Minoru Mineta/Synopsis

History#

When he was in middle school, Minoru Mineta felt intense envy and resentment towards the students who were very popular with girls. This desire for female admiration led him to define the reason he wanted to become a hero: He believed if he managed to become one, he would also be popular.

In order to achieve his dreams, he managed to pass the entrance exams and became a student at U.A. High School.^[1]

Synopsis#

Quirk Apprehension Test Arc#

Minoru Mineta is first seen sitting in homeroom when Shota Aizawa enters the room. He watches Mezo Shoji do the grip strength test and later utilizes his Quirk during the sideways jump test.^[2] He ends up scoring second lowest, only before Izuku Midoriya. He is soon shocked to find out that Shota's threat of expulsion was just a "rational deception" so that the class would do their best.^[3]

Battle Trial Arc#

Minoru is paired with Momo Yaoyorozu on "Team C", much to his joy.^[4] He, along with the rest of his classmates, watch Izuku and Katsuki Bakugo fight each other. At the end of the trials, Minoru comments on how cool All Might is.

When it is their turn, the Team C embodies the villains in the Battle Trial, facing Team G, made up of Denki and Kyoka. During the test, Momo gets mad at Mineta for doing nothing but leering at her.^[5]

U.S.J. Arc#

At the Unforeseen Simulation Joint, Minoru watches as villains invade the building.^[6] Minoru tries to evacuate with his class, but after one of the villains warps everyone to different areas, Minoru ends up in the flood area along with Izuku and Tsuyu Asui. He is then saved by Tsuyu, who abruptly throws him into a boat after he made an inappropriate comment about her breasts.

Minoru thinks that the villains would never be able to kill All Might and says that he will come to save the day. Tsuyu tells him that the villains would not go through all this trouble if they did not know how to kill him and that they would torture them to death, which frightens Minoru. After Izuku says that they have to fight to win, Minoru is surprised and shocked at his statement.^[7]

Minoru questions Izuku's decision to fight as their opponents are actual villains who could kill All Might saying that his idea is self-contradicting. He then suggests that their best decision is to wait for the Heroes of U.A. to show up. However, he is swayed when Tsuyu mentions the villains might not give them time to survive and might have something to kill All Might if they were so confident to invade. After Minoru explains his Quirk, he gets a silent reaction from Izuku and Tsuyu, causing him to wail about his Quirk not being suited to combat.

When one of the villains splits the boat in half, Minoru uses his Quirk in despair, which Izuku tells him to stop. After Izuku uses Delaware Smash on the water's surface, Minoru is grabbed by Tsuyu along with Izuku. He then begins throwing his sticky substance at the converging water. This causes the sticky substance to be converged with the villains, causing them to be stuck together by Minoru's Quirk, defeating them as they are unable to battle. Minoru then escapes with Izuku and Tsuyu, with Tsuyu telling him that he did a great job.^[8]

Tsuyu then asks what they should do next, reminding them that Shota is at the central plaza holding off the large group of villains. Minoru protests, but ends up heading to the central plaza with Izuku and Tsuyu to try and assist Shota, but when they arrive, he is horrified to see Shota badly beaten due to the work of a monstrous villain and further asks Izuku if they really should do something.^[9]

When the villains surprisingly decide to retreat after being informed that Tenya managed to escape to warn the rest of the teaching staff, Minoru is happy to hear it, hugging Tsuyu in the process and touching her breasts, much to her displeasure. Tsuyu dunks his head underwater and she holds it there for a while as a punishment.

Tomura, however, notices the trio and attempts to kill both Minoru and Tsuyu after being initially interrupted by Shota from doing so. Then, suddenly, All Might appears, with Minoru being ecstatic to see him.^[10] He is then rescued by All Might along with Izuku and Tsuyu. All Might entrusts the trio with the unconscious Shota, who they carry to safety as Minoru cheers for All Might all the while.^[11] After the battle with the League of Villains is over, Minoru is seen with his class, showing worry about Shota's condition when told by Naomasa Tsukauchi about the seriousness of his injuries.^[12]

U.A. Sports Festival Arc#

Once the Obstacle Race begins, Minoru is seen trying to get past the narrow gate. He manages to avoid having his feet frozen by Shoto Todoroki. Minoru tries to attack Shoto with his new move, but a robot punches him and he is sent reeling back.^[13] He eventually manages to finish the race while holding onto Momo's back, much to his happiness but to Momo's disgust. He places 18th, allowing him to participate in the next event, the Human Cavalry Battle.^[14]

Minoru is then seen asking Mezo if he can team up with him, which he allows.^[15] After the Human Cavalry Battle begins, Minoru is seen on Mezo's back hiding behind his tentacles using his Quirk against Izuku and his team. Minoru then orders Mezo to attack Izuku and Shoto's teams.^[16] Mezo charges, but Denki releases a huge amount of electricity, electrocuting Minoru and his teammates. Shoto then freezes Mezo's legs, stopping Mezo in his tracks.^[17] After the Human Cavalry Battle ends, Minoru and his team fail to qualify for the final event.^[18]

Minoru is seen eating lunch during the noonday break. Afterwards, he and Denki trick the girls of Class 1-A into doing the cheering battle, saying it is a message from their homeroom teacher. After the girls of Class 1-A walk out in their cheerleading outfits, Minoru and Denki hold thumbs up in their success.^[19] After Shoto defeats Izuku, Minoru along with Ochaco, Tenya, and Tsuyu go to Recovery Girl's office to see Izuku. However, Minoru is forced to leave as Recovery Girl states that Izuku is going to undergo surgery.^[20]

Minoru along with his class watches the closing ceremony of U.A.'s Sports Festival.^[21]

Vs. Hero Killer Arc#

Two days after the Sports Festival, Minoru is in class. During the Hero Informatics period after Shota reveals the Pro Hero nominations, Minoru comments to Izuku that they got none and was afraid of it. Afterwards, Class 1-A has to decide on Hero Names. Minoru writes down and reveals his Hero name: Freshly Picked Hero Grape Juice.^[22]

After Class 1-A is finished formulating their Hero names, Minoru is given a list of 40 work places in order to choose a work place that he wants to train at. Minoru states that he wants his work place to be with Mt. Lady, causing Tsuyu to think that he is having unclean thoughts, to which Minoru denies this accusation. On the day of the work place training, Minoru is at the train station with his class so that he can travel to the work place of his choice by train.^[23]

Minoru arrives at Mt. Lady's workplace, but his experience there turns out to be anything but enjoyable. The hero ends up having him do menial labor rather than training him, much to Minoru's annoyance. Though it's revealed that Mt. Lady made him do worse tasks such as house chores and organising her paperwork.^[24][25] The workplace training comes to an end and Minoru returns to U.A. with nothing but bad memories. In Class 1-A, Minoru talks to Denki about his workplace experience, telling him that he knows the true nature of women now.^[26]

After Foundational Hero Studies is finished, Minoru is in the boys' locker room, having changed into his school uniform. Afterwards, Minoru finds a hole in the wall and becomes excited that the hole will let him see the girls' locker room. Tenya reprimands Minoru for his behavior, but Minoru decides to look through the hole anyway. Minoru excitedly takes a peek through the hole. However, Minoru's eye is stabbed by Kyoka's earphone plug.^[27]

Final Exams Arc#

One week before the end of term test, Minoru smugly remarks that there is also an exercise test, sarcastically saying that it will be tough (only because he doesn't have low grades), much to Mina and Denki's annoyance that Minoru does not have such a low grade. On the day of the exercise test, Mr. Principal reveals that Class 1-A will be fighting against U.A.'s teachers for their exercise test.^[28] Minoru is paired with Hanta and they must face Midnight in their test exercise. He wonders how to strip Midnight, only for Hanta to tell him he's the worst.

Minoru, Hanta and Midnight arrive in an uninhabited city where Class 1-A's test exercise will take place. In the city, Midnight explains the 30-minute test; Minoru and Hanta must either handcuff her or one of them must escape the battlefield within 30 minutes in order to win and pass the test. The test begins.^[29]

Minoru struggles against Midnight due to Hanta falling asleep because of Midnight's Quirk, Somnambulist.^[30] Unable to do anything, Minoru begins running away.^[31] Minoru is continuing to run away from his opponent while Midnight is sitting at the escape gate with a sleeping Hanta on her lap, much to Minoru's jealousy. Minoru overhears that everyone is passing and begins questioning why he wanted to become a Hero in the first place. Minoru says that he wanted to become a Hero in order to be admired and become cool.

Suddenly, Minoru is whipped by Midnight who has decided to chase after Minoru. Minoru tries speaking but stops when he realizes that the moment he opens his mouth, he will become susceptible to Midnight's sleeping gas. Minoru continues running away and admits that his experience in U.A. has changed his perspective about his reasoning for becoming a Hero; he wants to become a Hero not to be admired but to become a cool Hero.

