Overview:
Toga transforms into Twice and backs the heroes into a corner with Infinite Doubles. In the midst of that, Ochaco does her best to get close to Toga so that she can talk to her. How does Toga respond…?
Our Take:
Have you ever noticed how many times a hero looks at a villain (usually Deku but not always) and says “I noticed you were crying!” and for some reason that makes the villain stop in their tracks? This episode epitomizes what I love and hate about this series. I find some of the dialogue that affects villains a little cringey. A villain will have just murdered twenty people and the hero notices their crying and that somehow makes it okay?
What I love is seeing these characters grow. It feels like Toga and Ochaco have been on a collision course since their first meeting, and this is the culmination of that. A small detail some might miss is that Ochaco keeps herself under zero gravity for so long that she starts to vomit, but she fights through it because her conversation with Toga matters that much to her. I suppose it could have also been because she was stabbed but since she wasn’t spitting up blood I think it was a pointed difference.
Toga has a quirk like Shinso where it’s viewed as “villainous”, Shinso decided to pursue the path of a hero despite that Toga was reviled because of her power. Understandably, she would go down the path of villainy. I know I poked fun at the way this series handles crying villains but I will say if you’re not at least a little teary-eyed by the end of this one then you’re the villain.