Chapter 6

The Quirk Apprehension Test runs Class 1-A through a battery of events, closing on the pitch after the sustained sideways jump, the standing long jump, grip strength, and the fifty-meter dash.

Growing more desperate as the results stack up, Izuku Midoriya reaches for One For All on that last throw, and nothing comes. Shota Aizawa reveals he erased it, which is how Izuku pins him as Eraser Head, the Erasure Hero. His classmates have never heard the name but are struck by what he can do. Shota lays out the flaw plainly: the Quirk wrecks its user, and nobody will come running when it happens. Power that leaves you needing rescue, he argues, will not make anyone a hero. He grants a second attempt anyway.

Taking the advice on board, Izuku throws again and, at the last instant, concentrates One For All into a fingertip. The ball climbs high and the score comes back strong. He then informs his teacher that his body still works, disproving the prediction on the spot, which impresses Shota.

Shota Aizawa's hero name is revealed as Eraser Head, a professional with no taste for the media, whose Erasure Quirk cancels other Quirks simply by looking at their user.

Izuku channels One For All through a single finger to sidestep serious backlash, scoring well on the pitch. Katsuki Bakugo sees his power for the first time.

Nineteen pages, published August 11, 2014 across issues 37 and 38 and collected in volume one, with Izuku Midoriya on the cover and a sketch version included.

Hanta Sero, Mina Ashido, Shoto Todoroki, Koji Koda, and Momo Yaoyorozu all debut here. The chapter starts the Quirk Apprehension Test and is adapted as Episode 5. Viz put part of the chapter into print for its 2017 Free Comic Book Day issue. Chapter 5 precedes it, and both Chapter 6.5 and Chapter 7 follow.