#bnha chapter 298

[codenamesazanka]

We got along… more than I thought… bonded over games and stuff…

[myheromedia]

Reflection

[thequietmanno1]

Thelreads, MHA 298, Replies Part 2

1) “Ok who the fuck left his bed into a random corner of a hallway? Because look at that shit, that place is too big to be a room.”- Given his role as a vital hero fighting against TomurAFO’s rampage for as long as he did, and the stalling that he and Izuku’s efforts produced against the widespread rampage he’d have unleashed otherwise, it’s not unreasonable to assume Bakugou got a personal hospital room to recover in, presumably the same as the other 1A students did as well. Of course, the other unspoken reason is that the class as a whole is now the second-most priority target on AFO’s list, right below Izuku himself… 2) “ALSO WERE YOU FUCKERS JUST HANGING OUT IN THE CORNER WAITING FOR HIM TO WAKE UP?”- I mean, not like they can go home anymore, not in these conditions. Leaving aside how unsafe the streets have become, it’d be leaving any one of the students open to being attacked by AFO’s minions in an effort to get to Izuku mentally whilst he’s trying to recover. The kids literally can’t leave the adult’s sight anymore, because there’s a psychopath out of their blood with a whole-ass army to command, so they’re effectively under siege in the hospital for now. (MHA ch 258)

3) “And here they are… The kids are marching towards the final battle, and even if they aren`t going to be directly at the front lines, we know its inevitable that they`ll see a lot of fighting.

They can`t escape the bloodshed unfortunately. There`s no saying how many of them will fall once this is over, but one thing is for sure, their innocence will not survive this.”- It did not. Despite their best efforts, the adults were unable to prevent the frontlines coming to them, and now, whilst the class overall seems to have not lost any members, the sheer loss of life and crippling injuries inflicted upon the adult heroes means that they might actually be the best fighting force of heroes left by now. Innocence is always a casualty of growing up, but it didn’t have to go like this. (MHA ch 259) 4) “Oh that we do, some more than others… Yeah, that was an horrible, horrible day for a lot of people, alright. Remember Ragdoll? Yeah, I haven`t forgotten about Ragdoll.”- And this day will be forever remembered as a far worse outcome than that, for all the heroes’ efforts and sincere attempts to minimise the bloodshed, AFO’s backup plans of Nomufying Tomura and Gigantomachia were simply too powerful for any of them to adequately contain, and now the chaos is in the streets and there’s nowhere safe to run anymore…

(MHA ch 259)

5) “Meanwhile, the whole class 1-A sans those two are posing for the sickest album of 2001, that or their funeral pic.”- They really got lucky to get away with their entire class still alive in the aftermath of this crisis. That said, the experienced adult heroes all having taken severe crippling injuries, died or otherwise had their numbers cut down means that they’re now the next line of defence between AFO and his plans to overrun the country and turn it into his criminal empire, and he has very much demonstrated that he won’t hesitate to kill any of them to get what he wants, especially Izuku. I’m worried the full class roster might not make it to the end of the story.

(MHA ch 263)

6) “Well, that would be easier if cementoss had sent the walls of the hotel in instead of out, but whatever, you guys prefer to risk yourself  you go ahead, but if any of the kids get hurt because of it I`ll be blaming you.”- If nothing else, the adult heroes at east ensured that the Villains went through them before they could get to the kids. It didn’t stop them in any way, because they’re just that monstrously powerful right now, but they laid down their lives to protect them before the kids could get seriously hurt. (MHA ch 263)

7) “Don`t worry Kaminari, the amount of death you`ll see today is nothing in comparison to all the death you`ll continue to see for the rest of your career as a hero. Hope you have a good therapist.”- Are you willing to bet money on that? Kaminari’s therapist is going to be working overtime not just with him, but all these traumatised kids. (MHA ch 279)

8) “Hey- It’s Gecko the Girl, long time no see… Also they are talking about monoma, who I forgot existed until this very moment and thus am now presuming is dead and buried alongside all those heroes back there.”- Monoma’s not dead yet, but I wouldn’t put good money on Vlad King still being around…and given that the adults are almost all entirely dead or broken, Momoma’s gonna be on the frontlines by necessity when the next big conflict happens… 9) “I mean, if Jeanist somehow came back, I don’t think being stabbed would put him down

unless you’re not an important character

you know

like Midnight

):  “- It helps that it was a fairly “thin” attack overall, with a clean, direct entry through Bakugou’s body, and relatively targeted. In contrast, imagine if he’s been hit with any of the massive blasts that AFO was unleashing at All Might in Kamino – there wouldn’t have been anything to treat afterwards.

