Spoiler Spoilers MHA 425

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Chapter 425: Out-of-season

The chapter starts with Tamaki and Nejire receiving their diplomas. Several male students are crying because they're sad that Nejire is graduating. Present Mic is DJing and says that since they don't have cherry blossoms, he's going to liven up the graduation ceremony.

Kirishima say it feels more like a festival than a graduation and the narration reveals it's already June. Tamaki asks Nejire if her injuries have healed and says that it's all thanks to Mirio, since he kept taking care of them in the flying UA after they were defeated.

The narration then begins to describe everything Nezu has done in this reconstruction project. He is a well known figure worldwide and was already negotiating with other countries, preparing to deal with the consequences of the war.

Mic thanks Mawata Fuwa for the students' speech and calls the graduates' representative, Mirio Togata. Mirio takes the stage and makes a very formal introduction, which surprises all the students who were expecting a joke.

Mirio says that they lost many things and gained nothing. The heroes are always trying to turn “negatives” into “zero”. The students from all the departments used everything they learned at U.A. to help in the war, but they still haven't managed to go back to square zero.

They've studied for three years to prepare for what comes next, and the finish line isn't today. there won't be a bright future without humor, so their goal is to create a world of “positives”, not "zeroes" in which everyone can smile. “Just watch, Sir Nighteye”.

Mirio then activates his quirk and the Kenranzaki Bibimi giant eyelashes car crashes into the stage. All the students laugh and Mirio says goodbye to the 2nd and 3rd years. Cut to the 2-A (temporary) classroom and we see that Aizawa is their teacher.

Ashido is very happy that they're having classes with Aizawa again. Sero asks Bakugou if he shouldn't be in hospital and he says that the doctor allowed it, as long as he keeps quiet. Aizawa asks Aoyama to enter the classroom and he announces that he's leaving U.A.

Jirou asks if he hasn't changed his mind and Aoyama says that even Tsukauchi said he could stay, but he feels that leaving is the right thing to do. Since he joined U.A. at AFO's request, he feels he had no right to go to the 3rd year' graduation ceremony.

So, as an atonoment, he's going to walk the path of heroism from scratch. After all, he held the hand Deku reached to him. Aoyama then starts to cry while smiling as he offers Deku a cheese. Aoyama tells Aizawa that, one day, he will stand side by side with his friends.

The students are moved by his attitude and, to stop them from crying, Aoyama starts shooting lasers in all directions and reveals a surprise: Shinso is going to be joining class 2-A! The students are so excited that Aoyama even feels left out and fires the lasers again.

Aoyama's lasers make Hagakure visible and Mineta is shocked. He's about to say “there was a goddess among us this entire time”, but Aizawa chokes him with his capture weapon. Mawata Fuwa then arrives in the classroom to update the second years on what they'll do rn.

The 2nd and 3rd years will be going around the country to keep it safer and help with the reconstruction under the leadership of Fuwa. History books will talk about the period after AMs retirement and after the battle of Jaku, but much of this chaos will not be documented.

Shoto says that it was during a chaotic period like this that AFO was born. Fuwa says goodbye and that she envies 2-A for not having gone through Aizawa's expulsion prank. That was scary, but it was also what made her understand why she wanted to become a hero.

Fuwa leaves and Deku still looks pensive. After school, the students say they're excited about the new 1st years arriving tomorrow. Deku goes to talk to Uraraka but she interrupts, saying that he had to shave his hair because of surgery and she hopes it grows back.

Sato compliments Tokoyami's new look, because now his “hair” is all frizzy. Tokoyami says it wasn't intentional, but he likes it too. We see a panel of Uraraka smiling while Deku still looks sad. Cut to a mysterious, panting man walking through the destroyed streets.

Deku asks Shoto if he's going to Aoyama's farewell party and he says yes, as long as it's not today. Deku looks worried but Shoto says he'll be ok. He takes a step in the opposite direction and we see Endeavor in a wheelchair facing some kind of giant device. Chapter ends.
 
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Borasey79

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Why does this finale sound so fillery?
My god, not even the "ooooh, there's still a mysterious villain roaming around" ending can inject interest in this dragged-out epilogue.
 

RayanOO

Lazy is the way
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Only the Endy vaguely interest me

let’s see

I think the weird sad guy is here to pass the message that villain will never stop to appear and that even if AFO gone, lonely people or people in suffering will still take dangerous routes and we need to care about them
Etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
 
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- New character is just a setup for a Tenko/Shiggy situation except this time someone will step up to help him.

- Dabi is in whatever that device is, curious on his condition though. My guess is his fate will be left ambiguous without us really knowing if he'll make it.
 
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- New character is just a setup for a Tenko/Shiggy situation except this time someone will step up to help him.

- Dabi is in whatever that device is, curious on his condition though. My guess is his fate will be left ambiguous without us really knowing if he'll make it.
Yeah without looking at the raws my first assuming was dabi in some sort of life support device
 
#12
After the break by next chapter eri stored up enough energy to restore both Dani and Endeavor at the same time.
She can't, she has to charge energy for at least a month to restore such damage and without the horn it will be even more difficult.


