Recaps

Qu Zhi suspected that Uraraka Shige’s sudden kindness came from a Quirk, while Gu Yu worried that his friend had been changed. That night, Uraraka Shige realized Sakinagi Shushin’s Quirk had altered his thoughts and wondered why someone with such a power was imprisoned.

• Qu Zhi concluded that Uraraka Shige had already been punished by a Quirk after noticing his unusually kind behavior.
• Gu Yu was stunned by Uraraka Shige’s smile and worried that his friend had been changed against his will.
• Uraraka Shige gave up his seat to others, attended evening class, and helped clean before returning to his cell.
• Uraraka Shige questioned why he had rejected his selfish nature and accepted his new outlook despite retaining his memories.
• Uraraka Shige realized that Sakinagi Shushin’s Quirk had changed his thoughts and wondered why Sakinagi Shushin was a correctional inmate.

After investigating Sakinagi Shushin, Qu Zhi discovered that he had vanished from the prison’s twenty-one zones five years earlier and continued probing the authorities’ secrets. Uraraka Shige spent half a month training and suppressing inmates who had resented his return to normal, then guards sent him to another private room, leaving him unsure whether Qu Zhi had been confined as well.

• Qu Zhi learned that Sakinagi Shushin had been an ordinary inmate before disappearing from the twenty-one zones five years earlier, and Uraraka Shige stopped pretending to be under Sakinagi’s Quirk.
• Uraraka Shige trained with Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo for half a month and steadily improved his strength.
• Uraraka Shige broke up a group of inmates who had been causing him trouble and made them targets for other groups, stopping their harassment.
• Qu Zhi continued investigating Sakinagi Shushin but uncovered nothing more and was put in a private room.
• A squad of guards took Uraraka Shige to another private room, where he could not see Qu Zhi or learn what had happened to him.

Uraraka Shige’s six-month confinement became less lonely when Gu Yu and then Kurasu Rikizo joined him in nearby solitary cells. Kurasu came to train under Uraraka Shige’s gravity field, which could help him withstand the strain caused by his Quirk.

• Uraraka Shige began a six-month stay in the special solitary cell, where he passed the time by training.
• Gu Yu was confined in the cell beside Uraraka Shige after starting a serious group brawl, explaining that he came because Uraraka Shige was his friend and others wanted to use him.
• Uraraka Shige gained a friend to talk with during his monotonous workouts, until Gu Yu’s former cellmate returned to the ordinary area.
• Kurasu Rikizo arrived in a nearby cell, seeking to use Uraraka Shige’s gravity field to grow stronger.
• Uraraka Shige’s gravity training could help Kurasu’s organs and other vulnerable body parts adapt to pressure, reducing the damage caused by his Muscle Strength Storage Quirk.

Uraraka Shige spent three and a half months refining his gravity control, learning to compress gravity into a sphere and developing ideas for future techniques. After training and eating lunch, he saw guards bring a new prisoner past his cell, and the man silently mouthed, “Found. You!”

• Uraraka Shige compressed the gravity he controlled into a spherical ball, discovering that inward-pointing gravity was easiest to shape and compress.
• Uraraka Shige realized compressed gravity grew stronger and considered using it to gather and launch objects, though he lacked the power and control to do so safely.
• Uraraka Shige developed the basic control needed for his Block/Barrier and Armor techniques but still needed greater capacity and physical strength.
• Uraraka Shige finished training his Quirk, ate lunch, and resumed physical training.
• Guards escorted a new prisoner past Uraraka Shige’s cell, and the man mouthed, “Found. You!”

Uraraka Shige watched strange inmates arrive in nearby single cells, all seemingly connected and searching for him. After five of the six collapsed, the last contacted him telepathically about AFO’s invitation and gave him more time to decide.

• The first strange inmate repeatedly mouthed threats and phrases at Uraraka Shige, then refused to speak to him.
• More strange inmates arrived over the following days, and Uraraka Shige concluded they were connected and had been imprisoned to find him for some purpose.
• Fifteen days later, five of the six inmates fell unconscious while the last became animated and spoke directly into Uraraka Shige’s mind.
• The last inmate asked whether Uraraka Shige had decided how to answer AFO’s invitation, and Uraraka Shige stayed silent, unsure how to respond.
• The inmate said Uraraka Shige still had time to think and urged him to make the most of the opportunity.

