I just had a interesting thought. Lets say the clone for one theory is true and the afo we believed to be the real one was the clone the whole time (again lets remember that dr garaki had a clone too). What are the chances the man wasnt even aware that hes a clone? 🤔

The picture on the cover (which is very clearly supossed to be afo) reminds me of the story of "daddy longleg".

Hori is just messing with us at this point

Here is something someone pointed out to me on the AFO discord. I don't know Japanese, so take things with a grain of salt to not spread misinformation! But. . . Koga - the construction company that AFO had/worked at.

How it's written in the Japanese version: 甲 - armour/first class 賀 - celebration.

Okay, nothing specific.

BUT... What other way can Koga be spelled as? 久我

AND GUESS WHAT THAT MEANS!

久- Hisashi 我 - I/myself (I am Hisashi) … Yea

The only good thing about that chapter is the fact it means this horrible and disastrous arc will be finally and thankfully over and the manga will most likely end soon. Im really glad that Im not that invested in mha anymore otherwise I would be way more pissed off. Unbelievable how you can fuck up an final arc so bad and do your own characters so dirty.

Izuku deserved better.

Tomura deserved better.

Mr compress literally sacreficed his own ass for nothing. He deserved better.

Every single other lov member deserved better.

The ua students deserved better.

The ofa vestiges deserved better.

Afo deserved better.

The ONLY character hori paid attention to and cared about was that horrible written, ugly and screaming waste of space, who he calls his favorite character.

Listen, I get that the job of a mangaka is stressful and can have bad effects on your health. But that doesnt justify you should rush the end of the story and dissapoint your readers like that. That an author cant make everyone of his readers happy is logical, but with this chapter it feels like hori deliberately planned to piss off almost the whole fanbase and Im not sure he can turn this around again even with a twist in the next chapters.

Im a big dfo believer and I still think its canon. I believe hori will keep his promise when he said "you wont be dissapointed" when hisashi will finally be "revealed". But even if he confirms it at the very end, the rest of this manga was sadly still a huge dissapointment and waste of my time. Dont make one of your main themes "villains are humans too and deserve to be saved" if in the end they die anyway all alone and miserable or will end up in prison. Yes, they should face consequences for their crimes, but they cant become better people again, if they are DEAD! Dont choose a theme for your story if in the end you go against it!

Welp, even if AFO shows no reaction nor mention Izuku when he's about to vanish (again), there's still no mention of Izuku's real father.

Unless we see concrete proof that Izuku's father is not AFO by showing who Izuku's father really is, I'm not convinced that DFO theory isn't true

ESPECIALLY now that Izuku's birthday is around the corner (15th July), and last year, we got this cover from horikoshi-sensei in a chapter released in 19 july (a release date that's close to Izuku's birthday)

At least in this chapter, we got to see that Izuku sees AFO as who he really is, a HUMAN who is lonely, not some unfathomable monster, nor a demon lord

Like how Luke Skywalker sees Anakin Skywalker as who he really is in star wars

Also, if DFO Theory really turns out to be wrong, then Horikoshi-sensei really tricked us with Izuku& AFO's parallels and similarity, like how Kudou (2nd OFA user) and Bakugo looks similar but not related at all

|| THEORY TIMEEE ||

|| DAMN- ||

|| Imagine Afo having almost the same goal as Endeavor at some point: Combining Quirks. ||

|| What if Afo wanted to have a quirk that didn't have the same weakness as his, he wanted to have an All For One that could steal quirks from distance, and what better way to do it than having an heir? ||

|| But to have an heir, he needed a woman with a quirk that could attract things to her, and that's where Inko comes in ||

|| Her quirk was just what Afo needed, and on top of that, she was manipulable, she was perfect for the plan, but then a problem came in to ruin everything: Hisashi Midoriya ||

|| Most likely by that time they would be married and happy, and just that, was a problem for Afo but when he realized that Hisashi worked in Koga Construction, something came to his mind. ||

|| Afo began to monitor Hisashi and learn his behaviors with people and especially with Inko, and one day, Afo summoned Hisashi to "build" something for him, and when Hisashi arrived... Afo killed him. ||

|| After getting rid of the body, Afo using the Quirk to change appearance, he changed his appearance and took on Hisashi's. (Evidence that Afo does have a Quirk like that in the photo ↓) ||

|| "Hisashi" returned home with his wife, and after a month or more time, he convinces her to have a child ||

|| And well, then Izuku was born ||

|| It is more than obvious that the plan worked, since in the manga Izuku currently shows TOO many signs of having a quirk ||

|| So the question with this theory is... What happened? Why didn't Afo steal Izuku's quirk? ||

|| And don't tell me that "Maybe his quirk was like Yoichi's and they couldn't tell it was really there" BECAUSE THEY KNEW. ||

|| In this publication we are taught some human biology, and, in short, The Doctor Gairaki, lie, THIS BALD SON OF A BITCH LIED TO INKO AND IZUKU IN THEIR FUCKING FACE. ||

|| But why? Why Afo ordered the Doctor to lie?? Why not steal the quirk and say that Izuku was quirkless??? ||

|| For this I bring two possible reasons: ||

1) Izuku's quirk CANNOT be stolen by Afo so he just compressed it and waited for Izuku to decide on his own to be a villain so he could tell him the truth later, and then make him his true successor and the Prince of Demons.

