Chapter 175

Morning of the Big Day is the one hundredth and seventy fifth chapter of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia Manga.

Summary
Every student in U.A is continuing their preparations for the Cultural Festival. In the gymnasium, Class 1-A's dance team practices for their live dance performance. As Class 1-A goes through their routine for the Cultural Festival, their practice is cut short when Hound Dog demands them to retire to their dormitories. During the night before the Cultural Festival, some of Class 1-A are unable to sleep. Working on a rope, Izuku sees that the rope for the live dance performance is frayed. Seeing that Momo is asleep, Izuku decides to buy fresh rope tomorrow morning. Before all going to sleep, Class 1-A vows to make their Cultural Festival event a success.

The day of the Cultural Festival has arrived. It is 6:30 AM and a filthy Mei Hatsume approaches Izuku who is training with All Might. Mei gives the item he requested; Power Gloves. All Might notes that back in his day his support equipment was quite bulky and is surprised that support equipment nowadays are quite compact. Mei designed the Power Gloves so that it wouldn't clash with Izuku's costume. A happy Izuku thanks Mei for her hard work. Mei gives Izuku the manual for the gloves and runs off; All Might decides that Izuku should try out the gloves to which Izuku agrees.

It is 7:50 AM and Izuku is hurrying to the market to buy rope still wearing the gloves. Izuku managed to get some rope and seeing that he is running out of time, Izuku hurries back to U.A. At 8:30 AM as Izuku hurries back, he runs into a disguised Gentle and La Brava. Izuku apologizes while the disguised Gentle is more worried about losing the aftertaste of the Imperial Gold Tips. Gentle and La Brava attempt to leave wanting to avoid further contact. Hearing them talking about coffee, Izuku notes that the house was a coffee shop which grabs Gentle's attention. Gentle is impressed that Izuku knows of the Imperial Gold Tips tea, to which Izuku admits that a friend from high school told him of his told him. Izuku finds the disguised man's voice familiar while Gentle praises Izuku's friend but soon deduces that Izuku is from U.A. Suddenly, Izuku also manages to deduce the man's identity; from the Imperial Gold Tips tea to Gentle's online video about tea and his video about society waking up. Gentle realizes that he made a blunder for talking too long to Izuku and tries leaving immediately. Knowing that the disguised man is Gentle, Izuku asks Gentle is he is the man with the routine.

Seeing that its too late to cover up since Izuku isn't naive, Gentle turns around and takes his mask off wondering who Izuku was referring to. Izuku drops his groceries knowing fully well that if a single alarm goes off, the Cultural Festival will be called off the spot. Izuku tells Gentle that he saw his video; Gentle faces Izuku as he tells La Brava to turn the camera towards him. Izuku prepares himself and tells Gentle to leave U.A alone.

It is 8:32 AM until the Cultural Festival; one hour and twenty eight minutes until Class 1-A's performance.

Chapter Notes

 * Izuku confronts Gentle and La Brava and prepares for battle
 * It is revealed that if a single alarm goes off during the event then the Cultural Festival will be called off immediately