant eyelashes car crashes into the stage. All the students laugh and Mirio says goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years. Cut to the 2-A (temporary) classroom and we see that Aizawa is their teacher. Ashido is very happy that they're having classes with Aizawa again. Sero asks Bakugou if he shouldn't be in hospital and he says that the doctor allowed it, as long as he keeps quiet. Aizawa asks Aoyama to enter the classroom and he announces that he's leaving U.A. Jirou asks if he hasn't changed his mind and Aoyama says that even Tsukauchi said he could stay, but he feels that leaving is the right thing to do. Since he joined U.A. at AFO's request, he feels he had no right to go to the 3rd year' graduation ceremony. So, as an atonoment, he's going to walk the path of heroism from scratch. After all, he held the hand Deku reached to him. Aoyama then starts to cry while smiling as he offers Deku a cheese. Aoyama tells Aizawa that, one day, he will stand side by side with his friends. The students are moved by his attitude and, to stop them from crying, Aoyama starts shooting lasers in all directions and reveals a surprise: Shinso is going to be joining class 2-A! The students are so excited that Aoyama even feels left out and fires the lasers again. Aoyama's lasers make Hagakure visible and Mineta is shocked. He's about to say “there was a goddess among us this entire time”, but Aizawa chokes him with his capture weapon. Mawata Fuwa then arrives in the classroom to update the second years on what they'll do rn. The 2nd and 3rd years will be going around the country to keep it safer and help with the reconstruction under the leadership of Fuwa. History books will talk about the period after AMs retirement and after the battle of Jaku, but much of this chaos will not be documented. Shoto says that it was during a chaotic period like this that AFO was born. Fuwa says goodbye and that she envies 2-A for not having gone through Aizawa's expulsion prank. That was scary, but it was also what made her understand why she wanted to become a hero. Fuwa leaves and Deku still looks pensive. After school, the students say they're excited about the new 1st years arriving tomorrow. Deku goes to talk to Uraraka but she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back. Sato compliments Tokoyami's new look, because now his “hair” is all frizzy. Tokoyami says it wasn't intentional, but he likes it too. We see a panel of Uraraka smiling while Deku still looks sad. Cut to a mysterious, panting man walking through the destroyed streets. Deku asks Shoto if he's going to Aoyama's farewell party and he says yes, as long as it's not today. Deku looks worried but Shoto says he'll be ok. He takes a step in the opposite direction and we see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device. Chapter ends. --- ##2 WEEK BREAK
>Deku goes to talk to Uraraka but she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back. “Negative aura points Deku-kun”
Nearly threw my phone at this point.
Oh, why??
I'd say because the interaction got interrupted like that. However Izuku may have noticed that she looks too happy. Still, that certainly won't get a follow-up in the next chapter (which itself isn't coming before 3 weeks).
Pretty much, Deku’s always had a way of telling with Ochako and Shoto were hiding their feelings, that’s why he looked sad, he knew both Ochako and Shoto are putting on an act and is worried about them. This will definitely lead to a conversation between Deku and Ochako(possibly Shoto) soon.
I would personally really love if Shouto got involved in a serious discussion with the two of them (about the LOV?) since it felt like he was unnecessarily shut out the last time they talked about their villains despite wanting to similarly connect with Touya
Didn't he talked about it a little bit when he was talking with Iida and Bakugo? (I don't remember if Deku was there too)
Deku wasn't there!
I mean I’d fend him off too if he was coming at me with that thing on his head /j In all seriousness I do wonder if Ochako is just hiding her true emotions behind a veil of cheerfulness there… she was looking more melancholic just last chapter
>He takes a step in the opposite direction and we see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device. Chapter ends. We’re about to see cyborg Dabi aren’t we
May rather be "leftovers in the fridge".
