#ch.348

[everysuigetsu]

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[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[akutagawa-daily]

Akutagawa daily 348/★

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Ferrari 348 CH

[twomiddlefingersforthehaters]

If you are in love with someone, you seem to enjoy these unexpected touches and want them to last longer and not going to push them away.

• Sakura

The hospital hug doesn't count because he just woke up from coma. I've talked about Sakura's back hug in FOD here.

• Karin

You can clearly see Sasuke's confused face in ch. 348 as Karin flirts with him. But when she gets close, he tells her to back off. This suggests that he doesn't like or doesn't let her come too close.

Although Sasuke was really uncomfortable about Ino hugging him but he didn't push her, it was due to the fact that he had a lot of people around him and he didn't want to push a girl and insult her.

The same thing happens here too:

The expressions he gives when karin comes cling to him is priceless. His expression looks like he is actively disgusted and about to throw up.

Sasuke has moments where Sakura or Karin cling to him even in front of others or when they are alone. If he has any attraction or romantic feelings for one of them, he will not reject them or show his discomfort when they touch him. When he is alone with Karin or Sakura, he keeps his distance.

Meanwhile with Naruto:

After not seeing Naruto for 3 years, Sasuke initiate an intimate act. Instead of hugging him and whispering in his ear, Sasuke could have clearly avoided it and killed Naruto.

Sasuke didn't mind if it was from Naruto, even if he was alone with him or standing in a crowd.

Even if he acts like he's going to kill him after the kiss. But it became his fondest memory. And he will not hesitate to show that.

To be honest, all these scenes are not that impactful for him to remember. Except for that kunai scene. If you have crush on someone, you will remember and never forget every silly, random and useless moment you shared with them.

[uriel-is-best-girl]

TSTIR CH 348 SPOILERS

Clenching my fists because sung hyunjae is a weirdo, a freak, quite often just crazy, but also. He's like one of the few people around yoojin that isn't his child (what with how the skill works), and when the only option to prevent yoojin's kidnapping was hurting him, he let him go?? Hyj planned for shj to hurt him badly so bhy wouldn't be able take him but. When faced with that choice shj just let him go rather than hurt him and I'm. Idk I'm in my feels.

Like what character development in their relationship. And sung hyunjae is thinking about the mind control, and hes thinking about how it will affect yoojin's perception of him because he wants yoojin to like him. And bak hayool has had the easiest time getting to yoojin by bad mouthing shj and honestly thats quite awful. Like, they've had to work to get a good relationship, to move to veing partners. And this mf just comes in with no regard for that to just. Break down the trust they've built together. Ugghhh

Well since theyrr going to china for sure now at least maybe yoon yooj can come back. I am so holding out for yoon yoon but also am very afraid theyll show up and not know yoojins being manipulated and kidnapped and so won't do anything.

[oshiawaseni]

Between BkDk, which of them knows they're in love with the other?

A question was asked: Is it just one, is it both, or is it neither? This is my reasoning behind why I think that both of them have realised their romantic feelings for the other.

I'll start with Izuku’s side first, as he is the veteran.

Izuku's been sitting on his feelings for quite some time and repressing them as much as he can, simply just knowing these feelings… exist. Izuku has always loved Kacchan, but I'm talking specifically about the moment he realised what kind of love it was.

I think the moment that really did Izuku in was witnessing the growth in Katsuki's heroic heart for the very first time, during his team's battle in the Joint Training arc. Shiny eyes watched Kacchan's newly perfected teamwork as he fought the opposition while protecting his team and allowing them to cover for him in return.

This change in Katsuki was his heart becoming more like Izuku's, in his efforts to become the top hero that cares about saving and winning equally. He no longer looked down on the action of saving a person, so he no longer looked down on what it meant to be saved by others either. I think this really cast him in a new light for Izuku.

Kirishima: "But it's true it might be the first time we've ever seen him do something like this." (Katsuki protecting others)

As well as planting a seed foreshadowing Bakugou Katsuki Rising, Hori placed the speech bubble over a very bare panel of Izuku watching Kacchan for two reasons: Emphasis that Izuku was also seeing Kacchan's character growth for the first time, and to imply that the change in Katsuki's character that Monoma had just been yelling about was, in large part, influenced by Izuku himself.

The paneling is so genius. It seemed insignificant enough to be ignored by Bones, yet it says so much more than all other panels because it tells a story of the piece in Katsuki that had been missing their whole lives, it’s simplistic emptiness conveying the beauty Izuku saw in him finding it. If Katsuki was changing, maybe Izuku was, too... and this panel was the start of Izuku's admiration evolving into something more romantic.

Izuku watching Katsuki's heroism was an incredibly important moment for them and puts Izuku's view of love in ch.348 into some more context. Because chapter 208 was Katsuki definitely... undeniably sharing Izuku's heart. RIGHT AFTER sending his thoughts to Izuku: "Just keep your eyes on me, shitty Deku!"

".......If it responds to my feelings, at that time, I..."

