Q. 37 I was shocked when I saw the name Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu! What was the origin of the name?
A. 37 I just wanted him to remember it. It’s not a sparkly name, it’s a very serious name.
Q.38 There was a scene where Monoma and Bakugou were blowing things up at the graduation ceremony. I wonder if they became closer!
A. 38 Monoma has been getting closer than ever. Bakugou died right in front of his eyes. He must have been worried.
Q.39 Did Kendo participate in beauty pageants in his second and third years? If so, how much did he come in?
A. 39 In his first year, Monoma entered her without her permission, so she hasn’t participated since.
Q. 40 What was the most popular gag of Mirio after he became a pro hero?
A. 41 Now, the expanded version of “The peaches are ripe” called “We have to harvest the peaches quickly” is very popular among children. I drew it inspired by Nakayama Kinnikun-san’s candy-picking game*. Actually, I drew Mirio with Nakayama Kinnikun-san in mind.
* Nakayama Kinnikun (なかやまきんに君) is a Japanese male comedian, YouTuber, and bodybuilder. It seems he makes a game in which he throws candies and people has to grab them with a plastic glass… though I’m not 100% sure about it.
Q. 41 Is there any food that Tamaki hesitated to eat because they would be reflected by his Quirk?
A. 41 No. When he was a child, he used to get scared like most people, but the fun of being able to copy it with his Quirk outweighed that, and now he only see food from that perspective. He’s someone who is interested in eating everything.
Q. 42 I heard that Nejire is so popular that the floor will collapse, but will she still be popular after she becomes a pro hero?
A. 42 She is so popular that it seems the universe is expanding faster. She doesn’t even realize it.
Q. 43 When Hatsume was so involved into development, what was the longest number of days she went without a bath?
A. 43 Two weeks. I went for over a month, but that was because I didn’t sweat. An active person like Hatsume would probably have tears in their eyes from yawning by the third day.
Q. 44 How fast did All Might run in his prime?
A. 44 He was running at Mach 10.
Q. 45 How much has Endeavor, the hard worker, recovered
A. 45 He has recovered enough to walk without help. He carries a cane.
Q. 46 Does Hawks still treasure his Endeavor stuffed toy? Does he have any other Endeavor goods?
A. 46 He doesn’t display it. I think it’s somewhere in his house as something he can’t throw away. Hawks doesn’t buy merchandise or anything. I think it’s a different emotional vector from the so-called fan psychology.
Q. 47 In the final episode, Aizawa-sensei’s hair was short. Is there a reason for cutting it?
A. 47 Aizawa keeps his hair long because he thinks it’s irrational to cut it regularly. So he only cuts it once every few years. It was just the right time.
Q. 48 Please tell me the secret of Mirko’s vitality!
A. 48 It’s because she’s living always ready to die.
Q. 49 Is there a reason why the name of the 6th One For All user, En which is written as ‘kemuri’ (“smoke”), is pronounced “En”?
A. 49 At first I wanted it to be pronounced “Kemuri”, but there was a comedian with the same name, so I made it “En”. My intention was that 煙= Kemuri would be a wordplay with け六(む)り, but no one understood the joke*.
* The kanji 六, which means “six” is normally read ‘roku’ but can also be read ‘mu’. Basically the wordplay is similar to say his name would have been KeSIXri, referencing the fact he was the six user.
Q. 50 What kind of “quirk” did Shigaraki have when he was born?
A. 50 The circular thing All For One (AFO) had when he was floating was the basis of Tenko’s “quirk”. It’s a combination of several Quirks, so Tenko’s original Quirk didn’t have that much propulsive power.
Q. 51 I heard that Shigaraki played games with Spinner, but what kind of interactions and games did he have with the other members of the League of Villains?
A. The only one he played with was Spinner. With the others he just chatted. Maybe he played poker with them.
Q. 52 All For One said “Shigaraki” was his surname, but what is his real name?
A. 52 His name is Shigaraki Zen (死柄木全)*. He gave himself his first name first, and later he took that surname. When he was old enough to understand, he heard a rumor about “The Shigaraki Tanuki of the Red Light District.”** A woman used to always stands at the entrance of his town, waiting for customers to arrive, but no one would speak to her. Her swollen body and the way she stood motionless made her look like a Shigaraki Tanuki. The woman's body was found downstream of the river, but she was so thin that it was hard to believe she was the same person. To be precise, she was just skin and bones. In that town a monster lurked. Zen has no memory of it, but strangely enough, he liked the story and from then on took the surname “Shigaraki”.
