Chapter 172

The most enjoyable time is preparing for the Cultural Festival is the one hundred and seventy-second chapter of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia.

Summary
At Class 1-A's Heights Alliance, Momo suggests playing the piano, having grown fond of playing it since her etiquette training in her childhood. Kyouka approves of Momo's choice, much to Mina's disappointment who wanted to dance alongside Momo. Kyouka herself will be playing the bass and requires guitarists and vocals. Once those positions have been fulfilled, everyone else in Class 1-A will be dancers. Mina notes that they require staging, to which Shota Aizawa is taking care of. As Mina brainstorms ideas, Ochaco asks Kyouka if she has someone for vocals in mind. Eijiro, Minoru and Yuga try out singing but it isn't good enough. Eijiro suggests that Kyouka sings. Kyouka tries out signing and everyone unanimously agrees that she will be Class 1-A's vocals after hearing her beautiful voice. As 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. Fumikage picks ups the guitar left by Minoru and starts playing a heart rending sound, impressing his fellow classmates. Fumikage states that he needed to overcome his difficulty of the F chord first which is why he didn't speak up and tells a crestfallen Minoru that he will be glad to take the position as guitarist.

An hour past midnight, an exhausted Tenya states that they have all of Class 1-A's roles for the dance hall live performance organized; Kyouka, Momo, Katsuki, Denki and Fumikage form the band, Eijiro, Hanta, Koji and Shoto form the staging team and everyone else will be part of the dance team.

The next in U.A's break room, Izuku is meeting with All Might. All Might asks Izuku why he has decided to talk to him of all times; Izuku tells All Might during the raid on Overhaul's organization that he use up to 20% of One For All but it was not enough and if it were not for Eri's help, he would have been rendered helpless and notes that he was outclassed by Overhaul. Not only that, he could not do much against Overhaul's ranged combat. All Might tells Izuku that he should use ranged combat as well, which surprises Izuku.

In U.A's school grounds forest sector, Izuku is in his gym gear and All Might asks Izuku to use One For All 20%. Izuku activates One For All 20% and even though it starts hurting him, All Might tells Izuku to remain in position and unleash his attack. Izuku jumps up and kicks, which releases wind pressure that strikes two trees, breaking some of the bark off. All Might was going to teach Izuku to properly unleash wind pressure after his overall power limit passed 15%, but Izuku has already has some experience in doing this in his battle with Overhaul but didn't realize this because it was such a desperate battle. All Might affirms that Izuku can unleash wind pressure without his body breaking. All Might tells Izuku that he must take a moment to reflect on his journey. Izuku does so; starting with releasing 100% of One For All's power in one area, controlling the power in one area, controlling a percentage of One For All throughout his body, Shoot Style, raising One For All's limit from 5% to 8% and now momentarily being able to use 20% when the situation calls for it. Izuku realizes that during his younger days All Might wasn't using One For All 100% all the time and surmises that he must use One For All 20% in one area, which not only releases a decent amount of power but prevents his body from becoming completely immobilized.

Chapter Notes

 * All Might reveals that Izuku was already capable of using long range attacks the moment he could achieve 15%, but he didn't realize it as was only using it defensively up until now.
 * Eri arrives at U.A.