A yakuza syndicate out of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, the Abegawa Tenchu Kai ran its business from Tokyo's Danto Ward with a lineage stretching back to the years before superpowers existed. Its executives carried devastating Quirks,…
Before U.A. High School, Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo shared a classroom at this unremarkable middle school in Musutafu. It turns up in the franchise's very first chapter and its very first episode, and it had never placed a graduate…
Three artists in the My Hero Academia spin-off Team-Up Missions decide that beauty peaks at the instant something detonates, then wreck the studios of rival creators to prove the point. A four-hero squad brings them in, and one close-range…
A Pro Hero team from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes built entirely around firepower. Led by Mister Blaster, the Buster Union earned a name as one of the hardest-hitting outfits in the field, picked its interns for raw combat ability, and…
Captain Celebrity runs his operation out of a New York skyscraper crowned with his own logo, where the top floor unfolds into a launch pad so his heroes can be airborne the instant an assignment lands. It appears in the Vigilantes spin-off.
A gang of masked pickpockets whose leader turns carbonated water into a weapon. Cider House spent a month charting hero patrols before its holiday robbery spree, only to run into Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki half an hour after the two…
The hero course homeroom Izuku Midoriya lands in, and the central stage of My Hero Academia. Twenty students who absorbed more villain attacks than any class should have, grew fiercely loyal through them, and eight years on placed sixteen…
U.A.'s other first-year hero course class, twenty students who quietly outgrew their rivals by staying clear of villain attacks. Every one of them passed the Provisional Hero License Exam, a claim Class 1-A cannot make, though the Joint…
A pair of children in witch costumes who appointed themselves guardians of their neighborhood's walls. The Clean Witches scrub graffiti in My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, and their meticulous photo records end up cracking an illegal…
A religious hate group, abbreviated CRC, that campaigned to purge Mutant-type Quirk users from society. Long past its era of public support and splintered into fragments, the clan met its end when the League of Villains walked into its…
Four dancers from a Naruhata high school, fronted by an unnamed president who takes up most of the room. Their rehearsals have a reputation for being merciless, and the Marukane live event hands them the largest stage any of them has stood…
Eight yakuza who had run out of reasons to live, each handed one by Overhaul after he scraped them off the bottom of society. The purpose he gave them is exactly what makes them dangerous, and each maps onto a Buddhist precept his Quirk or…
A hero academy known for exactly one thing: a third-place finish at a national ski jump tourney, scored at 91 out of 100. It is named once in a Team-Up Missions chapter and never actually shown, so beyond that single result, nothing about…
The hero office Enji Todoroki built, a tower fronted by a burning letter E and staffed by more than thirty sidekicks whose Quirks mostly run to fire and heat. Since its founder inherited the top ranking, the place has barely stopped moving.
Taishiro Toyomitsu's office is impossible to mistake: the facade is his own grinning face, down to window-eyes and a sculpted arm clutching a takoyaki ball. Inside that cartoon of a building, the BMI Hero has turned a nearly bare room in…
A supergroup stitched together out of whatever Naruhata's independent scene could spare: an idol duo, a rock band, a dance squad, and a street performer who had never faced a real crowd. Makoto Tsukauchi built it, Marukane sponsored it,…
Feathers is a two-sister idol act from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, fronted by the twins Miu and Yu. Their entire presentation runs on symmetry, with stage outfits mirrored down the center line, a gimmick that only lands when both sisters…
Endeavor's sidekick unit, handling the smaller jobs and sitting on the villains their boss knocks down until the police arrive. Burnin, Kido, and Onima carry the team through the Naruhata crisis, the Endeavor Agency work-studies, and the…
The Fourth Kind Agency is the hero office run by the Pro Hero Fourth Kind, best known as the internship posting that put Eijiro Kirishima and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu under one of the strictest mentors in the profession, a man who insists…
The Genius Office is Best Jeanist's hero agency in central Tokyo, a polished modernist workplace that matches its owner's fastidious image. It is remembered mainly as the office where Best Jeanist spent a week trying, and failing, to sand…
One of the opportunist villain crews that surfaced while Japan's hero network was collapsing after the Paranormal Liberation War. The Glutton God Gang made trouble at a marketplace and lasted roughly as long as it took Best Jeanist to walk…
Europe's largest crime organization and the villains of My Hero Academia: You're Next. Under Valdo Gollini, who murdered his own father for the seat and then remade his face into All Might's, the family kidnapped a girl whose Quirk…
Hawks' Agency is the Kyushu hero office belonging to Hawks, perched atop a distinctive sloped white tower. Beyond routine operations it served as Fumikage Tokoyami's training ground and as a launch point for its owner's work during the…
The Help Us Company, shortened to H.U.C., staffs a line of work almost nobody would volunteer for: getting rescued for a living. Its people put themselves in real danger so that heroes can practice pulling them out, then grade how…
Hero Offices, also called Hero Agencies, are the firms that employ Japan's professional heroes. They double as bases of operations, usually take their styling from whichever hero owns them, and serve as the main route through which…