10) “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT GRAN TORINO HOW THE FLYING FUCK DID HE SURVIVED HE GOT FUCKING OBLITERATED AGAINST THE GROUND HIS SPINE WAS TURNED INTO FUCKING POWDER HOW IS HE STILL ALIVE HORIKOSHI”- Well, in Gran Torino’s case, it helps that the blow didn’t hit any of his lungs or heart- it just gouged straight through his intestines and out the other side. But you are correct about his spine taking a direct, shattering blow from that, which, given how his Quirk manifests, basically means his time as an active combat-capable hero is done. 11) “SHAME MIDNIGHT GOT SENT TO THE SHADOW REALM FOR THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN OF BEING A WOMAN I SUPPOSE”- Horikoshi undoubtedly does some amazing ladies as capable, interesting characters and combatants. That just makes it suck more when some of them bite the dust. 12) “I’M ASKING MYSELF THE SAME MIC, BUT YOUR GOD IS A CRUEL ONE. AND HERE I THOUGHT THAT FURUHASHI WAS THE ONE THAT WOULD BE DIFFICULT.”- And a reminder that Mic is still holding back on the news that Aizawa was the target in the attack that killed Shirokumo as well, just to spare his old friend some further grief after all that he’s suffered and lost in the war.

13) “Hell of a week this one isn’t it Zuko? You found out your brother is alive and he cares nothing about you but using your body to make your dad despair, your teacher gets killed before she can grade your papers, mineta continues alive and at large… truly some dark days”- Now the whole class gets to enjoy him in the angst trenches. Sure, he and Izuku are arguably in the muck deeper than the majority of them, but everybody’s been brought low by the events of the last week… and it’s only gonna continue downwards at this rate. 14) “…and I have a feeling the media outside is not there to praise you for almost dying to keep them alive (and in some cases actually dying for that) “- Frankly, I’m impressed by how well Horikoshi captured crowd mentality throughout this whole process. 15) “HORIKOSHI YOU FUCKING BASTARD YOU MADE MINA CRY I’M GOING TO HUNT YOU DOWN FOR SPORT YOU HEAR ME?”- We didn’t get to see it much, but Mina and some of the other girls were quite close to Midnight as a teacher, leaving aside the fact that several of them found her body. It’s…not gonna be easy to move past that. 16) “Yeah he also is dying over here dude, I tell you that”-  I mean, on the one hand, their demands are warranted, given the whole dirty laundry Dabi spilled, but on the other hand…the public needs some patience whilst Enji actually recovers from nearly dying out there, and so far, there’s not a lot of that going around. 17) “I didn’t even recalled that dude before this panel, but yeah, he was right on the money. I wonder if his quirk gave him some sort of light precognition, or if he was only accidentally correct.”-  Given that Dabi admitted he’d sent some of the villains after the Todoroki family (specifically Ending, but it’s also implied this guy too) it’s implied he told him or let him know the truth behind his real identity, and Starservant, being a homeless nobody with no real means of proving anything Dabi said or warning others appropriately (and a little bit crazy to start with), opted for a dramatic method of fighting Endevour in an effort to kill him before the number one hero became embroiled in a scandal, like Dabi wanted. Of course, Endevour just beat him and that played into Dabi’s plans anyway so… 18) “Oh hey there Hawks, so tell me, how’s your back going? That tan you got from Dabi was a bit brutal I tell you that.”- He’s no longer a fan of fried chicken meals anymore. 19) “You can’t win with Firepower, but perhaps you can win with Icepower, eh?

