This time, My Hero Academia episode 158 is about the fragile heart of a wounded girl, tired of seeking social validation. That girl is Toga Himiko, who only wants to be loved and accepted as she is.
Like the previous episode, My Hero Academia episode 158 is also villain-centric, and like the previous episode, this episode also shows the vulnerability of the mentioned villain’s mind.
How social value can bind one’s nature and make them helpless and how one’s inborn, not normal nature makes them suffer in a society that is made for mass safety, both contradicting ideas clash in this episode.
And the personification of that contradiction is Toga Himiko.
So, without further ado, let’s start discussing this episode.
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Toga Himiko As Shown In My Hero Academia Episode 158
In My Hero Academia episode 158, Toga Himiko, her real self, and the circumstances that made her into a twisted individual are shown in more detail than in any other episode of My Hero Academia.
For reference, Toga Himiko’s childhood is shown in this episode and there we can see how her quirk compels her to crave to become like the person she takes a liking to, and the process of that transformation is shown already known to be gruesome throughout the whole My Hero Academia series, which is sucking blood from that person.
Well, this natural born instinct doesn’t make her suitable existence for society either, a society that has rules to cater to the bigger mass, which is actually efficient, however as every lamp has darkness under it, those rules also breed some unfortunate souls as byproduct, and Toga Himiko is one among them.
So, when child Toga Himiko innocently asked that since everyone loves someone, why don’t they sock their blood also, since it feels so good to do that, it feels as if she is mocking those very rules, and since her question didn’t make sense to those adults who have those rules engraved in them, she was subject to more mockery.
As a growing child, facing those pointing figures from all the surrounding adults Toga Himiko was supposed to depend on, naturally had a twisted nature in her teenage.
And, the only relief he could find was in League Of Villains, where she could only exist by further getting stimulated in her killing spree.
So, she became a villain by half of her choice and half of the necessity she had.
Uraraka Ochaco Confronts Toga Himiko
This part is extremely crucial in My Hero Academia episode 158, where Toga Himiko confesses about her hidden pain and the catalyst for that confession was Uraraka Ochoko.
As shown in the previous season, since Uraraka confronted Toga in Paranormal Liberation War and admonished her about how she acts not knowing her circumstances, Uraraka, for the first time saw tears in a villain’s eye, and her perspective about the word villain, which was imposed by society started to change slowly but steadily.
We also got a hint of her mindset in episode 143, which finally compelled her to take action in My Hero Academia episode 158.
So, when Uraraka urges Toga to reveal her pain to her and asks about the love she expects, there is a huge confrontation, both physically and psychologically.
Toga had closed off her heart from outsiders up till now, and Uraraka had to reach there by crossing the physical obstacle of Sad Man’s Death Parade and the mental psychological barrier that Toga had built around herself bit by bit since her childhood.
Here takes place probably the second most epic scene of this season, which may have moved many of the viewers, in which Uraraka’s quirk goes out of control just like Toga and neutralizes her intention of attack.
And all Uraraka needed to touch Toga’s heart was to say the honest magic word, “cute”.
Really, to reach such a simple and beautiful conclusion, all the buildup, that was done in Uraraka Ochako and Toga Himiko’s confrontation in My Hero Academia episode 158, is simply magnificent and most appropriate according to the story flow.
Final Thought
So, My Hero Academia episode 158 doesn’t disappoint the viewers while portraying yet another villain by showing her from a vulnerable angle, and maybe that is why it makes one more curious about, what is in store in the next episode.