Midnight criticizes Minoru for running away. However, Minoru tells Midnight that his cowardice and his lack of courage was all part of his plan to lure Midnight away from the escape gate and Hanta, all in the name of becoming a cool Hero. Minoru also informs her that as fan of hers, he is aware of her Quirk and charges at Midnight with Hanta's tape wrapped around his mouth to prevent him from inhaling Midnight's sleeping aroma, as Midnight continues to lash her whip at him.

Minoru uses his move Grape Rush (which involves throwing the sticky substance from his head at the opponent while running towards them); Minoru's move hits Midnight, causing Midnight to become stuck in place which allows Minoru to run past her. Midnight, Izuku, and Recovery Girl praise Minoru's plan for luring away Midnight and then sticking her in place with his Quirk so that the sleeping gas wouldn't reach him. Minoru takes off the tape, grabs Hanta and drags him out of the escape gate with him, allowing them to pass the practical exam.^[32]

Back in class at U.A., Minoru is happy to hear Hanta admitting that it was thanks to Minoru that they passed the practical exam; Minoru shows a smug look of satisfaction on his face. Minoru learns that he passed the written test and will go to the forest lodge which is a boot camp along with his classmates. Minoru along with his class go to Kiyashi Ward Shopping Mall to buy necessities for the forest lodge. At the shopping center, Minoru wonders where he can find peeping goods and drills.^[33]

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes#

Minoru and Denki are hired as extra staff on I-Island, so they head over there and work part-time at a café, eventually meeting Izuku and several other classmates. They are scolded by Tenya, claiming that they must represent U.A. as good workers.

Dejected after a day of hard work, Minoru and Denki are surprised to know that Melissa Shield has invited them to the reception party, to which they happily accept. At the party, the two react pleasantly to the girls' formal clothes, and are reprimanded by Kyoka Jiro. However, the security system sets off an alarm, locking down the entire island and leaving the students stuck in the central tower. They later learn that the villain Wolfram has taken the island hostage, frightening Minoru greatly. Tenya suggests that the students escape since they can't legally fight villains. However, Melissa reveals that I-Island's security is on par with Tartarus's. Shoto and Kyoka believe that they should try to help while Minoru and Momo believe they can't. Awkward silence is interrupted when Izuku says he wants to save everyone. Despite being clearly terrified, Minoru agrees to helping them rescue I-Island.

They decide to accompany Melissa up to the tower so that she could disable the security system. They scale over fifty floors before coming to a stop at a closed shutter on the 80th floor. Minoru makes a mistake and opens the door to the main section of the floor, notifying the villains of their presence. Before shutter doors close them off from both ends, Tenya and Shoto make an opening and break the group over to the plant factory. Seeing that the elevator is coming up, the group hides, but are surprised to know that the villains are confronting Katsuki and Eijiro, who were lost. Shoto protects the two with an ice wall and sends the others up with an ice pillar.

The group notices a small door on a roof panel, and volunteer Minoru for the job. Minoru accepts after Denki convinces him by telling him that he could get a harem, and climbs up from outside the tower using his balls and opens the door for his friends. Izuku's group passes the 100th floor and notes how the shutters have opened for them. Tenya and Momo deduce that the villains are trying to lead them somewhere. They reach the 130th floor and are greeted by dozens of security bots. Denki uses his move, Indiscriminate Shock 1.3 Million Volts, but it proves ineffective against the robots, so Momo uses smoke bombs to interfere with their communication systems. Minoru uses his balls to trap the security bots, which are finally pushed back thanks to the efforts of Tenya and Izuku.

They meet another wave of bots in the server room on the 138th floor, and the group lets Melissa, Izuku, and Ochaco go on while the rest fight off the security bots. After some time, their Quirks are exhausted, and so the group is restrained by the bots. Melissa later freed them by taking back control of the security system. They go to the top of the tower and cheer on All Might and Izuku, and witness them defeating Wolfram with a Double Detroit Smash. Afterwards, Minoru is seen hanging out at a barbeque party with the rest of his classmates.^[34]

Forest Training Camp Arc#

Because Izuku was assaulted by Tomura in the Shopping Mall (but leaves without hurting him), the next day after the shopping trip, at U.A., Shota informs Class 1-A that the destination for their lodge trip has been changed and the new destination will only be announced on the day of the event. The first semester has come to a close and summer break has begun.^[35]

Following the end of the semester, Minoru and Denki arrive at Izuku's apartment and ask him to train at the pool before the training camp begins. At U.A. High School, they ask Shota Aizawa if they can use the pool, which Shota confirms. Of course, Minoru and Denki have no real intention to train. They scheme to see the girls in bikinis after Minoru overhearing their plans to use the pool during the summer to have a good time. Foreseeing that Shota would intuit their intentions and not give them permission, they invited Izuku under the pretense of doing water-related training.

However, Izuku ends up inviting all the boys of Class 1-A to participate in endurance training. Despite this setback, Minoru and Denki still hope to see the girls in bikinis. The girls are present but they're wearing the school-mandated swimsuits. While Denki is dismayed, Minoru is somewhat satisfied, which Denki admonishes as having "a lack of standards". To their horror, their plan completely backfires when both are forced to train by an enthusiastic Tenya, who congratulates them for their "great idea" of training before summer camp, while the girls were on the other side using the water for leisure.

Minoru and Denki end up totally exhausted, so the boys decide to take a break from intense endurance training, while the girls play volleyball. Katsuki abruptly arrives and challenges Izuku, and Tenya decides to hold a competition to see who can swim fifty meters the fastest. The boys go in groups. Minoru competes in the group of Katsuki, who wins the race using his Quirk to reach the other end of the pool without even swimming. He also protests when Shoto, like Katsuki, uses his Quirk to win the race without swim. Izuku wins on his turn, so the final race will be between him, Katsuki and Shoto, but before they can begin, though, Shota arrives and kick all the students out of the pool area.^[36]

On the day of the summer camp, Class 1-A boards a bus that will take them to the forest lodge destination. An hour later, Class 1-A’s bus stops for a restroom break. Minoru is looking for a place to pee. There, they meet Pixie-Bob and Mandalay, two members of the Wild, Wild Pussycats, who challenge the students to reach base camp past the forest in three hours. Then, all Class 1-A is forcibly thrown into The Beast's Forest by Pixie-Bob's Quirk, which they must traverse to reach their destination.

Minoru goes into the forest to find a place to pee, when suddenly, he is confronted by a beast. The shock makes him pee in his pants. Koji tries using his Quirk to control the beast but it does not work due to the beast being made out of dirt. The monster tries to attack Minoru but Izuku jumps in to save him. Then, Izuku, Shoto, Tenya and Katsuki mobilize and use their Quirks to destroy the clay beast. More earth monsters emerge from the forest to attack them, so Class 1-A work together to fight their way through the forest.^[35] Annoyed by the fact that the monsters made him wet his pants, Minoru immobilizes one of the Earth Beast with his sticky balls, trapping it for Denki to leap onto its back and burn it with a 1.3 Million Volts of electricity.^[37]

Class 1-A begins traversing the Beast's Forest, destroying any dirt monster that faces them. However, the journey through the forest to the Cabin takes around about eight hours. At 5:20 pm in the evening, Class 1-A finally arrive at the facility, battered and tired. Pixie-Bob admits that she thought they would take longer to get to the facility; she praises Class 1-A for figuring out her Earth Beasts quickly and easily. Class 1-A fetch their luggage and put it in their rooms, then head to the dining hall and have dinner; they enjoy the delicious food that the Pussycats provide them. After finishing dinner, Class 1-A go to the hot springs.

