Recaps

Uraraka Shige traveled to Kyoto to gather help against AFO, but infiltrated an organization tied to the uncrowned king instead. After learning that the group trafficked children’s organs and that Doctor Zōti wanted him to steal organs, Shige kept his options open and arrived early when Black-Frame Glasses summoned him for a task.

• Uraraka Shige sought information about AFO from the Genga Family, and Genga's father authorized limited information while ordering surveillance of All Might.
• Uraraka Shige decided to reach Kyoto and enlist help, then traveled there with Granny Gray and encountered children who mistook him for their brother.
• Uraraka Shige fought off Hooknose’s gang in an alley, and Hooknose offered him a deal involving the uncrowned king’s base.
• Uraraka Shige posed as a recruit at the office building, where the gray-green-scaled man welcomed him and Black-Frame Glasses offered him an unpaid trial job.
• Doctor Zōti showed Uraraka Shige a container of pale green liquid and asked him to bring back fresh samples of merchandise in exchange for information.
• Kaito and his companions revealed that the office building housed an organization trafficking children’s organs, and that Doctor Zōti had stolen organs to replace his own diseased ones.
• Uraraka Shige chose not to tell the gang where Doctor Zōti was hiding and wondered what the unusual instruction to arrive early meant.
• Uraraka Shige returned to the orphanage, then arrived early at the office building, where Black-Frame Glasses began telling him about a task.

Uraraka Shige infiltrated the office building faction, helped bring it down, and joined the coalition fighting AFO. After All Might’s battle with AFO ended with All Might gravely wounded, Shige turned himself in and entered a youth correctional prison, where inmates began testing him.

• Uraraka Shige used Kaito and Dr. Zōti to deceive the office building faction, expose its child-organ trade, and help the police and heroes destroy it.
• Yamato took Shige into his care, connected him with allies against AFO, and helped him build the Anti-AFO Forces Coalition.
• After learning AFO had moved to Kamino Ward, Shige joined the coalition as All Might attacked Poison Chainsaw’s factory and confronted AFO’s forces.
• All Might fought AFO and his followers while heroes, police, and the coalition joined the battle, but AFO stabbed him and escaped as Shige watched All Might pursue him.
• Shige recalled turning himself in after killing Gray Rat Society thugs, resolved to protect All Might in a second battle with AFO, and entered a shared cell after solitary confinement.
• In the prison cafeteria, Shige resisted inmates who tried to displace him, using Shackles to remain seated when two men shoved him.
• As Shige considered ways to develop his Quirk during a break, four inmates prepared to target him, then noticed members of Area A’s strongest group approaching.

Uraraka Shige joined the Beast Group, then left after its defeat and collapse, eventually helping bring it down with information from the smart aleck. With Gu Yu’s help, he escaped prison, checked on Qu Zhi’s supposed sister and his own family, and decided to look into Gu Yu’s family.

• Uraraka Shige joined Beast and chose to sit apart from its rival factions, while Gu Yu and several inmates joined him.
• Beast and Snake competed in a prison match, where Uraraka Shige won his individual event and teamed with Gu Yu in the labyrinth race.
• After Beast lost when the smart aleck handed Snake the central treasure, Uraraka Shige left Beast and persuaded Gu Yu to join him.
• Uraraka Shige used information from the smart aleck as Beast’s members defected and Ying disbanded the group to form a smaller faction.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu planned an escape, and Gu Yu drew guards away during a match-related distraction.
• Uraraka Shige and the smart aleck incited a riot, then Uraraka Shige cut through the isolation door’s lock and the electrified fence with Thread to escape.
• Uraraka Shige reached Tottori and learned from a bookstore owner that Qu Zhi had no little sister, before meeting a girl and her companion who called out for Qu Zhi.
• Uraraka Shige returned home, confirmed that his parents and Ochaco were safe, stayed briefly at Granny Songju’s apartment, and decided to look into Gu Yu’s family.

Uraraka Shige returned to prison, built alliances, and escaped with Qu Zhi before finding his sisters and their group in Tottori. After AFO offered him a place at his side, Shige chose to return to prison, where he was brought before Sakinagi Shushin.

• Uraraka Shige investigated Gu Yu’s family, carried their message back to him, and returned to special solitary confinement to train and overcome a growth bottleneck.
• After his observation period ended, Uraraka Shige rejoined Area A, resisted his cellmates’ attempted bullying, and used his Quirk and schemes to thwart inmates targeting him.
• Uraraka Shige trained with Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo, then agreed to help Qu Zhi escape, joining the riot and fleeing the prison with him.
• When patrol officers shot Qu Zhi and the inmate with the Crossing Quirk, Uraraka Shige escaped alone and traveled through the mountains to Tottori City.
• Qu Zhi’s younger sister brought Uraraka Shige to their apartment, where the green-haired man tried to recruit him by describing his essence as craving and exploration.
• Uraraka Shige trained and studied for three months, then met AFO, who offered to help his family and train him if he joined AFO’s side.
• Uraraka Shige returned to prison and reported Qu Zhi’s scheme, but after the authorities returned him, guards led him to Sakinagi Shushin, who told him to hit him.