Episode 158

While Sad Man's Death Parade keeps flooding the Gunga ruins with copies, Himiko watches the far-off collapse of Dabi's explosion and wonders whether he managed the laugh he always promised himself. Her doubles have pinned Earphone Jack, Froppy, and Uravity and are wearing down the assisting pros. Uravity tears loose, hooks onto Himiko with Spacewalk, and gets shut out immediately. Reading the villain's tears, she works out why the copies cannot reach the other League members' Quirks: malice has poisoned the affection Transform runs on. The accusation cracks the disguise, and Himiko hauls a bound Froppy from the mob with a blade at her throat, snapping that a girl who found society easy has no standing to lecture her.

Her childhood surfaces in pieces: a slap from her father over a sparrow she found already dead, a counselor who filed her instincts as a defect to be corrected, a park bench where she chewed her own finger and understood she had nothing in common with anyone, the classmate's wound she drank from while her parents recoiled. Curious once told her the whole performance was a mask, and the mask splits as she swings. Uravity yanks her off target, Kamui Woods frees Earphone Jack, and the copies begin drinking spilled blood so they can transform and camouflage themselves, which Kamui reads as unwinnable. Himiko drives her knife into Uravity's stomach and orders her to stop pitying someone who feels none of the warm things heroes keep describing.

Uravity refuses the framing, throws her off with Zero Gravity, and takes the full weight of Sad Man's Legion, a swarm that swells over the city and into the clouds while a reporter overhead recites the Quirk Singularity theory and wonders aloud whether one girl's feelings are about to rewrite the world. Floating the copies with her Quirk and Gunhead Martial Arts until she vomits, Uravity keeps talking: she cannot excuse the killings, she was frightened at the training camp because Himiko was genuinely smiling, and, ego or not, she finds that smile lovely and will not pretend otherwise. Zero Gravity awakens mid-use, its range and three-ton ceiling gone, floating every copy and every ally in contact with them. The opening lets Uravity close in and offer her blood for life if Himiko will talk about love with her. A punch lands and changes nothing. Himiko melts out of the Twice disguise and explains herself: she falls for anyone, because everyone carries beautiful blood, and she liked Izuku because he resembled a boy from middle school she never dared ask, afraid he would decide she was not cute. Uravity holds her, apologizes for missing the pain, and, asked directly, tells her she is the cutest in the world as the last doubles drift off and vanish.

Uravity deduces that Himiko's malice is what blocks her copies from accessing the League's Quirks, and gets stabbed in the abdomen for saying it out loud.

Himiko escalates to Sad Man's Legion, multiplying the copies until they engulf the city and climb into the sky, prompting a live broadcast invocation of the Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory.

Zero Gravity undergoes an Awakening mid-activation, shattering its weight limit and range, and Uravity reaches Himiko with words rather than force. The blood sample's time limit expires and the double swarm dissolves.

Adapted from chapter 390 through chapter 394, the twentieth episode of season seven aired in Japan on October 5, 2024, and in English on October 19. Curtain Call and Sixth Magnitude Star bookend it.

The anime adds a beat when Uravity first breaks out of the mob: the copies immediately recapture her with their measuring tape before she gets free again.

When Sad Man's Legion activates, the adaptation cuts away to Ingenium, Hawks, and the Todorokis watching the distant swarm climb, while the manga's shots of lesser heroes and a Near High-End Nomu being overrun by it are dropped from the same sequence.