On the boys' side of the bath, Minoru notes that the bath schedules for the males and females have overlapped and as a result, the females of Class 1-A are also at the hot springs. Tenya demands Minoru to restrain himself. However, Minoru is unable to contain his desires and begins scaling the wall to look on the other side. As he reaches the top, Kota appears and pushes Minoru down, reprimanding Minoru for his perverted behavior; Minoru curses Kota as he begins falling back down, his bare buttocks landing on Tenya's face. Mandalay says that Shota had informed her that one of the students is an "avatar of pure lust", so she had Kota keep guard.^[38]

The next day at 5:30 AM, Class 1-A are outside the training camp cabin. Shota greets his students and tells them that they will undergo reinforcement training to strengthen and upgrade their Quirks. Minoru trains to increase the strength of his scalp, so that he will not bleed even if he keeps popping off balls.^[39]

On the night of the third day of training, Minoru is paired up with Mashirao for a test of courage presented by the Pussycats. Minoru tries to trade partners with Yuga, who is paired up with Momo, but he refuses. Class 1-A students traverse the forest while Class 1-B students try and scare them in the dark. However, before Minoru has the opportunity to participate in, their fun event is interrupted by the arrival of the League of Villains' Vanguard Action Squad. The forest is filled with poison gas that leaves most students unconscious, and the villains attack the students and heroes.^[40]

Mandalay tells the Class 1-A students who are not participating in the test to leave and orders Tenya to take the lead. As Tenya leads his classmates away, Izuku Midoriya tells Tenya to go on ahead as he informs Mandalay about the villains' objective.^[41] Minoru, along with Tenya, Mashirao, and Koji, arrives at the facility, where they see Shota defeating Dabi, who disintegrates after receiving great damage. Shota orders the students to go into the facility, while he heads into the forest himself.^[42]

Later, when they receive a telepathic message from Mandalay, in which he says that Shota authorizes the students to use their Quirk to defend themselves, some of the students want to go out to face the villains and help their classmates, but Minoru is surprised that they are really willing to fight the enemy despite the danger. Vlad King refuses their petitions, and before they can argue, they are attacked by a copy of Dabi, but Vlad protects them and quickly defeats the copy. Shota arrives and destroys the clone of Dabi, saying to Vlad King that the villain is only aiming to distract the pro-heroes.

The league of villains finally ends up retiring, but they do it after fulfilling their objective, which was to kidnap Katsuki, leaving several students injured.^[43]

Hideout Raid Arc#

Two days later after the League of Villains' attack on the training camp, Minoru visits Izuku in hospital along the remaining Class 1-A. As a gift, he offers a melon from him and the rest of the class (not including Katsuki, Kyoka, or Toru). He hears Eijiro and Shoto’s plan to rescue Katsuki, asking Izuku to join them. Although he does not oppose the intentions of his classmates, Minoru does nothing to convince them otherwise.^[44]

At his home, Minoru watches the broadcast of the battle between All Might and All For One in shock.^[45]

Provisional Hero License Exam Arc#

Due to the attack of the villains, and after Katsuki's rescue and All Might's retirement, as a security measure, Nezu decides to build the Heights Alliance, a group of buildings inside the campus, where the students reside. The Height Alliance was built in just three days. It is meant to protect the students and allows the teachers to keep close surveillance on the students.^[46]

Shota Aizawa meets with his students outside of the building. He states they must start preparing to get provisional hero licenses like they had planned to during the training camp. Then, Shota scolds the students because he knows that five of them were present at the site of Katsuki Bakugo's rescue and took it upon themselves to rescue him. He also knows that the rest of Class 1-A except Katsuki, Toru, and Kyoka, also knew about their plans but did nothing to persuade them. He furthermore says he would have expelled everyone but Katsuki, Toru and Kyoka from the school if it weren't for All Might's sudden retirement.

Class 1-A arrange their luggage in their respective bedrooms. Later that night, the boys of Class 1-A are in the common space on the first floor. The girls of Class 1-A show up and Mina Ashido suggests a room showcasing competition. After they check and comment on several rooms, Minoru's turn comes up. He eagerly and creepily invites the girls into his room, causing everyone to skip his altogether as they move on to the next floor.

The boys are unsatisfied with only having their rooms evaluated, and Minoru says that they must also evaluate the girls' rooms to make the competition fair and to determine a winner. Mina agrees to have theirs evaluated.^[47] Minoru starts drooling with the idea of entering the girls' rooms. Had he suggested it only by himself, then everyone would accuse him of having perverted intentions, but now that some of the boys are dissatisfied with how their rooms were evaluated, he has the perfect excuse. When they check Toru's room, Minoru takes the opportunity to try and go through her drawers without even being sneaky about it, leading to him being chastised by her, and being taped up from head to toe by Hanta to keep him from doing it again. Back in the common space on the first floor, the votes are tallied and the Room King Award goes to Rikido. He received his votes from all of the girls because his cake was delicious, which makes Denki and Minoru accuse Rikido of bribery.^[48]

The following day, Shota tells to Class 1-A that their next goal is to obtain their "Provisional Hero Licenses" Shota announces that they will be working on developing their own special moves, much to the class' excitement. The class visits the Gym Gamma, where Cementoss creates a training ground for the class with Ectoplasm using his Quirk to create villains for the class to practice their moves on.^[49]

Minoru trains his Quirk until the day of the Provisional Hero License Exam. While Class 1-A are progressing on improving their Quirks. Minoru comments on the change of Izuku's costume, causing Izuku to reply that he received arm support to lessen the stress on his arms. Minoru asks him why he did not change his costume entirely. Izuku thought back to his mother making the suit for him and her stating she will support him all the way. Izuku stated he did not want to ruin it.^[50]

The day of the Provisional Hero License Exam has come. Class 1-A arrives at the exam site, Takoba National Stadium. Minoru is nervous about getting his license but Shota stimulate him to do his best and encourages the students so that they can pass this exam and further their goal in becoming Heroes.^[51] Class 1-A meets with students from Shiketsu High School and Ketsubutsu Academy High School.

In the arena, the examinees are explained what the first part of the test consists of. They have to put three targets on their body and are given six balls to throw at the other examinee's marks. Those whose targets have been hit by the balls are disqualified. Participants need to eliminate two students to move on to the next phase of the exam.^[52]

As the exam starts, the students of the other schools focus entirely on U.A. However, Class 1-A is able to defend themselves and avoid being hit by the balls. Shikkui Makabe makes the balls hard with his Stiffening Quirk and Itejiro Toteki sends them with perfect trajectory into the ground at their rival students using his Boomerang Quirk. The balls travel toward Minoru, but Mina uses her Acid Veil technique to put up a defensive wall that melts the projectiles. Yo Shindo tells his fellow classmates that he will shatter their solid defense, and uses his Vibrate Quirk on the ground, unleashing a powerful earthquake that completely shatters the ground and causing members of Class 1-A to disperse.^[53]

Due to this attack, Minoru is separated from his classmates, having to defend against attacks from rivals while looking for his companions. He managed to group up with Mashirao, Toru, and Mina. As the exam reached its end, Minoru and his group managed to locate Tenya and Yuga, thanks to him firing his laser into the sky, and it is not long before the rest of the classmates who had not passed the exam join them.

The members of Class 1-A collaborate together to defeat the rivals and pass the first round. Minoru indiscriminately throws his sticky balls, trapping many of the rival students, leaving them defenseless against his classmates peers. One by one, all Class 1-A members manage to eliminate other examinee and successfully pass the first phase of the exams.^[54]

While waiting for the organizers to prepare the second exam, which will consist in rescue victims of a large-scale terrorist attack, Hanta tells Minoru and Denki that Izuku got to fight Camie while she was naked and they both get jealous. This causes both of them to antagonize Izuku for what he saw, which confuses Izuku as they don't allow him to explain. The trio look at Camie who smiles and waves at Izuku. Izuku begins understanding the situation and informs them that they are misinterpreting everything and what actually happened is not at all what they think, but both still believe that Izuku has some kind of relationship with the girl.^[55]

The Second Exam of the Provisional Hero License Exam begins. It consists of a rescue mission, and the scenario is that a villain terrorist attack has destroyed the city and there are many victims. The students are expected to rescue H.U.C employees who will act like victims.^[55] Minoru helps his classmates to rescue the victims until the exam ends.^[56]

The results of the Provisional Hero License Exam are presented on the screen, and Minoru is one of the students who passes the exam, receiving his Provisional Hero License. When he knows that Katsuki and Shoto are the only ones who failed the test, he tries to taunt them but Tenya stops him.^[57]

Shie Hassaikai Arc#

The next day, Class 1-A attend the U.A. opening ceremony. After the opening ceremony, at classes, Shota talks about Hero Work-Studies, hero activities done off-campus. Three days later, Shota says that they will now go into more detail about the Hero work-studies. He brings in the top three students of the U.A., who have experience with the Hero program: Mirio Togata, Tamaki Amajiki and Nejire Hado, also known as The Big 3.^[58]

Despite their reputation as the best candidates for heroes of the U.A., they are actually all a bunch of easygoing eccentrics. Even so, Minoru gets excited by Nejire when she asks him about the balls on his head, and he gets the wrong idea right away. His mind goes wild with kinky ideas and races at the implication she's interested in his balls, much to Momo's disgust behind him. Hanta has to make him chill out before his lust completely stymies him. After this moment, Mirio Togata challenges Class 1-A to a fight.^[59]

At Gym Gamma, Mirio tells Class 1-A to attack him whenever and wherever they want. Minoru attacks him, but Mirio completely wipes the floor with Class A without breaking a sweat, thanks to his Quirk Permeation. While Class 1-A recovers from their defeat, Mirio explains how his Quirk works and advises class 1-A to participate in the Hero Work-Studies, as it will help them improve their career to be heroes, just as it helped him become one of the best students in the U.A.^[60]

Remedial Course Arc#

Weeks later, after the police raid at the base of Shie Hassaikai, Izuku, Eijiro, Ochaco and Tsuyu return to their dormitories at the school, where Minoru, along the entirety of Class 1-A, is checking to make sure his classmates are doing okay, after their mission.^[61]

U.A. School Festival Arc#

At Class 1-A's Heights Alliance, Mina Ashido is showing off her dance moves, which impresses some of her classmates. Minoru yells out for her underwear to fall off. This earns him a lashing from Toru.