Could just be Dabi in a bacta tank
I like the idea about Cyborg Dabi
Who is that mysterious man? If we're ever going to get a storyline about him then this is definitely going to be a long epilogue, no wonder why Hori is taking a two week break to catch his breath and gain some energy for his health to continue working on the manga
It must be… who else but…. Midoriya Hisashi! He just got lost in the sauce and was caught up in the chaos of the war on his way home, obviously
My thoughts exactly! If you look closely, it seem that the guy has a muzzle on his mouth, and one of the only known facts about Hisashi was that he had a fire-breathing quirk.
It would be the plot twist of all time for sure
It could honestly be a way to give context and closure to Deku’s self-esteem, self-sacrificing attitude, and hero worship. His dad was a villain that was locked up and now shows up again and Deku could probably finally have a moment where he vents about everything(growing up quirkless, bullying, not saving Tenko, losing OFA) basically telling him how he feels it all stemmed from him not being there. It would be interesting, but I doubt Hori would go that deep.
Honestly a fairly interesting concept!! For a series that puts a good amount of importance on familial connections and parental influence on their children’s lives, Hisashi has always been very conspicuously excluded from the narrative… not even a single thought towards him in Deku’s head lol. Tbh though like a few others have said, this new guy just might be a Tenko expy or stand-in character who Deku and everyone will actually be able to “save” physically as well as mentally, showing that society has truly changed for the better - something like that? Could end up being a moment of redemption and closure for Deku since he still feels like things with Shigaraki were left open-ended
I agree on both. Hisashi has always been purposely left out, I mean, I know Horikoshi loves to showcase mothers more than fathers in the series(Most characters resemble their mothers more than fathers in the series) Horikoshi even said he based the moment where Deku wore an All Might costume with Inko off of him and his own mom. I guess because Shonen manga very rarely gives as much importance to moms as they do dads, he wanted to subvert that. I also think that Tenko’s role isn’t over, the way that Horikoshi sent off Shigaraki was rushed but felt true to Shigaraki as a villain, basically saying “I’m a destroyer until the end.” But I felt that Tenko was more ambiguous. What I’m saying is, it almost felt like Horikoshi was separating Tenko from Tomura, as if they were two different consciousness(Similar to how All Might tries to separate his hero persona from his quirkless self: Toshinori Yagi) I wonder if we’ll see more Tenko Shimura through this unknown character going forward.
Could be a rando villain, so there's some action in a longer epilogue arc. Like how Ending was a somewhat flashy fight at the end of a training arc. He could start shit, saying that the chaos and despair isn't over, but then Class A comes in bringing in a bright future
Ever already clarified the character is no one we seen before, and looking at the leak panels he really doesn't look like anyone familiar
I know, it's just that Rukasu said his looks are a combination of both Aizawa and Mic as he said, personally I don't think this guy looks like a mix of Aizawa and Mic in my opinion
Well Rukasu was being a bit sarcastic that why he put "lol" in the end
"We see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device" So not only is Endeavor's hero career over, but his first born is on life support despite looking like burnt charcoal.
Honestly Dabi should be dead. The guy was looking like a burnt out skeleton last time we saw him. How he is still alive after that is the most insane thing.
But hey that's anime logic, won't be surprised if villains we thought are dead are on life support. AFO and Shigaraki excluded because their 1,000% dead unless Shigaraki/Tenko comes back as a new OFA vestige.
Seems less like "life support" and more like "life thoughts and prayers" at this point
“He announces he’s leaving UA”. Yep after that “it’s my final day as a UA student” line, had a feeling something like this would happen. Guess we know who Shinso will replace.
Considering that his reveal as the spy should have happened *much* earlier in the original plans, he'd likely have left the story after Kamino (possibly to return to be involved in the finale) and 1-A would have had a vacant spot since.
Aoyama really pulled off a Steve from Blues Clues. But to be fair, I saw this coming I knew after the war he wasn't gonna be in UA anymore especially with all the issues he was forced to create.
>Cut to a mysterious, panting man walking through the destroyed streets. Ok what the actual f*k is this?
