THIS EPISODE EXCALATES WHAT!! | My Hero Academia Episode 21 Reaction (S5)

[@Tarvo27]

I love how Alicia goes on a monologue to talk about how the villains in the show monologue all the time. This is perfect.

[@natsuotodoroki]

To be fair, a lot of heroes monologue too 😅

[@razgriz2276]

I mean she is on her villain arc

[@bildschirmschnorrer2722]

Better not be underestimating Dr. Doofenschmirtz. First the League of Villains, then the Tristate Area. No one can stop him!

[@natsuotodoroki]

Toga’s a good case of nature vs. nurture and how they’re both important. Toga’s nature showed signs of being inherently harmful, and instead of nurturing her to control her urges in a more healthy manner, her parents made her suppress them. It’s really no wonder why she turned out the way she did on account of her parents’ abusive behavior.

[@Lumberjack_king]

Exactly it’s like trying to make a dog vegan instead of training it

[@AlphaOmegaInfinity]

Stress response is a powerful thing. In desperation people can draw out power they didn’t know they had. Quirks are physical abilities too so even they can be put under the same situations

[@Crazael]

14:57 The blood thing is often a big part of fics that ship her with Deku and Ochaco. Yes, the three of them are often shipped together as a throuple. It can be surprisingly cute.

[@Kaempfdog]

Toga has Reinfield’s Syndrome. A sad but real issue. That’s what is crazy about every villain in MHA. They all have different but real mental disorders and issues. Sadists, sociopaths, machiavellians, narcissists, split personality disorder, and just plain old lonely people taking inspiration from the wrong places. And they somehow make a family of crazy.

[@magicalwerewolfdeathrobot]

It’s pretty common for neurodivergent people to group together, since we usually understand eachother more

[@اميرمادرا]

I love the villains l fell şad for them tho 😢

[@AsobiMedio]

@@magicalwerewolfdeathrobot Yup. Though we mostly just play D&D, villainy is too much work.

[@itzmehDevi]

Poor Toga :( Toga can't control her urgers. Her quirk just makes her yearn blood.. And instead of actually helping he deal with it like using counselling and stuff..her parents decided to make her hide it. And the more u hide ur natural urges, the stronger they become.

[@You-Tube-n5k]

I think they did do some counseling, but "quirk counseling" is often brought up a lot among villains, almost like it's a conversion therapy. But instead of attempting to help her, or even just get a therapist or anything like that, they viewed her as the problem. Toga's parents were awful ngl

[@JohnCena-tp4gh]

imagine a Toga found a person with an infinite blood quirk.

[@samuelclayhills3298]

The counseling didn't really go further than hey killing people and drinking their blood is bad could you like not do that. Then again if your child is facinated with dead animals and potentially killing them then you should be conserned. There isn't that much tradgedy in not being abel to controll your impulses and it does little to justify your actions.

[@itzmehDevi]

@@You-Tube-n5k Yeah. Like they even pointed out her smile as creepy!

[@itzmehDevi]

@@JohnCena-tp4gh soulmates!

[@Butane9000]

Toga and Twice are by far my favorite characters out of the antagonist roster in the show. Not necessarily for their powers but for how well they are written.

[@You-Tube-n5k]

This is the start of Toga becoming probably one of the best-written characters in the series. I'm not too crazy about her tbh, but I can't deny how great her writing is after this point.

[@Kaempfdog]

Ever since this episode I was hyper focused on a pet theory that she was related to Monoma because they have the same giant smiles, hair color, very small but noticeable love of fancy clothes, parents that are incredibly avoidant about addressing her issues and his being outright disapproving altogether, and their base quirks being able to copy although by different methods. Not to mention anytime Toga is on the battlefield with the students, Monoma is ALWAYS tucked aside doing something else. And I thought because Toga is not so age different from Monoma and they’d recognize each other on sight if they were siblings. And Curious even mentions here she’s the eldest of her siblings and belonged to the Toga family like you would talk about a rich and well connected family. It just felt like too much to be a coincidence.

[@ETZFuzZBall]

...literally no tho lol

[@You-Tube-n5k]

@@Kaempfdog It's not a bad theory. Admittedly, I didn't believe it too much since characters looking similar/having notably similar aspects to them is something that happens a lot in My Hero. It's still fun to speculate though!