Later in the classroom, Shota Aizawa announces that U.A. High School will be having a School Festival. Shota explains that the festival is sponsored by the other U.A. departments. However, Shota points out that part of the festival will be within U.A. and tells Class 1-A to pick out a program to perform at the festival. Tenya Ida asks ideas from Class 1-A. Denki comes straight out of the gate suggesting they should do a maid café. Minoru loudly objects because that idea is too tame and they should have a topless bar instead. He's tied up by Tsuyu and his suggestion eliminated by Momo.

Class 1-A cannot come to any agreement, so Shota tells Class 1-A to make a decision by tomorrow otherwise the class will be doing a public lecture. Back at Heights Alliance, they decide that their school festival program will be a live performance and dance with party space.^[62]

Next day, they decide who will be the members of the musical band. He tries to audition to be the vocalist but only manages to shout incoherently. Then, when Kyoka asks for the guitarist positions, Denki and Minoru try out; the former being able to perform well while the latter is unable to reach the guitar strings because his arms are too short to hold the instrument. Fumikage is chosen as the second guitarist.

Having lost his chance to be part of the music band, Minoru becomes spiteful and wants the festival to end as soon as possible. Mina manages to encourage him and to participate in the dancing team with the promise of having a harem part just for him during the dance performance. Minoru accepts as he cries tears of joy.^[63]

Until the festival, the dance team constantly practices the choreography devised by Mina. On the day of the School Festival, Minoru along with the rest of Class 1-A get worried as Izuku is late to show up for the performance, he manages to make it just in the nick of time. The performance of class 1-A ends up being a huge success.^[64]

After this, Class 1-A must clean up the mess from their performance. Minoru presses his classmates to clean up faster and not to waste time, because if they do not hurry, all the good seats at the beauty contests will be taken. Class 1-A manages to finish and watch the contest. After the event, Minoru enjoys other attractions until the festival ends.^[65]

Pro Hero Arc#

As November comes to a close, the Wild Wild Pussycats pay a visit to Class 1-A to celebrate Ragdoll's reinstatement.^[66]

Joint Training Arc#

During the Joint Training session between Classes 1-A and 1-B, Mina Ashido is placed on a team with Izuku, Ochaco and Minoru. His team faces Neito's team in Round 5, consisting of Neito Monoma, Yui Kodai, Nirengeki Shoda, Reiko Yanagi and Hitoshi Shinso.^[67]

As the teams enter Ground Gamma, Minoru Mineta suggests his team try to neutralize Hitoshi first, but Ochaco Uraraka argues that Class 1-B has plenty of other Quirks they should worry about. Class 1-A's team realize they're at a disadvantage, as all of them have more physical Quirks and are therefore vulnerable to Class 1-B's long-range attacks. Izuku volunteers to act as a decoy in an attempt to draw their opponents out. Minoru points out how Izuku is much steadfast than before.^[68]

Izuku leaps out ahead of his team, while Mina, Ochaco and Minoru are left behind, preparing traps against Class 1-B. Minoru ties several of his balls to a string and lays them throughout the area in the hope that they can act as something of a trap to snag an opposing member, and when it finally gets a tug he believes he's done just that. However, this turns out to be Reiko is using her Poltergeist Quirk to levitate a barrage of objects around the area, while Yui Kodai uses her Size to change their mass as a means of throwing their opponents off, and Nirengeki uses Twin Impact to add a second wave to the barrage.

Ochaco and Mina use their Quirks to defend against their attacks. Suddenly, something goes wrong with Izuku.^[69] Mysterious black tendrils bursts out of his arm, that indiscriminately attack both allies and adversaries.^[70] Thanks to the rapid intervention of Ochaco and Hitoshi, Izuku was able to regain control. Despite Izuku's chaotic outburst, all of the students are still eager to win the fight.^[71]

Nirengeki throws a projectile towards Mina. Minoru protects her from this attack using his Grape Buckler shield. The recoil sends him flying right into Mina's breasts, all according to his plan. Annoyed, she throws him at the other team using her Acid Layback and Minoru bounces off his own balls for a Grape-Pinky Combo Mineta Bounce attack.^[72]

Nirengeki subdues Minoru with a strong punch to his gut after reading his moves, defeating him. However, class 1-A counterattacks. Ochaco chops Reiko's neck to subdue her from behind and then pushes Yui into a trap made of Minoru's balls, which gives Mina an opening to uppercut Nirengeki to save Minoru. At the same time, Izuku pins down Hitoshi.^[73]

Class 1-A team manages to win the match with a perfect 4-0 victory. After Deku explained what happened with his Quirk and receive congratulations from teachers and colleagues for the victory.^[74] Mina wants Shota to punish Minoru for being a "disgusting creep" after the stunt he pulled ago, much to his dismay.^[75]

Later, while Classes 1-A and B hanging out together after the exercise, Mina subjects Minoru to the Ludovico Technique to punish him for his perverted actions.^[76]

My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising#

During fall, the Hero Public Safety Commission devises the Hero Work Recommendation Project, to help to train the new generation of Heroes due All Might retirement. Weeks go by, and shortly after winter begins, after the Hero Interview Training, Class 1-A is sent to Nabu Island, a remote place in southern Japan. The Pro Heroes who protected the island are about to retire, so the students will take care of the place, performing duties as real heroes acting like their own "Hero Office", until the arrival of new Pro Heroes.

Because Nabu Island is quite isolated from the rest of the country, and therefore far from any villain activity, there has been no notable incident since the last thirty years. For this reason, their work on the island basically involves mostly minor deeds. Minoru works alongside several of his classmates on the beach as lifesavers. He helps two girls that are getting harassed by two guys by sticking the guys to the floor with his Pop Off Quirk. The girls see Mashirao and think that he's the one who saved him, much to Minoru's frustration and anger.

At night, after working all day, all Class 1-A students mention that despite they only did minor deeds, this kind of hero work is still hard, even though they're not fighting anyone. Minoru points out to the class that the only one who hasn't done the work since they arrived on the island was Katsuki, who refuses to do small deeds unless there is a villain involved. The grateful island citizens bring a bunch of food for the kids as a token of appreciation for their help. After dinner, he goes with other students at the bath.

The next day, Minoru is at the office. Mina gets a call from a tourist to help out to report that her suitcase has disappeared, and she dispatches Toru and Yuga. Minoru complains and says the tourist should look for her luggage herself, but Mina tells him that the girl sounded really cute on the phone. Minoru immediately changes his mind and says he's down to go help too.

Later, at the Commercial Area, Minoru, Toru, and Yuga just finished helping a girl out with her missing luggage. Minoru scoffs to the side saying that Mina tricked him into coming because the girl already has a boyfriend. While cursing Mina, suddenly he and the others hear explosions coming up the road.

It turns out that same day, Nine and the gang decide to attack Nabu Island. When Minoru and his classmates come out, they see the villain called Mummy using his Quirk to create puppets and attack the town, so they prepare to face him while the civilians escape. Minoru and Yuga manage to destroy many of Mummy's puppets, but he creates more and continues attacking. Minoru desperately asks Toru to notify the office about the assault, but she replies that she can't since the communication service is dead.

Fortunately, their classmates were not long in being warned of the attack of the villains across the town. When Minoru, Yuga, and Toru are barely able to fend off the villain's puppets anymore, Katsuki, Eijiro, and Denki arrive at the scene to continue the fight, while Momo, Kyoka, and Mina bring Minoru and his teammates to safety as well as direct the citizens to the safe hold. Mummy ends up being defeated and captured.

Despite this, Class 1-A fails to defeat the remaining villains, and they are forced to retreat. At night, the Class A members regroup at a factory where the rest of the island citizens are currently staying at due to the villain attack. They provide food and first aid to the inhabitants of the island. Later, Class 1-A has a meeting where they discover that the objective of the villain leader, Nine, is to steal the Cell Activation Quirk from a boy named Katsuma. With this information, they devise a plan to approach them in front and keep civilians safe. The plan is to lure the villains to the furthest corner of the island where ancient castle ruins are. The heroes will engage the villains using the terrain to their advantage and spit the villains apart, so each member has to face several students alone.