Why does this finale sound so fillery?
My god, not even the "ooooh, there's still a mysterious villain roaming around" ending can inject interest in this dragged-out epilogue.
Because the author said over and over again that he wouldn't end everything with the big final battle, but that he would draw more scenes.

Keep in mind that there is still volume 42 to fill.
 
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Borasey79

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Because the author said over and over again that he wouldn't end everything with the big final battle, but that he would draw more scenes.

Keep in mind that there is still volume 42 to fill.
Nobody expected the final battle to be the very last chapter of this manga, or any manga for that reason. Epilogues are expected and necessary for post-conflict character and worldbuilding updates.
But diluting the epilogue with pointless panels and stretching it across more than 1-2 chapters, especially when the author himself has had multiple health issues and can't wait to conclude the series, is buffling, if not downright moronic.
Give the final conflict the most cliché conclusion, then linger on snoozefest below fanfic level scenes just to pad yet another volume?
 
#14
But diluting the epilogue with pointless panels and stretching it across more than 1-2 chapters, especially when the author himself has had multiple health issues and can't wait to conclude the series, is buffling, if not downright moronic.
I repeat:

1) There is a whole volume to fill

2) The author on two different occasions has clearly said that he wants to draw several post-final scenes.

Having said that, does anything really change if it ends in 8-9 chapters instead of 2?
 
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But diluting the epilogue with pointless panels and stretching it across more than 1-2 chapters, especially when the author himself has had multiple health issues and can't wait to conclude the series, is buffling, if not downright moronic.
Give the final conflict the most cliché conclusion, then linger on snoozefest below fanfic level scenes just to pad yet another volume?
Shonen fans are so weird, how are you going to say that 1-2 chapter ending after a final war arc would in any way be enjoyable? We've seen this in failed endings like Naruto, Bleach, Fire Force, etc. they never work.

Having about 10 chapter epilogue sets up a perfect way to say conclusions to ALL character and story arcs. I guess you can always tune into the trainwreck that is JJK right now as that will surely have a 1 chapter ending the second the climax is over with 0 satisfaction.
 
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Shonen fans are so weird, how are you going to say that 1-2 chapter ending after a final war arc would in any way be enjoyable? We've seen this in failed endings like Naruto, Bleach, Fire Force, etc. they never work.

Having about 10 chapter epilogue sets up a perfect way to say conclusions to ALL character and story arcs. I guess you can always tune into the trainwreck that is JJK right now as that will surely have a 1 chapter ending the second the climax is over with 0 satisfaction.
Calling JJK a trainwreck while defending anything of this last arc of MHA is wild.
 
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Borasey79

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Shonen fans are so weird, how are you going to say that 1-2 chapter ending after a final war arc would in any way be enjoyable?
Yeah, opening with a generalization like "Shonen fans" will surely make you sympathetic to the masses.
Epilogues are not complete stories. They do not need introductions, developments, nor conflict. All they need, surprise, surprise, is a fucking conclusion.

I don't need more than 2 chapters of any story's characters past its conclusion - I don't - and so far, as the magazine has proven, neither do the mangas.

Already with this chapter of MHA, we have gotten fuck-all new important information. The pointless exposition(s) and monologue(s) in this installment could be synthesized into one chapter page. IF, and I'm willing to suspend my negative expectations in case Hori surprises me, even though the entire fucking series has proven otherwise - IF, as I was saying, the following 2/3 chapters do happen to make anything interesting happen, I'll eat my words and renege on the claim that dragged epilogues as anything other than. But until Hori can show anything even remotely interesting that is not a character with a new haircut (by golly, I'm cumming just at the idea that Deku could sport different hair!) or that isn't an edifice being built, yes, me, Diehard Shonen Fan, will keep calling these inked pages waste of trees at best, and diarrhea at worst.

YuYu had the most interesting and genre-dissonant epilogue in the past 30 years of Jump activity, and even that one didn't go past two fucking chapters.

I guess you can always tune into the trainwreck that is JJK right now as that will surely have a 1 chapter ending the second the climax is over with 0 satisfaction.
You name-drop JJK just for the lolz of it - whatta bad boy you are. But even the dragged mess that is everyone's mom vs Sukuna - and it's both a drag and a mess of a shitstory at once - well, even that is more interesting than anything Hori has delivered ever since Deku was revealed as the one piece of quirks.
Having about 10 chapter epilogue sets up a perfect way to say conclusions to ALL character and story arcs.
Not all characters are equal.
Not all characters deserve panel-time.
Not even the protagonist deserves panel time if all you can fucking think to make him do is appear in a different hairdo and spew pathetic cliché lines.

We've seen this in failed endings like Naruto, Bleach, Fire Force, etc. they never work.
No surprise that you can't detect a shit epilogue from a mile ago, if those are all the epilogues you've experienced up-close.
Go to sleep, kiddo.

Calling JJK a trainwreck while defending anything of this last arc of MHA is wild.
It's easy to point the finger without connecting the brain first.
 
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