History#
Entrance Exam Arc#
Itsuka Kendo participates in the U.A. Entrance Exam and gets enough points to be admitted to U.A. High School, becoming a student of Class 1-B.[1]
Later she is chosen as class representative of Class 1-B.
U.A. Sports Festival Arc#
Itsuka first appears alongside her classmates during the opening ceremony of the U.A. Sports Festival.[2] She places twenty-eighth out of thirty in the first event, the Obstacle Race.[3] Having qualified for the Cavalry Battle, Itsuka teams up with Reiko Yanagi, Kinoko Komori and Setsuna Tokage.[4]
Itsuka notices Neito disrespecting Katsuki and tells him to stop riling up their opponents. Once Team Todoroki corners Team Midoriya and their ten million points, Team Kendo is amongst the teams who try to capitalize. However, Denki of Team Todoroki uses his Quirk to electrocute all the surrounding teams including Itsuka's. Then Team Kendo and the other students are subsequently frozen by Shoto Todoroki. Shoto takes a few of Itsuka's headbands after freezing her team in place, prompting Itsuka to yell for him to come back. Kosei Tsuburaba mentions to Neito Monoma that Itsuka isn't a factor for the rest of the round.[5]
In between the end of the Cavalry Battle and the finals, Itsuka hangs out with her team, Neito and Tetsutetsu. They are all shocked to see the Class 1-A girls dressed in cheerleader outfits.[6] As the teams who advanced to the finals are being announced, Mashirao and Nirengeki withdraw. Midnight suggests that two players move up from Team Kendo since they finished in fifth place. However, Itsuka admits that she was frozen most of the round and suggests Midnight choose from Team Tetsutetsu since they kept fighting throughout the battle.[7]
Prior to the finals, Itsuka and many other students participate in recreational games. For the scavenger hunt, Itsuka turns Neito in because she needs a "perverse person".[8] After Ibara defeats Denki in their fight in the finals, Itsuka stops Neito from taunting Class 1-A. She knocks him out and apologizes to Class 1-A for his behavior.[9] She and her classmates watch the rest of the finals from the stands. Itsuka teases Neito for making a scary enemy in Katsuki Bakugo after he advances to the final match.[10] When it all concludes, she joins her class in viewing the closing ceremony.[11]
Vs. Hero Killer Arc#
Itsuka receives a draft nomination from Pro Hero Uwabami to intern at her agency. When she arrives, Itsuka meets Momo Yaoyorozu and they are both presents for Uwabami's commercial. Itsuka mentions that she was hoping for something more heroic, but Momo emphatically replies that garnering popularity is unavoidable as a hero and she will take any lesson Uwabami has for them. Itsuka takes note of Momo's enthusiasm[12] and then asks if there's anything else they can do during the commercial. Uwabami responds by admitting that the main reason she chose them as interns is that they're both cute. Both Itsuka and Momo are slightly taken back by their new mentor's response.[13]
They accompany Uwabami to one of her photoshoots. Itsuka mentions how she feels more like an entourage then her interns. Momo replies that there must be some kind of lesson they're missing, but Itsuka believes Momo is in denial.[14] Later on, Itsuka and Momo appear in a commercial for UNERI Hairspray with Uwabami. The Snake Hero shows them both a demo tape of the ad and Itsuka mentions how it's weird they'll be on television. Uwabami decides to take them both on patrol afterward, much to their excitement.[15] While out on patrol, Uwabami is approached by a group of fans. She mentions how hard work can make heroes famous, but Itsuka says she's just out of touch with reality.[16]
Final Exams Arc#
A week before final exams, Itsuka notices Neito once again antagonizing Class 1-A. She chops him in the back of the neck to knock him unconscious and reprimands Neito, saying that the trouble Izuku, Tenya, and Shoto went through isn't funny.
