Deku vs. Gentle Criminal (デクVSジェントル・クリミナル Deku Bāsasu Jentoru Kuriminaru?) is the eighty-fourth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the twenty-first episode of the fourth season.
Summary
In the gymnasium, Class 1-A is making their final preparations for their musical performance before the day of the school festival, with Mina working hard to have the dance choreograph precisely. The practice is cut short when Hound Dog arrives to tell them it's nine p.m. and they must return to their rooms.
In Height Alliance, some of the students cannot sleep from the nervous and excited that they are. Izuku and Yuga are checking the stuff for when Yuga plays mirror ball. Izuku realizes that the rope is frayed from overusing it during the practices, but Mina tells him that Momo is sleeping right now and reproaches him for treating her as a handy tool. Izuku says that since tomorrow morning he has to go out to buy several things, he will take the opportunity to buy a new rope. Before all going to sleep, Class 1-A vows to make their School Festival event a success.
The day of the School Festival has arrived. At 6:30 p.m., Izuku is training with All Might when a scruffy Mei shows up and gives him the support equipment he requested: a pair of gloves. She also made sure the desing went with Izuku’s hero costume. Izuku thanks her for making the gloves, and Toshinori is impressed by how compact they are. Before leaving, Mei gives Izuku the gloves' manual, and Toshinori ask Izuku to test them, with which Izuku agrees.
Because Izuku was practicing to get use of it until he was almost out of time. At 7:50 AM, Izuku rushes to buy the things he needs while still wearing the gloves. At 8:30, Izuku hurries back to the U.A., after buying everything he needed, when he suddenly runs into a disguised Gentle Criminal and La Brava. Izuku apologizes while Gentle tells him to be careful, because he has been about to ruin him the aftertaste of the Golden Tips Imperial. Then, Gentle and La Brava attempt to leave wanting to avoid further contact.
Upon hearing that variety of tea mentioned, Izuku notes that the house next to the store is some kind of café, which grabs Gentle's attention, and cannot help praising him for being so knowledgeable about tea despite his youth. Izuku admits that this is because a friend of his made some for him. From that conversation, the disguised Gentle realizes that Izuku is a student of the U.A., and after realizing that he made a blunder for talking too long, He and La Brava try to leave. However, after hearing his passion for tea and recognizing his voice, Izuku manages to deduce that he is the villain of the video he saw several days ago: Gentle Criminal.
Knowing fully well that if the alarms sound, the Festival for which everyone has worked so hard and with which he wants to make Eri smile will be canceled, Izuku drops his groceries and he tells Gentle to not do anything to the U.A. Being aware that he has been blown, Gentle asks La Brava to start recording. It is 8:32 AM until the School Festival begins.
Izuku can’t expect any backup: There are no people on the streets being a Saturday morning, there are no hero agencies in the vicinity, and the option of going for help is ruled out. With no choice but to stop gentle by himself, Deku activates the One For All: Full Cowl 8%. Gentle informs La Brava that there is a change of plans, and tells her to continue filming, whatever happens. she obeys, puzzled that he intends to fight.
With an flourishing movement, Gentle takes off his overcoat and hat, and tells his listeners to bear witness to his dazzling ambitions. Although his plan has been altered, he still intends to infiltrate the U.A. Gentle has the courtesy to pull an intro to himself for the camera while Deku is about to get ready to fight.Izuku charges at Gentle but suddenly an elastic sheet stops him. Gentle reveals that when he removed his disguise, he activated his Quirk Elasticity, which allows him to give elastic properties to everything he touches, and that includes the air itself. Gentle uses Gently Rebound , which repels Deku, knocking him backwards.
Gentle says he doesn't like using violence to solve his problems.La Brava comments that his attack has been quite violent, to which Gentle surmises that Izuku processes considerable speed and power despite his appearance, making his Elasticity do so. Gentle and La Brava run away as Izuku recovers and chases after them. Gentle uses his Quirk on the ground to make it elastic, bouncing Izuku high into the air with Gently Trampoline.
Gentle is aware of Izuku's feelings and desires to protect the school festival, because when he was a student he also worked hard to put on events, but he does not intend to allow those feelings to get in his way of infiltrating the U.A. and becoming a legend. Gentle Criminal farewell Izuku while he and La Brava bounce away in the air. La Brava recognized Izuku as the crazy boy who broke his arms fighting in the U.A. Sports Festival. Fearing Izuku's insanity, Gentle changes the mission to a timed attack on the school. Gentle wishes to not be further involved with him and tells the listeners that their infiltration operation has become a race against the clock. They have to quickly infiltrate U.A before Izuku can warn them.
As Deku recovers from Gentle's attack in midair, he recalls everything that's riding on the School Festival. He remembers Eri looking forward to Deku’s work at the festival; nearly pull a complete smile. He also recalls a conversation he had with Jirou, when she showed Izuku all the advice she wrote to all the members in her notebook, proving that she is putting in her all for the school festival.
Izuku prepares to shoot a wind pressure attack. He thinks he needs to land after he remembers All Might telling him that he's having trouble using air blasts while he is moving, but after recalling one of Mina's lessons where she advises him that he must focus his attention for an instant as he moves, and when he asked Mei to build him special gloves, Deku clears his head of all doubts and shoots a Delaware Smash Air Force, hitting Gentle right in the back mid-air.
Despite being hit, Gentle Criminal refuses to give up. Izuku lunge off a telephone post and charges at Gentle, culminating into a full-on brawl between Gentle and Midoriya as the two crash into a construction site, as La Brava cries out. The crash to the construction site attracted the attention of an old man. La Brava tries to convince him that they are filming and to pass on to his neighbors, hoping to buy some time for gentle.
Characters In Order of Appearance
- Hanta Sero
- Eijiro Kirishima
- Koji Koda
- Mina Ashido
- Toru Hagakure
- Mashirao Ojiro
- Izuku Midoriya
- Tenya Iida
- Minoru Mineta
- Mezo Shoji
- Yuga Aoyama
- Momo Yaoyorozu
- Kyoka Jiro
- Katsuki Bakugo
- Denki Kaminari
- Fumikage Tokoyami
- Ochaco Uraraka
- Rikido Sato
- Tsuyu Asui
- Shoto Todoroki
- Ryo Inui
- Toshinori Yagi
- Mei Hatsume
- Danjuro Tobita
- Manami Aiba
- Nemuri Kayama (flashback)
- Eri (flashback)
- Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu (flashback)
- Neito Monoma (flashback)
- Nejire Hado (flashback)
- Mirio Togata (flashback)
- League of Villains (mentioned)
Quirks
Locations
- U.A. High School
- P.E. Grounds
- Heights Alliance
- School Grounds: Forested Area
Battles & Events
- U.A. School Festival
- Deku vs. Gentle Criminal (Started)
Trivia
| U.A. School Festival Arc | |
|---|---|
| Chapters | 169 • 170 • 171 • 172 • 173 • 174 • 175 • 176 • 177 • 178 • 179 • 180 • 181 • 182 • 183 |
| Volumes | 19 • 20 |
| Episodes | 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 |
| Battles and Events | Deku vs. Gentle • U.A. School Festival |