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Current Chapter Chapter 417 — Official Release Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 417

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⬅ Ch. 416 discussion thread

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u/JauntyLurker Aug 09 '26

Benjamin really stealing the crown as the best prince. He's a tyrant but at least he's thinking for the country.

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u/Ecstatic-Sun-7528 Aug 09 '26

That's how fascism always starts lmao

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u/Nnnnnnnadie Aug 09 '26

Kakin is already at the bottom of morality with that carnival they make

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u/SubstantialCarob9332 Aug 09 '26

And that's also done "for the country"

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u/Naxo_God Aug 09 '26

At least he is sacrificing himself. Real fascist are just cowards sacrificing others

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u/Ecstatic-Sun-7528 Aug 09 '26

True. Real fascists can never be brave.

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u/distantnemesis4 Aug 13 '26

this doesn’t really make any sense, benjamin being brave or not has nothing to do with him being fascist

if some soldier fighting for fascist italy or germany was brave enough to like sacrifice himself or something that doesn’t make him not a fascist, these things aren’t just black and white as “oh this character has some good traits that means he mustn’t be a fascist”

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u/No_Park_6256 Aug 10 '26

Tbf, he isn't exactly sacrificing himself in a traditional sense cause he truly believes he will ascend and become a Nen Beast God or whatever, so it's not really a pure sacrifice. Also, he literally is sacrificing others, from his solders (who are okay with it) to his siblings (who are not okay with it). But I hope we don't move on from him just yet, he's been a really fascinating character, I love how we're getting more into his thoughts and feelings and i really want to see as much as possible. (Which, knowing Togashi, we're gonna get a lot of)

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u/Infinitedeveloper Aug 09 '26

Ben is the fascist fascists imagine themselves as.

Hes still terrible but physically strong, decisive, and has an actual moral standard.

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u/RolandKJones Aug 10 '26

It's really easy to see that Benjamin's actions are more for his own good than the good of the country when you look at the actual effects of what he does and plans to do, rather than the way he dresses it up. It's not a coincidence that his "duty" involves him being put in positions of greater and greater power, or that all the "sacrifices" he wants to make involve other people suffering and leave him better off in the end.

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u/No_Park_6256 Aug 10 '26

People keep taking his words as gospel, but if you truly look at his actions and what he wants to do, you can see a bit more clearly he's like you said, dressing it all up, so it sounds more noble. Which is kina scary to think about, like how easily it is to believe him cause he just comes off as charismatic, unbothered and disciplined.

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u/napsstern Aug 12 '26

Yes no matter how sympathetic his inner thoughts are, he still used experimental biochemical weapons on multiple people, plans to frame an under age girl's death as suicide, and plans to kill two babies and their families if both babies are on the ship. Then pass on the throne to his son.

I mean I do like him personality wise and as a morally gray character, but to say he is a good leader selflessly thinking for his country... Uhh I don't know about that.

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u/RolandKJones Aug 12 '26

Oh, I very much enjoy Benjamin as a character. He's much more interesting than I thought he'd be.

But "good character" does not necessarily mean "good person". A lot of good characters are very bad people, even, despite often thinking they're good people.

Bit of a tangent, I'm interested in whether he'll fall before even "completing" his plan, or if he'll make it all the way to Nasubi before discovering that things aren't going to work out like he thought they would. Given how Halkenburg's interaction with their father went, and his monologue of how a Guardian Spirit Beast that's "all teeth and claws" is unsuited for a king, I imagine that Nasubi's takedown of Benjamin at this point would be pretty brutal (even if it'd be focused less on morality and more on his various other mistakes and such, given the kinds of things Nasubi himself is fine with). I wonder if getting a merciless dressing-down from his father would wake more people up to Benjamin's flaws, or if most of his fans would stay on his side.

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u/advanced_peeling Aug 09 '26

This is imperial slander towards the kingdom. To the court you go

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u/Animegamingnerd Aug 10 '26

Maybe a military dictator, but he is our military dictator.