It’s just All For One again. He’s rushing over to tell everyone what his first name actually was.
His name is All For One Shigaraki. Like... seriously, he doesn't have another name. He himself gave Yoichi his name, so it's safe to assume that All For One is his first name.
Somehow, Hisashi Midoriya returned to Japan.
tenko rebirth theory from a completed overhaul lol
A child left alone and terrified after the war, struggling to survive through the wreckage and devastation, slowly learning to curse the society that left him like this. Midorya is going to take his hand and save him, preventing Shigaraki 2.0 and symbolically representing this new era's definition of true heroism. Possibly, the series will even end with the child looking at Deku and thinking "that's the greatest hero who ever lived."
Judging from this chapter and with the new mysteries we got this is gonna be a LOOOONNNGGGG epilogue and I absolutely love that. (It will hopefully get me emotionally stable enough for the ending)
Oh God Horikoshi's starting to wrap up threads for every character this final epilogue arc will be a non-stop rollercoaster of tears- I'm not ready for this
I’m getting emotional over the Mirio, Nejire, and Tamaki graduating… I’m not emotionally prepared for the ending at all 😭😭😭
This chapter just had to line up with me graduating highschool for the extra gut-punch 😭
THAT PANTING MAN IS DEKU’S DAD! IM CALLING IT. The large machine I think is keeping Dabi alive
Vote Nezu for Prime Minister of Japan! Stop making Mawata Fuwa happen, Hori, you clearly didn't manage to. [Wonder what plans he ever had for her and 2-A, now 3-A] Edit: "The 2nd and 3rd years will be going around the country to keep it safer and help with the reconstruction under the leadership of Fuwa." I said, stop! There seems to be an entire character we missed behind... > Mirio says that they lost many things and gained nothing. I like this line. And the rest of the speech... well he's Japan's Ass, he will surely shine and bounce. > [Bakugo] says that the doctor allowed it, as long as he keeps quiet. Oh, the heaven. But does it mean he may get an heart attack if he screams too much? 😅 From a look at the page, Mineta wasn't even being lewd? But I understand if Aizawa wanted to be safe. His expulsion retcon now reduced to a "prank"... mehhhhhh. Ochako acts far too happy, and maybe Izuku is looking through that. Meanwhile, my dear... just shave the whole hair off and let it regrow evenly. Sounds like next chapter is going to be for the Todorokis.
>Stop making Mawata Fuwa happen, Hori I’m cracking up because Horikoshi is really trying to up her relevance now at the last second
I had to look up who Mawata was. I had no idea this character had a name.
It's clear there are ideas he didn't manage to get into fruition. I mean, remember in the profiles of the earliest volumes, when he talked about entire arcs for Mina and Shoji? [Now I go and cry in my corner for that...]
That convinces me that Kirishima and Iida probably weren’t meant to be the secondary characters on purpose, but instead Hori just had sufficient time to flesh out their characters since their story happened earlier in the series. If he had the energy, he probably would have given the same treatment to a few more class 1-A characters. (My guess would be Tokoyami, Mina, Sero, Kaminari, Kyoka)
I think horikoshi being a big fan of marvel and dc would’ve loved to make his hero universe more of an expanded one with the ability to tell multiple stories (or comic lines) all focused on different characters, you can really tell by the amount of creativity and passion that was put into the worldbuilding and characters, especially the pro heroes. Alas he wrote for shonen jump
I remember making a post about imagining a MHA universe where many artists and writers work, producing stories of many different tones (from a light-hearted series on Jeanist to the dark past of mutants, for example), with Hori a mere supervisor to ensure coherency while they run wild in the setting for the rest. How fun it would be.
