Episode 170

The boy who cut himself out of a ruined house stumbles into a rebuilt neighborhood, and every smiling face he passes pushes his mind further apart. His memories fill in the gap: Darkness surfaced in his living room one day as misty purple fluid pouring from his hands and feet, and his family reacted with horror, disbelief, and rage. The eldest ordered him disposed of without a trace; when nobody had the stomach for it, they settled on a tarp, rope, a locked basement, a sewn-shut mouth, and a story that he had died. War rubble eventually opened his way out.

Elsewhere, Hawks tells All Might over lunch that he intends to widen the Hero Billboard Chart to include ordinary citizens once reconstruction allows, since they carried the Final War too. Scrapping the popularity element would only make sense if its downsides were the whole story, and he would rather use it to spotlight many working Heroes instead of loading society onto whoever holds the top slot.

Panic curdles into rage on the street, and the goo trails behind the boy's feet. An elderly woman taps his shoulder. She is the same person who once saw Tenko Shimura wandering after his family died and walked away assuming someone else would help, a choice that haunted her for years. Moved by what Izuku showed the country, she takes the boy's hand and promises help. He cries, bystanders close in, and Izuku and Ochaco arrive with the man who called them, only to find the crisis already handled and Hawks' wish quietly granted.

Eight years on, Kota Izumi is a teenager in the Hero Course, that same rescued boy at his side, and Izuku teaches at U.A. while filling another volume of Hero Analysis for the Future. The line about all men not being created equal, once crushing, now reads to him as a reason to seek common ground. He reflects that everyone who cared enough to cheer was a Hero in their own right, and remembers his last U.A. years: All Might rehabilitating alongside Gran Torino, Eri settling in with Kota, Present Mic and Eraser Head visiting the graves of Nemuri Kayama and Oboro Shirakumo, Rei and Enji still calling on Toya, and Spinner's League book selling. At graduation, Tenya's speech credits the hands that pulled everyone up, Katsuki and Neito blast the stage open, and One For All's last embers gutter out, leaving Izuku Quirkless.

In a middle school classroom, career forms show how far society has drifted: alongside a Hero Course hopeful, students name Support engineering at Lighty Labs where Mei Hatsume and Bibimi Kenranzaki work, medicine in the mold of Dr. Ryu Yoshida, and programming at GeL Inc., the firm Gentle and La Brava founded. A boy named Dai is told a weak Quirk plus a falling villain rate leaves him no realistic shot, and he crumples his form.

News coverage tracks Class A's careers. Tentacole accepts the Imamura Peace Prize with Anima and Plamo for heteromorph advocacy, while Uravity tours schools with Creati, Froppy, and Ingenium doing Quirk counselling. Eraser Head shows Izuku footage of Dynamight grabbing a bystander's shirt, which will sink his ranking further and hand Shoto a commanding lead. Asked whether he misses Hero work, Izuku traces the decision back to Mawata's talk with Class 2-A, and Eraser Head advises him to be stricter, since Hero Course admission is now nearly a guarantee and arrogance needs checking.

At the All Might statue in Kamino, Izuku catches a falling child while Dai fails at the same instinct, dropping the saucers his Quirk makes. Recognizing himself in the boy's question, Izuku spirals into muttering analysis of Dai's potential, then steadies and does what All Might once did for him: tells him he can be a Hero.

The next morning All Might smashes the ending title card and presents a metallic briefcase built from data gathered in the All For One fight, engineered over years by Mei and Melissa Shield, and funded by every one of Izuku's classmates with Katsuki leading the investment. It unfolds into a mechanical Hero suit that lets a Quirkless man return to duty. When Hawks calls in a landslide on Warstar Road, Hercules delivers Izuku to Class A in costume, Dynamight reaches out for Deku, and he takes to the sky on artificial Blackwhip and Float, passing Tomura's smiling vestige on the way.

The episode adapts parts of Chapter 429 and all of Chapter 430, and was the last installment of the broadcast run despite being the second to last overall.

Koki Terumoto's past is fleshed out considerably, showing the family verdict and the basement, and clarifying that his grandfather pushed for murder before imprisonment. His narration is mostly cut, only two women appear in the flashback rather than four relatives, and Darkness now leaks from his feet as well as his fingers. Izuku and Ochaco watch from across the street rather than the same side, and a civilian replaces Tenya's check-in.

Class A's final years play out in a much longer montage: Mirko takes to the air with Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady, Endeavor and Rei's visit to Toya replaces the Sidekickers panel, Oboro's grave is made explicit with purple flowers nodding to Midnight, the full graduation with Tenya's speech is included, and Melissa's reunion is dropped. Dai's aptitude test is shown, billboards for Astro and Gang Orca appear as nods to Kohei Horikoshi's earlier works, Mezo unmasks for his speech, and Toru's adult appearance and new costume are revealed during the final takeoff, which references THE DAY's opening. Tomura's vestige is relocated to the rooftop building where his first real talk with All Might happened, and walks away rather than simply watching. The credits montage draws on Chapter 431 and the Ultra Age fanbook, plus anime-original beats such as Hitoshi working deep cover and teaming with Fumikage.