Recaps

Jilan Jiyu and Camie Utsushimi visited the Soul Band as they practiced Queen songs, which delighted Jilan because the music had been banned and nearly forgotten. When he questioned the band’s understanding of Queen and suggested Kyoka Makoto move his body while singing, Kyoka dismissed him and asked Camie to take him away.

• Jilan Jiyu and Camie Utsushimi entered the basement and watched the Soul Band perform Queen’s “I Will Rock You.”
• Camie Utsushimi explained that the Soul Band’s concert was dedicated to Queen and that banned classical songs had survived through underground collections.
• Jilan Jiyu told Camie Utsushimi that he liked figures and then approached the Soul Band as they discussed what was missing from Kyoka Makoto’s singing.
• Jilan Jiyu suggested that Kyoka Makoto move his body while singing, but Kyoka told him to listen quietly as an audience member.
• Jilan Jiyu questioned the band’s knowledge of Queen, and Kyoka Makoto asked Camie Utsushimi to take him away.

Jilan Jiyu demonstrated Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga” with the Soul Band and explained that Queen’s members all shared the spotlight as lead singers. Kyoka Makoto invited Jilan to front Soul, but Jilan declined and offered to advise them on their stage presentation instead.

• Jilan Jiyu sang “Radio Ga Ga” with Diduo Chengjie, Jiancao Erren, and Dave, impressing Camie Utsushimi and Kyoka Makoto.
• Jilan told Kyoka that his singing lacked the passion of a Queen performance and explained that every Queen member was a lead singer.
• Kyoka asked Jilan how he knew about Queen’s performances, but Jilan did not reveal his source.
• Kyoka invited Jilan to become Soul’s lead singer, prompting Diduo Chengjie to object before Kyoka explained the band needed to complete its performance.
• Jilan refused to join because it was Kyoka’s band and offered to advise Soul on its stage presentation; Kyoka slowly nodded.

After the Sports Festival, Todoroki decided to visit his mother to seek answers about his fire Quirk, while Iida learned that his injured brother would never work as a Pro Hero again. Meanwhile, Class A’s girls celebrated together, traded stories about the festival, and made plans to attend Jiro’s concert.

• Todoroki’s sister asked whether he would visit their mother, and he decided to go to the hospital and face his painful memories.
• Iida learned that his brother would survive but would never be able to fight as a Pro Hero again.
• Class A’s girls toasted their Sports Festival success, and Hagakure admitted that she and Jilan’s Class B teammate had taken Asui and Mineta’s headband.
• Hagakure told the girls that Jilan had given money to a green-haired girl from Class B, prompting Yaoyorozu to stop Ashido from speculating about it.
• Ashido teased Yaoyorozu and Hagakure until the gathering became rowdy, while Uraraka invited Jiro, Asui, and Yaoyorozu to join her at Soul’s concert.

Bakugo spent a quiet day at home until his mother’s advice pushed him to call Kirishima over. Meanwhile, Nezu showed an unnamed rabbit-headed man footage of Jilan Jiyu, but the man rejected him and revealed that he had come to U.A. for a concert.

• Mitsuki Bakugo teased Katsuki Bakugo for moping about the Sports Festival and urged him to settle the score another time.
• Mitsuki told Bakugo she was going to a concert with her former biker friends, and Bakugo refused to join her.
• Bakugo called Eijiro Kirishima and ordered him to come over, so Kirishima left the gym and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu’s workout.
• Nezu showed a rabbit-headed man edited Sports Festival footage of Jilan Jiyu, but the man criticized Jiyu for lacking ambition and refused to take him.
• The rabbit-headed man told Nezu he had come to U.A. for a concert.

Uraraka, Jiro, Asui, and Yaoyorozu traveled to Seaside Park for an underground band concert, drawing attention because of Yaoyorozu’s formal kimono and the unusual crowd gathering there. On the bus, they overheard a biker gang leader complain about her son, the U.A. Sports Festival champion.

• Uraraka and Jiro waited for Asui and Yaoyorozu, and Jiro explained how her parents’ musical background inspired her interest in the band.
• Asui arrived after settling her younger siblings, and Yaoyorozu joined them in a patterned kimono and wooden clogs.
• Uraraka led the group toward Seaside Park, where they attracted attention as U.A. students and encountered a crowd of people dressed in striking subculture styles.
• Jiro showed the group’s concert tickets to reassure the crowd that they were attending independently, then explained why many people were waiting for their own companions.
• On the bus, the girls overheard a middle-aged woman say her son had won the Sports Festival and complain that he had become arrogant after entering U.A. High School.

