#boku no hero academia chapter 226

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Tenko Shimura: The Son Of The Bat

by Anonymous After an unfortunate accident Tenko Shimura is left alone, but not for long as a certain playboy by day, vigilante by night finds him, eager to help him. Words: 226, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: Gen Characters: Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake (DCU), Batfamily Members (DCU) Relationships: Other Relationship Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Underground Hero Shinsou Hitoshi, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko is Not a Villain, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko is an Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Fan, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Protective Bruce Wayne, Protective Batfamily (DCU), Bruce Wayne is Batman, Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids via https://ift.tt/3DjL1Ft

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It's Not My Fault I'm a Maniac!

It's Not My Fault I'm a Maniac! by Jahgyong

Cheerful middle school graduate Toga Himiko has a secret or two that would change her life-- as well as the lives of others!

A retelling of Chapter 226 of the manga and Episode 109 of the anime.

Words: 1103, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Toga Himiko, Saitou

Relationships: Saitou & Toga Himiko

Additional Tags: Crushes, Stabbing, Blood and Injury, Blood Drinking, Retelling

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48954007

[arkus-rhapsode]

My Hero Academia Chapter 226 Review

Oh lord this chapter. Wow.

So we open on a flashback, or potentially a broadcast of young Toga’s first murder. Someone who witnessed it actually got a good look at Toga’s face.

Okay, so setting the tone for this chapter. We also get more from Toga’s flashback showing that she was obsessed with blood before her first murder.

I’ll talk about this more when we get back to it as we cut forward to the present.

Kizuki is still interviewing Toga, and I swear to god you could show me some of the faces in this chapter out of context and I’d think they’d be moved to orgasm.

Toga’s not able to really stand. Getting blown up will do that to you. And Kizuki begins to monologue again. Though to be fair, unlike last week, it balanced much better with more potent dialogue and Toga’s own introspection. o its not like dominated by one person.

So we get introduced to a new concept for this world, quirk consoling. It’s not a surprise, that powers you are born with affect your personality, simulations, and interests. Toga can transform from drinking blood, so naturally she’s interested in blood. Bakugou’s got an explosive temper, could be partially detritive from his quirk. Same with Aoyama and his sparkling motif. People’s quirks reflect their quirks.

Quirk consoling is for those who’s personalities effected by their odd quirks are made to psychologically integrate them. Essentially press down their psychosis and make them normal. But a quirk is a part of you. It doesn’t just go away. Focusing on suppressing your oddity just makes you think about it more. And the more you think about the thing you’re told not to embrace in an effort to not do it, its no surprise Toga snapped.

Now to be fair. This is just Toga. We have seen people with blood based quirks like Vlad King, actually manage to live a normal life. It’s likely because his stimulation with blood manifested more acceptably. Showing that Toga’s interest could’ve been met, but rather than being forced down, she could’ve been shown to put her interests in another form.

Toga snaps at Kizuki again, and she reveals a support tool to blow her back. I’m guessing all the Liberation Army executives have a special support tool.

Kizuki brings up something I’ve been saying for awhile, that the LoV and the Liberation Army have the same objective. Thy both wanna change society for reasons that create outcasts. But again, something that makes them different it their closeness. Kizuki, doesn’t care about Toga’s suffering so she can help her, she cares so she can furthur her own agenda.

But the League cared. Gave Toga a place to go. But these guys, she’s just another drop in the bucket for their ends. If they really cared, Kizuki would’ve offered Toga a chance to join them. But no, she’s just another pawn.

Toga dashes off, and I again have to props to Horikoshi as an artist. I tend to hear Horikoshi get shit for ways he draws women at times (personally, I don’t agree with that assessment, but that’s not what this is about right now). But Hori is one of the few shounen artists willing to take this female character who many do consider cute and adorable, regardless of being a serial killer, and burn her. Burn and blood that cute face, because it horrifying, it gets the message across.

So while I get some of the complaints about how Hori draws female characters, I feel its worth mentioning that he will treat their appearances like a male’s. Give them muscle tone and give them full facial damage. It’s something I see rarely done by mainstream shounen and I appreciate it.

Granted, she doesn’t stay like that for long. As she turns into Uraraka while fleeing.

