Episode 41

On the second morning Vlad King gathers Class 1-B and tells them their turn is due after a semester spent watching 1-A hold the spotlight. Asked how forty different Quirks can share one training method, he answers that every Quirk improves through exercise and that the method is going past your limit. They join 1-A, already at work, each student on a different drill, and Itsuka wonders how the staff intends to supervise everyone at once.

The Pussycats introduce themselves in full and explain how their combined abilities let them keep eyes on the whole forest. Tiger claims all the strength types for his boot camp, having already started on Izuku, who throws a five percent Detroit Smash and is swatted aside. Shota confirms the group's range is exactly why they were chosen.

Dinner is ingredients rather than cooking, and the students make curry themselves under Tenya's organizing. Izuku notices Kota is absent and carries a plate up to the cliffside cave that serves as his hideout. Told to leave, and that polishing a Quirk just to show it off is stupid, Izuku asks whether the late heroes known as Water Hose were his parents. The question sets him off: he cannot see why lunatics label themselves heroes or villains and kill each other over it. Izuku realizes the resentment reaches past heroes to Quirks and the whole society built on them, and a story about his "Quirkless friend" changes nothing before he gives up and goes.

Above the camp, the League's newly formed Vanguard Action Squad waits. Himiko complains about the styling of their gear and Mustard argues that function is all that matters. Magne, Moonfish, and Spinner arrive, bringing Dabi's count to seven, and a masked member's impatience earns a demand for silence until the last three show. Dabi judges the earlier attack with a mob of thugs foolish and prefers a small elite unit.

Day three finds the remedial students wrecked from a night of extra lessons, and Shota reminds Ochaco and Yuga that barely passing still means work. Izuku asks whether All Might is joining them and is told he will not be. Pixie-Bob announces a test of courage for that evening.

Over the second round of curry, Shoto tells Izuku that a stranger's preaching usually reads as nagging, and that actions rather than words are what change minds, then suggests Izuku's habit of inserting himself into delicate matters might not be welcome here. After dark the remedial group goes off to a classroom with Shota while 1-A walks the forest in pairs and 1-B tries to frighten them. With only enough students for seven pairs, Izuku walks alone. Itsuka, Yui, and Juzo catch a burning smell just before gas floods the trees and Juzo drops. Itsuka covers her mouth, grabs Yui, and realizes the gas is poison. Those near the lodge see the mountain alight. Dabi is feeding the blue flames and declares the games begun. Magne subdues Pixie-Bob almost instantly. Izuku thinks of Kota, alone; the boy watches the fire from his cave, not knowing a villain has already tracked him down.

Adapts Chapters 72 and 73. The Quirk training appeared only as a two-page spread and a volume extra in the manga, so the anime gives it real screen time and details the workouts of Izuku, Hanta, Eijiro, Mina, and Toru. Tiger's counter against Izuku strikes the chin and launches him back-first into a tree here, rather than catching the side of his face and dropping him. Ragdoll is mistakenly drawn into the group during Pixie-Bob's abduction when she is supposed to be elsewhere in the forest. Despite sharing a title with Chapter 71, the episode does not adapt that chapter, whose material went to Episode 40, a first for the series.