After his previous fight against Nine, Izuku concludes that Nine cannot use his multiple Quirks for too long as he suffers from intense pain when he does. To deal with Nine, everyone will attack him in waves to force Nine to use his Quirks all the time until he reaches his limit and cannot continue fighting.

The next morning, Nine and his crew arrive at the entrance to the island. They fall into Class 1-A's trap and are forced to split up by Yuga and Momo's Ultimate Moves; and as planned, the students take turns attacking Nine to force him to use his Quirks as much as possible, managing to disperse the villains. Following Izuku’s plan, Hanta and Ochaco commence their assault on Nine by constantly throwing boulders at him. They are forced to to retreat to Minoru's position, where there is a trap they had set up for Nine: a large amount of rocks contained by wooden posts.

Ochaco uses her Gravity Quirk to remove the posts, causing a massive rock slide. Nine tries to destroy the rocks with his Bullet Laser Quirk, but it isn't enough and he is forced to protect himself by using the Air Wall Quirk. Then Hanta helps Minoru as he uses his ultimate move: Super Grape Rush to make the rocks stick together even harder with the sticky spheres from his head, burying the villain under the piles of rocks.

Ochaco, Hanta, and Minoru celebrate that they have managed to catch the villain, but their joy is short-lived when Nine uses his Quirks to escape the trap. The shock wave is so powerful that it knocks down the students. Minoru is unconscious due to the counterattack. The villain prepares to strike them again when Izuku and Katsuki step in and attacks him. Hanta momentarily retreats to safeguard Minoru before returning to combat and assist his classmates.

While he is unconscious, Izuku and Katsuki manage to defeat Nine, saving the island and its inhabitants in the process. After Class 1-A emerged victorious over the threat, the military and a large number of heroes arrive on Nabu Island, rescuing the civilians and medically treating Class 1-A. Minoru is happy when one of Ryukyu's sidekicks carries him in her arms.

The villains are arrested, and Class 1-A continues to stay on Nabu Island to help repair the damage done by Nine and his villains until the Public Safety Commission suspends the program and orders them to be sent home. With the island being repaired by the military and the heroes, Class 1-A boards a ferry to return to U.A. High School.^[77]

Endeavor Agency Arc#

Sometime after Katsuki’s and Shoto’s interview, Minoru is sitting on Izuku’s desk as he comments along Class 1-A about how Katsuki aggressive attitude has caused his footage from the interview being cut. Izuku asks him to get off his table and Tenya shoos Minoru off.

Class 1-A's conversation is interrupted by the timely arrival of Mt. Lady. Because he is still terrified of her after his past experience. Minoru freaks Out when she enters the classroom, clinging to Izuku in sheer terror. Midnight and Shota explain that she is there to explain to them about media exercises. Though Minoru immediately points out that Mt. Lady is the most "showbiz" hero out there, Mt. Lady ignores him and encourages Class 1-A to try their best for the "Hero Interview Training".^[78] Over the next several days, the Hero Work Recommendation Project takes place, with Class 1-A staying on Nabu Island before returning.^[77]

On the night of Christmas Eve, Class 1-A celebrates Christmas at the Heights Alliance. Minoru protests when his classmates talk about school stuff and the imminent Hero Work-Studies instead of enjoying the holiday. When the class holds a surprise gift exchange, Minoru gets a picture of Yuga Aoyama.^[79] With Hero Work-Studies back in effect, he, Hanta Sero, Denki Kaminari, and Ibara Shiozaki go work for The Lurkers.^[80]

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission#

Hanta, Denki, and Minoru continue to stay and do their Work Study with the Lurkers until they learned that Humarise has detonated a Trigger Bomb in a major city, killing thousands and destroying the entire infrastructure. In response to the act of terrorism, the World Heroes Association mobilizes the largest anti-terror joint task force, with the Lurkers joining the Egypt Task Force, where they meet Salaam, Egypt's top Hero.

The heroes lead an assault on a Humarise forward operating base in Cairo. Despite their successful raid, the heroes fail to locate the Trigger Bombs or any of the Humarise's leaders. The Egypt team were ordered to be on standby. During the time, they watch on the TV news that Izuku is framed for mass murder by the Otheon government. Minoru and his classmates refuse to believe that Izuku would do something so heinous and voices his opinion in defense of Izuku's innocence. In fact, Minoru feels quite angry that Izuku is accused of such an atrocity, jumping up and yelling that it must be a false report.

While they are stationed in Cairo the Humarise had publicly broadcasted to the entire world that they have planted the Trigger bombs in over twenty-five cities, one of which is Cairo, and they will detonate the bombs in two hours to "cleanse" the population of their Quirks, much to Minoru's shock. As a result, Cairo is locked in a state of anarchy and chaos, so the Egypt team scrambled to quell the hysteria and locate the bombs. Minoru questions if they will really be able to find it in such a wide area, but Salaam appears to motivate them and asks them to follow him, being impressed by his speed.

Finally the heroes manage to find the bomb, having to engage in an all-out war against the Humarise agents who protect it. During the battle, the heroes are informed that Izuku's group intend to storm Humarise's main base in order to defuse the bombs worldwide. Inspired by the resolve of their classmates, Minoru along with Hanta refuse to give up fighting the villains, using their respective Quirks to retain as many of Humarise's agents as possible.

The Lurkers manage to reach the bomb just as the countdown ends, but after a few seconds nothing happens, indicating that Deku's group had managed to deactivate the Trigger Bombs in time, saving the world from catastrophic destruction. With the main threat neutralized, the heroes defeat the last of Humarise's agents and seize the device, celebrating the victory.

Once the crisis has been averted, the team leave the country and return to Heights Alliance, meeting with the other classmates who also participated in the operation as well as those who remained in the school.^[81]

Paranormal Liberation War Arc#

Winter break is over, and so is the Hero Work-Studies. The students return to the U.A. to continue their studies and show their progress.^[82] At Ground Alpha, Denki, Hanta, and Minoru show off their teamwork and new team moves fighting Villain Bots. After Izuku shows off, Minoru and Hanta congratulate Izuku for his improvements with Blackwhip. Izuku talks to Ochaco and they fist bump over the fact that they lift each other up. Minoru can't help but feel jealous of Izuku's bond with Ochaco.^[83]

Later at night, Class 1-A organize a Work-Study/Brainstorm/Hot pot party to energize everyone for the new term. While enjoying food and socializing, Tenya reminds everyone that there are three months left for the final exams, and that they shouldn't relax too much. Minoru protests to Ida that his constant reminders ruin the taste of the hot pot. Shoto tells him that he doesn't taste any different to him. Minoru angrily demands him to drop the "literal airhead" gimmick.^[84]

Months later, by the end of March, Minoru and several other students are involved in an operation to take down the Paranormal Liberation Front. He is a member of the Villa Backup Team.^[85] Hanta tells him to get up, but he retorts by saying that the rear guard's job is to catch anyone that slips past the front line, so getting pumped up would be an insult to the Pro Heroes, but Hanta tells him again. Nirengeki notices one of the Heroes saying that the raid has begun, and Minoru responds with shock that he said that so casually.^[86]

After the raid commenced, heroes gained the upper hand, taking down many of the Front's members.^[87] However, the Jaku team allowed Tomura to awaken, and he ordered Gigantomachia to come to him.^[88] This results in the giant defeating many heroes as he simply walked towards Jaku City. Kyoka warns her teammates that she has detected with her Quirk something insanely huge approaching them, prompting the few heroes who are there to go ahead to secure the frontlines. Minoru assumes that the heroes are uniting, but the concern is reflected on her face.

Not far from there, Midnight, with the help of Kamui Woods, tries to put Gigantomachia to sleep, as sheer force did nothing to him. They are however stopped by Dabi and Mr. Compress, who are riding on the giant's back, along with other lieutenants. Midnight lies on the ground in a bad shape and she contacts Momo through their comms, telling her that she needs to put Gigantomachia asleep with an anesthetic. Communication is cut off when Midnight is assaulted by PLF members.

After carefully thinking about the situation, Momo explains to the other students her plan to ambush the enemy, creating for that purpose a large number of vials of undiluted sedative and giving each student a vial.^[89] Her plan is to try to get Gigantomachia to swallow at least a vial filled with sedative to make him fall asleep. As Minoru worries for Midnight's safety, Mina assures them that she survived, as she still has more to teach at school.