* Zen (全) means “all”.
** Shigaraki ware (信楽焼) is a type of stoneware pottery made in Shigaraki area, Japan. The kiln is one of the Six Ancient Kilns in Japan with figures representing the tanuki, a kind of yōkai (supernatural beings) found in the classics and in the folklore and legends of various places in Japan, commonly associated with the Japanese raccoon dog being one of their popular products.
Q. 53 Which one Dabi prefer, hot soba or cold soba?
A. 53 Zaru Soba. The kind that aren’t hot.
Q. 54 Toga-chan always wears a sailor uniform, but does she have any cute casual clothes?
A. 54 She has several sailor uniforms, and buys her favorite ones for casual wear, then throws them away as soon as she’s done with them. It’s a habit to deceive pursuers. However, she likes the sailor uniform very much, so she thinks it’s fine.
Q. 55 When drawing Twice what is your favorite expression of his?
A. 55 I remember that I had fun drawing all the frames for Twice.
Q. 56 Kurogiri was like a bar owner at the League of Villains’ hideout, but is he good at making things like coffee?
A. 56 He’s good at serving Shigaraki what he wants to drink or eat within 10 seconds. It takes about 3 minutes longer to serve it to other people.
Q. 57 What kind of magic is Mr. Compress best at?
A. 57 He has mastered all the vanishing magic tricks. Magician characters often carry playing cards, so I thought I would not have him hold playing cards, but I think it would have been better if I had shown him doing more magic tricks.
Q. 58 How has the public responded to the book that Spinner wrote?
A. 58 It was published under heavy criticism. It caused a big stir, but some people gave it a certain amount of praise from the perspective of learning why such a big incident occurred.
Q. 59 How did the League of Villains prepare their meals? Also, was there anyone who could cook for themselves?
A. 59 They went shopping in disguise. It was basically ready-made food.
Q. 60 I want to know what Stain liked to eat!
A. 60 He had an extremely organic diet. His staple foods were fish and wild vegetables. He despised industry processed foods.
Q. 61 How many centimeters are Gigantomachia’s feet?
A. 61 It varies, so I don’t know.
Q. 62 Are there any stories about Overhaul's cleanliness freak habits?
A. 62 He had a lot of clothes and changed them three times a day. I didn't draw that because it could have been cute.
Q. 63 GeL Inc., where Gentle and LaBrava work was established by them? Also, what kind of work this company does?
A. 63 It's a startup. It does things like Google.
Q. 64 I’d like to know the name and quirk of the child who was helped by the grandmother in chapter 429!
A. 64 His name is Terumoto Kouki-kun (照元光輝). His quirk is “darkness” (闇). His ability is similar to that of Zehahaha*. He’s about 9-10 years old.
*Zehahahaha is the sound Marsall D. Teach, also known as Blackbeard from “One Piece” makes when he laugh. He ate the Yami Yami no Mi Devil Fruit and can therefore create, control, and transform into darkness. The darkness is visually demonstrated by a black smoke-like substance spreading out from his body. The darkness, similar to a black hole, is a void that devours and crushes everything. Due to this, he can absorb physical matter and attacks of any type by sucking it into the darkness and can also use this ability to irresistibly pull the opponent to them, regardless of their current state. He can also absorb and completely nullify the powers of other Devil Fruit users by simply touching them. I don’t know if this means Terumoto is able to also nullify Quirks.
Q. 65 I’d like to know the details of the hero chart rankings as of the final chapter!
A. 65 I had written out up to 50th place, but I’ve changed it since then, so I don’t have the official ones... sorry! There’s a character named Rodeo who hasn’t appeared yet who’s in the middle of the list.
Q. 66 In the final episode, Eri was holding something that looked like an instrument, so is she in a band?
A. 66 She joined the light music club. She played guitar and sang until middle school, but in high school she wanted to start a band, and the band members are the friends who were in that frame.
Q. 67 What does the hero license exam consist of?
A. 67 There is a written test, an interview, and a practical test. The practical test consists of three types: a physical fitness test, a rescue test, and a combat test, and the content changes every time.
Q. 68 Does U.A. High School have a school song?*
A. 68 I think it has one, but I haven’t thought of one yet. Maybe I’ll make one.
* Japanese high schools (and all levels of Japanese schools) typically have a school song, often called a "school anthem" or "school song". These songs are an important part of school culture and are often sung at ceremonies, events, and even during regular school days.