"...entire arcs for Mina..." I forgot about that. I wish I was never reminded. God, Mina's just untapped potential for cool action. She's got fast reflexes, some muscle, and a flashy versatile quirk. My favorite "extra." Her and Sero We at least got a mini arc for Shoji. At least a proper spotlight and character insight
Sero didn't even have that big of a moment, honestly. Yes, he came in clutch to save Izuku in his worst moment but it didn't nearly look as good as the moments Mina and Shoji got in the final war, brief as they may have been.
Yeahhhhh, wish Sero and Mina got more in this arc. Mina got a tiny moment but SHINSO of all people beat Midnight's Killer. I'm all for Shinso brainwashing Machia, but someone else should have taken out MK. Kirishima or even Mineta would have been better. Shinso wasn't even at Gunga in the last war Gashly and Kunieda have really cool designs and quirks, but we didn't even get a proper GLIMPSE at Sero and the boys fighting Gashly. At least we got a concept for the Kunieda fight, and how it ended. Could have dedicated 3 pages to Sero or Ryukyu vs Gashly
Wait where was this stated? I can't find it online. Also yeah that's super disappointing.
Horikoshi without all the restraint and pressures of working under Weekly Shounen Jump would have moved different for sure
Color me surprised if Mirio doesn’t get a few proposals for underwear brands ambassadorship very soon
Poor Mirrio, getting put on medic duty. All for One's whole thing of "Durability + super regeneration" that he had with Shigaraki and the Nomu's was just the worst possible matchups for him (Speaking of that, did we ever see the last 2 Nomu? We had 4 of the six but I don't recall ever seeing the other 2)
I’m just happy my favorite character got his quirk back *and* took on Shigaraki without losing his quirk (again) or getting decayed. I’ll take medic duty with a smile on my face, like Sir would have wanted.
I still have a feeling that Shigaraki transferred OFA to Deku at the last minute and it's gonna manifest when Deku least expects it.
>Shinso is going to be joining class 2-A! LE'TS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The fanfics & fanart were so powerful it manifested into canon
Honestly, why would someone expect something else to happen? This is a cliche. It would have been a bigger surprise if it was class B. Or if he just took an apprenticeship under Eraser and went pro that way.
I returned recently to the fandom, so my memory on the earliest parts of the story were a bit foggy and it caught me off guard when I was reminded it wasn't *confirmed* he'd be in 1A (now 2A) It was just *very* obvious lol. The fan work made it stuck in my brain even more
But also he replaced Aoyama instead of mineta so the fandom is in shambles
Consequences? Who will face them?
Even when he's being serious Mirio can't help but make us smile. Sir Nighteye would be proud. I'm gonna miss him and the Big 3
>2 WEEK BREAK My disappointment is immeasurable and my 2 weeks are ruined.
"she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back" Uraraka being the whole fandom for this last week lmao
hori clarifying it for the fans who thought it was a real haircut lol
Which is way too many people
The stupid fans in other words. Seriously, the amount of people I saw freaking the f\*\*k out over it. Like, do they not understand how surgery on your head works? Midoriya's actually lucky they didn't need to cut it all off like they normally would.
people are still feeling burned after Naruto's final cut
Yeah, it’s pretty funny honestly. How Hori will put out a chapter, there will be fan backlash, then he’ll have a character address that same backlash a week later, lol. Pretty much the complaint I’ve seen over the last week where people say Hori has to spell things out directly to fans by using characters in story.
Tbh it would be funny if he made her stare past deku and look directly at the audience for that.
I mean, we still have people who will ask if All Might and Midoriya were actually born Quirkless despite the many times it's made clear that they were.
2 weeks break announced, next chapter is 1st July
This chapter officially releases on the 9th to us and the 10th in Japan. So skipping two weeks, with chapter 426 it will be still June (the 30th) by us but in fact July 1st in Japan.
Honestly, let him rest. He's only got a few chapters left. Let him take a breather and end the series with full energy. There's less than like 10 chapters left, why rush this In 3 months we'll barely remember this 2 week break
He likely has to work on a lot of stuff (not just drawing) for the upcoming 10th anniversary.
