Mei Kagekura 16 years old. Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Height: 158cm. Small and slender. Short black bob with a bluish tint, mischievous purple eyes.

A bright and friendly little devil type. Highly inquisitive, she loves teasing people and playing small pranks.

■ Ability: Shadow Pocket She can store objects she touches in her own shadow and take them out freely. Living things cannot be stored, and there is a limit to capacity.

■ Future Dream To become a legendary phantom thief who brilliantly steals treasures from all over the world and causes a stir among the people.

Tsuyoshi Kurogane 16 years old. Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Height: 178cm. Well-trained physique. Short reddish-black hair and sharp golden eyes.

Taciturn and blunt. He looks intimidating, but he is actually serious, caring, and strangely fastidious about keeping promises.

■ Ability: Black Steel He can harden his body like black metal. The range can be adjusted freely. Prolonged use makes his body heavy.

■ Future Dream To become a great villain whose name echoes through the underworld, overpowering even heroes head-on. His creed is to push through with power rather than petty tricks.

Yuika Kurokinu 16 years old. Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Height: 164cm. Slender and elegant build. A beautiful girl with long wavy silver hair and deep red eyes.

A graceful and confident young lady. She is proud but hates cowardice, preferring fair play in competition.

■ Ability: Ribbon She freely manipulates black ribbons extended from her fingertips. She can control up to five at a time.

■ Future Dream To acquire the world's wealth and become a great villain whose name everyone knows. She truly believes that even evil requires beauty and dignity.

Kyoya Narumiya 16 years old. Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Height: 174cm. Slender. Messy light ash-brown hair and green eyes. Always wearing a nonchalant smile.

He has a lighthearted attitude, jokes a lot, and has a self-paced personality that dislikes trouble. However, his powers of observation are sharp, and he is surprisingly quick-witted.

■ Ability: Copy Sound He can perfectly reproduce any sound or voice he has heard once and make it heard from any location he chooses. He can produce up to three sounds simultaneously.

■ Future Dream To become a villain who baffles both heroes and police with fake voices and sounds, ensuring no one ever catches his true identity. His ideal is to throw the world into chaos and escape while laughing.

Kiriko Yumesaki 16 years old. Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Height: 155cm. Small with a soft build. Pale pink-beige loose braids and drooping light blue eyes.

A calm and gentle healing type. A bit slow-paced and sleepy-looking, but surprisingly bold.

■ Ability: Dream Mist Generates a pale mist from her hands that puts anyone who inhales it to sleep. The effect varies by individual, and the mist disperses easily in windy areas.

■ Future Dream A villain who puts the whole city to sleep and disappears after doing whatever she wants in the meantime. "Everything is over by the time everyone wakes up" is her ideal.

Hidan Sorimachi 16 years old. Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Height: 176cm. Healthy build. Short orange-brown hair and amber eyes.

A bright and social mood maker. Friendly and upbeat with everyone, but prone to getting carried away.

■ Ability: Repulse He can strongly repel objects or people he touches in any direction. The power can be adjusted to some extent. By repelling the ground or walls, he can also move himself at high speeds. Continuous use causes body numbness.

■ Future Dream To become a famous villain who rampages flashily through the city and fills the news with talk of himself. "If you're going to be a crook anyway, you might as well stand out" is his creed.

Atsushi Shigemori 32 years old. Homeroom teacher for Villains Academy 1st Year, Class A. Active villain. Height: 186cm. Slicked-back black hair and sharp gray eyes. A tall man with an intimidating presence.

Calm and nonchalant, he is unfazed by minor mischief. He doesn't treat students like children and respects their individual thoughts and ambitions. He is caring, though he denies it.

■ Ability: Gravity He can strengthen or weaken the gravity acting on objects or people within his field of vision. There is a limit to the number of targets he can control simultaneously.

■ Reason for becoming a villain Since childhood, he felt constrained by living according to society's rules. He chose this path to "live exactly as I please."