[@You-Tube-n5k]

@@ETZFuzZBall ...literally yes tho lol In all seriousness, if we disagree it's all good lol

[@ETZFuzZBall]

@@You-Tube-n5k Sorry that wasn't for you 😔 that theory I dont get that theory It makes no sense

[@SKpower1120]

Can’t believe Doofenshmirtz is in MHA…

[@johnninnin]

They're going to need their animation budget for the next episode 😂

[@Adi-oc7vu]

The parade is coming...

[@luciowong8590]

I just realized (and yes, I have seen this in anime and manga when it came out, I'm just that stupid) that toga's "love" has the same intensity than LaBrava (La Brava? La-Brava? I forget her name), but they have different ways to show it

[@psychronia]

Not to "I can fix her", but poor Toga really was just excessively repressed because her quirk was unusual. Quirks to seem to inform a person's nature to some extent too. She may or may not have been savable if she was just raised right, but that's sorta the point of villains as a whole. The disenfranchised of society get driven into a corner and the only difference between this world and that one is that everyone has a chance at power to do something about it.

[@vegvisir9276]

Stain also had to swallow/taste blood for his quirk, originally he was actually accepted into a hero school before he turned bad, it was just his ideals that turned him away from being a hero his quirk had nothing to do with his evil turn, chances are Stain was given the help and guidance he needed before his quirk turned him weird like Toga's did. If Toga had the same guidance Stain had when he was younger she might have turned out different since he was originally on the right path and clearly society must have accepted his blood quirk since he actually got a place in a hero school before leaving by his own choice.

[@thoughtfulfreespace]

The Skeptic dude is a reference to one of the Gorillaz band members, so that's cool. What's also cool is everyone is getting stronger?, Toga and Shigaraki at least. I guess fighting for almost 2 months straight will do that to you. Also nice to get Toga's backstory.

[@CinJyxxe]

MHA does villains so well, and I think it's because they have the villains grow and develop alongside the heroes in a way that no other anime really does. Villains tend to be stagnant while the heroes grow and power up, but in MHA, Shigaraki and the League of Villains grow and change over time, and they face their own internal and external adversities outside of their clashes with the protagonists that push their growth and refine their goals. The story is just so, so well-written.

[@biblicallyaccuratesoul]

... Is Re-destro just your self insert then?

[@grantharriman284]

This episode shows what could happen if Uravity was on the other side. Dozens floated up and dropped to their death in just a few seconds, and that's just the basics. Once you get creative there is really no limit on the chaos she could cause.

[@thegeneralmitch]

Toga really got the drop on them.... i'll see myself out. 😂

[@spadeas49]

My villain academia is such a good arc that will get you know the league a little bit more and love them even more after that.

[@CallMeSpinner]

While I can see why someone would be a little freaked out by Toga’s behavior at first, in a world of superpowers that effect people on a physical level, the fact that her parents were so unable to accept any part of her shows how ignorant they really are. They didn’t love their daughter like parents should.

[@GGSugarEZ]

I can not express how much it annoys me to watch people react to this because they never understand it. But seeing you watch this an actually undertand Toga makes me so friggin happy.

[@bthsr7113]

7:32 We finally reached it. Quite possibly the biggest FU to a person from the genetic lottery of quirks. The spray bottle for a head guy! Edit: Ura gets sick when she uses the quirk to float herself. Using it on other things has never made her queasy. Winded yes, but not queasy.

[@misschieflolz1301]

See.... this is why I love MHA, Toga thus far has been a bit unhinged and creepy, yet here we're like 'wait she better not be dead' It's literally the Villains training arc..... though at this point it's like..... are villains evil? or just the people that don't fit into neat boxes that society has constructed and expects everyone to conform to? It's like.... as much as Bakugo IS my favourite character, I vibe more with the LoV. I'm neurodivergent and I really do understand what it feels like to be discriminated against just because that's who I am. I can't say I vibe that way with most of the students or pro heroes.

[@HellBent_]

100%, like I recognise that they are a dangerous group of basically terrorists but at the same time I can't help but find myself heavily empathising with them.

[@AsobiMedio]

16:00 Well, even at the start of the show Uraraka only got sick from her quirk when she lifted things that were too heavy for too long. Like, several tons heavy. Even a few dozen people is nothing in comparison.

