School Festival

Mina Ashido's dancing stops the room, and Izuku, always analyzing, sees how completely she commits her body to the motion and asks to learn. Yuga joins despite a lingering grudge. Denki Kaminari muses that folding a hobby into hero work is a fine trick, which reminds him that Kyoka Jiro loves music, a comment she shuts down with an Earphone Jack threat he does not understand.

Aizawa announces the school festival. The excitement is immediate and Eijiro Kirishima's objection is reasonable, given how much villain activity there has been, and his teacher agrees with him before explaining why it matters anyway to the business and support courses. Class 1-A has to contribute, so they need a program. Momo Yaoyorozu logs the suggestions and crosses them off one by one, the bell rings with nothing decided, and Aizawa threatens to assign them a public lecture if they cannot agree.

Debate resumes that night in Heights Alliance. Tenya argues for something that lets the school unwind, and Mina's dance proposal finds an unexpected champion in Shoto, who pulls up a music performance online to make the case. Hanta remains skeptical about dancing, so Mina volunteers to coach the class. Minoru points out that dancing needs music, and every head turns to Kyoka. She calls her talent a hobby and no big deal, Denki says her range of instruments is genuinely amazing, which reddens her face, and Koji Koda tells her music can put smiles on people. She agrees, and the class settles on a live musical performance. Unnoticed behind them, the autoplay rolls into a video featuring a strange man.

Izuku and Mirio visit Eri at her request. A nurse worries her Rewind could break loose if something stirs the memory, though the doctor considers it unlikely in her current state. Eri asks Izuku who he is, since he saved her without ever introducing himself, and he supplies both names. She apologizes for what she cost him, Mirio, and Sir Nighteye, unaware the man is dead, and Mirio tells her the fault was never hers and that all they wanted was her smile. She tries and cannot manage one. Recalling Yuga's words about surprises, Izuku asks Aizawa whether Eri might attend the festival. She has no idea what a festival even is, so Mirio describes a place of fun and joy with candy apples in it, and her interest catches. Aizawa calls the principal.

At the Police Force, chief Kenji Tsuragamae learns another villain video has surfaced and orders it traced. In it, a man politely asks a terrified clerk to fill a briefcase before the heroes arrive, a female voice warns him they have come, and he assures his partner La Brava he can manage two, before considerably more arrive. Filming resumes with every hero flattened and the shop rippling like jelly, the man walking off without the money because his goal was only to have his name remembered. He introduces himself as Gentle Criminal and bids the audience farewell. The chief cannot tell whether the performance is serious. On a rooftop, La Brava reports the view count is poor. Gentle concludes a robbery is not enough and that he needs something grander, then pours tea and spills it over both of them in the wind.

U.A. High School announces its school festival, and Aizawa pressures Class 1-A into choosing a program.

Class 1-A settles on a dance and live music performance, with Kyoka Jiro persuaded to handle the music.

Izuku and Mirio visit Eri, who cannot force a smile. Izuku proposes bringing her to the festival and Aizawa takes it to Nezu.

Gentle Criminal and La Brava debut, with Elasticity and Love shown for the first time.

Gentle resolves to attempt something far larger than a convenience store robbery.

Chapters 169 and 170 open the U.A. School Festival arc here.

Denki's maid cafe pitch and the wider round of student suggestions both run longer than on the page. Newly written for the adaptation are Yuga's memories of the Sports Festival, when Mina scorched both his cape and his belt, narration from Izuku about the coming festival, several student reactions to Eraser Head's defense of holding the event at all, a flashback to Yuga feeding him, and a visual of the threatened public lecture along with the class's response to it.