2) Afo ended up becoming fond of Izuku because his appearance and behavior is similar to that of Yoichi, but as we already know...

someone died for using their quirk for the first time.. Soooo Izuku using his quirk didn't seem like a very good idea to Afo.

|| Either option can be possible, it could even be both! (I say this because Afo HAD MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO KILL IZUKU OR INKO AND NEVER DID ANYTHING TO THEM WHEN THAT PLUM BITCH KILLED NANA'S HUSBAND AND THE WHOLE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF KUDOU-) ||

|| But well now we just have to wait to see how the Dad For One Theory will become canon ||

|| And remember! ||

|| Have hope that the theory will become reality! If Horikoshi already did something like this with Tomura/Tenko and with Dabi/Touya then the theory is not so crazy that it cannot be canonized! ||

|| Horikoshi never disappoints the fandom!! ||

✧ Credits to @gothicayomi and @zelyres for they incredible theories!✧

AFO stealing the identity of one 'Hisashi Midoriya' is something I have never considered however it is extremely possible, It's something he would do

|| In fact, something that I didn't add in the theory (because I was sleepy and didn't want to write more-) Is that maybe this is why Horikoshi feels like he wants to apologize to Inko. ||

|| I mean, imagine Inko in all this, she was just having a normal and happy life with her husband, and then a villain comes to kill and replace her husband and rape her (Because of course Inko probably thought that her husband just wanted to have a family, when in reality was Afo) just to have a child with a strong quirk, I can't imagine how devastated Inko would be if this really happened and someone (Probably Izuku) told her after the war, any woman would be destroyed and terrified if they knew the love of they life was murdered in cold blood and replaced all this time. ||

also All for one hinted at having more than one member of his family capable of interacting with Vestiges, because of his Quirk

|| OH MY GOD, IMAGINE THAT BASTARD WENT AND USED HISASHI'S DEAD BODY FOR SOME NOMU AFTER STEALING HIS QUIRK- (I just thought about that possibility idk) ||

While an interesting theory, personally I dont think this will happen. Inko being raped by afo (because she wasnt aware he isnt her husband when she sleeped with him) would be a pretty dark path for hori to go and I dont think shonen jump would allow that. Remember, they cencored that originally afos/yoichis mother was supposed to be a prostitute and changed it into "homeless woman". I cant see how they would ever allow that the mother of the mc was raped without her knowledge.

I also feel like this kind of scenario needs to much explaining and would turn things just more complicated, espicially now so close to the end of the manga. It could have worked if dfo was revealed 4 arcs ago. Why complicate things even more with "oh afo killed hisashi midoriya and took his identity" instead of just "afo changed his appearance and dna to look more appealing and trustworthy to a young woman and took on the name hisashi". Way less unnecessary complicated and with the same final result, then adding a new character nobody will care about since he is already long dead and meaningless to the plot and not related to the mc anyway. That would just feel like a filler and its not like as if hori hasnt dotzen of other still open plot points that need closure. Please dont ad an other one. He hasnt even revealed yet what happend to little tsubasa.

And again, since shonen jump didnt even allow the word "prostitute" in relation to the main villains mother, I really doubt they will allow that the mother of the mc was raped by the murderer of her real husband! But still an fascinating (and dark) "what if" au.

SPOILER FOR MHA CHAPTER 423

I don't know if this is official, but allegedly it’s a leak from the next chapter. Izuku looks traumatized. Which is understandable cuz the boy is fighting a fucking war against AFO but he seems in severe emotional pain vs when he was running confidently in the previous chapter. Did AFO kill his friends or some of the students? Did he harm his teacher?

….Or did he show him something he didn't want to see? Perhaps something about his father? Hmmmm? Izuku looks like he discovered something shocking. Maybe it has to do something he doesn't want to see or do- like kill his own father-

Don't take my word for it- this might be a longg stretch but his reaction is kinda odd vs all the shit that happened to him.

Wasn't he running into battle with faith in his shoulders?

This is supposed the be THE CLIMAX so we’ll wait and see 🙏🙏🙏

-reading my selkie Inko and AFO fanfic- Wow it specifically hits all my favorite things~

Honestly, I'm surprised how some people keep using the argument that Izuku's father works overseas to refute the DFO theory

The fact is not a strong argument, because in Chapter 59, in which AFO was first shown, he was in a skyscraper that looks suspiciously like the Chrysler Building in New York.

You can compare a frame in a manga to a photo of a real building, they are literally the same thing.

Horikoshi definitely uses real buildings in his manga.

So, technically, if the DFO is confirmed, the information about the Izuku's father working abroad would not be a lie. Because AFO was actually abroad at the beginning of the manga.

I just want to remind you that Horikoshi is very attentive to detail. Consider the fact that Dabi's birthday contained information about his real identity.

And remember what Horikoshi said at SDCC 2018.

The latest arc may have shaken the faith of some DFO fans, but it's still a solid theory that hasn't been debunked. Now that Izuku is in combat with AFO, anything can happen.

Every time AFO and Inko were on the same page

The two times that Inko appeared in the arc involved Izuku and AFO in some way

The first was in the chapter where All for one died, she appears rooting for Izuku

And the second is now in chapter 422 when Izuku starts his fight with AFO

IZUKUS BIG MOMENT NO HISASHI

I keep laughing that we see Izuku in his big moment of life. And Horikoshi shows all people who somehow connected to Izuku cheering for him

And no Hisashi. No. NOT A hint.... Am i the only one who sees that at suspicious as F#%## ?!

Lowkey I agree but who tf is this.

If anyone knows who this is please comment.

Yes he looks like Izuku. But that guy already was shown cheering for All Might. By the way that dude has child near him.

And art narrative suppose that Hisashi will be shown parallel with Inko.