My Hero Academia Epilogue Welcomes Shigaraki’s Second Coming
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My Hero Academia is now one chapter away from bringing the manga to an end, and the newest chapter reveals just how easily a young person could become the next Tomura Shigaraki. As fans saw throughout the final fights against All For One and Shigaraki, Izuku Midoriya wanted to save the villain because he figures out that Shigaraki was instead originally an abused and frightened little boy who got shunned by society and eventually grew to want to destroy it. With the series then adding onto this with All For One actually breeding Shigaraki to become this avatar of hatred, it further showcased how those lost within the cracks can become villains.
With the war against the villains now over, one of the themes highlighted by the epilogue arc before My Hero Academia comes to an end is the fact that the society needs to change overall to have an actual chance at a happy ending. Fans were introduced to a mysterious new character in the previous chapters, and the newest one finally highlights this young boy as a kid who had the potential of being a new Shigaraki before some major changes take place heading into the finale.
My Hero Academia Chapter 429 introduces fans to an unnamed character who explains they had been shunned by the rest of their family due to a “freak variant” of their quirk unrelated to the rest of their family history. The family had tied them up and locked them in the basement, and the child began to cry so much that the family eventually sewed their mouth shut to keep it from opening. When the war broke out, their family had abandoned them and they finally escaped the basement when the house had been cut through during all of the fights.
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