Uraraka and her classmates rode to the Soul Band concert at Seaside Park, where a strange rabbit-like passenger startled everyone before joining them. As the band prepared to perform, Jiro recognized the underground radio DJ and forced him to stop making lewd remarks.

• Uraraka and the others met Mitsuki Bakugo on the bus and realized she was Bakugo's mother.
• A rabbit-like man punched through the bus window, steadied the vehicle, and asked the driver for a ride before appearing inside at astonishing speed.
• The students arrived at Seaside Park and learned that the Soul Band concert had drawn a large crowd and was being broadcast live by an underground radio station.
• The DJ played Queen's 'Get Down, Make Love' and made increasingly provocative comments, prompting Jiro to call and threaten him.
• The DJ stopped his remarks, announced the Soul Band's entrance, and nervously realized Jiro was at the concert.

The Soul Band surprised the audience with a hidden stage and performed several Queen songs, with Kyoka Makoto using his Resonance Quirk to heighten the crowd’s excitement. As Kyoka Makoto sang “Somebody to Love,” Jilan Jiyu waited backstage in his suit, expecting his turn onstage soon.

• The Soul Band revealed a stage hidden inside the truck trailer and began its performance as the audience quieted.
• Kyoka Makoto led the crowd in clapping and singing “We Will Rock You,” while Jiancao Erren and Dave played the opening rhythm.
• Kyoka Makoto danced around the band during “Radio Ga Ga,” following the moves Jilan Jiyu had taught him.
• The Soul Band performed “I Want to Break Free,” and Kyoka Makoto’s singing stirred strong feelings among women in the audience.
• Kyoka Makoto sat at the piano to sing “Somebody to Love” while Hitomi Mishima handled the microphone stand, and Jilan Jiyu prepared backstage for his turn.

Jilan Jiyu joined Soul Band onstage for “Killer Queen,” surprising the audience and his U.A. classmates. After the song, the DJ identified Jilan as David Bowie, and Jilan prepared to perform the next song, hoping to fulfill a longtime music fan’s wish.

• Jilan learned that Dave’s Quirk, Rage, changed his voice and musical ability when he became excited, while Diduo Chengjie explained his Weapon Mastery Quirk.
• Hitomi Mishima encouraged Jilan before he waited in the dark as Kyoka Makoto began playing “Killer Queen” on the piano.
• Kyoka Makoto and Jilan performed the song together, with Jilan appearing onstage as the Killer Queen’s admirer.
• Mitsuki Bakugo, Yaoyorozu, Asui, Uraraka, and Kyoka Jiro recognized Jilan and reacted with surprise to his performance.
• The DJ introduced Jilan as a U.A. High School Hero Course student portraying David Bowie, and Jilan snapped his fingers as he prepared for the next song.

During the concert, Jilan Jiyu and Kyoka Makoto performed “Under Pressure” before the band continued its set with theatrical stage effects. Jilan left the stage after spotting Killer Queen in the audience and searched for the pink cat, ending with a theory that it was hiding inside someone’s eye.

• Jilan Jiyu and Kyoka Makoto performed “Under Pressure,” with Kyoka’s shirtless entrance thrilling the audience.
• Jilan and the band performed “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Sheer Heart Attack,” then hid backstage during the layered-guitar interlude of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
• Jiancao Erren’s cardboard cutouts shattered under the stage lights, and Kyoka Makoto, Diduo, and Dave resumed the performance as the crowd erupted.
• Yaoyorozu noticed Jilan had disappeared, while he slipped through the audience after spotting Killer Queen watching him from the crowd.
• Jilan searched for Killer Queen without finding it and wondered whether the cat was hiding inside an audience member’s eye.

Jilan attended the UL Band’s concert while searching the crowd for evidence that Killer Queen had been there. After the show, he met Asui alone on the beach, where she waited in a dress and straw hat.

• Asui spotted Jilan in the crowd, kept his presence secret, and asked him by message to spend time alone with her after the concert.
• Jilan checked his messages, agreed to meet Asui, and continued searching the crowd for proof that Killer Queen had been there.
• Jilan declined to speak onstage, telling Camie Utsushimi that his wish had already come true.
• Kyoka Makoto thanked the audience as the concert ended, and the band and staff left in their van while Jilan stayed behind.
• Jilan messaged Asui and found her waiting barefoot by the sea in a dress and straw hat.

