Episode 40

Tomura lets Kurogiri know their master has already pinned down where the students are headed for the summer. Giran arrives with word that the union signed off on what Tomura asked for, and that expectations run high, since other villains will follow the League once it steps into the spotlight. After he leaves, Tomura declares the games open.

With the first semester formally closed, Shota promises his class that camp will test their limits. Ochaco tries to tell Izuku how excited she is, remembers Yuga's question about her feelings, and backs away chanting about camping. Neito appears to mock Class 1-A over the exams and Itsuka knocks him out before loading 1-B onto their bus, to Minoru's delight at the girls coming along. Tenya gets 1-A aboard, and the ride is spent ignoring Shota entirely.

They arrive on a mountaintop around nine to meet the Wild, Wild Pussycats, whose decade of hero work Izuku recites until Pixie-Bob seizes his head and insists they are young at heart. Mandalay points out the lodge far below and gives them until noon to reach it if they want lunch. The scramble back toward the bus ends when Pixie-Bob tips the entire class over the edge and into the Beast's Forest.

Her Quirk raises monsters out of the earth that the students at first mistake for real animals, and Izuku pulls Minoru clear of the first one. Mandalay questions the brutal schedule; Shota explains they must compress a second semester's worth of ground into it, covering Quirk permits, provisional licenses, and above all the ability to protect themselves. Izuku, Shoto, Tenya, and Katsuki drop a beast together, and the class then fights its way down as a unit, combining Quirks and arriving at the lodge in the evening, hours past the deadline and thoroughly spent.

The heroes praise them anyway, Pixie-Bob especially taken with the four who led. Izuku asks about the small boy trailing them and learns he is Kota, Mandalay's relative, who answers a friendly greeting with a punch below the belt before walking off; Katsuki approves of the spunk. Dinner is generous, with Pixie-Bob warning it is the last such meal. At the hot springs Minoru tries scaling the dividing wall and Kota stops him, then turns, sees the girls, faints, and topples over. Izuku catches him and carries him to Mandalay, who explains that his parents were pros killed on duty, and that he resents heroes because he believes the job is what took them from him.

The next morning Shota declares the real training has started, and a ball throw shows Katsuki has gained only four meters since the term began. Stamina and resolve have grown; Quirks have not, and camp exists to change that. Meanwhile the League's newest members gather in the shadows, Himiko noting a shipment from Tomura with enough for everyone and Dabi observing that he is taking charge, promising a warning shot that will knock false heroes off their high horses in line with Stain's creed.

Adapts the back of Chapter 70 and Chapter 71. The opening scene with Tomura, Kurogiri, and Giran is new, as is Ochaco's flustered approach to Izuku and the class cheering it on. The battle with the earth beasts is expanded so every student takes one down rather than just the four. The anime revises Mandalay's relationship to Kota, making her his first cousin once removed instead of his aunt, with one member of Water Hose her cousin rather than her sibling; the simuldub called her his direct cousin in error and corrected it for the home video release. Kota's parents appear alongside him without being named. The closing scene with Himiko, Muscular, Mustard, and Dabi is added, showing Mustard's face much earlier than the page did.

Eijiro shouts "Ora ora ora" while pounding an earth beast in the Japanese track, a probable second nod to Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after Episode 34. The beast fought by Ochaco and Tsuyu looks a great deal like Arzuros from Monster Hunter.