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Battle Trial Arc

Class 1-A pulls on their costumes for the first time and gets thrown into two-on-two indoor combat, heroes against villains. The marquee draw pits Izuku against the childhood tormentor who has spent years assuming he was owed the win, and…

Dark Hero Arc

With the prisons emptied and the profession collapsing, Izuku walks away from school to be used as bait, and slowly stops resembling a student at all. Two assassins, a hero killer and one loud speech from a girl on a rooftop decide whether…

Endeavor Agency Arc

Three boys take their work-study under the new number one, who wanted only his son and says so. What they get is a lesson in speed and a front-row seat to a man trying to be something other than what he was, while a spy in the enemy's…

Entrance Exam Arc

The opening arc of My Hero Academia, in which a powerless boy who has spent his life being told to be realistic is handed the strongest Quirk in the world by the man who owns it. Ten months of brutal conditioning stand between him and the…

Epilogue Arc

With All For One and Tomura Shigaraki gone, the series spends its final arc on the bill that came due. Graduations happen late, families face what they broke, survivors carry the ones they could not save, and Class 1-A discovers what Izuku…

Final Act Saga

The third and closing saga of My Hero Academia opens on a country coming apart: cities lie broken, All For One walks free after the Tartarus breakout, and the public no longer believes in the people paid to protect it. What follows is…

Final Exams Arc

U.A.'s first-year finals turn out to be a trap. Instead of the robot drill everyone prepared for, Class 1-A must fight their own teachers in assigned pairs, and the cruelest draw puts Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo together against All…

Final Performance Arc

Koichi is job-hunting and ready to hang up the hoodie, Kazuho cannot say what she means, and the kind new manager listening to her is the villain who has been waiting years for exactly this. What he builds out of her turns Naruhata into a…

Final War Arc

All For One believes he has cornered One For All at last, and he is walking into a stage set for him. A traitor who never was, a copied Warp Gate and a cage system named Troy scatter the villains across Japan, and every battlefield becomes…

Forest Training Camp Arc

Summer break puts two classes in the mountains to grind their Quirks past their limits, under cat-costumed professionals and a boy who wants nothing to do with heroes. On the third night the woods fill with poison gas, and the exercise…

Hideout Raid Arc

A public apology is a lie, a pizza delivery is a raid, and five students who promised not to fight go anyway. What none of them planned for is the man behind the League stepping out of the dark, and the last hour of the strongest hero…

Joint Training Arc

Two classes finally get to settle it, five rounds of four against four, with a general course student fighting on both sides for a place he was told his Quirk did not deserve. Then something inside Izuku's Quirk wakes up that none of the…

Meta Liberation Army Arc

For once the League of Villains carries the story, and the series title changes to say so. Broke, hunted, and ordered to break a monster they cannot scratch, they are then summoned to a city of a hundred thousand true believers who intend…

Naruhata Lockdown Arc

Hunted by the police and by heroes he once idolized, Koichi Haimawari spends the closing arc of Vigilantes with nowhere to stand. Number 6 uses that chaos as cover for the plan he has been building toward all along, and one neighborhood…

Osaka Incident Arc

An idol competition in Osaka gives Koichi and Kazuho a weekend away from Naruhata, and gives the police an opening. Fat Gum and Detective Tsukauchi are working the same venue, hunting the Villain Factory's newest Trigger courier, and the…

Paranormal Liberation War Arc

Hawks delivers the intelligence, Tartarus supplies the rest, and nearly every hero in the country moves against the Paranormal Liberation Front in one night. They are eleven months too early on one front and a few percent too late on…

Pro Hero Arc

The first hero rankings without All Might put Enji Todoroki at the summit, and the country immediately asks whether it wants him there. An engineered Nomu attack in Kyushu forces him to answer with his body, while the sins he buried at…

Provisional Hero License Exam Arc

U.A. becomes a boarding school, and its first-years chase a licence that would let them act like heroes for real. Fifteen hundred candidates compete for a hundred slots, every rival school has studied Class 1-A, and the country outside the…

Quirk Apprehension Test Arc

Class 1-A's first real day at U.A. High School turns into an audit. Their new homeroom teacher wants to know exactly what each student can do with the power they were born with, and he is willing to hang expulsion over the whole room to…

