#Mha 331

[escaping-peril12]

NO WAYY DUOLINGO DID A TOGACHAKO REFERENCE?!??!?

[losyash]

Draft from 15th of June: How many chapters does MHA have left?

an old post I found in my drafts. did not finish it exactly but I figured it might be a fun read for someone. I tried to calculate it via anime seasons (laid down nicely) and manga volumes (did not lay down nicely at all but I forgot abt the last volume bonus content which is bound to be more than usually)

this was after ch 425 so I still had just a tiny bit of copium left in me

everything after the cut is text from the draft:

tldr: around ten maybe, maybe forty

one of our main measuring points there will be the anime coming out

as this wikipedia screenshot shows, season 7 is going to have 21 episode. we are one third through!

episode one starts with chapter 329 and ends with last pages of chapter 331. three chapters.

i decided not to check every single ep because that's long and annoying and instead grab all seven. if the amount of chapters serialised is consistent episode seven should end with chapter 349. which is exactly what happens!

so by extending this logic we can assume that episode 21 will contain chapters 389, 390 and 391 thus ending dabi's plotline in final war arc and bringing up the sad man parade. the main trick here is that chapter 391 is 9 pages long so exact details may vary but honestly i am willing to bet the season will end around there

but what then?

right now studio bones makes their anime seasons have either 25 eps (mha s7 is not an outlier if you count specials btw) or somewhere between 12-13. how many exactly? well

in last ten years there was one anime with 10 eps, 2 with 11, 9 with 13 and 18 with 12, however among those 18 two had specials released either during the airing period or just before it akin to s7 specials so it might be more correct to say that there are 10 animes with 13 episodes, 16 with 12 episodes and one with 14. debatable honestly

we will keep all three possibilities in mind

so, how many chapters is that? chapters 392-423 fit perfectly to give us 11 episodes

which means 1 more chapter for 12 episode (probably not)

4 more chapters for 13 episodes (most likely option out of three)

40 chapters for 25 episodes

"okay well what about manga volumes?"

GREAT QUESTION

we usually get 12 chapters per volume. the last released volume is vol. 40 which goes up to chapter 410 and includes it.

by the same logic volume 41 will contain chapters 411-422. but maybe actually 411-423 because come on that's just. one last chapter of final arc. it does not fit well here.

42 - 424-436

43 - 436-448

44 - 449-456

45 - 457-465??

math does not math well here to be honest. it DOES lower chances of getting like five chapters and be done significantly, but beyond that? debatable

what about the plot however? we still have several threads hanging:

lov state, surviving members, their fates

tomura dying and kurogiri's sacrifice. to be honest chapter 420 does not make me believe hori gives a single fuck about kuro and his plotline but what if??

mystery person

izuku's dad (horikoshi did say he wants to do something with him but as for ch 425 we still have nothing)

actually becoming the greatest hero. it did not happen yet. allmight can say whatever he wants really but izuku has not even graduated, i kinda doubt hori will just leave him in 2-a

ochako and shouto's plotlines in general. they don't feel finished yet and we know that at least with shouto there is definitely something coming up next chapter

a lot to cover. i would normally say four chapters definitely won't cut it but then again we DID have four pages to resolve the rooftop gang plotline. it's not the likely option but it's still an option for me now

horikoshi himself predicted he would end the manga in 2024 but he did the same thing about 2023 plus he could not have predicted the amount of breaks he is taking. still it does speak more in favor of having maybe 10 maybe 20 chapters rather than 40.

[wovenstarlight]

HAH!!! I WAS RIGHT!!!! THEY DON'T LOOK ALIKE BUT THEY EMOTE THE SAME!!!!! thank you 331 for them having the same smile… wipes tear from eye…

also prev×2+prev tags for posterity:

#hyj says hes been told they resemble each other in their own way which COULD be interpreted as people taking pity on him #and telling white lies to comfort him #but im choosing to interpret it as. hyh picked up a bunch of hyj's body language and habits #little things. like. idk. they toss their heads to get their hair out their eyes the same way

#no one notices before because yoohyun isn't trying to keep it together when hyjs not around he just goes apeshit 24/7 #they also have a very similar Wanting look #shj & mha seeing hyh giving hyj the ol I Want To Monopolize Your Time look: ok. #shj & mha being hit with that exact same look when hyjs staring at sillekia: Wait actually this is hilarious #han bros are a package deal not only because of the codependency but also because knowing one makes understanding the other SO much easier

thinking mournfully about the frequent mentions that hyj and hyh don't actually look very similar at all...... let them have this at least.......

[pinotorto]

As a girI with glasses, I love how Star and Stripe squints her eyes when she looks at something afar like every short-sighted person out there

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Imaging going through the worst beating of your life while also being possessed by your greatest abuser and thinking about if there's a possibility of reanimating your dog.

Tomura, you're crazy for that.

