Elasticity

Registered as an Emitter type with contact-based range, Elasticity hands its user one deceptively simple power: whatever Danjuro Tobita lays a hand on gains spring. Solid matter, open air, and even his own wardrobe all qualify. The Quirk arrives in Chapter 176 of the manga and reaches the anime in Episode 81.

Because the effect is granted rather than generated, Danjuro fights less like a bruiser and more like a stage magician, shaping the battlefield instead of striking it. It reads as the inverse of Pliabody, which springs the body of its owner rather than everything around them.

Anything Danjuro touches can be given bounce, and he uses that to reroute momentum. A crane treated with the Quirk becomes a slingshot capable of hurling him across long distances. Ground treated with it robs pursuers of stable footing while letting him travel in hops.

Springy panels can be planted in empty air as well, and those floating sheets double as barriers. Anything striking one is thrown back the way it came, and Danjuro himself uses them as stepping stones for aerial travel. Since air is invisible and only a touch is needed, opponents rarely register the moment he sets a trap, and his theatrical gestures hide the setup. Applying spring to his cape stops enemies from yanking him off balance.

The glaring flaw is that he cannot switch the property off. Treated surfaces stay bouncy until the effect expires on its own, so an enemy who learns to ride the rebound can borrow the same advantage he built for himself.

Danjuro Tobita is the sole owner. He leaned on the Quirk mostly to vanish from crime scenes and to handle anyone who tried to stop him, and with Manami Aiba boosting him through Lover Mode he proved skilled enough to overcome several Pro Heroes at once.

His named techniques include Gently Rebound, an airborne springboard that flings whoever collides with it away; Gently Trampoline, which converts the ground into a launcher for enemies or for his own travel; and Gently Sandwich, a stack of aerial barriers used to pin a target underneath. Powered by Lover Mode he can produce Gently Super-Lover, an air trampoline so vast that a whole airborne island comes to rest on it.