MHA Light Novel 5 - Preview Translation
The fifth My Hero Academia light novel will be coming out this Friday, September 4th in Japan! They have posted a preview of the first chapter online and it includes a great scene with Todoroki visiting Midoriya in his dorm room. I’ve done a rough translation of the scene for fans as a preview, VIZ has licensed the light novels in the USA so you can look forward to an official English release one day in the future!
Sorry for any mistakes, as always free to correct.
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“Midoriya.”
Suddenly hearing his name, Izuku turned to see Shoto Todoroki peeking through his open dorm room door.
“What’s up, Todoroki?”
“I found this mechanical pencil. Isn’t this one of yours?”
“Oh, it is! I wonder if I dropped it the other day when you were teaching me English. Thanks for bringing it back. Did you already finish cleaning?”
“Yeah,” Todoroki gave a short response and looked around the room. “You really do have a lot of All Might stuff.”
Todoroki sounded like he was a bit impressed and Izuku felt like he was being complimented. “I guess,” he responded, scratching his head a bit in embarrassment.
“…I want to try putting a figure in my room sometime too.”
Izuku’s eyes glittered hearing that one casual comment from Todoroki.
“Really, you do!? Then I have a recommendation!!”
Izuku went straight to his closet and pulled out a figure in a box and started to tell Todoroki about it while breathing heavily through his nose. Nerds are creatures that enjoy trying to turn others into nerds. It’s pure desire born from the love of wanting other people to understand, even just a little bit, how amazing your favorite character is.
“This figure came out early during his Golden Age period but it’s a rare item, limited edition with only a limited run made! And look at the expression! Just overflowing with confidence! The angle and width of the eyebrows! A perfect All Might smile that makes you want to smile just looking at it! And the teeth color, they used a new kind of paint to reproduce the sparkling in his teeth! Look, when I move it you can see it sparkling right!? And the attention to detail in his muscles! You can tell he has the strength to blow away a villain in just one hit! The hair and his cape look so natural too! They were detailed down to his fingertips, they perfectly reproduced the colors of his hero suit, and he really looks like he’s about to come alive and go fight a villain! You can feel all the love that the creator put into this! I wish I could thank them personally for putting so much work into making it! This figure makes even hardcore fans jealous! So how about this one!?”
Izuku had spoken it all without stopping to take a breath, and Todoroki thought a moment before responding.
“Why don’t you put it out in your room?”
“I want to, but I don’t want to, like… it’s rare so I want to save it and just look at it sometimes, I guess.”
“Then I–”
Todoroki was about to say he couldn’t possibly put it out in his room, but Izuku realized and stopped him before he could say it.
“Ah, no that’s okay! Because actually… I have two!”
Izuku then went back to his closet and pulled out another copy of the same figure.
“My mom didn’t know I had bought the figure already and she went to another store and lined up to get it. She gave it to me as a birthday present. Which makes it even harder to put out on display. But I always thought I should do something with it since I have two, so you can use it if you want.”
Looking at the figure held out to him, Todoroki shook his head no after a moment of thought.
“I might accidentally drop and break it, so I’ll pass.”
“All right~”
Izuku looked a little disappointed, so Todoroki spoke again.
“If I ever want to see it, can I come by again?”
“Of course!”
Izuku agreed with a full-blown smile and Todoroki’s expression softened, when they heard a bright voice from the door behind them.
“Hey! If you’re going to look at that, I’ll let you borrow my sparking lamp ☆”
Yuga Aoyama seemed to have heard their conversation from next door and brought a bright lamp in and shined it at the All Might figures. Seeing the sparkling All Might figures, Izuku’s big eyes sparkled even more.
“…All Might is sparkling…!! Aoyama, this is amazing!!”
“Oh, wow.” said Todoroki.
Todoroki had a blank expression on his face but was impressed when suddenly a voice filled with desire could be heard from behind Aoyama.
“Hey Aoyama, shine that on my rare stuff too…!”
The embodiment of desire, Minoru Mineta, came closer trying to put an obscene magazine page up to the lamp. Izuku turned bright red and turned away as he realized what was on the page, “D-don’t do that Mineta…! That magazine…!”
“Shut up, we might be able to see what’s hidden if we use this light! Of course it’s nice when you can see everything… of course it is… but when stuff is hidden it ignites your imagination with the desire to see it! Just as even with online music streaming some people like to listen to records, there’s a certain eroticism to seeing pictures of women in an analog paper magazine…!”
Mineta brought the magazine page up to the lamp. Aoyama turned pale but Mineta got so close his eyes were almost on the page when suddenly the magazine started burning from the heat of the lamp.
“Woa!? My eyes! My eyes!”
Todoroki froze the magazine as Mineta rolled around after almost burning his eyes.
“Mineta, are you okay?” asked Todoroki.
“Were you burned!?” checked Izuku.
As Izuku and the others went over, Mineta managed to sit up. He was startled by the flame but was fine. “That was scary…” said Mineta as he finally calmed down, only to panic a moment later after seeing his burnt and frozen magazine.
“Aaaahh!! My rare magazine~!!”
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