Episode 55

Ringed by ten Seijin High examinees, Shoto Todoroki finds both halves of his Quirk answered. Water-based Quirks smother his flames, and thrown debris shatters his ice. Their leader calls his solo approach arrogant. Steam from the exchange gives Shoto cover, and he realizes the maze around them contains genuine working infrastructure. A decoy flame draws the group into position, ice cracks a tank hanging overhead, and fire detonates the contents. He freezes the survivors, tags their weak points, and qualifies.

Walking away, Shoto notes that alternating between hot and cold blunts his reactions, and wonders about running both at once. In the waiting room he spots Inasa Yoarashi chatting about Stampman, struggles to place him from the entrance exam, and receives a cold stare across the room.

Elsewhere, Saiko Intelli of Seiai has set a trap. Momo Yaoyorozu, Mezo Shoji, Kyoka Jiro, and Tsuyu Asui take shelter in a building only to have the trap close around them. A blast of music wrecks Kyoka's hearing, a slingshot fractures the windows so nobody can see out, chilled air pours through the vents until Tsuyu goes dormant, and the exits are welded shut. Momo works out the logic instantly: the enemy is suppressing every Quirk suited to detection and waiting outside the door.

Saiko's calculation, run through her IQ Quirk, assumes Momo will burn herself out producing counters to the cold and leave the group defenseless. Momo instead takes the reckless line. She hands out headphones, tells her friends to endure the chill, and builds an enormous amplifier for Kyoka. The high-frequency blast drops every Seiai student except Saiko, who slips inside and locks herself in with an exhausted Momo. Handcuffing their wrists together buys the seconds Mezo needs to smash the door, and Tsuyu pins Saiko's free arm. Genuinely startled that the others returned for a teammate who could have been left behind, Saiko concedes.

In a separate district, Katsuki Bakugo, Denki Kaminari, and Eijiro Kirishima run into Seiji Shishikura, who reduces Eijiro to a lump of flesh with Meatball while lecturing them about the obligations a Shiketsu student carries. Katsuki, having no patience for sermons, takes him on directly. Izuku, Ochaco, and Hanta agree that Izuku will bait their pursuers into a cluster the other two can bind.

Watching from the booth, Shota tells Emi that he cannot see who is passing and finds it irritating. Pressed on whether he is worried, he explains that neither Izuku nor Katsuki leads or charms the class, yet the two of them drag everyone else's standards upward by sheer intensity. Izuku's bait works, Hanta and Ochaco snare several rivals, Katsuki answers Seiji with a new special move, and Shota finishes the thought: he is not anxious, he is curious, because this is Class 1-A.

Shoto passes the opening phase by rigging an explosion inside the labyrinth zone, then privately identifies the flaw in switching between his two elements.

Saiko Intelli traps Momo's group and stakes her plan on predicting Momo's behavior, only for Momo to amplify Kyoka's Quirk with a purpose-built amp and knock the Seiai team unconscious.

Momo's classmates return for her rather than qualify without her, which is what convinces Saiko to surrender.

Seiji Shishikura turns Eijiro into a meatball, and Aizawa articulates why Izuku and Katsuki matter to the class despite leading nothing.

Only a slim portion of chapter 106 is adapted here. The bulk of the runtime is written for the screen to give Class 1-A a fuller preliminary round than the manga provided.

Shoto's opponents are a case in point. The page left his qualifying fight offscreen against unidentified rivals, while the adaptation invents Seijin High to stage it. During his self-assessment afterward, neither his flames nor his ice are visible on his body. Seiai High is likewise a new school created to oppose Momo's group.

Smaller additions include Katsuki's group climbing a ladder, a depiction of how Eijiro is transformed, and Yokumiru's more frequent updates on the passing count.