Shigaraki recognized Jilan in footage of the concert and drew the attention of his teacher, while Mirko asked Nezu to obtain proof about Jilan. The concert became a sensation, and Jilan’s sudden fame led Bakugo to misread his motives and left Satomi Ishihara fearing her team leader was trying to kill her.

• Shigaraki recognized Jilan in the concert video and told his teacher that Jilan was the person who had injured him.
• Mirko confirmed Jilan’s identity with Nezu and asked him to take care of obtaining proof.
• News coverage of the concert spread overnight, making Jilan and the UL Band’s classic rock songs popular.
• Katsuki Bakugo saw Jilan performing and assumed Jilan had been distracted during their fight because he looked down on Bakugo.
• Satomi Ishihara’s team leader asked her to arrange an interview with Jilan, and she hung up, suspecting the team leader was the person trying to murder her.

Jilan returned to Satomi Ishihara’s home after his concert footage began attracting attention, then went back to the bar and asked Diduo Chengjie about Kyoka Makoto’s past as a Pro Hero. Diduo revealed that Makoto quit after a brutal government-covered battle led by All Might, in which many heroes were injured and several died.

• Satomi Ishihara asked Jilan whether his concert performance had prompted her team leader to request his contact information, and Jilan said it probably had.
• Jilan reassured Ishihara, then left her home and returned to the bar after midnight.
• Diduo Chengjie thanked Jilan for helping make the band’s concert popular.
• Jilan asked Diduo about Kyoka Makoto’s connection to All Might and why Makoto had quit being a Pro Hero.
• Diduo said Makoto had quit after returning from a brutal battle led by All Might, which the government covered up and in which nearly half the heroes were seriously injured and several died.

Jilan’s classmates discussed his viral rock concert performance, while Iida shared that his brother had survived but might never be a hero again. Aizawa then introduced hero name selection as the class’s lesson.

• Kaminari asked Jilan about the concert, and Jiro identified his song as “Under Pressure.”
• Hagakure and Ashido complained that they had missed the concert, while Bakugo questioned whether Jilan had held back during their match.
• Iida told Midoriya that his brother’s life was safe but his Quirk was badly damaged, and he planned to inherit his hero name.
• Aizawa explained that Jilan’s Queen Band tribute concert had gone viral internationally, then announced that the class would choose their hero names.

Aizawa explained how hero-agency applications reflected students’ popularity and introduced the provisional hero-name exercise for the Work-Study Program. Jilan asked to exclude late applications, then rescued Kaminari and Mineta from Midnight’s teasing before making them owe him a favor.

• Aizawa showed the students their hero-agency application totals, and Jilan learned that more than 1,000 late applications had already arrived for him.
• Jilan asked Aizawa to exclude applications sent since the previous night, and Aizawa agreed.
• Aizawa explained the Work-Study Program’s provisional hero-name requirement, and Midnight arrived to judge the students’ names.
• Kaminari and Mineta joked about Midnight’s name, so Midnight threatened to keep them late.
• Jilan suggested Midnight’s name reflected her covert work, and Midnight enthusiastically thanked him for understanding her.
• Jilan wiped Midnight’s makeup from his hands and told Kaminari and Mineta they owed him a favor.

Class 1-A announced their hero names, with Jilan explaining why he chose Golden Spirit. Midoriya chose Deku despite the name meaning “useless,” leaving his classmates questioning whether he wanted to keep it.

• Yuga Aoyama announced I Cannot Stop Twinkling, Ashido’s Alien Queen was rejected, and Asui and Kirishima received approval for Froppy and Red Riot.
• The students announced their hero names, and Bakugo’s King Explosion Murder made Jilan and the class laugh before Uraraka restored order with Uravity.
• Jilan announced the Hamon Hero, Golden Spirit, and explained that it represented courage and determination in desperate circumstances.
• All Might arrived, praised Jilan’s chosen name, and encouraged the class as they showed him their boards.
• Midoriya announced that his hero name was Deku, prompting Kirishima to ask whether he wanted to use a name that meant “useless.”

Jilan Jiyu reviewed thousands of Work-Study applications and discussed agency choices with his classmates. He rejected Endeavor’s agency, while Iida chose his brother’s former agency in Hosu City, and Jilan was summoned to the principal’s office.