Uraraka Shige weighed his options after AFO’s agent gave him time to consider joining AFO. He rejected both joining and openly refusing, deciding that escape was his only viable choice, while planning to protect his family.

• Uraraka Shige stayed awake in his cell, considering the danger AFO and his agents posed to him and his family.
• He concluded that joining AFO would reduce the immediate threat but rejected becoming a villain and serving Tomura Shigaraki.
• He ruled out openly refusing because his weakness could put both his life and his family at risk.
• Uraraka Shige decided to escape and grow stronger until he could refuse AFO safely.
• He planned to have heroes protect his family and considered asking his friend Terumi Genga for help.

Uraraka Shige planned to escape the correctional prison that night but concluded he could not do it alone. He enlisted Gu Yu and Rikizo, then loudly called for help while materializing the threads behind his gravity-manipulating Quirk.

• Uraraka Shige weighed the guards, patrols, and cameras blocking his escape and realized he needed help from other inmates.
• Uraraka Shige wished Qu Zhi were nearby to advise him, then decided to ask Gu Yu and Rikizo for help.
• Gu Yu agreed without asking what Uraraka Shige needed, while Rikizo asked for details before agreeing.
• Uraraka Shige shouted for help to wake the inmates and secretly materialized his Quirk's threads into reality.

Uraraka Shige used Thread to cut holes in the special solitary cells and enlist detainees to distract the guards as he continued his escape plan. The escape seemed easier than expected until a detainee crawled out and declared that they should really get things going.

• Uraraka Shige cut holes in several cell walls with Thread and freed a few detainees who wanted to escape.
• Some detainees left their cells, while others stayed behind, and fewer than ten became Uraraka Shige's helpers.
• A detainee urged Uraraka Shige to let more people out, matching the next step in his plan.
• Uraraka Shige considered why the strange fellow had not intervened, then decided to keep escaping and focus on the guards.
• The guards prioritized watching the cells rather than working together to restrain Uraraka Shige, easing his progress.
• A detainee crawled through a hole and proposed livening things up by really going at it.

Uraraka Shige turned a prison-cell disturbance into cover for an escape with Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo. The lean inmate who had started a fight followed them out, while the bizarre inmate who had inspired Shige’s escape plan suddenly collapsed unconscious.

• The lean inmate, whose always-active Quirk compressed his muscles, attacked a guard after leaving his cell and triggered a brawl.
• Other inmates joined the disturbance, prompting more guards to suppress them and making the cell area increasingly chaotic.
• Unable to control the situation, Uraraka Shige released the remaining inmates and deliberately freed a prisoner suspected of creating phantoms or mirages.
• Uraraka Shige escaped the cell area with Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo, using the chaos and phantom projections as cover.
• The lean inmate secretly followed the three, while the bizarre inmate who had inspired Shige’s escape plan suddenly lost consciousness.

Uraraka Shige, Gu Yu, and Rikizo got lost while trying to escape the correctional prison, fought off patrol squads, and eventually reached an access passage near Area U. Their escape was aided by a riot elsewhere in the prison, while a man with the Body Swap Quirk began waking in a city hotel.

• Uraraka Shige led Gu Yu and Rikizo through the prison after getting lost, and they ran into a patrol squad.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu used their Quirks to subdue patrol members while Rikizo knocked out three before becoming exhausted.
• The trio defeated more patrol squads and found it strange that they did not encounter prison guards from the independent area.
• Uraraka Shige, Gu Yu, and Rikizo reached an access passage near Area U because most prison personnel were responding to riots in the single-cell area and female detainee holding area.
• A man with the Body Swap Quirk began waking up in a hotel room in the nearby city.

Uraraka Shige escaped the correctional prison with Gu Yu and Rikizo’s help, then traveled through the mountains and an unfamiliar city. At a middle school, he spotted a girl whose awkward smile seemed familiar to him.

