The TodoFam in BNHA Volume 4 - The Todorokis in street clothes
Everyone is familiar with the Todorokis Hero and Villain clothes. What people might have missed though are the ordinary clothes the Todoroki wears so if they do wear ordinary clothes in a volume, I will collect the images for everyone to see.
We only have one image of one Todoroki in street clothes in this volume, the Todoroki in question being Rei. The image is in chap 31 and ep 19
The TodoFam in BNHA Vol. 4 Chap. 031 - Todoroki Shōto’s Profile
Release date: February 16, 2015 (WSJ Issue 13, 2015)
Let’s look at what the manga shows us first:
Kosei “Hanrei Han'nen”
Migi hanshin wa sesshita MONO o itetsuka seru! Hidari hanshin wa shakunetsu no honō o funshutsu suru!
Chōjikan, danzoku-teki ni itetsuka seru to tōshō ni narunode hidari hanshin no netsu de taion chōsei o shinakereba naranai! Hidari hanshin o chōjikan danzoku-teki ni tsukau to……………………… dō narunda!
個性『半冷半燃』
右半身は接したモノを凍てつかせる！左半身は灼熱の炎を噴出する！
長時間、断続的に凍てつかせると凍傷になるので左半身の熱で体温調整をしなければならない！左半身を長時間断続的に使うと………………………どうなるんだ！？
Personality: “half-cold, half-burning”
His right half freezes anything it comes into contact with! His left half spews scorching flames!
If he keep freezing things for an extended period of time, he will suffer frostbites, so he must use the heat from his left half to regulate his body temperature! What will happen if he keep using his left half for an extended period of time?
Observation notes:
Although we are given some info about Shōto, this is more a profile of his Quirk than of him. We will never find out what would happen to him if he keep using his left half for an extended period of time because he simply won’t do it, at least not without regulating his temperature with his other side.
We know that if Enji abuses of his fire Quirk not much physical harm comes to him beyond that the excessive use of heat slows him down, but this will be revealed in chap 188. I do wonder if, since most of Shōto’s prototype was later discharged and used as an inspiration for Tōya, if among the things planned there was that Shōto would burn himself if he were to use his fire side without balancing it with his ice side and than this part was discharged too and given to Tōya.
This though would explain why Shōto could get a burn scar due to boiling water, those temperature is way lower than fire.
Translation notes:
Shōto’s name in the beginning is written with the western alphabet so technically, the official translitteration of Shōto’s name is just ‘Shoto’. if you are wondering why you also see it translitterated as ‘Shōto’ or ‘Shouto’, that is because the reading given for his name in Japanese is is しょうと so basically ‘しょ’=‘sho’ + ‘う’=‘u’ + ‘と’=‘to’.
The ‘u’ in the middle means that the ‘o’ in ‘sho’ is long.
In theory using ‘ō’ (with a macron) is the most accurate way to translitterate the fact that the ‘o’ in his name is meant to be a long sound.
Another common and easier to write way to translitterate it would be the more litteral ‘ou’.
Technically using a single ‘o’ is inaccurate for a long ‘o’ sound, as it represents a short ‘o’ and is therefore incorrect, although it is sometimes seen in informal contexts for convenience.
Official translitterations and English translations both decided to go with the single ‘o’ for convenience.
In the fandom there is the theory Shōto’s burn scar might be due to Rei trying to cool down Shōto with her ice after throwing at him boiling water. However here we can see Shōto’s burn scar is called ‘yakedo’ (火傷 lit. “fire wound”) and not ‘reitōyake’ (冷凍焼け lit. “cold frozen burn”), which implies clearly his scar wasn’t due to his skin coming in contact with something cold but due to coming in contact with something hot. It is worth to remember that Horikoshi rewrote Shōto’s past and, likely, here he had no plans for having Rei trying to cool the burn down, the burn meaning to be just a burn.