[@nicolaspereyra420]

This part of season 5 is really messy. In part is because they shifted the acrs to align themselves to the movie that came out (This arc was supposed to come out right after class A vs class Bshowdown, that's why there are so many flashbacks and flashforwards) but it's also because the "meta liberation" wasn't properly set up or established, they just loredumped this on us and decided that it was fine

[@Kaempfdog]

I standby the arc switch is harmless to the narrative. I’ve looked over the story a number of times. It’s not better or worse, just different. It’s framed like the heroes investigating what happened at Deika when all they knew was the ending outcome and it resulted in having the same framework as a Scooby-Doo episode. Which is very interesting and I did like it. But the setup for the MLA was cut short, but that’s the fault of the Uraraka episode. Which is the worst MHA episode because it not only made that cut but didn’t justify it with enough character exploration to compensate. (And the filler of this show is normally VERY good at that between the murder mystery episode, the Tsu episode, and the Momo vs the IQ girl episode.) Which is why I say if it was like a Stain-arc episode and had us look at a variety of other work study students and what they were doing instead of a beach episode, it COULD have been worth it. And it makes it worse knowing now that there’s a high chance that the setup we’re talking about WAS likely recorded by the VA’s. And there’s a whole beautiful animation of Toga using Uraraka’s quirk that was cut because they simply didn’t have time to color it in time for the episode to come out. It’s a shame.

[@nicolaspereyra420]

@@Kaempfdog the switch made things confusing. I've seen a lot of reactors not understanding things bc of how messy the timeline was, not to mention that if you were paying attention you'll get spoiled of the outcome of the meta liberation fight. Also ppl were complaining about the season not having villains and that lost the attention of so many viewers. If we had this arc in the middle of the season it wouldve kept them hooked

[@milesprower6110]

Weird enough how I relate with Toga so much in this only episode... So tired about everyone saying "be normal" that I felt like exploding. Thankfully, it hurts me more when I hurt others rather than "their" treatment. Obviously I won't let anyone push me past the line, but it will still feel pain in my heart while doing so.

[@GrzegorzSobkowicz]

Re-destro has the same voice as Sanji.

[@bthsr7113]

The way I see it, Toga, while undeniably dealt a horrid hand in life, is by now a mad dog. Just like Shiggy and staple face. Contain or eliminate are the only options left. MAYBE with YEARS of top shelf therapy in prison, she can be rehabilitated, but that is an extreme long shot.

[@jaredtheastralartist2510]

Many people say this arc in the anime sucks in comparison to the manga, and they’re partly right, the manga is a bit better, but for me, as long the anime can deliver the same effect as the manga intended, it’s great. And What they do here. Also, sidenote, this arc while loved in the us, is hated by the Japanese populous.

[@samuelclayhills3298]

Based Japan.

[@xenoemblem7]

Yeah because they're villains. No one is supposed to like them (unless they're cute... and hot)

[@willfanofmanyii3751]

@@xenoemblem7 More specifically, Japan don't like villains who don't acknowledge their own responsibility for their actions.

[@HellBent_]

@@xenoemblem7 In theory maybe, in practise the villains are almost liked as much if not more than the heroes in most cases, particularly in western media

[@xmant8842]

Ngl i feel bad for toga. The way i see it, she's a victim of both situation and society as a whole. Literally, had she had better parent that decided to help her control her urges rather than demonize her for them, she wouldnt have ended up the way she did. She wasnt a bad person. She was simply not raised right. Thats why imo, shes the most redeemable villain (aside from twice). And this is why i can *never* agree with some people who treat toga like shes just "some evil villain girl". I honestly find it ironic that people see her that way, considering people seeing her that way was exactly how she ended up as a villain

[@samuelclayhills3298]

Well the fact is that she enyoys killing people and could not contain that witch is on you. If your only actual exuse is well I couldent not kill him then you are not a good person.

[@chocolateworshiper6765]

Spinner? Bro legit just wanted to live without racism in his life

[@xmant8842]

@chocolateworshiper6765 that's true. Ngl I forgot about him when I made my comment

[@You-Tube-n5k]

@@samuelclayhills3298 It's more that those urges were built up because she suppressed them, not that she just naturally can't control herself. Also, I hope you apply this same logic to other characters in My Hero that have done bad stuff which would make them bad people.

[@shoop_the_mystic]

... Doofenshmirtz... That is all.

[@darkedy8707]

Why do I think that in the final battle. Toga will have twice a blood and use his ability to multiply herself and therefor multiplying either one or multiple quirks across the twice copies

[@bloodybahamut3742]

I feel like a good villain alias for Toga would be "revamp"

[@ataldr4802]

“Mom got me the Capri sons” got to be one of my favorite Alicia jokes 😂 12:00

[@Norbert_Sattler]

So what do you fiture would have happened, if Toga's shape-change ran out, before she could cancel the anti-gravity? Would it have ended, the moment she returned to her own shape, or would the people she touched, keep floating, either for a set amount of time, or maybe forever?