Itsuka apologizes to Class 1-A for Neito's immature behavior and says she overheard them talking about the ambiguity of the practical portion for final exams. She reveals that she heard from an upperclassman that the test would be a battle simulation fighting against villain bots. Neito criticizes her for revealing this to the "deplorable" Class 1-A. Itsuka chops his neck again and drags him away telling him that there isn't anything wrong with Class 1-A.[17]
Forest Training Camp Arc#
Following the end of their first semester at U.A. High, Class 1-B joins Class 1-A for training camp over the summer break. While boarding the buses to head to the forest lodge, Neito taunts Class 1-A about some of their students failing the final exams. Itsuka knocks him out to stop him and apologizes to Class 1-A before she drags his unconscious body onto the bus.[18]
When Class 1-B arrives at the training camp, their homeroom teacher Vlad King explains that they will be extending their Quirks and that the more they use their Quirks, the stronger they will be by breaking their limits. Itsuka questions how only two teachers can monitor the Quirk training of forty students. Class 1-A's homeroom teacher Shota Aizawa explains that the Pussycats have been enlisted for that very reason.[19]
The next night, Class 1-B scares members of Class 1-A during the Test of Courage exercise. Itsuka and Juzo Honenuki commend Yui Kodai for scaring Shoto and Katsuki when suddenly purple smoke enters the forest and instantly puts Juzo to sleep. Itsuka quickly takes action and uses her Quirk to enlarge her hands and cover Yui.[20]
Itsuka carries Yui and Juzo through the forest using her quirk while she holds her breath. She happens upon Tetsutetsu carrying an unconscious Ibara. They're both wearing masks given to them by Momo. Tetsutetsu gives masks to Itsuka, Yui, and Juzo and says that Momo and Yosetsu Awase are leading their peers back to safety. Itsuka wishes to join them but Tetsutetsu refuses to flee. He explains that even though Itsuka always defends Class 1-A from Neito, there is no denying the difference between the two classes. Class 1-A has grown because they've fought through crises and Tetsutetsu wants that same opportunity.[21]
Mandalay eventually relays a message from Shota Aizawa granting permission for the students to fight back. As Tetsutetsu runs through the forest with Itsuka, he's excited to know he has permission to punch the villains. Itsuka stops him to explain that she's surmised that the gas hasn't dispersed to Mandalay's area because it's swirling around whoever is producing it with their Quirk. Tetsutetsu decides to charge straight for the thickest area of the gas in order to find the gas user. As they run through the toxic gas, Tetsutetsu says that he's angered by the actions of the villains because they hurt his classmates. Itsuka ponders Tetsutetsu's straightforward attitude and admits that she likes that part of him.
Tetsutetsu eventually runs into the gas user: Mustard.[22] Mustard swiftly shoots Tetsutetsu's mask clean off his face. Tetsutetsu is uninjured thanks to his Quirk, but Mustard mocks him for his straightforward approach. The villain aims for Itsuka next. Tetsutetsu jumps in front of the bullet to protect her. Mustard kicks Tetsutetsu and shoots him repeatedly while mocking his personality, Quirk, and school. Itsuka tries to save Tetsutetsu, but Mustard can read her moves from the gas fluctuations.
Itsuka claims it doesn't matter if Mustard knows where she is and expands her fists to knock him back. Mustard hides within the thick gas, but Itsuka flails her Quirk enhanced hands back and forth to create a whirlwind that dissipates the gas. She insults Mustard and says she can tell he has no confidence in his own abilities because he wears a mask and carries a gun. She goes on to say that even if the students have a one-track mind, they can still go beyond. The thinner gas reduces Mustard's ability to read Tetsutetsu's movements, giving him an opening to punch and defeat the villain.[23]
Itsuka and Tetsutetsu head back to the facility with Mustard in tow. After Katsuki is captured, the Vanguard Action Squad withdraws from the battlefield, ending the attack. Mustard is arrested thanks to Itsuka and Tetsutetsu.[24]
Hideout Raid Arc#
Following the Vanguard Action Squad Invasion, Nezu, Shota, and Sekijiro appear in U.A.'s public apology broadcast. During questioning, Nezu explains the most of the victims were harmed by Gas. Itsuka and Tetsutetsu are recognized for ceasing the Villain from further producing the poisonous gas.[25]
Provisional Hero License Exam Arc#
During the training for the license exam, she goes with along Vlad King and Neito to announce to Eraser Head that it is the turn of Class 1-B to use Gym Gamma to train.
