#bnha 393 spoilers

[shehsart]

LoV my beloved omgggg

Twice's suggestions are so.... straight off the bat. Pikachiu though I'm glad she didn't go with any of these suggestions. He was such an honest and straightforward dude though I kind of miss him :') Dabi and Spinner knowing 19th century gothic references isn't surprising always knew they were nerds. This cringe fail family will never be not funny to me.

They're in a broken room together. Idk but the messiness of the room made me think of mental illness. 😭 There's no where else they can belong and really be themselves except together, even if it's in this filthy hideout. This is the only place they all look somewhat comfortable. It's sad but also somewhat bittersweet in a way. They're society's worst villains but also the worst victims.

We finally saw Shigaraki again after ages I missed him sm. Saying he doesn't need a villain name is really cool. He doesn't really even remember his actual name is Tenko anymore but whatever lmao. It was really fun to see the scariest criminals act so chill. Shiggy is so cool for telling her it doesn't matter if she doesn't pick a name it's just important to be what you want to be. They are weirdly motivational.

[thenarator]

izuku: "this is my girlfriend ochako, and that's her girlfriend himiko, and that's their girlfriend tsu, and that's tsu's girlfriend habuko mongoose."

ochako: "this is my boyfriend izuku, and his boyfriend tenya, and their boyfriend shouto, and their other boyfriend hitoshi, and hitoshi's boyfriend neito monoma (who is not in our class but we love him anyway)."

[aussie-the-hedgehog]

MHA 393

That’s as raw a shot of Ochaco that I’ve ever seen.

This is gonna be quite the chapter.

[aussie-the-hedgehog]

This sums up everything I love about this chapter. Ochako is my favorite character in MHA, and I have to say, Hori delivered all I wanted in development for her.

She gets a long-awaited quirk awakening.

She sees the best in Toga despite her mischievous nature.

She is willing to offer her own well-being so Toga can be free from the trauma that has broken her.

Ochako is willing to do anything to show Toga she is a friend that can be trusted despite earlier misunderstandings.

She is showing the true essence of being a hero. Not only helping the heroes when they need protecting, but also those who are labeled “left for dead” and can only contribute evil to society.

I hope for a time in the series were Toga and Tenko are saved from villainy and can live in a hero society that is on the mend thanks to heroes like Deku and Ochako.

So, in essence, this is why Ochako Uraraka is my favorite character in My Hero Academia.

She is for people.

She loves to see their smiles, and is willing to do anything to make people’s problems weightless (hence her quirk). Why else does she say in this chapter, “My Zero Gravity quirk… isn’t a power for hurting people!”

She also said in an earlier chapter, “I… would never feel happy… about dropping a person outta the sky.” She could very well destroy anyone she wants with her quirk, but she doesn’t for the betterment of society.

Her quirk is to help protect and save. As Edward Elric told Winry Rockbell, “It’s your hands. They weren’t meant to kill. They’re meant to give life.”

That quote resonated a lot with me as I read the chapter. Winry and Ochako have that parallel of “life-giving hands”.

I can’t wait to see how this battle is wrapped up. Hori delivered on portraying Ochako as a selfless, hopeful hero who sees the best in even the most wretched scum by societal standards. I’m confident he will wrap her arc up with a nice bow.

Wow. Alright lemme gush about these pages of MHA 393 for a moment. First of all, A Girl’s Ego as a chapter itself is beautiful. It’s part of the culmination of a long story of the greatest heroine in training vs the greatest villainess in training, with many plot threads intertwining in these recent chapters weaving a beautiful web. These pages in particular really hit hard for me personally

Here we see Ochako complimenting Toga’s smile. It’d seem like an incredibly small thing to those who don’t know Toga’s story, but in reality this moment is huge for Toga. Toga was always judged and mistreated for who she is and how she acts. Her own parents feared her and were disgusted by her, treating her as though she shouldn’t have been born. To see the girl she’s been trying to kill in cold blood compliment her so called devious smile…it moves her to tears. Her entire life she’s been told by just about everyone around her that there’s something fundamentally wrong with her, that she’s inhuman. There must be a part of her wondering why she’s trying to kill the person who’s treated her the most kindly, why her bloodlust has overtaken her love, a love that was once her strongest trait

This moment. This moment is everything that the entire My Hero Academia series has lead to for Ochako and Toga. Ochako’s quirk, Zero Gravity, has awakened, and she uses her newfound immense power not to harm Toga, but to protect herself and those around her from Toga’s onslaught, and to get closer to her. Ochako doesn’t want to be like the heroes of the past who treated the world as black and white and delivered justice by any means necessary for their perception of the greater good. Ochako wants to be a compassionate hero who uses her power not to kill or harm but to save and protect. The news reporter, who earlier in the chapter had talked about Toga being just one girl who’s emotions were transforming the world with her Sad Man’s Legion attack, shifts focus to Ochako: just one girl who’s emotions are transforming the world with her quirk awakening. Ochako’s compassion overtakes Toga’s sadness and hate as Ochako extends her hand to a sobbing Toga. This is it. Ochako Uraraka in this moment defines herself as greater than so many heroes before her. Ochako explains that while she can’t erase Toga’s past and can’t approve of it, she’s willing to give Toga a lifetime’s worth of her blood if it means having the chat about romance Toga wanted. Ochako is willing to risk her health over her entire lifetime in order to give Toga enough blood so that she can be mentally stable and control her urges. Ochako is offering to give so much to the person trying to kill her, because she knows Toga is, and always was, just a traumatized girl in pain who needs someone to help her. Ochako has finally come into her own as a true hero

[mafuyuh]

i want to talk about love with you, himiko-chan!

