Mid-Gauntlet

The Mid-Gauntlet was developed in the United States, distributed by a supplier who is never named. Toshinori Yagi bought a set before trade across the border shut down, intending it for Izuku Midoriya. Four prototypes were made in total, and Izuku owns all of them.

The concept behind the design is reinforcement of the entire frame, so that raw power can be spent without wrecking the person spending it.

On Izuku the gauntlets take over the role his Arm Bracers used to fill, shielding his arms while he fights. The difference is margin. He can run One For All at percentages that would once have cost him the limb, and his arms hold. Support extends past the arms and across the rest of him, and two more gauntlets are strapped to his legs, though those never appear on the page.

They remain prototypes, and Toshinori was blunt about the ceiling: a full 100% would shatter them. Mei Hatsume later explained that the compression mechanism inside runs on a material called Condenium.

Izuku Midoriya is the only wearer. He was using them against Goto Imasuji, striking the finishing blow once the Villain had been worn down. His fight with Kaina Tsutsumi ruined the left gauntlet, leaving it good for nothing.

Back at U.A., he brought the wreck to Mei Hatsume, but the damage ran too deep to repair and she lacked the resources to build a fresh one. She made him a replica of her own instead, folded together with new Air Force Gloves. The right gauntlet lasted until Tomura Shigaraki, cracking apart during the fight and failing outright once Izuku took that arm to 100% of One For All.