• Jilan Jiyu and Denki Kaminari discussed their agency applications, and Jilan suggested Kaminari add batteries to his costume.
• Jilan noticed Endeavor Hero Agency on his list, but declined to intern there while Shoto Todoroki accepted Endeavor’s invitation.
• Shoto Todoroki paid Jilan the ten-thousand-yen stake from their bet and promised to fix the weakness in his fire-and-ice fighting style before they fought again.
• Jilan asked Iida about his internship, and Iida chose his brother’s former agency in Hosu City while his brother recovered from the attack.
• Jilan told Iida to be careful of the criminal who had attacked his brother and explained that he wanted a small agency to avoid reporters.
• Cementoss told Jilan to go to the principal’s office during lunch because the principal wanted to see him.

Jilan Jiyu met with Principal Nezu, who arranged for him to complete his Work-Study Program at Mad Rabbit’s agency in Oumagadoki City. As the students set out for their placements, Jilan departed for Tottori Prefecture while Hagakure resolved to overcome her shyness and show him something.

• Principal Nezu offered Jilan a work-study placement with Mad Rabbit, a powerful but little-known Pro Hero based in Oumagadoki City.
• Jilan accepted the placement and submitted his application directly to Nezu.
• After the weekend, Aizawa gathered the students at the subway station and reminded them to respect their Pro Hero supervisors and bring their combat costumes.
• Hagakure learned that Jilan was traveling to Tottori Prefecture and teased him for not telling her about his concert performance.
• As Jilan left, Hagakure encouraged herself to overcome her shyness and show him what she could do.

Jilan traveled from Tokyo to Oumagadoki City to find the Pro Hero Mad Rabbit and stayed overnight at the Qiyuan guesthouse. After Mrs. Qiyuan mistook his compliment to Xiaoyou for suspicious intentions, she called for help, and Steel Gate Rikishi arrived.

• Jilan took a Shinkansen and then a bus to reach Oumagadoki City after several hours of travel.
• Jilan checked into the Qiyuan guesthouse and learned that Mrs. Qiyuan did not know of the Pro Hero Mad Rabbit.
• Xiaoyou told Jilan about a rabbit director at a zoo on the mountain, leading him to suspect that the rabbit was Mad Rabbit.
• Mrs. Qiyuan misread Jilan's compliment to Xiaoyou, accused him of having designs on her daughter, and called for help.
• After three minutes, Steel Gate Rikishi arrived at the guesthouse in a battered Toyota.

Jilan Jiyu resolved a misunderstanding with Mrs. Qiyuan after Steel Gate Rikishi and Fujiwara confirmed he was a U.A. High School student on a Work-Study Program. At Fujiwara’s restaurant, Jilan learned that the Oumagadoki agency was little known locally and met a group of teenagers called the Hundred Demons.

• Mrs. Qiyuan accused Jilan Jiyu of being a pedophile, but Steel Gate Rikishi and Fujiwara helped establish that he was a U.A. High School student.
• Fujiwara recognized Jilan as the Sports Festival runner-up, and Mrs. Qiyuan apologized for her mistake and explained that Yūko’s Quirk released hormones uncontrollably.
• Jilan accepted Fujiwara’s invitation to eat at his restaurant, where he tried the local phantom shrimp and told Steel Gate Rikishi he was headed to the Oumagadoki agency in the mountains.
• Fujiwara and Steel Gate Rikishi said they had little knowledge of Oumagadoki, which Fujiwara thought was a zoo.
• Kamigata and the Hundred Demons arrived at the restaurant, and Kamigata explained that he had been injured in a motorcycle race with the Shark Devourers.

Jilan traveled to the mountain zoo to find the Pro Hero Mad Rabbit, after learning about the local motorcycle groups and receiving his share of the Soul Band’s concert earnings. At the zoo, he found no staff at the entrance and came upon a keeper whose accident angered a cheetah.

• Jilan asked Steel Gate Rikishi about the Hundred Demons and Shark Devourers, and learned they were local youth motorcycle groups that repeatedly raced rivals from a neighboring city.
• Jilan returned to Sakihara Inn, relaxed in its hot spring, and read his classmates’ internship updates in the group chat.
• Camie Utsushimi told Jilan that his share of the Soul Band’s concert revenue had been deposited, with another payout expected when their records went on sale.
• Jilan boarded an early bus, walked to Oumagadoki Zoo, and entered while carrying his luggage, hoping to find Mad Rabbit.
• Jilan spotted a keeper feeding a cheetah, startled her, and watched as she accidentally dumped animal droppings onto it.
• The cheetah shook off the keeper’s rag and opened its mouth wide at her.