Following Momo's lead, the students set the trap for Gigantomachia. Juzo uses his Quirk to soften up the ground and Momo creates explosives with her Quirk and plants them in the softened areas. Momo also creates several ropes to which Minoru sticks several of his Pop Off spheres, placing the ropes in a strategic position for when the enemy falls into the trap. As they planned, Gigantomachia step into the students' trap and he falls to the ground. The ropes covered in Minoru's orbs stick to his chin, and while the giant tries to get out, several students pull the strings to force him to open his mouth, while the others charge at him to give him the sedative.

The PLF lieutenants who are on Gigantomachia's back defend the monster and themselves from the students’ assault, with Dabi creating a fire barrier to prevent the students from getting close. The giant himself blows away several students with his powerful breath, but when he tries to get out of the softened earth, the bombs that Momo planted explode, causing him to sink even deeper. Several heroes come to help the students, with Mt. Lady pushing Gigantomachia down on the ground to open up his mouth for the sedative to be administered.^[90]

Although Gigantomachia shakes off the heroes, Fortunately Eijiro manages to throw a vial into Gigantomachia's mouth, and when the giant is about to crush him, Minoru 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.^[91]

However, annoyed by the constant interruptions, Gigantomachia transforms, taking on an armored appearance, and with his enormous strength, he finally manages to get out of the trap and easily defeat the heroes, to continue on his way to Tomura, destroying everything in his path. Before being killed, Majestic uses his Quirk to bring the U.A. students to safety, who can only watch with complete horror at the destruction left by the monster. Minoru questions if whether or not they did make the right decisions, because from where he is standing, everything has been made worse.^[92]

Two days later, Minoru, Toru, Hanta, and Rikido see Katsuki wake up from his injuries, and Minoru cries tears of relief. The students take Katsuki's irritated state as a sign of wellness, much to his annoyance. Minoru rambles how they were worried when they heard he got stabbed and that he's glad he is alive even though he is a delinquent, but Katsuki ignores Minoru and asks how everyone else is doing. Worried for Izuku, Katsuki stubbornly makes his way toward Izuku's room, with Rikido and Minoru forcefully trying to stop him.^[93]Eventually, Katsuki is stopped by Tsuyu, who helps carry him away using her tongue. They notice Hawks and Best Jeanist going to Izuku's room, wanting to ask him about One For All.^[94]

Later, back in Heights Alliance, Minoru rushes to the common room with a letter from Izuku in his hand, learning that all of his classmates received one. They learn about One For All and that Tomura and All For One are after him, so he has decided to leave U.A., much to his classmates' confusion and shock.^[95]

Dark Hero Arc#

A few days after Izuku left U.A., Minoru joins a meeting with Class 1-A. He and his class deduce that Izuku is now working with Endeavor and his team. All Might hasn’t returned either and the classes have been suspended, so they haven't become second years yet, with the Hero course students on standby and helping as security, so acquiring any information in this environment will be tough. A few days later, Class 1-A pushed forward using Endeavor's U.A. Alumni status to confront him about it.

Convinced of Class 1-A's dedication to Izuku, Endeavor decides to hand the students his GPS satellite phone that can pinpoint Izuku's location. Many of them, like Minoru and Hanta, say that they want to help him even though their relationship has been so far school-based.

Once Principal Nezu gives Class 1-A permission to bring back Izuku to U.A, Minoru joins with them to search for Izuku while at the same time, apprehending any prison escapees along the way. After a month of trailing in Izuku's whereabouts, Class 1-A finally arrived on the scene to defeat Dictator. When Izuku refuses to yield, he demands everyone to get out of his way, which means they might have to fight.^[96]

During the confrontation, Minoru is swung onto Izuku by Tsuyu, sticking to him using a bunch of his Pop Off balls attached to a rope, dubbed Mineta Beads: Ten-Fold. He shouts to him that he never believed it was his power that made him awesome, but that he was someone who was scared yet still managed to find a path towards success together. Despite this, Izuku apologizes to Minoru, and shoots out three Blackwhip tendrils, one of which hitting him in the chest and tosses him onto a nearby building.^[97]

Minoru rejoins with the rest of Class 1-A after Izuku was caught by Tenya and Eijiro and listens to Katsuki apologizing to Izuku before he collapses from the shock and exhaustion. Once Izuku is secured, Minoru and the class escort him back to a heavily fortified U.A. High where they are confronted by angry protesting civilians.^[98] They are aware that Tomura is after Izuku and fear them being in danger, leading Ochaco to give a pleading speech toward the crowd on way he needs their help and deserves to stay and rest.

When Izuku broke down into tears over this, Minoru ran to comfort him but was held back by Tenya, who stated it was "not their place", as Izuku is comforted by Kota and a mutant girl. Once the civilians accepted Izuku, Minoru ran up with Kota to hug Izuku.^[99] Minoru then helped bathe Izuku afterwards alongside the other boys, later lamenting on Shoto's "natural pretty boy look" as they're all drying off, and joining the rest of the class in declaring they'll do whatever they can to bring back the world and make it better.^[100]

U.A. Traitor Arc#

Two days later, Class 1-A learn that during this time, Tomura had fought American No. 1 Hero, Star and Stripe, and while she was killed during the battle with Tomura successfully stealing her Quirk, New Order, thanks to her actions, the Quirk acted like a virus within his body, destroying several of his Quirks and delaying his procedure by about a week. All Might informs all this to the class, telling them that this is now their perfect time to prepare for the inevitable all-out war. The class reveals over the past month they had been training with the Wild, Wild Pussycats in order to keep up with Izuku in the incoming conflict, and are now about to head out to continue their training.^[101]

The class proceed to train amongst themselves in the courtyards outside. During a break, Denki discusses with Minoru about their plans for the upcoming war, wondering if it should be easier with the weakened Tomura and All For One and sedated Gigantomachia, leading Katsuki and Momo to explain all the reasons they'll still have trouble to fight back. Denki comments that even with his back against the wall, All For One’s still the one with the grin on his face.^[102]

Shortly after this, Minoru alongside the rest of the class discover the news that Izuku has captured the Aoyamas and revealing Yuga to be the traitor who isolated the class at the U.S.J. and revealed the location of their training camp. Once the Aoyamas are restrained, he and the other class refuse to back down from the news despite Nezu's request, all in stunned and tears of Yuga's betrayal. He listens to Yuga's desperation that drove him to despair and then Izuku pleading to let Yuga help them, leading the class to realize Yuga may be the only one able to deceive All For One.^[103]

Shota then appears on a tablet screen, taking full responsibility and reveals that he has an idea. He listened to Shota's plan after the Aoyama Family's ears have been covered. Naomasa then has the Aoyama Family escorted back to their HQ, telling everyone not to say a word to anyone else about the plan while he and the rest of the class looking on sullenly.

Back at Heights Alliance, Minoru takes a breather, before getting ready to gear back up, as he and everyone, with fire and rage in their eyes over the betrayal, prepares to bring All For One down once and for all.^[104] He joins up with their "Search Squad" to head out to hunt down the villains.^[105]

Later that night, Minoru and his classmates return to Heights Alliance for a break after coming up with nothing in their search. Minoru has a conversation with Izuku, telling him that because of how busy they've all been he hasn't been able to talk about girls. Just then, All Might, Naomasa, and Nezu arrive in the dorms, informing them all about their secret finalized plans for the upcoming Second War.

The next day, Nezu announces to the civilians that Tomura will make his big move in 4 days, with Class 1-A moving outside of the U.A. barrier to began prioritizing their safety. He says his goodbyes before moving out of Heights Alliance and into its upgraded makeshift fortress called "Troy".^[106]

My Hero Academia: You're Next#

During Class 1-A's Quirk training in preparation to hunt down Tomura and his allies,

Class-A swarm in to see Izuku's notebook about his analysis about them. However, Katsuki takes offense by what was written about him, and causes a ruckus. All Might walks up to the class and says it's time to move out, as the students take off in an armored van to track down the Villains.^[107]

Throughout the month, Mineta is a member of Team 2 of Class 1-A, consisting of Shoto, Minoru, Mezo, Denki, Tsuyu, and Momo, to apprehend all the Jailbreakers who escaped from Tartarus and other maximum-security prisons across the country. The team rendezvous with Teams 1 and 3 for a break from combat, taking the chance to motivate each other, relax, and complain about the Villains. They're suddenly attacked by a group of rogue Villains, intent on stealing one of the Heroes' armored trucks. The U.A. students, expecting the attack, fight back and defeat them. The villains are handed over to the police as All Might informs the students of new Villain sightings, and they split into three groups, following up on the reports.^[108]

His team defeated six Jailbreaker villains and took them to the nearest police station. Team 2 contacts Team 1 and 3 at a police station, who've also apprehended more villains and escapees. Hawks, via the Counter-Force, gives the teams their next assignment: apprehend a Tartarus escapee, Ginji Kurau, who has been spotted nearby.