And not long after JT, we get these unfinished thoughts about WHY Black Whip was triggered and Izuku has been hush about his inner thoughts on Katsuki ever since. (Other than telling Kacchan he doesn't mind being called Deku, if it's too hard to call him Izuku.)

The reason Izuku's emotions were so deeply triggered that day is because Monoma reminded him of the pain he saw in Katsuki's face when he cried to him about ending All Might in DvK2.

The recent anime ending further backs this theory during a montage of Izuku running away from the significant memories he has with his friends. This memory is a very important one to Izuku.

When Monoma triggered him, Izuku felt Katsuki's suffering on a personal level. His precious Kacchan, who had cried to him with that face, had fallen under attack, so by extension, Izuku was being attacked too. That day, Izuku discovered how very protective he is over him. (see also: "Give him back to me!")(see also: Kacchan getting hurt "because of me" to save Izuku was the Vigilante arc catalyst) (see also: Vol 37 Cover Art)

During his Bakugou Katsuki Rising chapter/episode, Kacchan too felt an immense amount of empathy with Izuku, because he refers to the moment he was about to lose Izuku as being "at death's door." Not specifying it was Izuku's death, but death in general. Izuku feels Katsuki's pain. Katsuki feels Izuku's pain. And this attunement with one another makes them both feel immensely protective over each other. Amazing.

So... Izuku has just figured out his feelings... and when asked directly by Kacchan, he runs away from giving him a concrete answer because he doesn't want to upset him with the love and overprotectiveness he feels for Kacchan inside his heart. At this point in the story, Izuku still feels somewhat disliked by him and is scared of Katsuki's potential harsh rejection. I'm sure he was thinking something like "Better to omit the truth and not cause anyone pain." No pain for Kacchan, no pain for him. Hedgehogs can't get hurt if they never lie close to each other, right?

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With Katsuki, I think he awoke to a new feeling born inside him after he almost lost Izuku. The uncompromising need for Izuku to stay in his life. And his feelings from childhood that he’d hidden deep inside reemerged with the same explosive level of fervour that he’d given Izuku their whole lives, except now when he thought about Izuku, his heart was filled with something… different.

He only realised what those feelings really were at the same time he faced the looming death that was ahead of him. Katsuki was stripped completely bare by AFO and found all that remained of him, which was now staring him straight in the face, the precious piece of him AFO could never touch: Izuku’s and his intense and binding love for each other. There's no other explanation for chapter 362, other than him becoming more aware of both Izuku's and his own feelings. That's why he thought of him in the end, that's why he longed to see him so much.

That's why he wanted his feelings to reach him, to have Izuku in his grasp, at a time when he knew he had no hope to. All For One told him to face his reality. But that reality and Katsuki's wishes are two very separate entities and nothing can come between the love and belief Izuku and Katsuki have for each other. Katsuki would not be broken… and it was his hope that won out.

Edgeshot: "Don't give up, Dynamight! The guy you're waiting for will... Deku will come for sure. That's why I won't let you die!"

Hori revealed on the back of Volume 37 that Izuku is the person Katsuki had been waiting for because... (and this BREAKS ME):

Katsuki had been waiting to be saved by him.

I KNOW, I KNOW. There's a small part of me that's just like "SHUTUP HORI THESE CHAPTERS WERE ALREADY HARD ENOUGH TO TAKE YOU DIDNT HAVE TO RUB THEM IN EVEN MORE :((" because thinking about all of this hurts like hell.

But I know these lines probably weren’t written to upset those of us who live in a perpetual state of bkdk canon brainrot, and were written so that everyone else, the average "casual" fan, can start to see/accept the love that's between them a little more. I'm sure it's with this kind of intention that he reminded everyone again of who exactly it was residing in Katsuki's heart and whose name it was Edgeshot felt he needed to use to call out to Katsuki with, for the sole purpose of motivating him harder to stay alive. (ily Hori, thanks for the pain.)

As of ch.362, they are both now aware they love the other, Izuku doesn't know yet that it's very reciprocal, but I think Katsuki realised it, and he allowed Izuku's love to overflow him during his delirium, using it as his shield to protect his spirits after the awful things AFO did and said to him. It's devastating that he had to suffer so much to see the truth that had been lying dormant inside his own heart the whole time.

This uncovered truth is why he got back up and acted in the way he knew Izuku believed in most about him. Izuku wasn't coming. But at the very least... he could still become the hero Izuku admires and loves one last time, before it was all over...

"(Never giving up until I get my win is what you always believed in about me,) so I just gotta win, right.... Izuku....?"

Ch.362 felt like Katsuki's answer to Izuku's feelings, an incredibly private moment of him exposing his bare heart for all to see. His final act was an acceptance and reciprocity of the love Izuku felt for him that had been there all along. He was completely run down mentally, physically and spiritually, so he comforted himself by thinking about his special guy.

What provides more comfort than your beloved being right there with you, at your lowest? What greater desire does the heart have than to feel loved by the person it yearningly aches for the most?

