My Hero Academia - Manga Spoiler thread (Untagged spoilers)

Called ir. Called it from the day we never saw the guy who brought tenko home's face. Called when we saw him pick up Dabi. We were always going to have to confront this. With that said, obligatory cell post.

Whats really surprising tho is somehow...Kotaru might have been involved? That sounds like something Rob would write to make him increase his hate. ...wait...oh dont tell me...was it the quirk bestowal service that afo provides? Like how he gave twinking his belly laser? Next few chapters are going to be very interesting...

it might have been a removal service in this case? have this guy take away tenko's quirk so he never tries to be a hero, its why they kept asking if it activated yet.

also I cant believe afo literally built the house that tenko hates so much its so on the nose

Edited by Deadpoolrocks on Mar 27th 2024 at 10:08:46 AM

Sure, why not? I bet AFO told Bakugo to bully Deku in school, too. AFO also make Deku's Quirk not manifest properly. AFO also made Ochako grow up in poverty. AFO also told Iida to go after Stain. AFO also told Mineta to be a pervert to his classmates.

Is there anything else we can blame on AFO? Global warming, maybe?

Edited by TerraCondor on Mar 27th 2024 at 11:45:27 AM

Honestly if it’s him wanting AFO to remove his son’s quirk, which combined with the abuse he already inflicted, would have meant he was even worse than I thought. There’s no coming back from that even with him showing regret if he had already set it up to have his sons quirk taken away.

Then the doom that follows by AFO replacing his sons quirk with decay does him in.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Mar 27th 2024 at 11:41:08 AM

I mean he was in the guise if a construction worker who literally built kotaru's house so yes he might literally have been why ochako grew up poor

Well the signs were there, but I was still holding out hope that this wouldnt be the direction the story would go.

Sigh...

Why must you hurt me this way?

I did enjoy tenko/shiggy thinking about giving in to dekus talk no jutsu before the power of friendship made him go no I have to be a hero to my villain friends.

I'm sure this is what Horikoshi planned out for a long time, if not all along. But with all the Star Wars references, its hard not to think of Palpatine and his whole "I was every voice you have ever heard!" thing in Rise of Skywalker.

Maybe making AFO literally responsible for everything was the only way Horikoshi could see it even being possible for Izuku to "save" Tenko, but... Fuck, its lame, if we really are going all in on this.

Afo already was responsible for shiggy he groomed him since he was a kid. It was always his plan. Shiggy did get some freedoms but it was mostly to anothers tune.

...Is Hori trying to pull a Reverse-Flash with AFO?

Yeah, this was expected (and foreshadowed), but I’m still not happy about it. Also, depending how this all goes down it might contradict the theme of AFO being beaten by people he considered “extras” that was prominent throughout his earlier fights.

Edited by CheapMarzipan on Mar 28th 2024 at 7:14:34 AM

That's ridiculous.

every time I try to write something, I rarely get past the planning stages anyway, so I couldn't do something this bad.

...Well, let's see how the execution goes. Even when I don't agree with the idea, Hori's execution tends to be good.

>Sure, why not? I bet AFO told Bakugo to bully Deku in school, too. AFO also make Deku's Quirk not manifest properly. AFO also made Ochako grow up in poverty. AFO also told Iida to go after Stain. AFO also told Mineta to be a pervert to his classmates.

>Is there anything else we can blame on AFO? Global warming, maybe?

All for One, Aizen, the Mage of the Beginning and Reverse Flash all went to school together.

I wish I could think of a joke to make about Bun-Bun here, except in his case, the extent of him being the mastermind behind everything was a clear case of absurdist parody for the sake of pure comedy. But anyways, if the chapter ends on AFO claiming Tenko never made a single decision on his own, the next chapter has to be about swiftly proving him wrong, right?

Edited by jakovu on Mar 28th 2024 at 1:31:26 PM

"Remember when you were crying out with your dog, and he died just as he touched your hands? It was me Shiggy. I transfered you a quirk that decays at super speeds just so you could kill at just a child's touch!"

So yeah. We're all disappointed. That's to be expected.

I really did want it to turn out that, while he'd planned something, Shiggy going berserk happened on his own and at worst AFO was an indirect cause of it (via creating the circumstances that caused Kotaro to become a horrible piece of shit), and was just sitting around with a bag of popcorn watching while it all went down.

That being said, I'm gonna reiterate that we should see how this plays out. Even if it's exactly what we think it will be, it could still be excellent.

Or there might still be a twist we didn't see coming.

I'm not disappointed tbh. This is a twist that I was expecting ever since we never got a clear look at the man who brought Tenko home.

Though I don't think anyone here expected Kotaro to be involved unwittingly with All For One.

I'm very curious to see how deep that rabbit hole goes.

Was he hoping AFO would remove Tenko's quirk?

Did he know who he was talking to?

How would he have acted if he'd been aware of it?

And of course, is Tenko's quirk even natural, or did AFO give it to him?

Maybe he'd always planned on using the kid and never gave him a quirk, and the call was just to mess with the son of his mortal enemy and make him suffer?

Maybe it's something worse than that? Who knows?

It's highly likely he did give the kid the quirk (which has always been on the table) but being on the table doesn't mean we know everything.

Eri using her quirk to fix injured characters was always on the table as well, but the series did its best to place some caveats on that to prevent it from being an instant problem solver, and she's only used it on a single character (who was among the list of people she could have been used to help) and now she's not an option for a long ass time.

Like I said, we gotta let this play out.

I'll give Kotaro the shadow of a doubt for now.

What he does when engaging AFO in conversation will determine if he ends up at the bottom of the barrel of not.

I'm not disappointed at all; if I learned anything from Steven Universe reveals arent all about surprise factor, its about execution. Everything weve seen about him proves he doesnt really let anything up to chance. He caused a distraction to buy himself 3 seconds in the vigilante books. I wouldnt be surprised if he kept tabs on Dabi too, unless we are to believe he just happened to be taking a stroll on the mountains too.

I want to be fair and let this play out before making judgements. And yeah, its been pretty apparent that AFO was keeping tabs on Tenko. But I've never been happy with the implication he was THAT involved.

What I would've preferred from AFO is just being an observer. Keeping tabs on volatile individuals who could be of use to him, and swooping in when they're at their most vulnerable. Maybe a reveal that Tenko and Toya weren't the only ones, but that he and the Doctor kept tabs on a LOT of individuals who could potentially be useful.

Tenko and his family keep their own tragic past completely separate from AFO direct influence before their deaths, but AFO still gets to be shown as a chessmaster who tries to find the pawns that satisfy his sadistic feelings the most.

I dont know if it turns out it was kotaru who helped give ofa the idea/ability to give tenko the quirk i think it could be ok. Like "I wish my son never has a quirk so he never tries to be a hero" and then afo is like damn I just got the best idea

Like if he only did it because kotaru helped him do it, I feel it would be better

The face concealing shadow Quirk really does give him away all the time.

So the theory that AFO stole Deku's Quirk through the doctor stands a chance now or what?