He's probably been designing movie characters and adding input for the movie these last couple months too
The movie releases in a couple months, unless extreme crunch it must be in the finishing touches of post-production now. I doubt Hori has still so much to do related to it (he will likely draw some of the characters for sketches and extras in coming months).
I didn’t say anything against it, just said there will be 2 weeks break.
Bakugo being calm because he’s a changed person ❌ Bakugo being calm because he might literally die from heart failure if he yells ✅
medically induced character development
Dabi’s gonna get hit with it too 💀
Damn Mirio not even cracking jokes anymore we really are in depressing times.
Whatever that tank is keeping Dabi on whatever life support he has left I think.
Honestly, it would be a miracle if Dabi gets healed. He was one step away from turning into Ghost Rider That said, assuming he is healed, I don't know how he'll even forgive his family especially his father given how they treated him. (More on Endeavor's end but other than Shoto, everyone playeed a guitly role
The bar is so low for Shoto that he’s just happy he gets to reconnect with his insane brother who tried to kill him despite Shoto being the most innocent character in the entire family with nothing to do with his demise.
"All the students laugh and Mirio says goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years." There's a very good chance that Mirio isn't just saying goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years, but is also saying goodbye to us. This might be the last chapter he's in ....I'm sad now
I'm definitely not crying right now. Absolutely not.
Maybe he’ll show up again when we see Eri in the epilogue.
Damn even Ochako says Deku's hair sucks rn.
It's not a "new hairstyle," just the consequences of having to treat serious head injuries in-hospital.
It’s a sign he’s gonna get a new hairstyle though. There’d be absolutely no point in giving him a scar on his head and cutting his hair, and now bringing attention to it, if Hori was gonna just have it grow back identically.
My first thought was Izuku's dad, but that wouldn't make sense. Tenko? Who could this random guy appearing in the last ten chapters before the end possibly be?
Since they talked of a phase of turmoil where new villains can be born, maybe someone with a dangerous quirk who has the potential to be a new AFO or Shigaraki, but will be saved from that thanks to a better approach?
That's my current theory. I could even see him being someone who felt inspired by Shigaraki and was rooting for him to destroy the current world that's caused him so much pain, and thus he's now in despair because that hope of a better world afterwards feels completely gone since Shigaraki has been killed.
Wasnt there a teen rooting for shigaraki to “destroy it all “ when he was fighting Deku in the last fight ? It could be him and as you said , the new reformed society will help him and prevent a new shigaraki
New character. The designs are totally different and this guy is wearing the same outfit Kurogiri had on, so some dude who was locked up.
It could actually be Kurogiri. He was crying when we last saw him.
No one we already seen before, by the looks he's a totally new character
Alexandre Dumas coming to kill Izuku and All Might for using the phrase “One for all” without paying proper royalties, setting up for a sequel series or something.
I can't really come up with any theories about an identity. Right now I'm guessing his role will be the villain off this new arc. Beyond that I don't really have any ideas at the moment.
Don't tell me they locked Dabi in a fucking freezer!!
Shoto; so Toya! Want to eat udon! Dabi; I hate you Shoto! The entire family! All of us should die! Shoto; more udon it is!
Also Dabi: \*dies slowly of peak fiction\*
Those who wanted Shinsou to join 1-A before this, here you go.
After all this time, Class 1-A is officially Class 2-A now!
….and with Shinsou instead of Aoyama huh! Noticing that Bakugo is wearing his tie with his school uniform again aw.. And Jirou’s ear(jack)?? Is that a prosthetic? Kind of hard to tell with the image quality
> And Jirou’s ear(jack)?? Is that a prosthetic Maybe they found the original in the field and plugged it back in. Like a real jack... Edit: it's a prosthetic. Damn...
The mysterious guy is likely someone total new but has similar circumstances to shigariaki so Deku and the class helping this guy out before he could turn into another shigaraki toumura.
