Yokumiru Mera is one of the most morally “gray” yet ultimately decent adults in the entire Hero Public Safety Commission (HPSC) sphere in My Hero Academia. He is not a saint, but he is also very far from being evil or even one of the worst offenders in the system. Here’s a breakdown of where he actually stands:
1. He is a direct product of the old corrupt HPSC system
He was personally in charge of overseeing teenage Hawks’ training.
That training included forcing a child to carry out assassinations, infiltrations, and other morally dark missions that Hawks himself still has trauma over.
Mera is shown chatting casually with Hawks, coming up with “improvements” to his training regimen, and being the one constant adult presence during that period. In other words, he was complicit in the Commission’s child-soldier program.
He never shows any sign of having objected to what they were doing to Hawks.
→ This alone makes it impossible to call him a purely “good” person in the conventional sense.
2. He is not personally cruel or power-hungry
Unlike the previous HPSC President (who openly ordered assassinations, cover-ups, etc.), Mera never shows sadistic tendencies or personal ambition.
His defining trait is exhaustion and apathy, not malice. He just wants to do his job and go sleep.
When he temporarily becomes President after the old one dies, there is zero indication he uses the position to grab more power or continue the worst practices.
3. He shows genuine respect and care for the next generation
His speech at the end of the Provisional License Exam (“Those who can’t keep up are doomed to fail… but those who failed still have a chance”) is surprisingly compassionate coming from a Commission official.
He personally sets up the remedial courses so failed students aren’t completely crushed.
Eight years after the final war, he is still working under Hawks (now President) and supporting Hawks’ much more humane reforms (expanding Quirk counseling, reducing the Commission’s shady side, etc.).
4. He represents “the system” that won’t rock the boat — but also won’t defend the old ways once they’re gone
Mera never tries to bring back the old assassinations-and-cover-ups era after the war.
He quietly accepts Hawks’ leadership and helps implement the new, kinder direction.
In the epilogue he’s basically just an overworked civil servant again, not a crusader for change but also not an obstacle.
Final Verdict
Yokumiru Mera is neither a good person in the heroic sense (he has too much blood on his hands from the Hawks era) nor evil. He is the embodiment of the exhausted, morally numb middle-manager inside a corrupt system:
He went along with terrible things when that was the norm.
He never enjoyed them or pushed for worse.
Once the system started to genuinely reform under Hawks, he adapted without resistance and even helped.
In short: Complicit in the old sins → neutral → quietly supportive of the new, better direction. He’s the type of person who will never start a revolution, but also won’t sabotage one once someone else (Hawks, the kids, society) forces it through.
So the most accurate description is: a tired, flawed man who was part of a rotten organization, did nothing to fix it when it mattered most, but also never became one of its monsters — and in the end, quietly accepted that the kids did what he and his generation couldn’t.