Chapter Summaries

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.

Jilan Jiyu helped Aoi Hana receive a food delivery and learned that the zoo struggled to attract visitors because animal-like Quirks had become commonplace. After the zoo animals efficiently hauled the cargo inside, Jilan suggested letting the director indulge his love of putting them through their paces.

• Jilan Jiyu helped the deliveryman unload the food while Aoi Hana checked the order.
• The deliveryman told Jilan that the zoo had few visitors because it was remote and people could see unusual-looking Quirk users everywhere.
• After the truck left, Aoi Hana whistled for the animals, who rushed out and transported all the cargo in a coordinated game.
• Jilan remarked that the animals did not need his help, and Aoi Hana blamed their teamwork on the director’s constant training games.
• Jilan told Aoi Hana to let the director do as he pleased, leaving her confused.

Jilan proposed that the director turn the zoo’s animals into a circus to attract visitors, and the director announced the plan to everyone. The animals mostly agreed, but Shishido refused to participate and the director cut his food rations in half.

• Jilan suggested that the director lead the animals in a circus, and the director eagerly agreed.
• Ogami asked whether Jilan had decided to train, and Jilan said he had already made a suggestion to the director.
• The director announced that everyone should start a circus, and the animals discussed whether it could work and how to keep their identities secret.
• Shishido objected to performing, and the director told Aoi Hana to halve Shishido’s food portions.

Ogami trained Jilan to fight attackers in the dark, then the group checked on the animals preparing circus acts. The director sent Jilan and Aoi Hana to find a venue for the Oumagadoki Circus’s first show, planned for Friday night.

• Ogami attacked Jilan in darkness to train him, and Jilan learned to locate him by sensing where an attack came from.
• Aoi Hana stopped the training, but Jilan showed her that his scratches had already healed and agreed to check on the others with Ogami.
• Shishido watched them leave and criticized Ogami for lacking the resolve to make his training genuinely threatening.
• Jilan saw the director use a banana to make a gorilla chase an elephant and make a cheetah run inside a wheel as circus acts.
• The director tried to paint Ogami gold and cast him as a lion, but Ogami refused and argued with him.
• The director ordered Jilan and Aoi Hana to find a circus venue in Oumagadoki City or a nearby city for a first performance on Friday night.

Jilan and Aoi Hana tried to arrange a rental space in Oumagadoki Park for an event, but the park's rental department turned them away without the required paperwork. Meanwhile, Tomura Shigaraki and Stain reached a tentative agreement before an unknown caller contacted Kurogiri.

• Jilan and Aoi Hana traveled to Oumagadoki City, where Aoi explained that she had stayed at the zoo because she loved animals.
• Jilan and Aoi failed to rent land at Oumagadoki Park because they lacked the necessary documents, so Aoi called the director to arrange for Takahiro to bring them.
• Jilan took Aoi to Fujiwara Restaurant, where Fujiwara recognized them and they ordered lunch.
• In a Tokyo bar, Stain confronted Tomura Shigaraki about their different goals but agreed to postpone killing him and asked to be sent back to Hosu City.
• Stain and Tomura Shigaraki entered Kurogiri's Warp Gate, and a television switched on to deliver Kurogiri a request.

Stain began hunting Pro Heroes in Hosu City while Iida and Manual patrolled in search of him. Hizashi Yamada, a fame-seeking hero, spotted Stain after he had attacked Indian and was warned to run.

• Stain arrived in Hosu City with Tomura Shigaraki and declared that more sacrifices were needed to correct the city.
• Iida left Manual's agency to resume patrolling, and Manual followed him.
• Indian confronted Stain alone, but Stain knocked away his arrows and attacked him.
• Hizashi Yamada dismissed the danger and continued through the city to protect his reputation.
• Yamada found Stain holding Indian against an alley wall, and Indian urged him to run as Stain called him another sacrifice.