The Quirkiest Company In My Hero Academia, Explained

Numerous companies and organizations have been introduced in My Hero Academia, most of which centered around heroes. After all, in an age where everybody has superpowers, the existence of heroes is extremely crucial for society. Needless to say, they are quite lucrative as well.

Some of these companies belong to the heroes themselves, such as the various Hero Agency owned by the pro heroes. Some of these companies focus on the things that the heroes need in order to do their job properly, such as the various tech companies that create support devices for heroes. There is, however, one particular company that deals with a need that nobody else ever thought about before. They are called the Help Us Company (H.U.C.) and their service is highly critical for every aspiring hero out there.

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The Three Duties of a Hero

Being a hero is not about powerful quirks or flashy costumes. They are the first, and possibly only line of defense against superpowered villains who want to wreak havoc on society. This is a profession with immense duties and responsibilities. According to Endeavour, the following are the three basic duties of a hero.

Rescue

Heroes exist for the people. This means the first priority is, and always will be, the safety of innocent civilians. This means when something terrible happens, be it a natural disaster or raging villains, the first thing that a hero needs to do is rescue every civilian on site.

Furthermore, time is always of the essence when it comes to search and rescue operations. Not only that, different situation requires different techniques or approaches—saving an old man from massive rubble requires a different approach to saving a drowning young boy. That’s why, just like firefighters and coast guards, rescue training is crucial for every hero.

Evacuation

After the rescue, the next part is evacuation. This process involves not only injured people but regular people who happen to be in the affected area as well. This too requires different sets of skills. From creating a temporary first-aid area to coordinating with relevant agencies to dealing with scared, confused, and upset civilians, evacuation is undoubtedly a complicated task.

But just like rescue, this too needs to be required knowledge for every hero. After all, the goal is to save as many lives as possible, and the best way to ensure the success of that objective is to move the people into a safer area, that’s why knowing the proper evacuation protocol is a crucial step in being a hero.

Battle

Most people think a hero’s main job is to fight villains. That is not true. In fact, it is the last thing that they should do. Only after the rescue and evacuation effort has been completed can a hero engage in a battle. This is actually the reason why Stain the Hero Killer is upset with Ida, the class representative of Class 1-A. In his moment of rage, Ida attacked Stain first, neglecting the injured victim near him. A hero saves lives first. Fighting comes afterward.

In practice, however, following such protocol is often difficult. After all, if the threat of villains is not neutralized first, then the number of victims will only pile up. That’s why heroes can’t act alone. They need to be in a team so that they can properly share the responsibility. This is also why most pro heroes have sidekicks and why some heroes specialize in certain areas. With a proper division of labor, some heroes can fight the villains while other heroes conduct a search and rescue, and other groups of heroes focus on evacuating the citizens, all at the same time.

The Help Us Company

Hero schools like U.A. High are responsible for training their aspiring heroes in all of those duties. However, while it’s fairly easy to simulate a combat situation, providing a realistic rescue and evacuation practice can be difficult. That’s where the Help Us Company comes in.

Realistic Practice

Be it mastering your special move or getting wounded people out of piles of rubble, getting good at something requires practice. The more you do it, the better you are at it. But as mentioned before, you can always have a mock fight to train your combat technique, but you can’t just find some random people to stick themselves in the rubble for you and act as how a real victim would be in that sort of desperate situation.

The Help Us Company can provide aspiring heroes with realistic rescue and evacuation practices thanks to their extensive knowledge of all kinds of catastrophic scenarios and the talented professional victims under their payroll.

Professional Victims

So what is a professional victim? Well, they are essentially actors who have studied, some of them have even experienced what it’s like to be a helpless victim who is in dire need of a hero. From desperate wailing to erratic behavior due to extreme levels of anxiety to the movement of somebody with a broken limb, they can perfectly simulate different kinds of victims that a hero might encounter in real life.

Sure, Deku can ask Kaminari to pretend to be stuck under the rubble of a collapsing house, but Kaminari won’t be able to portray the fear, anger, frustration, and other complex emotions that a real victim may feel and experience. The professional victims from the H.U.C. can. That’s why their service is extremely valuable to every fledgling hero.

Proper Gradings and Criticism

Just providing a realistic practice alone is not enough though. In order for it to be a true learning experience, the aspiring heroes need some pointers. They need to know what they’ve done wrong and they need to know what they should’ve done in that particular situation instead.

That’s why every professional victim under H.U.C. can and will give each hero different grades depending on how they perform in certain tasks. Needless to say, they also provide the necessary criticism so that these young heroes can perform well in real life.

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The Role of the Help Us Company in the Story

The Help Us Company first appeared on My Hero Academia during the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc. In fact, they are the examiners for the second round of the test. The focus of this round is to test the examinees’ abilities when it comes to rescue situations, which is pretty much the expertise of H.U.C.’s professional victims.

Going All Out

As an expert in this niche field, the H.U.C. goes all out for this Provisional Hero License Exam. From little children to old grandparents, the company deploys its best talents for this job. They wear tattered clothes, put on some makeup to create wounds and bruises, pour fake blood on various parts of their body, and even go as far as lying under massive rubble that looks like they would collapse with the slightest touch.

All of this is so that they can put the examinees in unfamiliar situations and see how they will react. Every wrong decision that puts the victims in potential danger, disregarding their state of mind, failure to examine their physical condition, or any kind of mistake will result in a point deduction.

The Right Ways to Help a Victim

The good people from the Help Us Company may only appear in the second round of the Provisional License Exam, but their impact reverberates throughout the series. After all, this is the moment when our young heroes like Deku, Bakugou, and the rest of the students from U.A. High learn the true weight of their responsibility as a hero.

This is where they understand that heroes are basically the first responders. From search and rescue to evacuation to neutralizing threats, they have to do it all until the professionals, like firefighters or paramedics, arrive at the scene. That’s why they must know the proper way to conduct these basic duties.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Help Us Company, along with other similar companies in their field, is the unsung hero in the world of My Hero Academia. After all, they are the ones who make sure the heroes know how to do their job properly.

My Hero Academia is available to stream on Crunchyroll.

Release Date

April 3, 2016

Seasons

7

Studio

Bones

Creator

Kōhei Horikoshi

Number of Episodes

159

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