Sorry. Yeah I know, there’s no way to win against him on a straight battle. The only solution is a battle of attrition, make him spend all his power and die to his own flames. I’m afraid this is how Dabi is gonna go down, consumed by his own hatred.”-  However, that too would be a means of letting Dabi “win” in the end. Getting to go out on his terms, and no-one else’s, dying as a villain in a final blaze of glory as he scorns everything his father tried to create through killing his “masterpiece” before killing him too. In something of a parallel to Izuku’s wish to “save” Tomura, Shoto too now has a villain whom he wants to save, but who doesn’t want to be saved. 20) “I think that Toya would rather have you be the one to put him down rather than Endeavor. He can accept being killed by you, but he would never rest if Endeavor was the one to do so, unless Endeavor also died in the process.”- Actually, that’s inverted. As shown by Toya trying to self-immolate the both of them with flames hot enough to scorch Shoto, ecstatic to do so before Endeavour’s eyes, yet calling it off once he falls unconscious, he wants to die fighting Endeavour – burning himself up to nothing before his father’s eyes and forcing him to witness his insane son’s last moments as an unrepentant villain. In a way, he denies Shoto’s agency as a person unless it’s as a means of hurting their father with his death – he wants to kill“the masterpiece”, but he intends to out-live him only long enough to prove that he’s better than the successor his father chose before ending them both in his hellfire. 21) “HOW THE FUCK YOU TWO CAN’T STOP HIM YOU FUCKERS WHERE’S SERO HE COULD’VE TAPED HIM TO THE WALL”- Bakugou would have just dragged with wall with him. 22) “Yeah that’s what I would'e expected after the show he put up

Midoriya back to his roots by braking all bones in his body

Can’t wait for him to use his cast to punch AfO in the face”- Better hope the damage isn’t the kind that’ll handicap him in the next round, cause as we’ve seen, AFO will not play fair or let Izuku have a fair resting period. 23) “Things are truly going to hell right now in the country. An evil madman on the loose letting out dangerous criminals to do his evil bidding while the rich take advantage of the chaos to seize more power and slaving people under the guise of freeing them… Also things are not looking that bright in BNHA I tell you that.But, in both cases, the sun will rise again. As long as one good person still breaths, evil has not won. And they will fight to make sure that evil will not win no matter what.”- Fantasy can become our reality in both good and bad ways, it’s up to us to determine how it will turn out. @thelreads

[thelreads]

Good GOD this week. This year the folks upstairs decided that we would start the year at max speed on our projects, I didn't had time for anything so far, and I was counting on not being back to college to at least liveblog a few chapters. Also the *gestures widely* whole situation around the world, you know? Regardless, I managed to squeeze in some free time now, so let us do something that we haven't done in a while.

No, not guillotine billionaires, that will have to wait a few more weeks. I mean Liveblogging, and more specifically, a BNHA liveblog.

Last time AfO breached into hell and simultaneously breached out of hell, and we had a few familiar faces, worn out faces, worn out places. Now let us see the next chapter of the collapse of the country's society at the hands of an evil megalomaniac fuck, in Chapter 298: Sounds of Collapse.

And also in the real world I suppose.

TWICE

TWICE

WE HAVE FLASHBACK WITH TWICE RIGHT OUT OF THE BAT

THAT'S TWICE THE AMOUNT OF PAIN I CAN HANDLE

MY GOD, TOGA IS REALLY SHORT ISN'T SHE? WE CAN ONLY SEE HER HORNS IN THIS FRAME

...

WAIT

WAIT A SECOND

OH GOD

TWICE

AND THAT WORD IN BOLD

THEY DIDN'T GOT THE REAL DESTRO DID THEY

[madzmationcreations]

Some more art of Shigaraki and Spinner

It’s been some time since I last drew these two. The new chapter’s been making me miss them so this is what came from that.