• Uraraka Shige asked Gu Yu and Rikizo to deal with the seven guards blocking the prison entrance, but Gu Yu said he could not and Rikizo refused to use his Quirk again.
• The guards fired their stun guns, and Gu Yu and Rikizo blocked the projectiles before falling.
• Uraraka Shige activated his Quirk and escaped the correctional prison.
• Uraraka Shige crossed the mountains, reached an unfamiliar city, and borrowed money in its alleys to make his way home.
• Uraraka Shige stopped outside a middle school and noticed a girl whose sweet, awkward smile seemed familiar.

Uraraka Shige was abducted by Kurogiri and brought before Tomura Shigaraki, who questioned why AFO had chosen the boy as his companion. AFO told Tomura that he could dispose of Uraraka if he did not want him.

• Uraraka Shige reflected on his Quirk's progress and worried that AFO's subordinates would find him if he stayed in one place.
• Uraraka Shige left the school and headed toward a suburban road to find private transport home.
• Kurogiri's black smoke swallowed Uraraka Shige and transported him to an empty room.
• Tomura Shigaraki entered and complained to AFO that Uraraka Shige was just a little brat.
• AFO explained that Uraraka Shige had done extraordinary things and told Tomura to get rid of him if he did not want him.

Uraraka Shige tried to negotiate with Tomura Shigaraki after Sensei proposed making him Shigaraki’s companion, but Shigaraki attacked him instead. Kurogiri intervened just as Uraraka Shige prepared to counterattack, urging Shigaraki to hear Sensei’s reasoning.

• After hearing Sensei’s message, Tomura Shigaraki lunged at Uraraka Shige and tried to kill him.
• Uraraka Shige used Strike to redirect gravity and knock Shigaraki off balance.
• Shigaraki attacked again, but Uraraka Shige dodged and tried to talk him down; Shigaraki refused and said he had decided to kill him.
• Irritated by Shigaraki’s hostility, Uraraka Shige summoned Thread and prepared to go on the offensive.
• Kurogiri entered through the doorway, separated the two with black mist, and urged Tomura Shigaraki to consider why Sensei had chosen Uraraka Shige as his companion.

Uraraka Shige negotiated with Kurogiri and agreed to join the League of Villains, then visited his family and friends before returning to the reformatory prison to train. He was placed in the independent sector, unaware that Qu Zhi had also been confined there.

• Shigaraki left the negotiations to Kurogiri, and Uraraka Shige bargained over the terms of joining their organization.
• Uraraka Shige decided to become a villain, gaining the League's protection and time to train while considering how his new allegiance could affect his sister Ochaco Uraraka and his future encounters with All Might.
• After confirming his family and friends were safe, Uraraka Shige visited Granny Songju and exchanged Quirk-training insights with Momotani Hanawa.
• Uraraka Shige found that training outside was too easily interrupted, so he told Kurogiri and Shigaraki he was returning to the reformatory prison.
• Uraraka Shige was confined in the independent sector as a special educator, unaware that Qu Zhi was held there too.

Uraraka Shige endured the harsh conditions of his cell while training his gravity Quirk and considering a new combat move. He left the chapter ready to develop a technique between the uncontrollable power of Chaos and the precision of Thread.

• Uraraka Shige ate his meager prison meal and asked the fat hero guarding his cell for his name, but the man ignored him and ate saury and rice.
• After the hero finished eating and settled down to nap, Uraraka Shige exercised and tested his gravity control, which had reached roughly 90 to 91 percent of its potential.
• Uraraka Shige manipulated gravity into a ring to stir the air and create a small rotating current, imagining that greater power might produce a storm.
• Uraraka Shige considered his close-combat style and the drawbacks of Chaos and Thread, then decided to develop a new move between their power and control.

Two months of training brought Uraraka Shige's gravity control to 91–92% and helped him develop the close-combat technique Chain, while he considered ways to use gravity through tools. He also learned more about the chubby hero, Yamahara Ishiga, whose Quirk was Mountain Stone.

