So Hori blessed Shigaraki stans. He says Shigaraki stans should get what they want in life. We’re living in this blessed timeline where we see Shiggy fanservice this entire chapter, huh.
Everyone’s trying to get to the epicenter while avoiding Decay, and it’s interesting to see that nobody really died from it onscreen - just some disintegrated clothing. Maybe it’s due to its wide-spread effect that the chain-effect stops after one item gets decayed through the ground?
Anyway, poor Spinner is still trying his best.
I’ve been worrying over Giran for the past few chapters, and it’s good to see him alive! I hope they won’t get caught up in Decay. Maybe if Decay is controlled enough, it can selectively disintegrate stuff? Like it can leave the LOV alone while targeting others?
So the question is: Is Shigaraki still walking down the path set by All For One, or is he truly free? His desire for destruction is a result of his own quirk, but it was AFO who taught him not to be afraid of it and that other people’s lives are in his hands, living or dying depending on him. By AFO and Re-Destro’s definition, Shigaraki is free. Free from his past, his guilt, his fears, his limitations. I guess we’ll see how his character progresses and what he’ll do after this, to really see what he’s become.
Here we see cracks forming on Shigaraki’s skin as he disintegrates another part of town. He’s not so immune to his own quirk, like Dabi’s skin melting and similar effects of overexertion. The shockwave looks like a giant hand print slammed against it... there’s a lot of background art this chapter and it’s really awesome to see the scale of it all.
Shigaraki is enjoying himself as he wrecks everything around him. Compare that to the visually similar part in chapter 236:
If Tenko hadn’t killed his family, he could have learned to use his quirk in a healthier way. By associating it with death and destruction, then taught to accept these aspects of his quirk as aspects of him, it really shows how completely Shigaraki accepts himself now - and how he ceases to see the Shimura death as a tragedy and a negative aspect of his quirk.
Beautiful double-page. There’s now a giant crater in the middle of the city, stopping right before Gigantomachia. How are they going to explain what happened here to the outside world? It certainly doesn’t look like an earthquake.
A lot of buildings got destroyed as well, and I mentioned in my previous post that a lot of liberation army soldiers are essentially homeless, and they’re normal citizens. Where are they going to go? I imagine a lot of the money is actually going to the rebuilding effort.
Also, Re-Destro pulls an Overhaul and cuts off his own legs. Hardcore. It’ll be cool to see him in a weaponized wheelchair or prosthetic legs.
Look at this page and tell me Horikoshi isn’t all about giving Shigaraki stans the food they want. We get the two finally standing on the same level, Shigaraki grinning triumphantly while Re-Destro looks defeated. We also see the extent of the damage Shigaraki’s quirk caused him with his injured foot and Deku-like arms (Matching scars?).
Both are half-naked. Why is this ship a thing and why am I seeing so many things that supports it? Makes me want to dedicate a whole post analyzing all the signs we picked up.
The running theme of Shigaraki being able to instill fear with a glance, enough to overcome fanatics boosted by emotion-enhancing quirk.
But fanatics they may be, at least Re-Destro realizes it and prefers to prioritize lives. I like that. It’s way better than the yakuza who prioritized the boss and didn’t care for their own lives or the other underlings.
And unlike the Eight Precepts of Death who were never about a fair partnership, Re-Destro is earnest in him wishing to see Shigaraki shine, that he would go to this extent just to see Destro’s dream realized.
Love that lightbulb moment and teh fact that Shigaraki’s first thought after becoming their leader is money (and food). Just these little things in life.
Now the villains got... Gigantomachia, 100,000 Liberation army people give or take (including heroes), a (destroyed) city, Detnerat tech, a political party, an IT company that has a satellite in space, Ujiko and his High-Ends, whatever Ujiko says he’ll give Shigaraki if he beat Machia, John-chan’s warping, Quirk-erasing bullets that can probably be reproduced with Detnerat tech, Hawks (kinda),Twice-army, Toga upgrade, Shigaraki upgrade, money, sushi.
The heroes are kinda screwed.