[alythekitten]

I wish Kiri was there 💔

[cricketsintheaudience]

⭐️gold stars⭐️

this is a drawing based off of @defect1filewav ‘s “two heroes loose on the hospital” comic! it’s honestly so cute and makes me smile so hard even after rereading recent chapters, so it inspired me to draw this.

so basically go read @defect1filewav ‘s comic, it cures all manga pain. (sorry for tagging them twice, just wanna make sure there’s credit where credit is due😭)

(I also finished this with my eyes burning from watching japan sinks 2020, so sorry if it’s not my best work)

[bookworm-blogs]

!!!MANGA SPOILERS!!!

I feel really bad for Aizawa here.

Like, when I was initially reading the chapter, I was annoyed with how seemingly apathetic he is towards knowing Midnight's death. Like, Midnight was the one who made them teachers in the first place, and she helped them find themselves after Shirakumo's death. She was the glue holding the trio together, and yet even though he knows she's dead, Aizawa refused to even talk about her.

It made me mad, but then I realized just who Aizawa is.

He's a man who cloaks himself and his decisions in cold, hard logic. He knows from first hand experience that heroics is a cruel career path ill-suited for the faint of heart. He lost his best friend, and yet despite knowing that others and himself could die, he continues moving forward. This is why he's not eager to make connections in herowork, which is best represented in his relationship with Ms. Joke.

Basically, Aizawa desensitized himself in order to protect himself and his emotions. His main priority as a teacher is to defend his students, which is why he only wants to know their condition.

I can tell this conversation is far from over, though. Unlike Aizawa, Yamada clearly wants to talk. Needs to talk. Another member of the Rooftop Gang is gone; their friend group has officially been cleaved in half. That's not something one can simply brush under the rug.

One way or another, they're going to come back to this moment, and hopefully soon, since Shirakumo shows promise in returning.

[broccoliboix5peepeeman]

Me, after seeing the leaks for 298:

[roof-top-gang-appreciationx]

Spoiler Alert for chapter 298.

Ok, well no one else has been confirmed dead in this chapter, so I’m hoping no news is good news.

Bakugo and Gran Torino have somehow survived having their insides wrecked, though Bakugo seems determined to kill himself in order to check on Deku.

We’ve got more Present Mic with hair down, though I wished it was under better circumstances. And I’m afraid he’s already broken the news of Midnight’s death to Aizawa, was really hoping we’d get to see that moment. But I’m sure they’ll be fanfics aplenty soon enough. Maybe I’ll write something too, though I’ve got several for another fandom I need to get done first. And I’m also hoping all this recent Mic and Aizawa content is a sign of things to come, I enjoy their friendship so much, and there’s so much more that can be explored. Especially regarding Shirakumo. They got through to him with just a pair of goggles before, perhaps they’ll be able to wake him up properly if they tell him about Midnight.

Also looks like we’re shaping up for another Shoto vs Dabi fight, though Shoto’s going to have to find some way of overcoming Dabi’s overwhelming fire power.

And I believe that’s Rei’s silhouette coming through the door after Fuyumi and Natsu; I’ve no idea how this incident is going to affect her, but if she’s able to come and visit, hopefully that means she’s not going to have another breakdown.

God, these poor kids... they should never have to deal with this. Students shouldn’t have to receive such terrible injuries, or find their own teachers dead body. Just look at Momo, she is so tired...

Midoryia of course hasn’t woken up yet. Perhaps he’s in the dream world? Also no word yet on Denki and Tamaki, nor Hawks, so we’ll have to wait a bit longer to learn their fate. The future chapters are going to be difficult for heroes, this chapter mentioned that there are villains roaming around everywhere, plus AFO attacked several other prisons, releasing more dangerous people. I just hope we get some good news soon 😭

Edit: I just realised, where is Inko?? Where is Inko?? She’s not with Deku. Of course she may have had to go home, but it’s making me wonder.... she’d better be alright.

[marketableshinplush]

Bro this is a cute erasermic moment and shit but why my man being treated by Mr. Club Penguin....

Also foot pic

[veroverse21]

I had to 😂

[aru-art]

the leaks may or may not have made me cry when i saw them mind ur business

[thequietmanno1]

Thelreads, MHA 298, Replies Part 1

1) “Last time AfO breached into hell and simultaneously breached out of hell, and we had a few familiar faces, worn out faces, worn out places. Now let us see the next chapter of the collapse of the country’s society at the hands of an evil megalomaniac fuck, in Chapter 298: Sounds of Collapse. 