[@angelgutierrez878]

All the homies like Redestro 😔

[@ArlanKels]

Toga was a happy bean, and her parents called her a deviant and creepy. Worse parents than Endeavor?

[@samuelclayhills3298]

Yeah telling your child that wanting to kill and drink blood is definatley worse than activley neglecting and abusing your child. Man next time someone says that they want to eat babies you should just let them otherwise its bad parenting.

[@xenoemblem7]

@@samuelclayhills3298If a child wanting to kill something, doesn't it mean that child needs some kind of serious help?

[@-ClerzZ-]

@@samuelclayhills3298 Legit 😭 people don't even think before they write.

[@bthsr7113]

@@xenoemblem7 Yes, and blanket repression is very much not helping.

[@matthewbrown3194]

Because toga quirk make her wants blood

[@Deimos-TP]

More close to season 6 people 😎✌️

[@gongonthegreat101]

Hey, did you know that Bakugo's voice actor also voices accelerator in toaru?

[@That_guy_you_dont_know]

Quirk awakening finally🔥

[@mjm3091]

It's so annoying that they cut down this whole arc giving so much more space for the AvsB, which had shorter chapters. There is so much cool stuff left out of it for no reason really. Especially after they made wonders to Overhaul arc, with this being the best arc in the manga (at that time) you would think they would go all out for it. And the biggest tragedy of all - of switching Ending arc before this and fully using the opening for the promotion of the movie? This season was really the worst adaptation in this whole franchise, for some of the nicest moments of the series.

[@matrixster6238]

I really liked the blue-skinned chicks design, it sucks she was killed so early, and at all.

[@horaciodossantoscaminero1865]

1:06 -2 points 😐

[@Ks_StayC]

Already? I thought It would take more episodes

[@carlbowen7965]

Re-Destro is a Doofensmirtz wannabe lol

[@xenoemblem7]

I'm gonna be honest, I don't care much about the villains. The only one I somewhat cares about is Shigaraki Tomura and Dabi, but that's cause Dabi is mysterious and Shigaraki is Deku's main villain. Like I get some are villains by victims of circumstances, but at the end of they day they're villains and they hurt and murder innocent people, therefore I don't want to understand them.

[@hyb3r822]

I mean you said you said care about Dabi cause he's mysterious. Doesn't that mean you want to know more about him and understand him?

[@johnninnin]

Sad. Man's parade is the next episode❤ here comes the boi twice !

[@thisIsLoxi]

Re-destro is way cooler in the manga. Kinda sad they butchered the My Villain Academia arc :{

[@vegvisir9276]

Toga's parents didn't do enough to help her, Stain also had a quirk that meant he had to ingest blood to work but society accepted his quirk because he wasn't just considered a monster right away like Toga was, he was actually accepted into a hero school before he went on his crazy hero killer arc, his quirk had nothing to do with his villain side, just his ideals, so if Toga was given the help and guidance she needed with her quirk she could have turned out a lot different

[@etherealswarm]

Is she ever gonna watch the op LMAO

[@Aoitetsugakusha]

Destro got 100% Epstein'd

[@ikeking6797]

Boom! Early! I’m sure it’ll be a great video!

[@Professor_Wisteria_]

i've always loved Toga, and the understanding that she genuinely, truly loved the people she drinks from is just so saddening. she never once voiced intent to harm or kill anyone, she simply wants to consume a part of them that requires injury and society rejected her entirely for it. yeah, its weird and yeah she's definitely creepy about it, but i don't believe Toga is a bad girl at all. she is simply a part of a world that refuses to accept her oh and yeah if she is DEEPLY in love with someone she can copy their quirks too. fucking INSANE

[@poepunk]

EXCALATE

[@SPADE-KUN]

Stay up queen❤

[@JohnCena-tp4gh]

Day 107 of asking Alicia to play Nier:Automata!!

[@Shaovv]

9:38 yeah... they like that in Japan 💀💀

[@petrenocka]

Ok fr though, why is Deku doing Spinner's talking here?

[@willfanofmanyii3751]

Where?

[@petrenocka]

@@willfanofmanyii3751 iirc, and it was a while ago, on the magna during MVA the exposition monologes were digestive and were coming from Spinner

[@white_tyrone651]

Whens the next episode of the boys