• Uraraka Shige trained his Quirk for three hours, then continued physical training while exhausted in a high-gravity environment.
• Over two months, Shige improved his physical foundation and raised his gravity control to 91–92%, while his body density and strength continued to grow.
• Shige developed Chain, a technique that infused external gravity into an enemy to increase the damage of a later Chaos attack.
• Shige considered using gravity-infused objects as weapons or mediums for triggering Chain and Chaos at a distance, but could not yet put the ideas into practice.
• Shige learned that Yamahara Ishiga's Mountain Stone Quirk gave him enormous weight, a great appetite, and stone-like defense, though he was not especially fast or suited to being a hero.

Uraraka Shige, fed the same meager meals for over two months, proposed a deal to Yamahara Ishiga: he would let Yamahara use his Quirk to exercise if Yamahara shared his food. The chapter ended with Yamahara considering the offer.

• Uraraka Shige grew tired of his unchanged meals and weighed several ways to protest, but rejected taking a hostage or acting like a villain.
• Uraraka Shige noticed Yamahara Ishiga eating miso soup and brought up how Yamahara was troubled by his obesity.
• Yamahara listened, knowing Uraraka Shige was not mocking him and that they had often talked during their time together.
• Uraraka Shige offered to use his Quirk to help Yamahara change his body in exchange for sharing his food.

Uraraka Shige and Yamahara Ishiga struck a deal: Shige used his Quirk to help Yamahara lose weight in exchange for occasional better meals. As their routine and Quirk discussions strengthened both of them, Shige remained unaware of the wider consequences their changes might bring.

• Yamahara agreed to let Uraraka Shige use Burden to help him lose weight in exchange for extra food.
• Yamahara persuaded the meal guards to allow the arrangement, though Shige still ate under their supervision.
• After a month, Yamahara saw his body fat decrease and muscle grow, and Shige received an occasional weekend meal beyond the prison's soup and steamed buns.
• Yamahara began exercising regularly and exchanged Quirk-development ideas with Shige, improving his strength and his opinion of the boy.
• Shige continued training and looking forward to better meals while remaining unaware of the changes his actions might set in motion.

Over nearly two years, Uraraka Shige grew stronger and developed his gravity techniques, finally reaching 100% control and breaking through a major bottleneck. He also escaped the Discipline Prison again, freeing Qu Zhi and other independent special educators and earning a permanent classification as an enemy.

• Uraraka Shige adapted to his high-gravity training and, at fifteen, reached about 1.45 meters tall while becoming far stronger and more durable than his peers.
• Uraraka Shige broke through his gravity-control bottleneck after hard training and reached 100% control, allowing him to hover and fly freely.
• Uraraka Shige improved his techniques, including Strike, Chaos, Screen, Block, Armor, Star and Fragment, and completed Chain while developing Sever and Forge.
• Uraraka Shige escaped the Discipline Prison again and freed many independent special educators from its central core area.
• Qu Zhi was among the freed educators, and the resulting commotion led the Discipline Prison to definitively classify Uraraka Shige as an enemy.

Over nearly two years, Uraraka Shige greatly strengthened his body and gravity Quirk, gaining complete control over gravity within a four-ton limit and developing his techniques. He tested his newfound physical strength by smashing open his cell door, while Yamahara Ishiga revealed how formidable his own defense had become.

• Over nearly two years, Uraraka Shige grew taller and developed denser, stronger muscles, bones, and organs through daily training.
• Uraraka Shige broke through a six-month control bottleneck, mastered gravity within his Quirk's range up to a four-ton limit, and improved Rise, Level, Fall, and Chain.
• Uraraka Shige stopped exercising and announced that he wanted to test his strength, while Yamahara Ishiga warned him not to attempt a prison break.
• Uraraka Shige unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks against the alloy door, then snapped his fingers and twisted it apart with gravity.
• Uraraka Shige used Screen to block flying fragments, while Yamahara Ishiga let them strike him and revealed that his defense had become as strong as refined iron.