Sitting between heroes and the public, the Hero Public Safety Commission governs that relationship, issues licenses, and steers the worst criminal cases. Behind the respectable front sat a rot that manufactured an assassin, groomed a…
The Hideout Raid Team was the Police Force's emergency coalition of Japan's strongest heroes, assembled to storm the League of Villains' Kamino hideout and recover Katsuki Bakugo. The operation opened flawlessly and then collided head-on…
A once-powerful lineage reduced to scattered branches by its own refusal to marry Quirk users. The Himura Family sold Rei Himura into a Quirk marriage with Endeavor, and the ice running through its blood surfaces in the Todoroki children…
The Hospital Raid Team was the Endeavor-led half of the largest hero coalition ever fielded, formed with the Police Force to storm Jaku General Hospital and seize Kyudai Garaki and Tomura Shigaraki. What the heroes found instead was a…
A doomsday cult with branches in twenty-five cities, Humarise treats superpowers as an illness and answers that illness with mass murder. Its founder, Flect Turn, built hidden weapons meant to purge every Quirk holder from the planet,…
Heroics passes through the Ida household like an inheritance rather than a career choice. This prestigious line has been sending its children into the profession since Tenya's grandfather was active, handing down both the Engine Quirk and…
The Innsmouth Crew is a small villain outfit led by Innsmouth and staffed entirely by his own siblings. Their smuggling operation fell apart when Selkie's team, with Froppy and Sirius, ran them down at sea, and all four members ended up…
Isami Academy High School is an anime-original hero school introduced in the Training of the Dead OVA. Its students spent a short visitation program drilling alongside U.A.'s Class 1-A, and the school's name carries the meaning of bravery.
Three young men on snowmobiles who worship criminals and play at being one, the K3 Gang harass mountain residents without ever managing real harm. Their run ends when they introduce themselves as villains to the wrong stranger, a hero…
Kanidoge is an Osaka crab wholesaler with a fleet of crab-shaped mechs, and an unwitting link in the Villain Factory's drug pipeline. Traffickers buried Trigger inside its identical frozen packages, creating the smuggling channel police…
Ketsubutsu Academy High School trains professional heroes and treats U.A. as the rival to beat. Its students make their mark during the Provisional Hero License Exam, where Ms. Joke's class ambushes Class 1-A on principle, and they return…
The League of Villains stands as the central antagonist force of My Hero Academia, a coalition of dangerous criminals bent on tearing down the world heroes built. All For One assembled it and handed the reins to Tomura Shigaraki, who…
The Mad Hatters are a four-piece rock band out of Naruhata, tapped to play the Marukane Department Store's live event. Skilled but untested at scale, they end up folded into FeatherHATS for the Naruhata Festival, the biggest stage any of…
Marukane Department Store is a century-old retailer in Naruhata, and in My Hero Academia: Vigilantes it doubles as a stage. Its rooftop hosts the Narufest events that launch Pop☆Step's idol career, and its directors bankroll the band…
Marvelous Central University occupies a college tower in New York City, and its initials are a joke at Marvel's expense. Makoto Tsukauchi enrolled there for a three-year stretch of study, keeping her post as Captain Celebrity's manager the…
Masegaki Primary School is famous for its brats, and the name says so outright. Its pupils pair unusually strong Quirks with unusually little respect for adults, which is exactly why Gang Orca marched his remedial hero students in front of…
Karate club leaders built like giant robots, the Mazinger Brothers are villains from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes whose ambitions run no further than securing dates. Their shared Quirk fires a fist across a room, and The Crawler is the one…
The Meta Liberation Army preached that using a Quirk freely is a human right, not a privilege the state hands out. Founded by Destro and revived generations later by his descendant Re-Destro, it operated as a hidden society of more than a…
Might Tower is All Might's hero office, a Roppongi skyscraper crowned with a ringed globe. Featured throughout My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, it houses the Symbol of Peace's staff, a private gate only he can open, and the cafe where…
Mt. Agency is Mt. Lady's hero office, planted in the middle of a crowded city for the publicity even though her giant form barely fits there. She has already flattened the building once by accident and had to put it back up.
Mustafa Private Middle School put Eijiro Kirishima and Mina Ashido in the same classroom years before U.A. did. The private junior high gives two of Class 1-A's loudest personalities a shared history, and its name hides one of the series'…
Nabu Middle School is a minor institution in My Hero Academia, remembered chiefly for one graduate. Hitoshi Shinso spent his junior high years here before earning a place at U.A. High School. Its location is never specified, and the series…
An unlicensed trio working the streets of Naruhata, this ragtag team paired a washed-up ex-professional with a rookie who could barely fight and a street idol. They took on the Trigger drug trade and the Villain Factory behind it, becoming…
Trigger addicts rebuilt into monsters, the Next-Level Villains are the Villain Factory's second generation of disposable weapons. Each is bio-engineered to survive drug doses that would kill an ordinary body, then released into Naruhata to…
The Nighteye Agency was built around a single obsession: stopping a death its founder had already seen. Sir Nighteye left All Might's side over that prophecy, opened his own office, and turned it into the investigative engine that exposed…
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