[justanotherfangirlwup]

[ 𝘙𝘌𝘋𝘙𝘈𝘞 ] 𝗕𝗡𝗛𝗔 𝟯𝟯𝟭

[oh-word-thats-crazy]

[trash-and-only-mha-trash]

she got a picture with all might AND dave, good for her <3

[animesuck3r]

I knew my good sis Kathy wouldn’t go down without a FIGHT YES

[mhacentral]

MHA 331 Spoilers

[greenhappyseed]

Thinking more on the last 3+ chapters of Star and Stripe, and the meh that was Nagant before her.... both "older" (35+) women were dropped into the story out of nowhere for the purpose of being hot "villains" until they're defeated by young men. (Yes, SnS is framed as a "villain" by the art and the story. In case MVA wasn't clear, we're supposed to be rooting for Shigaraki to win against anyone except our core hero characters, and we're supposed to root for them to help Shigaraki, not kill him.)

What makes it worse is that both women are given storylines that touch on core BnHA themes, so there's a glimmer of hope we might get something beyond eye candy. For example, both women meddle too much as "heroes". Nagant commits extrajudicial assassinations for thought crimes and SnS, well.... *gestures to her invading a nation with bombers, missiles, lightning bolts and no clear permission to engage in combat*

And yet, Nagant and SnS fall flat because Horikoshi (and/or his editors) pull back. We don't get anything substantively meaty. What did Nagant really add about hero society that we (and Deku) didn't already know? Did the government create a secret assassination program because it knew hero society was failing? Did the heroes know they were being propped up? That's cool, I'm down for a dark HPSC, and seeing how good bureaucracy can stifle efforts to help citizens, and bad bureaucracy can corrupt good people. But all we get is surface-level "hero society bad." Same for SnS -- if Horikoshi has conflicted feelings about exported American media culture (which he clearly loves) vs American imperialism (which, history) , then I want to see the manga commit and fucking GO THERE. Show the dissonance between the two, especially in the context of meddling as heroism vs invasion. (Isn't this the post-WWII American mythos -- that Americans spread freedom by ridding foreign nations of their tyrant leaders? And doing so is heroically helping those nations find their bright future, right?)

But boobs and explosions are cool too.

[purple-mind-slave]

BNHA 331 SPOILERS

So there's missiles coming towards Japan, and the title of the chapter is 'America'.....(○v○٥)

But aside from that, it seems that Shigaraki has developed All for One's quirk analysis dumping habit, and did it immediately remind me of Izuku?...

Yes. Because every chapter that passes is another opportunity to collect Dad for One material ᕕ ( ᐛ ) ᕗ

[mistic678]

I'm so glad star is going for the kill when it comes to shigaraki, too many dumbass villain stans on this app hate her just because she wants to get rid of a global threat, get the fuck outta here lol.

[sasudou]

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Get this meme while I process my rage.

[popcorn-hero]

Im disappointed with CH 331 and how the manga plot as has been going (a rant)

I honestly do not even know what I just read and saw with this latest chapter. Even the previous chapter was just...

We went from quirks being a physical extension of you body to now being some ominous anti-laws of physics shenanigan's.

I literally cant with this scene here. What the actual hell?!

Star and Stripes came out of nowhere and thats a problem im seeing in general. Heroes and villain's with convenient quirks are appearing for the sake of fitting whatever the situation is at the time and then get boddied.

They don't progress the plot.

Also I'm tried of seeing him slip in his fetishes like quentin tarantino

Miruko/ Mt. Lady: ass

Lady Nagant: Armpits

In General: Busty muscular women

Really, Star and Stripes is this high class, high security hero and shigaraki just met her and figured out her quirk just like that? To me, that takes away from the story when the author basically breaks down every single detail with expositions.

Shigaraki is viewed as a global threat and AFO had connections in other countries. It would have been nice if we had earlier mentions and even some panels showcasing the world outside of Japan so that way the pieces would fall better when introducing foreign heros.

Also

.......what is this. Sis comes out of nowhere, and is about to go full atomic bomb on Japan?

At this point, BnhA is like the plot of the musical cats. There really is no plot. Every new scene is just a character introduction and profile of their ability and who they are. It feels as if he is writing as he goes.

I really don't know whos story this is anymore.

Shigaraki has transformed into something completely inhuman (even in this world). He is in destructible. We have no idea how many quirks AFO is able to keep and what they all do. Every attack on him that he survives that could literally cause a global extinction is protected by that plot armor.

AFO goals and actions just seem completely out of pocket at this point (hes beyond being human too). Hes been alive for a long ass time but we dont know how. All we know is that he wants OFA, unspecified world domination, and its trying to pull and Orochimaru on Shigaraki.

Everything (the pacing, the characters) is just off. I thought it was going to be some type of break between the war arc to see more character development the class and Midoriya.

The war arc took almost a year to end in real time. After the end of the war arc and with everything that happened, we jump right into the prison break. Then the next chapter was midoriya dropping out of school and become a vigilante for 3 weeks and doing a 180 on his character. Then after that, we learn that we only have 3 days before Shigaraki goes plus ulta and destroys the world.

I'm just following this manga now to see how it ends. The way I feel now is exactly how I feel after the Pain arc from Naruto.