Neito takes the opportunity to taunts Class 1-A as usual. Denki asks Itsuka about Neito's suit, and she explains that because of his Quirk, he said he didn't need anything eccentric. Denki feels confused by these statements due to Neito's eccentric personality.[26]
Shie Hassaikai Arc#
When U.A. schedules an assembly outside the school's dormitories, Itsuka and her classmates meet Class 1-A. Neito takes the opportunity to take a stab at Class 1-A, revealing to them that all of Class 1-B have passed the exam, including himself, and making fun of the Class 1-A students who failed. Itsuka then scolds him for tricking the unwitting foreign student Pony into insulting Class 1-A with Japanese profanity.[27]
Itsuka along with classmate Reiko would end up doing their Work-Studies together.[28]
U.A. School Festival Arc#
Unlike her classmates, she does not participate in Class 1-B’s fantasy play, finding herself busy preparing for the Beauty Contest in which she was forced to participate. Neito registers her against her will as Itsuka is popular and therefore has a chance to win, which would increase Class 1-B’s prestige, and also because, while Itsuka is busy with the contest, he is free from her hand chops.[29]
Although upset by this, she participates anyway. During the event, she shows her combat skills, impressing the spectators and jury, although it is not enough to win as Nejire is the one to take first place.[30]
Joint Training Arc#
Itsuka is present when Neito loudly announces the arrival of Class 1-B at Ground Gamma, claiming that the momentum is now moving to their side. When Neito continues to shout and taunt Class 1-A as they begin their first joint training, Itsuka moves to scold him but Shota Aizawa intervenes for her by strangling Neito with his cloth straps. He and Vlad King then tell the two classes they will have a special guest: Hitoshi Shinso, who is trying to transfer to the Hero course.[31]
After both teachers explain the rules of the training exercising, the members of each team and the round in which they participate will be decided by a lottery. Itsuka is placed in a team with Kinoko Komori, Shihai Kuroiro and Manga Fukidashi, being the leader. They will compete in the second round of match-ups against the Class 1-A team formed by Yuga Aoyama, Toru Hagakure and Fumikage Tokoyami and lead by Momo Yaoyorozu.[32]
The second team from each class is prompted to take the field immediately following round one. Itsuka confronts Momo and asks her about the beauty pageant. Momo replies she didn't know about it plus she had band practice. Itsuka claims that ever since their internship together her and Momo always get treated like a pair. Toru says that some fans during Class 1-A's performance kept yelling out "Momo and Itsuka". Itsuka doesn't like being lumped in with Momo because she feels her rival has a better Quirk and better grades. Itsuka has always wanted the chance to fight Momo head to head. Momo accepts her friend's challenge.
As the second round begins, Momo takes the initiative and leads her team.[33] Fumikage send Dark Shadow to locate the opposing team, but Dark Shadow is possessed by Shihai, who manipulates the beast into striking its master. Using his Quirk Black to hide in shadows, Shihai causes numerous troubles to Class 1-A, even being able to capture Yuga alone, but after being rescued by Fumikage and at Momo's order, he uses his Navel Buffet☆Laser takes away all Shihai's hiding spots, exposes him. Momo thinks that he has managed to overthrow the strategy of Class 1-B, but it is shown that she is wrong when mushrooms begin to grow on her body.[34]
It turns out that Itsuka had predicted the strategies that class 1-A would use in battle, knowing that their first move would be using Fumikage and Dark Shadow to scout them. For this reason, she had devised a plan to take advantage of Shihai's Quirk against Fumikage's, to attack their rivals with Dark Shadow. If this failed, Itsuka correctly predicted the others would use light to counterattack with Yuga's Navel Laser. This would be the signal for plan b. The light gives away Class 1-A's location, giving Manga and Kinoko the opening to barrage Class 1-A with their long-ranged Quirks.
Kinoko's Mushrooms do not stop growing all over the bodies of Class 1-A Team members. This moment is used by Manga to quickly spawns giant text that separates Momo from her team. Itsuka planned on isolating Momo to cut the brain off of her team. She wants to crush her with raw power and believes she can win if she creates an advantageous situation.
Shihai Kuroiro manages to capture Yuga again, this time locking him in prison, while Kinoko and Manga continue to cause problems to Fumikage and Toru with their Quirks. Meanwhile, with Momo alone, Itsuka is able to launch a solo attack with her Big Fist. Momo is able to respond in time and create a tungsten shield, but Itsuka crumples it easily, pushing Momo back.
Momo refuses to submit and resolves to earn the respect she's been given.[35] She creates a cannon, much to Itsuka's surprise. Thinking she was going to shoot, Itsuka jumps back but Momo swings the cannon around to aims at the wall that Manga had previously created with his Quirk.