Katsuki was only able to see Izuku's feelings because he could finally face and recognise his own.

[aashi-heartfilia]

About tomorrow's chapter:

I think the POV change is more likely but personally I don't see it happening.

Ochako was stabbed remember?

She had a lot of blood loss and her body temperature was plummeting. Plus, Horikoshi doesn't just leave things hanging.

I mean he does, but not like this.

Because, even though Ochako managed to make Toga smile, they're still floating in the air! All of twice clones might have disintegrated but the rest are still floating in the air!

Plus, Ochako getting stabbed and all of that blood loss must also have some consequences. Even if they're not life threatening, she should be out of commission from here on. Remember, in ch 348 when Deku left Okuto Island?

We thought it would be a POV change, but after showing Izuku quickly making his way to UA, we were back to Okuto Island.

It wasn't necessary, but Horikoshi explicitly stated that the battle between 'Two Maidens in Love' has started.

Even if it's just 2-3 panels to show the TogaChako conclusion, I don't think Horikoshi will leave them hanging in the air, get it? Hanging in air.

After that, we can easily jump to Deku vs Shigaraki or All Might vs AFO.

Bakugo waking up at the end of this volume is also a big possibility.

But more on that later.

[pikahlua]

[MASTERPOST] My Hero Academia Spoilers/Manga Translations Part 2

Continued from Part 1 here.

Ch. 369

Ch. 368

Ch. 367

Ch. 366

Ch. 365

Ch. 364

Ch. 363

Ch. 362

Ch. 361

Ch. 360

Ch. 359

Ch. 358

Ch. 357

Ch. 356

Ch. 355

Ch. 354

Ch. 353

Ch. 352 (full chapter)

Ch. 352

Ch. 351

Ch. 350

Ch. 349

Ch. 348 (clarification on Izuku’s response to Toga)

Ch. 348 (first three pages complete)

Ch. 348

Ch. 347

Ch. 346

Ch. 345

Ch. 344

Ch. 343 (full chapter)

Ch. 343

Ch. 342

Ch. 341 (first six pages)

Ch. 340

Ch. 338

Ch. 337

Ch. 336 Part 1

Ch. 336 Part 2

Ch. 336: The MHA 336 leak(???) translated

Ch. 335

Ch. 334

Ch. 333

Ch. 332

Ch. 330

Ch. 329

Ch. 327 (but only the first three pages)

Ch. 326

Ch. 325

Ch. 324

Ch. 322: What Katsuki needs to say

Ch. 322

Ch. 321

Ch. 320

Ch. 319

Ch. 318 Part 1

Ch. 318 Part 2

Ch. 318 Part 3

Ch. 310 Translation Notes

Ch. 302 Translation Notes

Ch. 290-291 Dabi’s broadcast translation

Ch. 284 Translation Notes

[greenhappyseed]

MHA Ch. 382 leak reactions

SHINSOOOOOO!!! I’m glad to see him controlling Machia, but also heading towards AFO. I wonder what happens if he takes control of AFO while AFO is rewinding — it would certainly stall AFO’s escape, but how would it affect Tomura? And the OFA-AFO resonating/hearing each other thing? (Seeing Shinsou — the kid who didn’t even make it into the hero course and is fighting now under a special exemption from Mera — go up against AFO and hold his own would be amazing.)

It’s funny how AFO exploded into a younger version of himself only a few chapters after Tomura burst out of AFO’s potato-faced vestige and began wearing his old TomurAFO skin like a flannel tied around his waist.

I feel so awful for Toga. She abandoned most of her hope back in Ch. 341 (when Toya teased her for having a heart, and asked if she was really ready to put an end to the world), and then she slammed the door shut in Ch. 348 when Izuku rejected her confession. She said it was hard to live, even though she’s full of love. Now AFO hypes her up, saying she has yet to unleash her full power…and it’s a dud. Toga loves Toya and Tomura but her clones can’t use their quirks. If Twice could do it, and she’s now Twice, why can’t she fully be him and make clones that can use quirks? Does this mean she doesn’t love him enough? Toga’s so dejected that is her “love” is always getting in the way, no matter what her goals are. The Twice clones are telling her to exterminate the heroes but she just…can’t. There’s still that small part of her that doesn’t love destruction. Yes, she wants to be like her friend, Jin, but she doesn’t want to be the person who puts an end to the world.

Anyone else enjoying that Tsukauchi — a random Tokyo detective who accidentally discovered Toshinori Yagi’s big secret — is now in charge at HQ? And forging all kinds of random connections? Like the idea that Tsukauchi is going back and forth between La Brava and Hawks is HILARIOUS because those two are high maintenance and oh yeah, there’s also a multi-stage battle for the end of the world happening too.

[everysuigetsu]

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[wingsfreedom]

"people who think bnha ending implies an IzuOcha canon are wrong and clowns"

-- says someone who was romanizing the internalization of Baku's demeaning insults in Izuku and thinks it was a confirmation of ƁĶÐĶ in ch.348

[initforthelongrun]

Ch 348 SBS