Jilan Jiyu arrived at the zoo for his Work-Study Program, but Aoi Hana tried to send him away before the director woke. Mad Rabbit stopped them, brought Jilan to his room, and assigned him to help care for the animals.

• Jilan Jiyu pulled Aoi Hana away from a cheetah, then learned she was a zookeeper and explained he had come from U.A. High School for a Work-Study Program.
• Aoi Hana tried to push Jilan out of the zoo, warning that it was a poor place to work, but the animals’ calls drew the director’s attention.
• Mad Rabbit leaped across the entrance to stop Aoi Hana and met Jilan, who asked about his alleged ability to restore Quirks.
• Mad Rabbit denied having a Quirk-restoring ability, took Jilan’s suitcase, and led him to a dusty dorm room.
• Mad Rabbit told Jilan to help care for the animals so they could make the zoo the best in the country.

Jilan began his week-long zookeeper internship at Mad Rabbit’s obscure zoo, where Aoi Hana introduced him to the animals and their daily care. After closing time, the animals broke free and charged toward the director’s statue, and Aoi Hana told Jilan he was about to learn the zoo’s secret.

• The rabbit director left Jilan to clean his room and told him to find Aoi Hana afterward.
• Aoi Hana explained the zoo’s four areas and warned Jilan that its animals were not ordinary, promising to reveal more after closing.
• Jilan helped Aoi Hana feed seals, elephants, giraffes, and a lion, then learned that the animals’ companions earned money outside the zoo.
• At closing time, the animals howled, escaped their enclosures, and charged toward the statue of Mad Rabbit.
• Aoi Hana ran toward the statue to explain the animals’ behavior, and Jilan followed her.

Jilan and Aoi Hana witnessed the animals at Oumagadoki Zoo transform into human-animal hybrids, and Shishido attacked Jilan before the director introduced him as a new member. The chapter ended with Aoi revealing the zoo’s name to Jilan as the animals questioned how he would react.

• The director blew into a stone carrot, filling the area with smoke that Jilan recognized as being made of an unknown active organism.
• Shishido emerged from the smoke and attacked Jilan, hurling him into the director’s statue and cracking it.
• The other human-animal creatures worried that Shishido had struck Jilan too hard, while the director noticed the damage to his statue and confronted Shishido.
• A winged bird-man pulled Jilan from the statue as Shishido complained that the director had brought another human to the zoo.
• Aoi Hana stepped forward and told Jilan that he had seen Oumagadoki Zoo.

After discovering that Oumagadoki Zoo’s animals could take human forms, Jilan learned that the director hoped to make the zoo famous and regain his human body. Ogami explained that Pro Hero Uwabami’s entertainment earnings kept the struggling zoo afloat, and he asked Jilan to help the animals reach their goal.

• Jilan carried Igarashi back to the pool while Igarashi explained that the zoo’s animals became human at night.
• Jilan returned to find the animals celebrating, and Aoi Hana pointed him toward the director.
• The director beat Cheetah in a race, then told Jilan he had invited him because he was interesting.
• Ogami explained that the director’s Quirk took physical strength and that becoming human again was the director’s greatest wish.
• Ogami told Jilan that Pro Hero Uwabami supported the zoo with her entertainment earnings and asked him to help make it the best zoo in the country.

At the zoo, Jilan Jiyu considered Ogami’s offer to help attract visitors in exchange for sparring with the animals, hoping to improve his combat skills. He called Yaoyorozu while she filmed a show with Itsuka Kendo and Uwabami, and their conversation left Uwabami reflecting on having someone who would listen to her.

• Ogami recognized Jilan from his concert performance and asked him to help make the zoo popular, offering the animals as sparring partners.
• Jilan considered the offer and decided he would not run from his goal of becoming a Pro Hero, despite disliking attention.
• A gorilla named Kong took Jilan’s last banana, and they talked about the director’s teasing and Kong’s name.
• Jilan called Yaoyorozu, who told him she was filming a show with Itsuka Kendo under Uwabami’s supervision.
• Itsuka Kendo teased Yaoyorozu about her cheerful phone call, and Uwabami reassured her before remarking that it was lucky to have someone who would listen.