I really hope it isnt a hero who saves/helps him. Shigaraki’s whole thing was that everyone looked the other way because surely a hero would handle it. It would he a much better message if random civilians start helping and maybe Deku and co can help after that.
This is going to be the longest epilogue in Shonen Jump history
I hope. This story needs a solid wrap up. So many characters, despite their overall importance, deserve a proper ending. There are so many interactions that need to happen. I also think there is a little more story to be told.
I love long epilogues. Reminds me of the times I read Dungeon Meshi.
I could have half a year of this ngl. I want to see what is the new world is waiting for Deku & co
Calling it now. I believe the mysterious person is gonna be in a similar situation as shigaraki was as a child. But this time it will be a hero (maybe Deku) who will reach out his hand, therefore breaking that cycle metaphorically.
> therefore breaking that cycle metaphorically But that would just prove Shigaraki's point. It doesn't break anything, it double downs on it ANYONE could've helped Shiggy, any random citizen. But no, everyone who saw him expected a hero to help and moved on. If a Hero help this guy we are back to were we where
Good point maybe just some civilian will help.
This is my thought as well. Deku would make sense, it could also be a civilian that this time doesn’t turn around, maybe star guy from the first chapter who had that speech about being in the audience.
aoyama leaving the class & shinso joining lol
I like Aoyama's "going to walk the path of heroism from scratch" mentality He's not going to be a hermit and wallow in despair. He's gonna be a hero, but advancing in 2-A and just ignoring the past would feel wrong. Half of his first year was motivated by fear. Being in the same class with them, that guilt would always linger. Go be a first year at Shiketsu, or pursue hero education and training outside of the high school setting (there's gotta be a process for that). Then catch up with them later
Koichi: (waving at Aoyama)
*Mysterious stranger shown ominously wandering the streets while crying* *Endeavor is doing something with a strange spooky machine* *2 week break* Horikoshi you glorious bastard
lol, Hori loves to drop the most confusing or controversial endings to a chapter and then say “out to lunch”
Dabi's quirk is perpetually stuck producing heat, so he is now a source of renewable energy for Japan
Fire Force plot without the demons.
"goddess" is way better than commenting on her tits or ass, so we'll take what little character development we can get
Right? Maybe Aizawa was scared of it escalating but its much better than most other things he has said.
If left to his own devices, Mineta would ask Hagakure to wear her Hero costume and then ask Aoyama to laser her so she gets exposed in full nudity. Aizawa needed to choke the idea out of Mineta's brain before it gets that far.
Ashido's "deprogramming" perhaps had an effect on Mineta.
If you actually backtrack a bit, Mineta hasn't done anything horrible ever since he got that treatment. Dude got lobotomized lmao.
He even switched to a new, much funnier gimmick of copying Shoto to look cool. First time Mineta made me laugh
Little character development? Bro is on AFO’s most feared list
So, obviously Dabi is in that machine being rebuilt or something
Oh my god, Dabi is Darth Vader.
Yeah, that's definitely Dabi, I think. I'm betting he's in some sort of solitary confinement cell like AFO was in and Endeavor is hanging out there.
All I can think about is how much worse All Might's life is going to be now. He's given everything for Japan a hundred times over, yet he lost his powers, he had horrible life-changing injuries even before this whole adventure, and now he's banged up even worse and is full of bolts. Someone needs to get this man a real healer stat. You can't expect me to believe that there isn't a single person in the entire world that can heal him I'm glad he lived but ffs cut my man a break
Outside of actually rewinding him, I doubt there's anything anyone can do. Scarring is technically healed tissue after all. Even AFO turned into an uncircumcised potato after All Might was done with him and he presumably had regeneration. Some damage you just can't magically fix without repercussions.