And also in the real world I suppose.”- And so the “fantasy” situation of this comic book has slowly started to become out reality. You gotta laugh at it, otherwise you’ll start crying, and that won’t help anybody.

2) “TWICE

TWICE

WE HAVE FLASHBACK WITH TWICE RIGHT OUT OF THE BAT

THAT’S TWICE THE AMOUNT OF PAIN I CAN HANDLE”- Even excluding Twice’s sheer one-person army deal, the versatility and strategic implications of his Quirk are so much that Hawks killing him really does mean that the heroes have a fighting chance at this point, otherwise he could do something like clone a bunch of Musculars or ReDestros and just have them pop up to cause chaos wherever. The heroes are overworked enough as it is, any more pressure and the whole system will implode.

3) …

“WAIT

WAIT A SECOND

OH GOD

TWICE

AND THAT WORD IN BOLD

THEY DIDN’T GOT THE REAL DESTRO DID THEY”-  Actually, no, they did get the real deal at the hospital. He was shown being beaten up and restrained by Edgehshot, with such damage that if he was a clone, he’d have melted by that point. However, the point is that, they weren’t expecting there to be two of ReDestro’s power level walking around at the same time, so whilst they had powerful enough heroes available to subdue him at the hospital, they were lacking when it came to this one at the Public Safety Commission. Whilst they planned to lure ReDestro away to increase the success at the vital hospital battlefield, they evidently underestimated how destructive and powerful Redestro can get (nobody having seen him fight against Tomura at Jaku) and so didn’t realise they needed more firepower than they had available before letting him into a room with such high-value targets.  4) “THEY DID MANAGE TO WORN HIM OUT ENOUGH HE’S STARTING TO MELT AWAY, BUT THAT’S THE LEAST OF OUR PROBLEMS.

IF DESTRO IS STILL OUT THERE, THEN THE VILLAINS HAVE DOUBLE THE COORDINATION, IT’S NO LONGER ONLY AFO TO LEAD THEM. 

JESUS CHRIST”- Actually, the issue lies in a different direction. The Public Safety Commission are basically the closest thing to a functioning government in hero society, and now that this ReDestro succeeded in going out in a massive, destructive blaze of glory that has killed or maimed multiple social leaders, including the head of the department in Mera’s arms there, it functionally means there isn’t anybody running the country anymore. The closest thing to order anymore is now in the hands of what heroes remain, and thanks to AFO’s efforts with the prisons, they’ve now got widespread chaos in the streets and nowhere to lock them up anymore, wearing themselves down further under their obligations to protect people whilst AFO kicks back and relaxes in the shadows. And even beyond that, without a government, who decides what defines a hero, legally speaking, in this hour of chaos? If a civilian takes up arms to protect people, in a destructive manner or not, are they a hero? Or will what “official” heroes remain be forced to contend against these “vigilantes” as well? 5) “Yeah, “Liberation”, sure. I remember what Geten was saying back when he fought against Dabi. How the idea is to overthrown society offering true freedom only so they can rule through might. Where’s the goddamn Charlie Chaplin speech again I feel this arc will be a bit close to reality.”-  And now they’re on the cusp of achieving that. There’s too few active heroes remaining and too many rampaging villains loose to act how they want – to say nothing of those who’ll be emboldened by this new state of affairs to act how they want to. If people want there to be peace, they’re gonna have to learn to fight for it themselves, using the new “freedom” they’ve been “gifted” by AFO.

6) “Man, that’s way too early I truly hate capitalism, making you have to grind for the evil overlords before the sun rose”- AFO knew his main advantage was that the heroes couldn’t imagine the sheer scope of his plans well enough to pre-empt them, so he’s made sure to strike whilst the iron’s hot, and undermine their best efforts to retaliate at the same time he’s maximising his security to sit back and plan his next move without interruption. 7) “Even Satan let the demons rest properly”- AFO’s worse than Satan, and he’s here to prove that to everybody.

