How Does Bakugo Develop In My Hero Academia Manga Vol 8?
After Deku's fight with Muscular, I noticed Bakugo acting differently around other students. How does volume eight show his changing attitude beyond his usual anger?
It's the end of his innocence, in a weird way. Not innocence like purity, but innocence in his simplistic worldview. He believed in a straightforward world where power equaled victory equaled worth. The final exam proves that world doesn't exist. His childish, brutal philosophy is shattered. What replaces it isn't maturity, but a cynical, pained confusion. That loss of a guiding belief system, however flawed, is a huge development. He's adrift.
2026-08-05 04:20:24
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JackLong
Detail Spotter
Electrician
It’s a pressure-cooker for his inferiority complex. All Might is the symbol he can’t reach, and Deku is the rival who’s suddenly on his heels. He’s squeezed from above and below.
Any development is the result of that pressure. It’s not guiding him toward light; it’s compressing his darkness into a denser, harder form. We’re watching coal get pressurized. It’ll be volumes and volumes before we see if it becomes a diamond or just shatters.
2026-08-05 13:29:34
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ColeByrd
Longtime Reader
Engineer
It's interesting to compare his development to Todoroki's in the Sports Festival. Todoroki has a breakthrough and starts healing. Bakugo has a breakdown and starts festering. Both are powerful, but Bakugo's path is darker and more internal. Volume 8 is the start of his festering period. He wins the exam but feels like a loser, and that poison sits inside him until the kidnapping forces it out. His development isn't linear progress; it's a painful incubation.
2026-08-05 16:16:35
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NoahBee
Bibliophile
Veterinarian
Bakugo’s development is collateral damage from Deku’s growth. As Deku gets better at using One For All, Bakugo’s world gets shakier. In Volume 8, Deku isn’t just a useless fanboy anymore; he’s someone who can contribute meaningfully in a fight against All Might.
Bakugo has to witness that up close. His ‘development’ is the gradual, painful erosion of his foundational belief that he is indisputably the best. He doesn’t accept it, he rages against it, but the doubt is now seeded. The exam is the greenhouse where that ugly seed starts to get watered.
2026-08-07 07:22:02
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RyleeByrd
Ending Guesser
Driver
It's less about him developing new traits and more about his existing traits being put under a microscope and revealed as toxic coping mechanisms. His arrogance, his aggression, his refusal to cooperate—they're all defenses. The exam strips those defenses away, and what's left is raw, unprocessed shame and fear. So the 'development' is the story forcing both him and the reader to confront what's underneath the bluster. It's an act of narrative exposure.
2026-08-07 10:31:48
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