Minoru and Team 2 heads over to apprehend Ginji before the other team does, but Team 3, led by Izuku, is the first to encounter the Jailbreaker, discovering that he is holding a woman named Anna Scervino. Izuku faces Ginji but the fight is interrupted first by Giulio Gandini, who tries to kill Anna, and then by the arrival of the Gollini Family, a mafia organization consisting of Bruno, Kamile, Deborah Gollini, Paulo, Simon, Ugo, Gil, and their masked leader, Valdo Gollini.

They take Anna, whom Deborah hypnotizes, and then Valdo undoes his mask, revealing that he has the appearance of prime All Might. After brutally defeating Ginji, he uses his Alchemy Quirk to create a microphone and several cameras and drones, hacking into every communication network. He announces to the country that he has come to "save Japan" from their despair caused by the war and vows that he will use his strength and power to promote justice and become the next Symbol of Peace in honor of All Might’s god-like powers.

Izuku calls him out with disgust over using violence and putting innocent civilians in danger, taiting All Might's legacy. Hearing his words, Valdo decides to prove Izuku wrong by using his powers. He touches the hypnotized Anna, and his powers tremendously increase as he uses his Quirk to transform their floating ship into a massive fortress, consuming everything in its path in an ocean of light.

The three class A teams witness the rapid expansion of the transformation. The transformation light consumes Teams 1 and 2. Shoto blocks the expansion with his ice from his Quirk and the others attemps to go and rescue those inside, but the transformation light simply phases through ice wall. Team 2 tries to escape but they are all caught by the light and sucked into the fortress of Valdo, renamed the Symbol of Paradise.

Minoru and Team 2 regain consciousness and, along with his classmates, end up in different areas of the fortress, but they cannot communicate. His team ends up in a meadow, where Mezo spots a nearby city, though Minoru comments it’s not hard to spot the statue of All Might’s standing pose, reflecting on the villain’s weird obsession with All Might. Shoto tells the team that they should investigate the heads of the city. Inside the center, Team 2 stumble upon many bodies of unconscious civilians and rose petals.

They see Deborah and Anna with a line of civilians who are under the effects of Deborah's Day Dream, with each civilian touching Anna, before convulsing in pain and lying unconscious. Realizing that they’re hurting the civilians, Team 2 intervenes to stop them, but Deborah notices the hero students' presence and uses her Quirk on them, causing the team to fall into a dream-like coma where they desire.

In his dream, Minoru and, coincidentally, Denki both have the same dream of having a harem that admires them, which they join in. While under Deborah’s Quirk, Minoru touches Anna, but her Overmodification reveals that he is incompatible with her Quirk, and convulses in a painful seizure before losing consciousness.

Later, the members of team 3 and Giulio also fall to Deborah's Quirk, but Izuku and Giulio manage to free them from Deborah’s control, injuring her in the process and breaking the control that her Quirk had over the students and the kidnapped citizens. Anna is also freed, but Giulio is about to shoot her, something she seems to accept. However, Izuku intervenes and prevents Giulio from killing Anna. Then Kamile appears and uses his Spatial Excursion quirk to rescue Deborah and take Anna, without the others being able to prevent it..

As students and citizens wake up, Giulio finally explains everything about Anna and the Gollini Family. A while ago, he was hired by Anna's father to help with her Overmodification Quirk, which allows her to greatly enhance the Quirk Factors of a few compatible people. However, her quirk became more uncontrollable with the passage of time. Only thanks to his Neutralization Quirk, he could temporarily neutralize her Quirk by touching her with his right arm.

Despite this, Anna's Quirk was becoming more and more powerful and there would come a time when not even his neutralization would be enough to contain it, so Anna made Giulio promise that he would kill her if her Quirk becomes unstable and hurts people. However, the Gollini Family learned of Anna's Quirk, and attacked the household, kidnapping Anna and killing everyone else. Giulio survived, but he had to have parts of his body replaced with robotic prosthetics, and no longer can use his Quirk. He tracked Anna to Japan to fulfill the promise he made to her before is to late.

Minoru and those from Teams 2 and 3 of 1-A voice their objection that killing Anna will end her suffering, and even if it does, they know that it is not what she and Giulio wanted. They understand that Giulio went through so much to get Anna back, and they are not going to let her Quirk grow out of control, vowing to save Anna from her Quirk, and Giulio. Team 1 soon appears and also agrees to help Giulio and Anna and defeat Valdo, who now calls himself Dark Might.

After the students had managed to defeat several of his subordinates, Dark Might orders to change the course of the flying fortress and head directly to the U.A. Shelter. He then broadcasts to the students that he will become the Symbol of Peace when he destroys All Might and the last remnants of the Heroes still at the U.A. Class A organize to prevent this, and while Izuku, Katsuki, Shoto, Fumikage and Giulio head to face the villains, Minoru and his classmates round up the civilians and prepare to evacuate the fortress.

While leading the civilians to safety, the students hear explosions coming from outside the flying fortress and assume it is the heroes trying to assault the Symbol of Paradise. Then they receive help from Mirio, who easily infiltrates the fortress with his Permeation and helps direct everyone towards the exit. Outside the town, thousands of monsters conjured by the fortress appear to stop them. Class 1-A volunteers to cover the civilians and fight the monsters while Mirio and some of the classmates escort the civilians to safety.

The class pushes back against monsters, with Minoru using his Quirk to keep the monsters in place for his classmates to deal the finishing blow. However, Class 1-A is starting to lose the battle of attrition against the fortress monsters as every time they destroy them, more monsters keep generating, and on the verge of their defeat, the Heroes from outside manage to get inside the fortress and back them up.

While they are busy fighting off the monsters, Izuku, Katsuki, Shoto, and Giulio defeat Dark Might, causing the fortress to stop conjuring the monsters, and Mirio defeats Kamille, halting the fortress as it starts falling from the sky.

Although the danger seems to be over, Anna loses control of her Quirk, and Valdo regains consciousness and uses her enhanced properties to turn himself into a colossal monster. Giulio manages to touch Anna, and his own Neutralization Quirk becomes greatly enhanced, allowing him to use it on Anna finally. With Dark Might vulnerable, Izuku, Shoto, and Katsuki defeat him definitively.

With the Gollini Family defeated, the U.A. Shelter is safe, and everyone cheers on the Heroes and Class 1-A for their valiant victory. Mineta and the rest of the class watch as Anna decides to stay with Giulio, now that her Quirk is finally nullified for good.^[109]

Final War Arc#

With Tomura's completion approaching, the Heroes prepare for the Final War to defeat the army of villains led by All For One. Knowing that All For One is keeping tabs on the Heroes through Search, his mole Yuga Aoyama and his family are utilized in order to lure him out of hiding. Their next step of the plan is to make use of Kurogiri's Warp Gate to allow them to warp themselves into the fight, to catch All For One off guard, as well as warp the villains to locations all over Japan, separating them.^[110]

While the majority of his classmates and the Pro Heroes are assigned to face off against the major generals of the Paranormal Liberation Front, Minoru is sent on a team led by Mt. Lady, which includes Mina, Eijiro, and several 1-B students, to the ruins of the Jaku General Hospital, where Gigantomachia's Detainment Facility is stationed. Their plan is to defend it from the villains which they believe will try to attack and free the beast. Sure enough, a subsection of the Paranormal Liberation Front attacks with the Heroes present putting up a fight. They also receive word that Shoto managed to defeat Dabi, giving them all the inspiration to continue to do their best.^[111]

Despite the Heroes putting up a fight and taking out a chunk of their opponents, things start to turn in favor for the Villains, to Minoru's displeasure. Using their flying Quirks to remain in the air, they activate an ultra-high frequency recording of All For One's voice, intending to re-awaken Gigantomachia. Mt. Lady attempts to smack the Villains to stop them, but they are too late as he successfully breaks free from his containment.

Mt. Lady struggles against the beast to prevent him from escaping, while Eijiro attempts to free Hitoshi, who accompanied them as backup, from the Sludge Villain, but Mina is able to save them both using her Acid Quirk at its maximum output. This gives Hitoshi the opportunity to brainwash Machia, and commanding him to take down all the remaining threats. With Machia now under their control, they proceed to apprehend all the defeated Villains, when the Jaku Team receives a request for assistance to help the Gunga Team who are engaging All For One.^[112]

Minoru joins the rest of the Jaku team to ride on Gigantomachia toward the Gunga Mountain where the villain is trying to escape from the battle. He watches as even after All For One breaks the Brainwashing from Machia, he still chooses the fight his master alongside the Heroes, as revenge for being left behind. Minoru watches as Mt. Lady continues to use giant weapons to push down All For One, only to be stunned to see the villain retaliate by using Rivet Stab to slice her stomach, causing her to fall to the ground. All For One proceeds to use his Quirks to their limit and decimates Gigantomachia and Dark Shadow before coming down to take down everyone else.

