#chapter 348

world? Do disasters check the map and think, "Oh, I'm at the South Korean border, so I'd better stop here."

봉쇄의 끔찍한 정체를 알고 있는데도, 세광특별시 시민의 고통을 직접 봤음에도 내 얼굴은 아마 시퍼렇게 질려 있을 것이다. Even though I know the horrors of the blockade and have personally witnessed the suffering of the citizens of Seogwang Special City, my face is probably pale.

Ulqiuorra, borne without a heart, tries to obliterate where he thinks Ichigo's heart is.

Come to Chapter 354, a dying Ulqiuorra reaches an epiphany:

Ulqiuorra realizes its Orihime who is Ichigo's Heart.

Whilst dying, he Thinks he had the Heart in his palms and squandered it.

I can’t laugh at him for being a shit nerd… Spinner seems like he would be the same.

In response to Chapter 348 where the narration calls Deku a damned nerd for being clueless about love…

I want details on how his mind became twisted, I want to know what made "Dabi" because the Touya we saw at 13 was still trying to make his father proud. He was still clinging to that childish nativity that he just had to find that right way to make Endeavor see him.

It's an intriguing bit of subject matter. I have my own personal beliefs on the redemption of the League, and one of my big concerns with it is that it almost seems to conflate positive traits with being redeemable, which I don't necessarily think can apply one hundred percent of the time. Toga has many examples of positive traits, her love for Jin, and general affection for certain other people, being the key example.

My issue with Himiko, and the other villains, being redeemed is that there is a large risk that redemption would involve them falling back into the boxes that society has made for them, conforming to the world and people that have oppressed them, taunted them and in some cases, ruined their lives in the first place. Not only is that not how I would want the stories of these characters to end, but it would flat-out go against what the League have already been established as. And frankly, although it sounds very harsh, Toga almost seems too far gone at this point. Looking down the list of recent events that have happened to her, she lost both of her closest friends, one to death and the other to prison, was told by the object of one of her obsessions that her friend deserved to die and was left stranded on her own for God knows how long before she reunited with the others. With all of these compounding on top of her in recent times alone, can she so easily be turned from her path by words?

I don't think so. Contrary to what I may have implied earlier, I don't think Himiko cannot be redeemed, nor do I think she shouldn't. But it would take a lot more time and a lot more effort than just being told to stand down. BNHA as a series has had quite a lot of leaps in logic recently (the highly illegal and even more infeasible 24-hour dismantling of Hearts & Minds and Lady Nagant's sudden 180 in beliefs because of Deku come to mind) but I think it would still be a bridge too far for her to suddenly change her heart at this point, after everything. Particularly considering that there are only around forty chapters left in the series, give or take.

At this point, I believe the best way to handle a Toga redemption would be to show the beginnings of it. Have her at least acknowledge the words of Deku and Uraraka, but not outright accept them. And then, at the very end, we can have a scene of her in prison or hell, maybe even still loose and in hiding, showing that she's starting off on her path to redemption. It won't be an overnight process, but slowly, day by day, she'll work towards it.