Two months after escaping the correctional prison, Uraraka Shige visited U.A. High School and reflected on the fight that had secured his escape. He returned to the League of Villains’ base, where he continued trying to get along with Shigaraki despite the group’s lonely, uncertain beginnings.

• Uraraka Shige stood outside U.A. High School and wondered how his sister in this life was doing before the upcoming Hero Course entrance exam.
• Uraraka Shige recalled how he escaped the correctional prison after Yamahara Ishiga nearly killed him in a fight and he used Thread to exploit an opening.
• Uraraka Shige released prisoners and independent special educators, whose riot let him escape with many others while Yamahara pursued him.
• Uraraka Shige left U.A. High School and took a taxi to the League of Villains’ base.
• Uraraka Shige reflected that the League had only three members—himself, Kurogiri, and Shigaraki—and that he was trying to get along with Shigaraki.

AFO summoned Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and Uraraka Shige to a quarry, where he handed Shigaraki a group of recruited villains and a Nomu intended to test its strength against All Might. Shigaraki was left in charge of roughly two hundred villains as AFO challenged him to prove his leadership.

• AFO interrupted the news broadcast and told Shigaraki to come meet a group of villains he had assembled.
• AFO said Shigaraki would take a Nomu, created to counter All Might, and test its performance.
• Shigaraki ordered Uraraka Shige to come along, and Kurogiri transported them to a quarry.
• AFO welcomed Shigaraki and presented him with roughly two hundred recruited villains.
• AFO entrusted the villains to Shigaraki and asked him to show what he could lead them to do.

After learning that All Might would teach at U.A. High School, Shigaraki planned to use the news as an opportunity to target the school and ordered Uraraka Shige to prove his usefulness. They reached the school, where Shigaraki expected Uraraka Shige to breach the barrier, but Uraraka Shige said his Quirk was unsuited to breaking it.

• Uraraka Shige watched news of All Might joining U.A. High School and anticipated the coming USJ invasion.
• Shigaraki spoke with AFO, who encouraged him to exploit the opportunity and use followers with radio-wave Quirks.
• Shigaraki ordered Uraraka Shige to accompany him and prove his worth, then changed clothes and chose to investigate U.A. High School.
• Kurogiri opened a portal to a hotel overlooking U.A. High School, and Shigaraki and Uraraka Shige headed for the main gate.
• When they found reporters gathered outside the school barrier, Shigaraki looked to Uraraka Shige to break it, but Uraraka Shige said his Quirk was not suited to destroying it.

Shigaraki led Uraraka Shige and a group of reporters through U.A. High School’s destroyed gate, then sent Uraraka Shige to search for All Might’s class schedule. As Shigaraki’s insults mounted, Uraraka Shige silently shaped a wooden wakizashi and considered getting a sword.

• Shigaraki threatened Uraraka Shige for failing to prove his worth, and Uraraka Shige concealed his resentment while following him.
• Shigaraki destroyed U.A. High School’s metal gate with his Quirk and entered with the reporters, while Uraraka Shige covered his face and followed.
• After alarms sounded, Uraraka Shige evaded the school’s staff and students as he moved through the building.
• Kurogiri told Uraraka Shige to search for All Might’s class schedule with Shigaraki and remote assistance from someone with a radio-wave Quirk.
• Shigaraki berated Uraraka Shige over the communicator, and Uraraka Shige formed a wooden wakizashi with his Quirk.

Uraraka Shige searched U.A. High School for All Might’s class schedule but was confronted by Power Loader, who mistook him for an intruder. Before they could fight, Kurogiri told Uraraka Shige and Tomura Shigaraki that their preparations were complete and they could withdraw.

• Uraraka Shige wandered through U.A. High School looking for information about All Might’s class schedule, unsure where to find it.
• Power Loader spotted Uraraka Shige, identified him as an intruder, and ordered him to come to the security office.
• Uraraka Shige refused because going with Power Loader could expose his identity and bring trouble to his family.
• Power Loader charged at Uraraka Shige to stop him, and Uraraka Shige prepared to fight.
• Kurogiri contacted Uraraka Shige and Tomura Shigaraki, saying they had what they came for and could withdraw.