Itsuka tries to stop her by attacking her with his Double Jumbo Fist before she can shoot, but despite the hard blow, Momo manages to shoot a mysterious projectile flies over the wall, which confuses Itsuka as she thought the cannon was to destroy it. Before losing consciousness, Momo generates a rope to roped Itsuka to herself while she was still attached to the cannon
It turns out that the projectile that Momo fired was a bag with ethanol to get rid of the mushrooms and infrared goggles for Fumikage. Thanks to these things, Fumikage and Toru locate the members of the rival team. Fumikage manages to defeat Komori and Shirai, but makes the mistake of not taking the exercise seriously and not leaving Komori unconscious, who defeats him by growing mushrooms in his windpipe.
Meanwhile, Toru locates Manga and attacks him. She is about to defeat him, but at that moment Kendo appears and captures her in her giant grip. She can barely move because she has had to drag Momo and the cannon with her. Class 1-B comes out victorious with a 4-0 at the end of the second round of match-ups, but Itsuka doesn't feel victorious since Momo was always one step ahead and only won due to pure luck.[36]
Before the third round started. Itsuka accompanies Momo to the infirmary while looking on concerned.[37] After a quick recovery, Momo joins her classmates to watch the rest of the Joint Training Battle. Afterward, it’s revealed that Class 1-A won the entire exercise.[38] Later, classes 1-A and B hanging out together after the exercise, showing that there are no hard feelings. Itsuka spends time talking to Momo and Jiro.[39]
Endeavor Agency Arc#
With the announcement of Work-Studies program returning, Itsuka along with Reiko return to the same agency.[40]
Paranormal Liberation War Arc#
The months go by until it's late March. Thanks to the police investigation and its spy Hawks, the Hero Public Safety Commission has found out the plans of the Paranormal Liberation Front and its allies. With this information, the Commission organized a large force of Pro Heroes, divided in several teams to take down the villain organization.
While a team of heroes raids the Jaku General Hospital, where the Nomu are created, another team does the same at Gunga Mountain Villa, the Front's main headquarters. Itsuka is a member of the Villa Backup Team[41] along with some of her classmates and Class 1-A students. Their mission is to provide support to the heroes who raid the Gunga Mountain Villa and prevent villains from escaping.[42][43]
After Tomura Shigaraki woke up and commanded Gigantomachia to go to him, Heroes try and fail to stop the walking calamity. Earphone Jack detects the giant and warns her teammates. Likewise, Midnight contacts the students and transmitting them what they have to do to stop the giant. Momo takes the leadership to defeat Gigantomachia and uses her Quirk to create a large number of vials of undiluted sedative,[44] giving one to each student so that at least one can make the giant swallow a vial. Following Momo's lead, the students set the trap for Gigantomachia. Juzo uses his Quirk to soften up the ground and Momo plant explosives she created in the softened area. They also position several chords covered in Minoru's orbs.
As they planned, Gigantomachia step into the students' trap and he falls to the ground. The strings covered in Minoru's orbs stick to his chin, and while the giant tries to get out, Itsuka, along with her classmate Jurota Shishida and 1-A member Rikido Sato, pull with all their might on the ropes, intending to open his mouth wide enough to allow their teammates to throw the sedative inside him. Despite their efforts, Gigantomachia and the members of the league behind her manage to repel the students.[45]
Fortunately, Eijiro Kirishima manages to throw a vial into Gigantomachia's mouth, and when the giant is about to crush him, Itsuka and other students start shooting him with cannons created by Momo, allowing Eijiro to be rescued by Setsuna Tokage. Several heroes led by Majestic arrive to take charge of Gigantomachia now that he has ingested the sedative, because the more he moves the faster it will spread.[46]
Gigantomachia takes on an armored appearance and easily defeats heroes, and continues on his way to Tomura. Before being defeated, Majestic uses his Quirk to bring the U.A. students to safety, who can only watch helplessly as the giant devastates everything in his path.[47]
Final War Arc#
Soon afterwards, the Heroes prepare for the Final War to defeat All For One and his army of villains for good. While many teams are assigned to take on groups of villains that are warped to various spots all over Japan, Itsuka is part of the team dedicated to protecting the civilians in the Underground Evacuation System beneath U.A.
