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Edgeshot and chapter 364 analysis

I decided people are just complaining for the sake of complaining at this point.

What is everyone's problem about Edgeshot saving Bakugou?

I have seen three main points. 1. Why kill him to resurrect him two chapters later? / 2. Edgeshot's quirk was never said to be able to do this / 3. Why Edgeshot? We have no emotional attachment to him

Number 1: Why he needed to be saved now (so soon?)

First of all, let's address the "why resurrect him when he just died". I think the point of Bakugou's death was never the drama of the death itself, but to show us how far he can go, the fact that by imitating Deku (the muttering, the analyzing) he ends up killing himself, this is the same flaw Deku has, they need to work together to succeed, and alone they will fail. I also believe that Horikoshi wanted to show us a re-do of chapter 1. In chapter 1 we have the heroes looking at Bakugou while he is being killed and chocked, waiting for a better hero, someone with a better quirk. We also have Deku showing them all what it means to be a hero... even reminding All Might.

In chapter 364 we finally have the heroes acting. We almost have the same situation - everyone is watching, Bakugou is being beaten up, strangled, killed. Aizawa asks for someone to help him, nobody does - until finally the heroes step up. They do not wait for the perfect quirk, this time, but they act anyway to save him. This is Horikoshi showing us that hero society is slowly being fixed, plus the importance of the next generation.

I also do not believe that Edgeshot will fix Bakugou so easily and we will have Bakugou jumping up and fighting soon. Shigaraki seemed to really believe nothing can be done - I suspected Horikoshi wanted... something else. Not the death but maybe Bakugou in a coma (for vestiges reasons?), or maybe for Deku to arrive and have to learn to control his heart even if Bakugou could be dying, or maybe for Bakugou to need Edgeshot's quirk ability to be able to successfully use his own cluster move.

So I do not believe death was the ultimate reason for his "death". Bakugou was not killed, he was injured and hit. The way it felt so final is that we are reading a weekly story.

For why it needed to happen this quickly, Bakugou's heart exploded, or is at least wounded, which means that no blood is pumping through his body. He needs a quick medical fix/resuscitation, especially to help keep his brain alive.

Number 2: Edgeshot's quirk should not do this

I think this is the worst criticism to the chapter I have seen. It is often divided in "medically it makes no sense" and "it breaks the rules of the world for him to be able to do this".

In the case of Edgeshot we do not spend too much time with him, not enough to have all the limitations of his quirk. Let's see what we have.

The first time we see him in action is in Kamino. He uses a tecnique called Ninpo, we just know that he becomes super thin and he can transform faster than the speed of sound.

We also know that he "fiddles with people's inside" to make the unconscious. Why? It would be very easy for him to choke them from the outside (stop the blood flow, get them to pass out), but in the case of Kurogiri it would probably be impossible. Kurogiri's body is not a normal human body, but he had enough speed and knowledge to be able to enter him, manipulate his insides and make him pass out. That requires a lot of medical knowlege.

I imagine for a normal human body, all he would have to do is enter their bodies, choke them from inside. It clearly shows he is comfortable entering people's bodies.

Now, he can manipulate organs, so people would ask "But we never saw that he could replace or fix someone's organs!!"

True. But we are in a world where quirks awakening and quirks training and evolution happen normally. Edgeshot never had his quirks limited, we never had the text expressingly telling us that "His limit is donating his own tissue" - but I have seen other quirks being limited: Toga, Monoma and Shinsou.

Toga was said to have a particular limit: She cannot use the quirk of people she transforms into. Until she has her quirk awakening. So for her (and many other characters) we have a limitation being surpassed through emotional events/arcs.

Then we have Shinsou and Monoma. For both of them we have an explicit limitation set: Shinsou cannot make people talk and Monoma can only use one quirk at a time.

In both cases, we do not have a big emotional quirk awakening... we just have them breaking the rule. Shinsou makes Aoyama's parents speak, and we just know he trained to make that happened. Monoma uses multiple quirks in class 1a vs class 1b just because he trained to do so.

Why is it so strange that a Pro Hero, an adult who is in the top 5 pro heroes would have had enough training to be able to very easily evolve his quirk, or do more than just "fiddling" with people's insides?

Another question I have seen is "If he could do this didn't he save his buddy Best Jeanist at Kamino? or All Might's wound"

Because Edgeshot was not there when Best Jeanist got hurt. He arrives only in chapter 93, alongside Endeavor, in the same scene where we see the police taking care of the Nomus. Which means that the medical team is probably already taking care of Best Jeanist, and the rest of the heroes are saving people and wounded. There is no way any medical team or doctor can get to Bakugou now.

And regarding All Might, he kept his wound secret. And he would have never asked a hero to sacrifice himself for him.

Now, another problem is "It makes no medical sense, what is he even doing?".

It is early to say, but I suspect this is just a way to explain why Bakugou's brain doesn't die for lack of oxygen. Edgeshot is saving his body by donating his own tissues. Medically, it is like a transplant. He can manipulate strings of cells (biologically it makes no sense for him to get thinner than a cell), so he can turn his own tissues into strings, and he just can donate these strings of cells to Bakugou, as long as it is the same type of tissue (cells have the same DNA, just different epigenetic markers to differentiate tissues). This is also why Edgeshot cannot survive this, Bakugou needs heart muscle, blood, skin, muscles, probably some parts of lungs and bones. They are also the same blood type, and I am sure they have very high histocompatibility if this transplant works.

EDIT: Edgeshot will probably survive this, and the medical explanation was actually much less complex than people made it seem. He is not using his own cell to substitute Bakugou's, and to perform a transplant, but to mechanically move inside Bakugou to perform stitching (of the wound), and mechanical respiration. This is actually much less complex than a full transplant. Keep in mind that many people who only read the leaks are somehow convinced that the whole heart is missing, it is not. Best Jeanist comments on the heart, which means it is still right there (exposed). So imagine this as a much less complex open heart repair surgery, plus a mechanical respiration to mantain Bakugou's brain active. No need to invoke histocompatibility.

Now, my question is - why do you need such detailed medical reasons in a world where biology never made any sense? You signed a contract with a work of fiction, when you start it. You accept to suspend your disbelief as long as the in-world rules make sense. We are here in a world where one single gene can cause the creation of a sentient shadow (Tokoyami), where remains of people's quirks can live in your head (Deku and OFA), where a gene can cause you to see the future (Nighteye) - why the need to have accurate biology for this transplant.

In a world where one single gene can make me see the future, someone using his own cells to repair another guy's organs is not that problematic.

Number 3: Why Edgeshot?

This is probably the only problem I agree with. Edgeshot is not a main character, had barely any screentime, and thus his death does not have a big emotional impact for us, plus his connection with Bakugou is almost absent.

It is through Best Jeanist, but even that connection is established in 364 itself.

Still, I am sorry, but this is classic Horikoshi. Look at all the characters who died before, they were tertiary characters or they (and their emotional backstory) have been introduced just to be killed.

In this case, Horikoshi established a small connection with Best Jeanist, and decided Edgeshot has to go. It is also because he did not want to weight Bakugou with survivor's guilt (from his mentor, if Jeanist was the one sacrificing himself) given that the manga is over, and he probably wants to end it on a positive note.

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