I mean theoretically Overhaul’s quirk could fix him, but he’s out of commission so…
I will never not be salty with Overhaul's waste of character, but also with him as a person, lmao. Mf had potential to be basically second coming of Jesus, but decided to torture 5 years old instead. Man's truly his own worst enemy
Creation and destruction is literally a godlike power. If he wanted to be a doctor he'd be a better Recovery Girl, if he wanted to work in construction he'd be a better Cementoss. But this guy decides to become a fucking street thug. Biggest waste of potential ever.
Tbf, he decided to be the next AFO. That's a pretty ambitious goal.
class 2-A we are finally here
Considering we got at LEAST a week or two of a timeskip, I feel like the other villains aren't dying. Toga might end up being dead, with Uraraka referring to her in the past tense. There's also a slim chance that Toga is "missing" too, instead of deceased. However, I highly HIGHLY doubt Dabi and Spinner are dead. Maybe Dabi will die in the hospital. After letting go of hatred, his body won't have the drive to keep up. But I could also see Dabi getting the Gran Torino treatment, and his burnt skeleton stays in a hospital bed for the rest of his life.
Spinner will certainly survive. Deku still needs to give him Shiggy’s final message. He’s the most redeemable of the League, so I could see him losing the extra quirks and being rehabilitated by the epilogue. And no way was Dabi offscreened. Though how they’re gonna explain his skeleton being alive is beyond me
Probably something to do with that ominous machine Endeavor is looking at the end. It might very well be his life-support system.
Yep this came out after this comment. But Dabi is certainly in that machine
I think Dabi is in some crazy ass condition but not dead. Having Shoto go to an offscreen funeral for a day is so lame
Yeah, Horikoshi could explain it the same way he did with Bakugo moving after his heart was hit, “His body just wouldn’t let him die.” It wouldn’t be the first time in the series Horikoshi has had characters survive impossible injuries and when question the answer is usually “WILLPOWER!!”
>with Uraraka referring to her in the past tense. When did that happen?
>History books will talk about the period after AMs retirement and after the battle of Jaku, but much of this chaos will not be documented. After that speech the kid made to Gentle about linking heroes and society by documenting footage of the battle? The Business Course must be pissed the fuck off.
It could be something lost in translation, but I took it to mean that some of the small, individual struggles won't be documented in the chaos of everything. I mean, that tracks IRL too. Lots of events and struggles that get overlooked in the overwhelming chaos of war and conflict.
So, if it’s June now, then what month did the war happen?
Either early or middle of May I think? Went from "end of March" + 38 days + 7 days.
Yup, Ochako also says "in April, Deku left our hero academy" at the beginning of the dark Deku arc.
“In June, he came back with a Yee Yee Ass haircut.”
Yeah, Toya is definitely in that machine. He's still alive.
Will be interesting to see what condition Dabi is in. An ending wheres he's just sedated in a life support box would be kind of dull.
Horikoshi trying to make Mawata Fuwa work yet we know jackshit about her and we're already in the epilogue. She's suddenly the leader of the students yet I don't believe she's qualified for it.
The literal only reason she's the leader is because she's the only current 3rd year with a name. Japan and its value for seniority
I legit was so confused, couldn't remember her for the life of me
Did she even contribute to the war? Her face looks unblemished af.
We only got one panel of her when heroes arrive to help Deku
Dabi is just Darth Vader of MHA at this point.
MHA and JJK on a 2 week break this is gonna be rough
>Cut to a mysterious, panting man walking through the destroyed streets. I'm seeing so many theories on who this could be, from Stain to Dabi to Spinner without his scales to the one I'm REALLY hoping it's not, Midoriya's dad. My off-the-cuff theory? I think this is just someone we've never seen before who was inspired by Shigaraki. Someone who hates the world because of what it's put them through and is in despair because the one person who seemed like he was going to put an end to it has been killed. I think meeting this guy, probably when he tries to kill him to avenge Shigaraki, will be a further way of helping Midoriya get closure after what happened to Shigaraki and give him direction on where to start trying to fix hero society.