[sebbyisland]

What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: Horikoshi took the ahegao naughty girl and the cute girl-power-without-plot-significance teen girl and then provided their way out—clawed their way out—of these basic archetypes by developing their relationship with EACH OTHER. “Two girls talking about love” is usually either an insult, a way to devalue women and the space they take up, or a surrender, a catalog of all the ways they’ve been hurt, but Ochaco and Toga are talking about radical love. Self love. Love for what you believe in. They love each other in a way society does not believe should be possible. Their love saves them from their predetermined fates within their world and ours. Is there anything more powerful than to be saved by your own love?

[ttomuras]

ochako really said “i’ll give you my blood for the rest of my life” and “i want to talk about love with you, himiko-chan!” and “your smile is so beautiful i wish mine could be like that” if that isn’t the most romantic thing i’ve ever heard then idk

[haleigh-sloth]

Boku no Baby Academia

[ilovelumity3000]

The best thing about the last week has definitely been people who dropped mha years ago, or never even started it, seeing THIS...

...and being either super confused, actually considering reading MHA, fangirling about our girls, or a mixture of all three LMAO

[mettywiththenotes]

Listen the way tiny Ochako is in a crowd cheering and then turns around to see tiny Toga crying reminds me of that part in the S6 ending where Ochako is in a crowd and she turns around to see Toga's handkerchief floating in the air

[aashi-heartfilia]

The sheer contrast....

And that's how heroes and villains are born...

[shehsart]

I'm just curious to know who he's texting, his boyfriend???? Or maybe watching the fight where his daddy almost died lmfao this is the first time we've actually seen him use a phone. That's crazy considering he used the power of social media to secure his greatest victory instead of his insane fire power XD that's right he's probably blogging.

[batterycows]

Ochako’s Confession: A Togachako Analysis

I don't usually write down or post analysis, but if I didn't put this down somewhere I was at risk of grabbing a stranger off the street and asking whether they knew about the doomed toxic yuri in hit manga series My Hero Academia.

Now, I think it was expected to some degree that Uraraka would have some big cathartic confession where she finally embraced her feelings for Izuku. And while she did admit her feeelings, the moment wasn't... that

And honestly, why would it be? In the end, Uraraka had no reason to confess her feelings. She didn't suffer from hiding them, on the contrary. Her crush was beginning to hinder her performance as a Hero, and all bottling them up did was help her improve. Sure, suppression is bad and all but ultimately, Uraraka seemed better off pushing her feelings aside. Especially when compared to Toga, who literally broke under the pressure of her hidden feelings. There was nothing pushing Uraraka to confess other than the vague sentiment that “suppressing your feelings is Bad.”

Yet, the importance of being open about your feelings is repeatedly emphasized during Toga's and Uraraka's arcs. It's what drove Toga to villainy, and something she tried to bond with Uraraka over. Something they shared. So the setup for a confession is there, but no satisfying resolution.

That's cause Izuku is a red herring.

Indeed, being honest about her feelings was vital for Uraraka, but it had nothing to with Izuku. Because the feelings Uraraka was suppressing all along, the ones that she needed to let out, were her feelings for Toga.

The envy she felt during their first meeting, how lovely she found Toga's smile. How much it troubled Uraraka when it was replaced with tears. Girl likes boy is as conventional as it gets. But a Hero sympathizing for a Villain in a society that dehumanizes them? Now that makes Uraraka kind of weird. And she knows it, that these thoughts go against everything she knows about society, about her role as a Hero. So she tried pushing all that away.

But she can't run from her feelings forever. And in the end, it's those feelings that allow Uraraka to save the day. Her arc deals with humanization. She wonders "who saves Heroes" until she's wondering "who saves Villains?" and finds that in this case, the answer is each other.

How did Uraraka and Toga save each other? By imitating each other, by being like someone they love.

Uraraka envied Toga's unapologetic openness, so she took a page from her book and told her everything she had been hiding and mulling over since they met. She stopped pushing Toga away and finally answered every one-sided conversation they've had. They're chatting about love, and Uraraka is finally responding.

A girl's feelings can change the world, and Uraraka being honest about her feelings is what allowed her to reach Toga's heart and save her. This is how Uraraka became a Hero.

Toga also saved Uraraka by imitating her. In a very literal sense by Transforming into Uraraka (being "cute" like Uraraka) but I think also in the way she used her Quirk. Until now, Toga believed the only way for her to live freely was through violence. When her Quirk awakened, Toga used Zero Gravity to kill. But now, she's imitating Uraraka on a deeper level. Uraraka who said her Quirk isn't made to hurt people, so Toga used her own Quirk to save Uraraka. For the first time, she realized she could love and be loved without violence.

Uraraka and Toga's confrontation was the long awaited end of a conversation. Nearly a year before Toga had tried to bond with Uraraka, asked her whether she liked someone, whether she wanted to be like them? Uraraka finally confessed: Yes, I want to be like you.

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

There's something so funny and endearing about the League of Villains just,,,,,, sitting there,,,,, Tomura playing videogames while Spinner watches,,,,, Dabi on his phone,,,,,,, Mr. Compress checking his prosthetics,,,,,, Twice smoking,,,,,,,

If that's how Toga remembers them --in their quietness and not in their battle mode-- if it's the way she chooses to remeber them, all of them there on a crumpled room in an instant of calmness,,,,,,

[nighttimeebony]

Something something, the inherent eroticism of offering your blood to your rival ; something something, reevaluating my life; something something, crying.

[cremateyourlife]

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