So we get another dive into Toga’s head. This time about Izuku and Uraraka. While it is good, how Toga becomes like Uraraka because of love. She wants to be like Uraraka because Izuku loves her. I also feel this chapter hasn’t brought up the source of that love.

Because as we saw in the flashback, the boy she was watching looked like Izuku, so how much of this love is genuine and how much is superficial. Its not answered and maybe it will be alter, but seeing this scene makes m want a clear answer on if Toga is projecting onto others or is this “true love.”

And here’s where we get the most controversial thing in the chapter. Which this chapter has been great so far, but this moment...

Toga can now use the powers of the people she turns into. Something that only seems to have happened because she is at death’s door. Okay, I’m going to level with you, this is an asspull. This out of nowhere enhancement is the same thing people gave to FT and OP for how they won fights. My damn intellectual honesty does tell me this is still cheating.

BUT! Unlike, say FT, this power up is backed by the story. Sure its not “built up” but the fact this new ability was dveloped thanks to a heavy psychological reason and not say “I have friends” or some shit, that reality bends entirely to their will.

It also lines up with Toga’s powers. Its not like she gained the ability to blood bend. Her evolution came from still having to transform her body from ingesting a person’s blood. And we also she, it has limitations. Like with Monoma’s copy quirk, I can accept such a strong ability as long as it has limits. And this one does. She can’t maintain the form she’s in forever.

So is it an asspull? Yes, but it a very well done asspull that allows to look over the plot convenience.

Our chapter ends pretty gruesomely, but kinda amazingly. Also, she says she’s just like Izuku. I don’t know if that means that the LoV knows the truth about One for All or if she’s just saying that because she has Izuku’s blood.

Post Chapter follow up: This chapter is great. The best part about it is finally diving into who Toga is as a person. It’s such a trip and honestly erriely similar to real life killers.

I love the worldbuilding and commentary on society in this chapter. Horikoshi really knows how to take a modern setting for a battle shounen and give it such depth.

Kizuki is also far better in this chapter. She’s still one-note, but this time she’s not dominating thee chapter and at least gives us more insight into the Liberation army.

The only fault I can find in this chapter is the powerup. But I’ve already written why I can see a reader accepting this over some Nakama crap. And even if the change does bother you there is so much good here, it still is a good read.

Final Verdict: 9/10

Gives us a great psychological look into our villain

Character development in spades

Interesting societal commentary

[aesthetics---trash]

I colored her new character page from Volume 24!!

[rapidlydecaying]

the only thing that gives me serotonin at this point is making playlists for characters I love so,

[itnoy]

Traitor Uraraka

@yeastofeden​ lordy your traitor theory sucked me in. I was scrolling through and researching anything about Uraraka being the traitor for approximately 4 hours last night after I found your very informative post.

I kid you not, I am willing it with all my being that this theory becomes truth because Ochako needs more character development again beyond liking Deku. It’s just so interesting I think that even though it’s a less supported theory than Kaminari or Tooru, it really has so much evidence with it. 

No idea where I’m going with this post, but I’m just gonna add little moments or tidbits bc I feel like it.

This is not worth anyone’s time lol, it’s to organize my thoughts and keep track of.

SPOILERS FOR CHAP. 226 BELOW

I love love love all the Uraraka theories from the “ura” hidden (Horikoshi’s self-announced genius of a name) to the parallels between her and Toga or Bakugou and her sometimes suspicious behavior.

From Chapter 226: Toga as Uraraka

Ochako’s quirk is... deadly.

Also, Horikoshi?

Hmmm... Uraraka... 麗 (beautiful)?... cuteness... okay, okay, I agree that I’m reaching here, but interesting

Also does Curious remind no one else of Mina??? The eyes, the style, the personality... maybe we’ve been looking in the wrong direction all along LOL

Looks like Ochako... which is not useful at all but I just wanted to say

From Uraraka Ochako’s shifuku:

I also think this is interesting just bc he talks about how dark a character Uraraka would be if she had the gigantification quirk, but it really doesn’t seem to be a problem for Mt. Lady, so why would it be any different for Ocha? (Maybe I’m just interpreting this wrong though)

If you read this far, I’m wondering why 

[mangelarts]

Toga edits because the two latest chapters hurt me

also this is my first time making edits so yeet i guess

[wolfcrunch]

waitress: oh so how do you like your steak?

toga: still breathing

[jaygibberish]

Or so Toga told herself because good Lord this chapter

[c-jay321]

bnha 226

I’m pretty much out of loop with bnha these days but the new chapter got me thinking about Himiko’s quirk....