QUESTIONS FROM OVERSEAS MY HERO ACADEMIA FANS!!
Q. 69 What aspect or process of creating My Hero Academia do you enjoy the most?
A. 69 It’s the most fun when a character does something beyond my imagination. It gets my adrenaline pumping.
Q. 70 What made you want to start writing My hero academia and what was your inspiration?
A. 70 I thought this would be my last attempt at having a printed story on Jump Magazine, so I started drawing with the idea of drawing what I like and what I can draw as I like, with all my might, so that I would have no regrets.
Q. 71 Which character’s story did you enjoy telling the most?
A. 71 Deku and Katsuki, from the perspective of enjoying trials and difficulties. In my opinion, every scene was like walking a tightrope, and if I made even a slight mistake, the story will fall apart in an instant. But I felt a sense of accomplishment, and I’m glad I was able to draw them.
Q. 72 Does America get a new number one hero? And what would be their name and quirk?
A. 72 A new No.1 is already on the way. Agate Menou (アゲート・メノウ). Her Quirk is “Fault” (断層). She admired Stars and Stripes and became a Hero. She breaks down various barriers and inspires people.
Q. 73 After the final page of the manga, does Deku continue working at UA as a teacher like other pros?
A. 73 He’s a teacher. He also visit facilities and elementary schools all over the country, and is invited to give lectures, so he spend his days very busy.
Total number of questions: 139,608!!!
Thank you to all the readers for all the questions!!!
And thank you to Horikoshi-sensei for his answers!
How does everyone keep missing how important Twice was to the ENTIRE STORY OF BNHA.
I know he’s not that popular and that I’m obviously biased, but come on, we read the same manga and watched the same anime, didn’t we?
His role in the League was important. His thoughts in the episode of his maskless introduction were important. His Quirk awakening was important. His death was important, he even “came back”, that’s how important it was.
Twice is a VITAL character to BNHA and I’m so sad that no one treats him as one aside from the Villain fans.
Unlike the anime version where it's both Toga and Twice who get angry about Overhaul misgendering Magne, in the manga only Twice verbalizes his anger over this disrespect.
However, the manga makes it clearer than in the anime that this was an intentional microaggression on Overhaul's part. In the manga version, Twice had already informed Overhaul of Magne's pronouns and Overhaul chose to ignore them. The anime version's exclusion of this Twice dialogue makes Overhaul look significantly less transphobic than he was in the manga.
So one interesting thing i noticed about the League's flaws, is that the things that kept them from working together at the start, remained the basic flaws that prevented them from helping each other overcome their own flaws.
Namely that they all joined together out of convinience, and they really got to the level where that actually changed.
When Himiko joins the league, she introduces herself with her seemingly rather confusing motives, namely that she wants a world that is easier for her to live in.
Shigaraki does not understand her wishes at all, and of course lashes out shortly after this after dabi has introduced himself as well, having deemed both of them as not the sort he wants to hang around him.
Dabi by contrast doesnt even try to explain his motives or goals beyond the very vague "fullfill stain's will."
The end result of this is that Shigaraki doesnt even attempt to understand either, and decides to just kill them.
The funny thing is... this kinda attitude never really changes.
Compress even notes it as one of the main reasons he loved the league so much. it didnt pry into his backstory and just took him in regardless.
This attitude is what managed to bring the league together as a force... but it also prevented them from truly truly growing as a group.
Because of the fact nobody wanted or even tried to learn each other's backstories and deeper motivations, none of them ever managed or tried to Help Dabi make a possible future for himself where he could get his vengeance on Endeavor, and still get to live afterwards, instead they just let him burn on, even encouraging him to do so, with the end result that he came to a hellish innevitable march towards death.
Dabi himself tried to help Toga emotionally by setting her childhood home ablaze and rally her heart towards vengeance and freedom, because that's what he is motivated by, but he completely failed to understand what she actually wanted out of life, the reason why out of the entire league, the only person she was able to transform into was Twice, because he was the only one who actually tried to understand her.
This in turn means that Toga ultimately ended up seeking what she truely wanted amongst the heroes, and finally found in uraraka, what she had been afraid to seek/never got from most of the league.
Something that ultimately cost them the war.
this is best showcased when Shigaraki actually lays out his motivations and feelings for villainy, and the rest of his crew(other than spinner) is either completely disinterested, dissapointed or confused.