Remedial Course Arc

Katsuki and Shoto failed the license exam for the same reason: neither can reach an ordinary person. Their make-up course hands them a gymnasium full of hostile elementary schoolers and no way to punch through the problem, while Endeavor…

Rise of Villains Saga

The series' second saga asks what a world does once its Symbol of Peace steps down and its greatest criminal is locked away. The answer, across roughly two hundred chapters, is that the vacuum fills fast: yakuza, ideologues, and a boy…

School Days Arc

A stray kitten in the rain sends Shota Aizawa sixteen years back, to a summer at U.A. when he was certain his Quirk made him useless and two classmates refused to let him believe it. The arc explains the goggles, the scarf, the expulsions,…

Senpai Arc

A college upperclassman offers Koichi tutoring in exchange for help with her thesis, and the thesis happens to be about him. Add an American hero who treats rescue work as a photo shoot, and a mother arriving by train with questions about…

Shie Hassaikai Arc

Hero Work-Studies put students beside professionals on real cases, and the case waiting for them is a yakuza boss mining a little girl's body for a drug that erases Quirks. Rescuing Eri costs the heroes a Quirk, a mentor, and every…

Sky Egg Arc

A farewell concert for an American hero turns into a mass-casualty trap when Number 6 aims his engineered Bombers at Japan's tallest tower. Thousands of spectators sit inside a structure that will not stay standing, and a mentor everyone…

Star and Stripe Arc

America's strongest hero flies toward Japan to end a villain who is no longer quite one person. What follows is a battle fought entirely in the sky, decided less by strength than by a question of identity, and it costs both sides something…

Stendhal Arc

A masked swordsman arrives in Naruhata calling himself a vigilante, and for one night he looks like an ally. Then his definition of justice becomes clear, and the three people least equipped to stop a killer have to try anyway. What he…

Team Ups Arc

Merchandise meetings, a disastrous group date, and a tentacled brute drag Naruhata's amateurs into working alongside real professionals. Underneath the comedy the police finally name the speedster from Osaka, and a bearded traveler…

U.A. Beginnings Saga

The opening saga of the series carries a powerless boy from schoolyard bullying to the inheritance of the world's greatest Quirk, introduces the enemy who wants the Symbol of Peace dead, and ends with the retirement of the man everyone…

U.A. School Festival Arc

Class 1-A stakes its reputation on a live band and a dance floor, and Izuku stakes something smaller and heavier on getting one rescued girl to smile. A courteous thief with a devoted partner intends to gatecrash the whole thing, and only…

U.A. Sports Festival Arc

The whole country watches U.A.'s first years fight for a spot in front of the professionals who might hire them one day. Izuku is asked to announce himself as the next All Might, and somewhere in the middle of all that ambition he collides…

U.A. Traitor Arc

A week bought with a dead hero's life is all the preparation anyone gets. Then the mole inside U.A. finally surfaces, and the classmate who fed the enemy their location for years turns out to be the only piece on the board capable of…

Underground Masquerade Arc

A detective reopens a seven-year-old file and finds an illegal fight ring in an Osaka parking structure, a hero working it undercover, and a shadow harvesting Quirks from the losers. The answer he assembles is the one he was never meant to…

U.S.J. Arc

A rescue drill in a facility built to fake disasters becomes the real thing when dozens of villains warp in looking for All Might. Class 1-A gets scattered across simulated floods and landslides with no way to call for help, and the…

Vigilantes Beginnings Arc

A college student with a useless Quirk picks up litter and calls it heroism, until a punching old man with no Quirk at all decides the boy has the right instincts. Between them and a runaway idol stands a drug that turns ordinary citizens…

Vs. Hero Killer Arc

Internships scatter the students across the country, and Izuku lands with a senile-seeming old man who happens to have taught All Might. In Hosu, a boy hunting the man who crippled his brother finds him, and the encounter costs all three…

Vs. Queen Bee Arc

The fourth storyline of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes pushes Naruhata's Trigger crisis to a breaking point. While Kazuho Haneyama chases the biggest stage of her idol career, Knuckleduster hunts the bee-controlling villain who took his…

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