Everything is going relatively well as the moving segments are being shifted between U.A. and Shiketsu High School, however, some of the moving segments suddenly stop with the lights going out. As it turns out one of All For One's sleeper agents was using his Quirk to continue jamming the system, but Gunhead finds the culprit and give chase. As a result, parts of the blocks begin to break apart, which Itsuka and Tetsutetsu react to in order to save the civilians from being crushed. They are about to stop some of the debris, but to their surprise, former hero Death Arms appears and helps them by catching it.[48]
After this, Itsuka, Tetsutetsu, and Gunhead take out the rest of All For One's subordinates within the evacuation center who were sabotaging the system. Itsuka calls out to the civilians that they have already messed up the foundations of the block, and orders a retreat to the surface. She says to prioritize elderly and children, and informing everyone that there are U.A. robots outside to evacuate everyone to wherever they want to go. Once they get outside, she warns everyone to stay away from Dabi's Blueflames, as they all watch in horror at the inferno sphere nearby, which is on the verge of exploding and taking everyone out with it.[49]
Tetsutetsu grabs Itsuka and tells her to start running as the Heroes and the evacuated civilians continue to ride the robots and the vehicles, all attempting to escape from the imminent nuclear explosion.[50] Fortunately, Shoto and Tenya Ida arrives to Gunga after jetting across the landscape from Kamino to stop the explosion as Shoto uses Great Glacial Aegir to completely dissipate the inferno, vanishing it into thin air. [51]
Once Dabi was defeated, Itsuka continues to escort the civilians to safety at the U.A. Evacuation Center. Shortly afterward, Shota Aizawa arrives at the center, revealing that he has gained control over "Kurogiri" and his intention is to gather up all the Heroes assigned to the evacuation and protection of the civilians to provide reinforcements for the final remaining battles. Realizing they need all the help they can get, and learning they'll be able to instantly arrive on the battlefield, Itsuka volunteers alongside with her 1B classmates to teleport to Mt. Fuji where Izuku and Tomura Shigaraki are currently battling.[52]
Itsuka and some of her 1B classmates have also been teleported to the battlefield so they can help Izuku defeat "All For One". With all the Heroes assembled, they declare "We are here!" In response, "All For One" unleashes a onslaught of Quirk attacks to the Heroes. In the chaos, the Heroes react that he's too fast and they need at least a dozen Heroes just to deal with one attack, and Itsuka shouts not to let him split them up and to fight as a cohesive unit, attacking "All For One" from all sides.[53] "All For One" retaliates by haphazardly unleashing all of his Quirks at the Heroes, but the Heroes counter each attack to carve a path for Izuku straight to Tomura. He manages to get in close and smashes him right through his chest.[54] Eventually, Izuku manages to defeat Tomura once and for all, just before Tomura succumbs to his injuries and dies as his body disintegrates into ashes.[55]
Epilogue Arc#
One week after the end of the Final War, the restoration efforts that were stalled after the Jaku Hospital Raid have picked back up at a breakneck pace, as Heroes from around the world arrived to provide support and resources in rescue and rebuilding Japan. A few weeks later, Itsuka recovers from her injuries after the end of the war and returns to the partially rebuilt U.A.[56]
Weeks later, it is now June, and the third-year students at U.A. High are finally having their graduation after the end of the Final War. Itsuka attends the U.A. High Graduation along with the rest of her classmates. She watches the Third years receive their diplomas. Present Mic, who is MC-ing the event, apologizes for the delayed graduation, and shouts for excitement and the third years enthusiastically join in, while the former second years watching are start to get the jist of it, and the former first years watch speechless.
Mawata Fuwa comes to the stage to give the students a farewell speech. After Mawata Fuwa gives the farewell address as the students' representative, Present Mic calls on the graduates' representative, Mirio. He starts off his speech with a sincere statement thanking everyone for being in attendance, befuddling them all for not starting off with a gag, but reminds everyone they lost so much and gained nothing, and that a Heroes fight is to bring a negative situation back to square one. He concludes that a world without smiles and humor has no bright future, that they seek a positive world where people can live their lives in good cheer, and that is the finish line they're racing toward. He snaps, using his Quirk to blast of into the air, shouting to his underclassmen just as Bibimi Kenranzaki unleashes her giant robot on the cheering crowd.[57]