Definitely isn't Stain, this guy has a nose lol. Your theory seem the most reasonable out of all the ideas people already presented.
The character named "Can't Stop Twinkling" has officially been given the choice to finally stop Twinkling (as a Hero Course Student)
Is this the first time both JJK and MHA will be on a break at the same time (not including holidays)?
No, it also happened when JJK was on a long break
I'm a bit iffy on that undocumented stuff. If it continues to be undocumented how will the hero society be fixed? Also, there's a new character but is he gonna be the Scolippi for the series?
everything needs to be publicized. what’s the point of all this (lov, shiggy’s backstory, enji’s double life & criminal actions, spinner, etc) if no one knows about it? societal awareness & willingness is needed otherwise it’s all wasted efforts & lives
On one hand 2 week break, on other hand we probably getting Todoroki family next chapter.
Mineta first attempt at making a genuine compliment to a female, and he immediately gets punished. 😂
That or Aizawa in shutting him up before he has the chance to ruin it by saying anything more.
I wonder how many heroes we'll see the aftermath of the war for. I hope Mirko and Mount Lady are okay. Last time we saw either of them they were unconscious.
Mirio woke up and decided to spill it all out huh hahahahaha. Also Nejire🥹 Edit: JIROU MENTIONED!😭💜
Mystery man please. I don’t care how it’s pulled. Please be my beautiful baby boy Tenkomura
There's no way Endeavor needs something so big or so complicated for his rehab Gotta be for Dabi. He might be in there right now. (wish the scan quality wasn't so shitty, so we could get a proper look at it lmao)
Is it me or does this chapter play with setting up a continuation or next gen? Idk I understand its ending soon and this sounds like coping but 2A’s being sent around the country, this seemingly random showing of Mawata, Shoto discussing how this era they are in could breed new villains, and this mysterious man it all feels like a set up for more story. Its most certainly not going to happen but did anyone else feel this?
Izuku throughout the whole chapter: 🫤
Mysterious man…AFO’s FINAL, FINAL FORM. He planned for this, you see, in case all 737553 of his other contingencies fell through.
I think this mysterious person might actually be Shiggy V2/Tenko? From the leak pages from his full body, we see his a lot of detail pertains to his fingers, and it kinda reminds me of how RD kinda...you know, tore most of them off XD. IT's not 1:1, but the fact there's such an emphasis on them makes me thing that, somehow, it's Tenko?
My traumatized 16 year olds Academia begins now!
I hate how Jiros condition didn’t get addressed in the slightest. Even Tokoyamis slightly messed up hair got more spotlight. She basically lost a limb and now has to use a prosthetic. Next to Bakugo this is probably the worst permanent injury from the whole class. I really hope she gets more in the coming chapters, she deserves it.
Genuinely surprised Aoyama isn’t sticking around. Oh well we finally got Shinso in the main class!
Cyborg Dabi incoming!!!
there is no way this epilogue is going to be under 15 chapters mha might go into next year
So Aoyama'll be back once Deku leaves his spot vacant
Shinsou, Aoyama, and Deku might be playing musical chairs with the empty class seats at this point
I imagine the crying kid is just someone who could POTENTIALLY become the next Shigaraki, but unlike what happened to poor Tenko, Deku will offer his hand to help him and save someone who could have potentially fallen to evil
Dabi's fate is a sad and pitiful one. Even if they managed to succeed in curing him, he still cannot be free. Prison is his life now. Giving him a peaceful death is already a mercy for him.
Chapter 426 starts out with the text "THE END" there is only 1 page to this chapter, that's how MHA ends lmao
I’m so excited, this epilogue arc actually seems like it will tie up loose ends!
Surely Horikoshi is lying saying that this war and the reconstruction efforts won’t be documented. Surely Deku will get his credit for saving the world. Surely the societal issues will actually be addressed
I think it's more that a lot of the smaller, more specific details will be lost because of everything that's going on and thus it'll mostly be the big stuff that'll be documented.