Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 333!
The official Shonen Jump translation of a recent chapter of My Hero Academia eliminated the possibility that Stain believes All Might can't create a completely just world, a reading that came as a result of how fans translated one of the hero killer's comments about what constitutes a monster.
In chapter 328, My Hero Academia shows a flashback of how Stain stumbles upon a critical piece of information that he eventually presents to his hero All Might in the form of a personalized note. Stain is in the midst of escaping from the high-security prison Tartarus, currently under siege by the League of Villains, when he comes across a dying security guard cradling a recording, which the villain takes. The guard first begs Stain to only give the recording to a just person before asking him if he's a monster. In the fan translation of the scene, the hero killer responds by saying: "Only those who strive for a completely just world...are monsters."
This was a massive quote at the time because it suggested that Stain believed that All Might is either incapable or unwilling to create a completely just world. Stain's entire radical ideology is based on the belief that only real heroes should survive and that those who don't fit his own twisted criteria should die - usually by his own hand. All Might is one of the few superpowered beings who actually meets all of the qualities that Stain believes makes a true hero, and if Stain considered him a monster, then he obviously would have tried to murder All Might for holding the same sinful values as all the other unworthy heroes. But since All Might is obviously not a monster in Stain's eyes, then that means All Might either can't or chooses not to achieve what most monsters strive for: A completely just world. Unfortunately, Shonen Jump's official translation completely tossed aside this entire reading. When asked if he's a man or a beast, Stain just says, "I'm merely an ally to the world as it should be. But a beast all the same." Nothing in this statement can be traced back to All Might or alters how Stain perceives him.
Most of My Hero Academia's villains do espouse this very quality of striving for a completely just world, including the main antagonist of World Heroes' Missions Flect Turner. All Might definitely strives to do the same, just in a different way. This either means that Stain completely misunderstands All Might or actually thinks too little of him. The latter possibility is much more intriguing because it essentially says that while Stain might believe All Might is one of the few true heroes, he also decided All Might was worthy because he's incapable of achieving what he strives for.
This isn't the only instance where My Hero Academia's official translation ruins an intriguing interpretation based on how fans initially translated the same line. Much later, fans translated a comment that the number-one American hero Star and Stripe makes as her saying that she wants to launch an attack that she knows is illegal in Japan while in Japanese airspace. But Shonen Jump's translation is that she wants to use means that Japan doesn't have at their disposal. Had Shonen Jump kept with the fans' translation like it didn't do with Stain's original comment concerning All Might, it would have first served as a much better and more emotionally resonant moment when Star and Stripe was redeemed moments before her death in chapter 333 of My Hero Academia.
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