So... she’s essentially another Monoma then?? Because the amount of time she can use a quirk depends on how much blood she can suck right?

Or maybe she’s even stronger, because if she can turn into another person... it’d probably work for mutants too and it could also work for stockpiling quirks like Eri’s and Izuku’s?

At first, I really thought she had a crush on Ochako here lol, but then I realized she was talking about the fact that she wants to have the relationship Ochako has with Izuku, with someone else.

So she basically admires Ochako and Izuku’s relationship. But it also makes me wonder, the person she originally wanted to be like was Stain, but now we don’t hear anything about her wanting to be like Stain anymore.

But here she says she’s similar to Izuku but how??

If she sucks blood from the people she likes, then I’m guessing she had a huge crush on the dude she injured. 

This also makes me wonder if Himiko already knew what her quirk was, or if she just wanted to stab someone just for the sake of stabbing them?

Bonus:

There’s no way she didn’t get some kind of disease from drinking a dead bird’s blood. And, can she turn into animals too???

Hori’s art was pretty freaking clean in this chapter too.

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Tenko Shimura: The Son Of The Bat

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3DjL1Ft by Anonymous After an unfortunate accident Tenko Shimura is left alone, but not for long as a certain playboy by day, vigilante by night finds him, eager to help him. Words: 226, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: Gen Characters: Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake (DCU), Batfamily Members (DCU) Relationships: Other Relationship Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Underground Hero Shinsou Hitoshi, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko is Not a Villain, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko is an Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Fan, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Protective Bruce Wayne, Protective Batfamily (DCU), Bruce Wayne is Batman, Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3DjL1Ft

[kendrick-harlow]

[Manga Spoilers: 226]

Is...her name...not Himiko?

Because Curious only referred to her as the eldest daughter of the Toga family:

So...why the secret given name, Horikoshi? Huh? WHY?

[izzukku]

👀

"Skillful movements"

"Technique"

"Happy as long as I can "fall in love" a lot"

"Why are you hoping to be a Hero?"

"Tomura-kun will destroy everything that I don't like"

SO MANY Q U E S T I O N S

[rosiebrie]

BnHA 226 Spoilers

WHOA OKAY

SHE CAN USE THE QUIRKS OF THE PEOPLE SHE TRANSFORMS INTO NOW?

That screams Big Bad for Deku and crew rip 🤣

For a moment there I got really scared that Hori was actually gonna kill my girl Toga off... but no, now that he's introduced a new aspect of her quirk, I doubt he'd go killing her off right away. Despite that, she's in really rough shape right now. I wonder how she'll get the medical care she needs... I know that Shigaraki and friends know AfO's doctor friend, but they haven't gotten his blessing yet and he seems more a mad scientist type than a practicing physician. Plus, Toga's injuries seem way more serious than what one guy could patch up. Being the League of Villains, they can't exactly just stroll into a hospital emergency room... but hey, maybe the Doc will surprise me. He's the one who has helped keep AfO alive right? Maybe he will help Himiko somehow after all... ooooo, maybe he'll want to experiment? Make her a blood-sucking Noumu? Damn, I don't know but that's a worrisome thought.

Anyway, Toga's still highly disturbing, and it makes me sad :( But seeing this insight into her past and her mind finally is so cool!

[donateliamitsuki]

BnHA Chapter 226 spoilers I guess.

WAIT WAIT WAIT FUCKING WAIT.

DID TOGA USED URARAKA'S QUIRK????

I THOUGHT SHE COULDN'T DO THAT???????

HORIKOSHI YOU SAID SHE COULDN'T??????????

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HAVE I JUST WITNESSED????????

[jazztoons]

What I Learned From Chapter 226

Toga is an average girl that no one understands

Her mom and dad and teachers were always giving her commands

Doom and gloom in the classroom in that moment it changed instantly

With a magic man and moonfish she joined some terrorists

And now she's Together Himako