Chapter 61

All Might tells Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo they will have to work together to take him down. Shota Aizawa announces that all ten teams will ride U.A. High School buses out to an uninhabited training city where the exercise will be held. The rest of the assignments come out: Denki Kaminari and Mina Ashido draw the Principal, Yuga Aoyama and Ochaco Uraraka get Thirteen, Koji Koda and Kyoka Jiro face Present Mic, Fumikage Tokoyami and Tsuyu Asui take Ectoplasm, Hanta Sero and Minoru Mineta go up against Midnight, Mezo Shoji and Toru Hagakure meet Snipe, Rikido Sato and Eijiro Kirishima are matched with Cementoss, and Tenya Ida and Mashirao Ojiro face Power Loader.

Once everyone arrives, each pair heads off alongside the teacher they drew, bound for its own patch of ground, and every teacher spells out the win conditions. A team passes by handcuffing their teacher or by getting one member off the battlefield, and either has to happen inside thirty minutes. The faculty will fight while handicapped by ultra-compact weighted bracelets built by Mei Hatsume. Chiyo Shuzenji watches from the monitoring room and starts the clock.

Ectoplasm splits into four copies that ring Fumikage and Tsuyu, warning them that none of the teachers intends to go easy. Shoto Todoroki asks Momo Yaoyorozu to create assorted objects as a distraction, reasoning that the match hinges on who spots whom first, and lays out his plan: he takes Shota head-on while she slips away, with the two staying together until then. Cornered by the clones, Fumikage has Dark Shadow hurl Tsuyu up to the next floor, and Tsuyu's tongue whips Fumikage up after her, drawing a compliment from Ectoplasm on their synergy. Chiyo, watching, remarks that working smoothly with anyone at all is an essential Hero skill.

Katsuki decides to cuff All Might himself while Izuku argues for skipping the fight and escaping. Katsuki ignores him and advances. Izuku calls the idea of beating All Might absurd, and Katsuki knocks him to the ground and tells him to shut up, while Izuku insists he only wants them to pass. The argument turns ugly: Katsuki claims he can clear the exam alone and needs nothing from Izuku, and Izuku tells him his temper is why nobody likes him. All Might settles it by throwing a punch that flattens the terrain around them, dropping Izuku, and decides the time has come to step onto the battlefield.

The chapter confirms that every pairing and matchup was engineered to force students into confronting their own weaknesses, and that the High Density Weights exist to level the field between teenagers and professionals. Beyond the U.A. campus, Ground Gamma and the Unforeseen Simulation Joint appear. Quirks on display include Invisibility, Clones, Dark Shadow, Frog and One For All, with Texas Smash the lone super move; items span the Eraser Goggles, High Density Weights, Grenadier Bracers and Capturing Weapon. Three of the exam bouts begin here: Tokoyami and Asui against Ectoplasm, Todoroki and Yaoyorozu against Eraser Head, and Midoriya and Bakugo against All Might.

Running 19 pages in issue 45, 2015 and released October 5, 2015, the chapter was collected in Volume 7. Its anime adaptation was split across three episodes, with pages 1 to 12 in Episode 34, pages 13 to 15 in Episode 35, and pages 16 to 19 in Episode 37. Horikoshi's comment flags the upcoming popularity poll results and his delight that his manga was getting one at all.