Remedial Course Arc

The twelfth arc of My Hero Academia and the third of the Rise of Villains Saga, covering chapters 163 to 168 and episodes 78 to 80. It follows the Shie Hassaikai Arc and precedes the U.A. School Festival Arc.

Two threads run alongside each other. Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki attend the supplementary hero license course beside two Shiketsu High School students, and Enji Todoroki presses All Might on what being the Symbol of Peace actually meant.

The internship group returns to the dorms battered. Ochaco Uraraka, who carried Sir Nighteye, tells Shota Aizawa she believes she could have done more, and he tells her otherwise; she settles on wanting to be a hero who saves people. Katsuki and Shoto leave early for their training, and with Shota occupied by Eri, All Might fills in as supervisor with Present Mic along as protection. Kurogiri has been captured, but Gigantomachia slipped away and cannot be found.

At the venue the two meet Camie Utsushimi and Inasa Yoarashi again, with Seiji Shishikura present only to watch. Camie has no memory of the exam itself, and her school pieces together why: the gaps, the narcotics in her system, and the U.A. testimonies point to Himiko Toga having worn her face. Yokumiru Mera hands the group over to Gang Orca, who names their failings plainly. Katsuki disrespected the people he was supposed to save, and Shoto and Inasa fought each other instead of the crisis. Their task is to reach the students of Masegaki Primary School, whose teacher Komari Ikoma admits she has lost them completely.

Nothing works. Katsuki demands the strongest kid step forward and is mocked for it. Inasa appeals to their ambitions and is told he made more work for the authorities than they ever will. Shoto explains himself sincerely and bores them. The children, echoing their parents' doubts about the current crop of heroes, start using their own Quirks, and Seiji privately connects their strength to the Quirk Singularity, the theory that powers will keep mixing and escalating until nobody can control them.

Camie's suggestion is to stop reaching down and simply outshine them. Inasa throws the class into the air, Shoto freezes the projectiles they threw into a slide, and Camie fills the gymnasium with an aurora. Katsuki hauls the ringleader onto the slide and tells him that anyone who only looks down at people will never spot his own weaknesses. It lands. The children help tear the course apart afterward, and Gang Orca reminds their teacher that Quirk education is her responsibility, not a hero's. Meanwhile All Might admits to Endeavor that he never knew how to answer the question, only that the public needed a beacon and he ran toward it as fast as he could, and that Endeavor does not have to walk that same road.

Gang Orca acknowledges the four for clearing an abstract challenge, Seiji raises the prospect of joint training between the two schools, and Endeavor tells Shoto that he is proud, then vows to become a father worth being proud of in return. Inasa slugs himself in the jaw and declares he is rooting for Endeavor anyway.

October brings Sir Nighteye's funeral. Internships are suspended and Centipeder takes over the office. Eri regains consciousness with her mind still fragile and her horn, the seat of her Quirk, drastically shrunken. At U.A., Yuga Aoyama starts shadowing Izuku Midoriya and leaves a note reading "I know" spelled out in cheese. When his Navel Buffet★Laser wrecks his stomach at Gym Gamma, he explains that his Quirk has never suited his body either, that without his belt it leaks, and that facing hardship alone will keep Izuku from shining. Izuku thanks him, and the two become friends.