Boku no Hero Academia 6th Season Episode 17 Discussion

That was a pretty screwed up ep even by Japan standards.

1. Nobody is mentioning that Hawks murdered a guy, that still doesn't matter to anybody somehow and he never even thinks of it. I hope he gets his comeuppance but they're probably seeing it as benevolent murder now. (I believe he stabbed him in the back too, if I'm not mistaken).

2. The Todoroki family has already to decided to give up on the son (Dabi) they deeply screwed up personally and are declaring who the 'true heroes' of the family have become. After he killed himself TRYING TO BE A HERO LIKE HIS DADDY. My disgust knows no bounds. 

3. Arranged marriage is A-OK by me, ain't nothing wrong with that custom at all. It simplifies things a lot and keeps family fortunes afloat. People who say they're in love often divorce after a few years anyways so the chances it'll somehow work out are the exact same as 'marriage by love'. 

4. None of this is answering the number one issue: Deku is not a real character or MC, he's an NPC side character and the central focus of the show. Hope we get to that next week. 

Good ep. 

Ok...so Toya tried to kill Shoto as an infant?! And that's the reason he separated Shoto from all of them?! ...Endeavor was a bad father, but the full flashback actually reveals him to not be as bad as was assumed. He got all of the blame, but it was a mix of things. Once he saw Toya couldn't handle his quirk, he gave up on training him and prioritized his safety. Toya seems to have been unhinged and unstable on his own, honestly. My opinion is that Endeavor loved his children and was ok with them being normal. But when he got to his third child and wasn't getting what he wanted, he got frustrated. Then when Shoto was born TOYA became unhinged. It's normal for older kids to get jealous of the new baby, but he tried to kill Shoto...NUTS! This is what caused Endeavor to separate Shoto from his siblings with an iron fist. None of Endeavor's actions can be excused after he hit his wife, though.

This background is the highlight of the entire story. It encompasses every theme of the show. Just like Shigaraki's family, Endeavor's hero work, neglected his children. Toya wanted to be a hero but couldn't (like Midoriya) because his body couldn't handle it. Could go on, but it's all a beautiful story.


It seems like the world is going to find out what One for All is. I've never understood why All for One didn't expose what the quirk was to the public.

I obviously do NOT condone what Endeavor did to his family but I also feel sorry for him; he was a damaged man under the weight of expectation and ultimately passed that on to his oldest child. He paid for that in the worse way possible (losing his son) and that broke him causing him to further harm those around him, this time out of desperation and fear.

I think the Todoroki family are a great example of how the world can damage a person and how it causes a chain reaction of damage to the people around us.

That was a pretty screwed up ep even by Japan standards.

1. Nobody is mentioning that Hawks murdered a guy, that still doesn't matter to anybody somehow and he never even thinks of it. I hope he gets his comeuppance but they're probably seeing it as benevolent murder now. (I believe he stabbed him in the back too, if I'm not mistaken).

2. The Todoroki family has already to decided to give up on the son (Dabi) they deeply screwed up personally and are declaring who the 'true heroes' of the family have become. After he killed himself TRYING TO BE A HERO LIKE HIS DADDY. My disgust knows no bounds. 

3. Arranged marriage is A-OK by me, ain't nothing wrong with that custom at all. It simplifies things a lot and keeps family fortunes afloat. People who say they're in love often divorce after a few years anyways so the chances it'll somehow work out are the exact same as 'marriage by love'. 

4. None of this is answering the number one issue: Deku is not a real character or MC, he's an NPC side character and the central focus of the show. Hope we get to that next week. 

Good ep. 

@DarkInsomnia57

1. Hawks did the right thing. What's he supposed to do, let Twice kill everybody?

2. Toya was insane from the beginning (there are several scenes and camera shots that show how unhinged he was without Endeavor doing anything to him). Endeavor did the right thing prioritizing his safety once he learned his quirk was destroying his body (this was the same advice given to them by the doctor btw). No good parent would allow their child to mutilate themselves like Dabi ultimately ended up doing. He tried to set him straight many times and Toya refused to listen.

3. Arranged marriage is fine, but this was about eugenics...

That family was trying the whole time, but they never thought to try therapy!
And Midorya is KO because he is in the middle of a One for All council.