None of them actually cares about Shigaraki's motives other than spinner, not even Twice.
only spinner and the doctor(who doesnt give a shit about Shigaraki himself) actually cares at all.
of the rest, the only one who even attempts to understand Shigaraki is Toga, and not because she cares about how he feels about it, but because she begun to realise that her goals and interests are ultimately incompatible with shigaraki's(something that would come to fruition during the final arc).
Out of the league, the only one who even tried to understand and did care about shigaraki's motives, and attempted to figure out how they allign with his own wishes, is spinner, and it's not a coincidence that at the very end, he is the only one Shigaraki left his final words to, even if Shigaraki loved the other main members of the league.
The five people Shigaraki Tomura truly cared about in his hearts of hearts at the end... But even here where his feelings are laid bare, there is also another, sad truth.
Kurogiri, the man who effectively cared for Shigaraki as his own son isnt included amongst them.
Kurogiri is a rather complicated character, but it's clear by his final words, that he truly loved the league, just like compress did, and hoped they would be reunited in whatever came next.
It's not clear WHY shigaraki felt like this(maybe once he learned the man was a Nomu that pretty much sealed his ability to think of him as an actual person) but it goes to hammer in the fact that the league was just on a fundamental level not able to try to reach out and understand the motivations of each other.
the main exception to this, and the only one who seems to at least have wanted to understand everyone else is Twice, withouth any doubt the true heart of the League of Villains. The only one who everyone, even cold, brutal dabi considered a close friend.
he is the only one who understood Toga, who always opened his heart bare for the entire league, and when it seemed Hawks was about to join that number, he did everything he could to make him feel welcome and to actually understand what hawks was teaching him.
it's not a coincidence that it is when he dies, that the league really begins to come loose at the seams.
Dabi completely loses it in a way he hasnt done since the time he snapped and tried to kill shoto as a baby, and afterwards any and all morals and reservations completely evaporates in his heart, which is is replaced by a fire that doesnt go out until he literarily cant do anything anymore, having become a burnt out husk.
Toga as to confront the fact that she is living in a fantasy and has to actually commit to the league and it's goals or go her own way.
Mr compress tries to step up to fill in the void Twice left behind, but the grandpa of the group ultimately realizes that somebody is gonna have to sacrifice it all, and decides that like any good father figure, the duty will fall to him. Thus any wisdom he might have been able to impart to the next generation is lost when he becomes the next leaguer to fall right after twice.
But he could have shared these bits of wisdom at any time before this... his goals, his background, the origins of his unique insight into the world. But he didnt. only here, at the very end is he willing to put all of his cards on the table for the league he loved so much.
Spinner doubles down of his friendship to shigaraki, but in the process lets all of his other relationships in the league falter in the hour when they matter the most, when everyone needs to stick together, and by doing so ultimately fails shigaraki as well by not reaching out to him as he's suffering.
Withouth twice and compress, Shigaraki in his most critical hour, when the question of wheter he or AFO will rule this new body, has nobody who has no reservations about reaching out to him to try to be his emotinal support, with all the rest of the league literarily just standing by listening/staring at this mental battle as he suffers.
In essence, all of the leagues problems and weaknesses could have been solved if they had actually been willing to talk to each other to understand their respective ideas and goals in life.
Instead, they did the opposite of what the members of 1-A and aizawa did, and let everything foster and grow until the rot destroyed all of them from the inside out.
Jin is in the League of Villains with me. He's a pretty fun guy usually, but whenever he takes his mask off, or it gets messed up in a fight, he becomes a real head-case. He bounces back and forth so much, I'm surprised he doesn't get motion sickness.
I do what I want to do, so Jin can be Jin... After all, we joined the League so that we'd have a place to be free, and I'll do whatever I can do to make this world an easier place for us to live in.
At first, it was super weird that your quirk could make a copy of me, but turns out we got along really well. Your power is great for making new friends! You could make as many as you wanted. Hey, why don't you make a bunch of clones of yourself so you can have playmates too?
Toga, I feel as if I've been doing things with you a lot lately. Our quirks are similar, and we make a good team. Toga, let's partner up! You're a demon!
It seems you admire things about those boy heroes, but are they really that amazing? You're special. It looks like you're about to go overkill, but once it's done, that's it! Is it okay if we reduced the numbers?
Himiko Toga, you are a young lady that has been a part of the same League of Villains as I. You are rather young and it's interesting to talk to you, but you're crazy in the same way I am. Like me, you have no home except for here.
Credit to RageVG on Reddit for extracting the files from the game.
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