(MHA ch 264) 8) “And here we have the Hall of Evilness, also used by HOA during the weekends. Yeah, guess y`all are slightly regretting trying to act a coup d`etat in your own country, right? Gonna be either jail or the chopping block, and oh boy, the number of cells is gonna run out soon…”- You were correct, but not for the reasons you expected… 9) “Oh god man, AfO is not even giving them time to breath, three prisons in less than two hours, jesus fuck”- Oh, you poor, naive soul. You though he was gonna stop at three? Like any bully with an advantage, AFO’s gonna keep on pressing it until something breaks. No more prisons. No more place to lock the villains up.  10) “Jesus fuck man

things are about to get… really difficult, to say the least.”- Take note of the numbers though. Seven prisons “liberated”. Only six of them had their occupants escape to the streets. At least one of those jails held the line and won the fight to keep the inmates corralled, even without any of the guards being “heroes” in their official line of work. (MHA ch 269)

11) “Although he might not even wait that long, we already saw that gigantomachia is just there, waiting for a signal… I think that we`re gonna see things got worse before they actually get way worse.”- Oh, much more worse than even that. AFO’s started the downwards plunge of society, and he doesn’t intend to stop until it’s all rock-bottom for everybody. (MHA ch 285)

12) “Boy Uraraka’s parents are gonna be fucking loaded once this all is done. Christ, her family, is gonna be living like royalty.”- That’s only true if we have a functioning society and economy to pay them for the work. At this point, the government may as well not exist anymore, and japan is controlled by whomever has the most power – the Wild West of superpowers. (MHA ch 296)

13) “Now I do hope you guys have cells available for all those people, because jesus is there a lot of folks there that can’t be allowed to roam free.”- Well, er….they did have cells…. (MHA 296) 14) “Alright alright, time for Vigila- no wait, I messed up. It’s BNHA time, why did I thought about Vigilantes? Maybe it has been a while, and I haven’t been able to finish the first chapter of the fanfiction because life is too chaotic.”- You may have been thinking about Vigilantes because, given the similarities between the dramatic widespread destruction from the climatic fighting and the loss of several leading figures from this fighting, everybody may soon be forced to become an illegal hero who’s trying to do the right thing, even if their “job” doesn’t technically exist anymore. 15) “It really fucks you up to be reminded that all that happened in a 24-hours period. All this arc, the whole fight against Shigaraki and Machia, the chaos starting to unfold, all that, was a bit over a day at most.”- That old chestnut about “One Bad Day” now holds true more than ever. All those nameless civilians who’ll be affected by the fallout of this, how many of them do you think will take action to defend themselves that would fall under the heading of “villain” in the before times?

16) “Yeah Spinner, and I’d love to see you turn against AfO since he aims to overthrow Shigaraki. Kill him for your king, show your loyaty!”- Well, that’s the whole problem, isn’t it? Spinner can’t kill AFO (power levels aside) without killing Tomura too – a permanent hostage against any “disloyal” actions taken by his underlings and friends, because no matter how much of him is subdued and assimilated into TomurAFO, there’s still a part of him that remains the leader he swore to follow to the end. Spinner doesn’t have the means to wedge aside Tomura from AFO inside his head, so his old course of action is to follow “Tomura’s” goals at present, because it’s close enough to what his friend wanted before the procedure…but that doesn’t mean he’s happy about this “victory” either. 17) “This is truly out of hand. At least one of them is a potato-faced fuck that can barely fight, that one we can just double-tap with a revolver and get over with, the Shigaraki one is the problem, because honestly, there is no way to save him, and there’s no way to stop him.He truly is the End of all, even for himself.”- The two of them are a combined problem now. Beforehand, Tomura was inheriting AFO’s “will” like Izuku did All Might’s, but now that that’s literally happened, the two are merging into a singular entity that dominates the narrative as the main “enemy”…but both of them individually split the role between “antagonist” and “villain” in different ways. 

@thelreads

[zambies4life]

No context spoilers for bnha chapter 298

[madzmationcreations]

The New manga chapter for BNHA made me want to draw Shiggy and Spinner. Both these two are such gamer nerds!! I love them!