As the dust settles, all the Heroes lie battered, broken, bleeding to death, or dead. Minoru barely survived the onslaught and was left severely wounded. A barely conscious Hawks still attempts to resist to protect Fumikage from All For One, who intends to steal his Quirk, stealing Fierce Wings in the process.

Even despite being unable to stand up, Minoru weakly throws one of his Pop Off balls at All For One's leg, getting his attention. He tells him not to steal Dark Shadow or else he'll become an edgelord, and that he should steal his Quirk instead as he'll get a cool hairdo out of it, begging him not to take it from Fumikage.

Seeing the look in his eyes, All For One decides not to waste another second and leaves the battlefield, telling the Heroes thanks to the press' arrival, people are going to see what happened, so they know they failed again, since they couldn't protect a single thing.^[113]

Shortly afterward, as the injured begin to be treated, Shota, now with "Kurogiri" under his control, starts to assemble all the remaining Heroes that are still able to fight, to provide reinforcements for the final battles. With tape wrapped around his left eye, and his own scarf, Minoru, alongside most of his fellow 1-A classmates, are warped to Mt. Fuji to help Izuku in his fight against "All For One".

As all the Heroes arrive, they declare that they were all feeling the same and down for the count, but when they heard Izuku was busting his butt out there, they knew they had to get their own butts into gear to help.^[114] Minoru continues that he can't imagine not taking a real stand here, and what would even be the point of dreaming of being a hero, as he and the assembled Heroes together declare "We are here!"^[115]

The villain unleashed hordes of Quirk attack all over the battlefield, blasting away every Hero who gets in his way, but they all keep countering against his attacks. Mineta was knocked down by one of his attacks, but Shota then calls out to the Heroes through their comms, telling them to help Izuku carve a straight path to Tomura, so Mineta gets back up with fire in his eyes to help Izuku reach Tomura.^[116] Eventually, Izuku manages to defeat "All For One" once and for all, just before Tomura succumbs to his injuries and dies as his body disintegrates into ashes.^[117]

The week after the victory over All For One, restoration efforts resumed, with support not only from local heroes but also international ones who arrived to provide support and resources in the rescue and reconstruction of Japan. A few weeks later, Minoru recovers from his injuries after the end of the war and returns to the partially rebuilt U.A.^[118]

Epilogue Arc#

Later, in June, Minoru attends the U.A. High Graduation along with the rest of his classmates. He watches the Third years receive their diplomas from Principal Nezu, including Tamaki, Nejire, and Mirio. At the end of the ceremony, Mirio gives a farewell speech, and like almost all the students, Minoru flips-takes when he doesn't start with one of his usual jokes. Nevertheless, Minoru listens attentively to Mirio's motivational speech, where he talks about the need to achieve a future where people can smile.

Once the graduation ceremony is over, Class 1-A has become 2-A and are moved to a temporary classroom. Shota states that they were supposed to be getting a different homeroom teacher, but due to the circumstances, he will be their homeroom teacher for another year, to the students' excitement.

Just then, Yuga enters to say his goodbyes since he will be leaving U.A for good, even despite the class' insistence, and both Shota and Naomasa saying he could stay. He vows to atone for his crimes, and will once more walk the path of a hero. He promises that someday he will be worthy of standing beside them all. Everyone reacts to his words, andTo keep everyone else from crying, Yuga begins emotionally blasting his Navel Lasers all over.

Yuga then reveals another surprise to the class, that Hitoshi will be taking his place as Class A's newest member. Everyone is excited to see him and starts swamping him for questions, causing Yuga to get jealous, so he blasts some more light again asking about a farewell party.

Toru calls Yuga to stop, as his light causes her Quirk to glitch again as she becomes visible, though the students call her face cute. Minoru is awestruck by the sight of her cute and beautiful face, and he happily tries to pounce on her before while yelling that a goddess was among them all this time, but he is strangled into silence by Shota, telling everyone they have important things to discuss.

After things calmed down, their senior Mawata Fuwa announces that during the next weeks, the second and third-year students will participate in reconstruction and patrol tasks throughout the country under her supervision. Several students are surprised when she casually addresses Shota as "Era-sen", and Mawata explains she used to be in his class, and he once expelled everyone to give them a taste of "death," which made them understand why they wanted to become Heroes.^[119]

The next day, Minoru watches with distaste a swarm of fangirls and first-year students bombard all over Shoto and Katsuki for being the most popular and inspiring, much to their annoyance.^[120] The boys make it back to their classroom and hide behind Tenya, who swiftly shuts down the mob from harassing his classmates. Minoru and Denki are so jealous of Katsuki's popularity with the girls now, bemoaning that he's such lucky bastard.

After one of the new students also praised Izuku, the first-years left. While crying blood tears of jealousy, Minoru grabbed Katsuki by the tie, telling him that Izuku and Shoto are one thing, but he can't stand the sight of a thug like him being showered in so much female attention.

Later, Class A join up with some Heroes in a city on reconstruction duty, assisting Fat Gum, Suneater, and Best Jeanist in demolishing and repairing a section of buildings. As reconstruction treks on, local civilians provide food for the students to eat for lunch, as a thank you for their help and hard work. At that moment another bus arrives, bringing the first-year students. Their homeroom teacher, Cementoss, explains they insisted on helping with the reconstruction efforts in order to be of use and to make up for their earlier misgivings. They are given minor tasks to assist while class 2-A rest.

Later that night, because they eased up on dormitory requirements, students who wanted to go back home could, Ochaco decides to go home for a bit. Tsuyu had noticed that Ochaco was trying to pretend everything was fine, and she tried to contact her, but Ochaco wasn't responding to her text messages. Concerned, Tsuyu decides to tell the rest of the class about what's happening, and immediately everyone goes out to look for her.^[121]

Minoru and the rest of Class A head over to the hillside of former Troy to check on her, only to see that Izuku had come before the class and Ochaco seems to be doing well. While they comfort her, Katsuki asks Izuku about the embers of One For All he just used up. The class freaks out upon learning that Izuku only has embers remaining of One For All, and swarms over him to get the details and scolding him for leaving them out on this important development, which the boy quickly agrees to fill them in on.

Later, Class 2-A celebrate their goodbye party for Yuga, with Eri singing for the first time in front of the entire class while Kyoka plays the guitar.^[122]

As time passes, Class A becomes Third Year and focuses on their reconstruction efforts while doing Hero work. Finally, it was time for Class A's graduation ceremony, and all Third Year Students from Class A, B, and Support Course are prepared to have their diplomas ready.

After receiving his diploma from Principal Nezu, Minoru listens to Tenya's farewell speech about their hard work, which ends with a bang with a huge explosion caused by Katsuki and Monoma.^[123]

In the eight years following his graduation, Minoru becomes a full-fledged Hero. At the start of his career, he worked as Sidekick under Mt. Lady, before going independent after taking down a major Villain. Even as an adult however, Minoru's perverted nature seems to have remained as he has garnered controversy for sending private messages to several of his (presumably female) fans. Despite this, he has also gained a small following of people who genuinely admire him for his bravery.^[124]

Meanwhile, Izuku is now a teacher at U.A., and due to his loss of One For All, Minoru and his former classmates funded the creation of a mechanical armor similar to Armored All Might for him. They have to pool a lot of funding from their Hero Work to help making the suit with the aid of Melissa and Mei.

Once the suit was done, All Might delivers the surprise gift for Izuku, who tears up and smiles to be able to be a hero again. When Hawks mentions traffic being backed up because of a landslide on WarStar Road and requesting Heroes who can respond, Izuku puts on his new "Armored Deku" suit and is joined by the rest of his former classmates. As they head to the landside, Minoru joins the rest of his fellow Heroes of Class A.^[123] At a restaurant, the former students of Class A celebrate Shoto's new Number 2 Hero ranking on the Hero Billboard Chart JP. The classmates discuss amongst themselves the differing nature of the hero rankings nowadays, and joking around about each other's placements and their current statuses as Heroes and Sidekicks. Minoru, however, finds little personal enjoyment, as he is by far the lowest-ranked person from Class 1-A (not counting unranked sidekicks). Rikido mentions his surprise everyone has been able to get together once again, which Mashirao states is due to the decreasing number of Villains every year. Fumikage remarks on the Heroes both old and new that have continued fighting all this time, thinking that eventually Heroes are headed towards extinction. Suddenly, everyone receives a notification of a criminal's Quirk causing a lot of damage, as the former classmates blast off together.

The incident is quickly resolved, as the criminal is arrested, noting that it was just a "sudden impulse". The group decide to split up for the night, with all of them going their separate ways.^[125]