Chapter 15 (Vigilantes)

A building weakened by the earlier monster rampage begins to give way, and the police clear the floors while Koichi Haimawari pitches in. He locates a woman and a sumo wrestler still trapped upstairs, but before he can move them Captain Celebrity drops in, claims the woman, and blocks the debris that would have buried Koichi. The American hero then works the cameras, calls in his personal cheer squad to make the demolition more entertaining, and leaves Koichi to carry the man out alone. Kazuho Haneyama catches the sour look on his face, and Koichi confesses that the jealousy is real.

One of the cheerleaders turns out to be Makoto, which lands badly with Koichi. Kazuho pronounces the miniskirt routine vulgar; Koichi points out that her own outfit hides very little, an accusation she waves off. Spotted by Makoto, the two beat a retreat, and the rescue crew pulls her away before she can follow. Captain Celebrity thanks her for the assistance and, taken with her, offers lunch atop a skyscraper. From an alley Koichi seethes while Knuckleduster explains the pattern: the hero's lawsuits mostly involve women, the costliest being the settlement owed his wife after their legal separation, and losing everything taught him nothing.

Out of costume, Koichi and Kazuho trail Makoto and get caught. Captain Celebrity accuses Koichi of stalking, Makoto handles the introductions, and the hero announces a date that Makoto insists is only a business meeting before he lifts her into the sky. A crash sounds from a bank below. Makoto reports the robbery from the rooftop, but her companion cares only about lunch, so she gets Pamela on the line instead. The name stops him cold. Makoto explains she befriended the woman online the week before, and Pamela is his estranged wife. One threatened lawsuit later, he is downstairs binding a dolphin-shaped villain who wants a getaway car.

Female admirers gather and, for once, he ignores them, hauling Koichi up to the skyscraper for photographs with him and Makoto to show Pamela he has changed. While he negotiates his way through the phone call by calling the outing pure fanservice, Koichi looks at the pictures and remarks that the hero seems an unlikely companion for other men. The comment sparks something in Makoto: his following is entirely female, so the male audience is untapped. The cheer squad reappears dressed as schoolboy delinquents, and the whiplash prompts message boards and commentators to joke that Japanese sushi gave him food poisoning. Koichi, Kazuho and Knuckleduster watch the broadcast at home, Kazuho baffled and Koichi indifferent.

Captain Celebrity saves Koichi from collapsing rubble during the evacuation, then converts the rescue into a photo opportunity with his cheerleaders.

Knuckleduster lays out the hero's history of lawsuits involving women and the financial reparation paid to his wife after their legal separation.

Makoto reveals she has been in contact with Pamela, Captain Celebrity's estranged wife, and uses the threat of another lawsuit to send him after a bank robbery.

Captain Celebrity subdues the Dolphin Villain, then stages photographs with Koichi and Makoto to prove his reform.

Makoto identifies a gap in his popularity and pushes him to court male fans, leading his cheer squad to restyle themselves as schoolboy delinquents.

Playboy is the fifteenth chapter of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and drawn by Betten Court. It ran on October 14, 2017, spans 21 pages, and is collected in Volume 3 as part of the Senpai arc.

Kazuho Haneyama and Makoto Tsukauchi share the cover. The Dolphin Villain debuts here, and Pamela is only heard, never seen. Ichimoku Samazu and Jube Namimaru also appear. The chapter is adapted in Episode 8 of the Vigilantes anime.