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My Hero Academia Anime's Ochako, Tenya Character Designs Revealed
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The second 2016 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed two more character designs for the television anime of Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) manga on Monday. The issue unveiled the designs for Izuka's new friends and fellow U.A. High School students Ochako Uraraka and Tenya Iida. The anime's official website has also posted the designs:
Ochako Uraraka (Note: the anime's official website spells her first name as "Ochaco")
Tenya Iida
The magazine and website have not yet revealed their voice actors.
The anime stars Daiki Yamashita (Yowamushi Pedal's Sakamichi Onoda, Log Horizon's Tōya) as Izuku Midoriya, Kenta Miyake (Assassination Classroom's Akira Takaoka, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders' Mohammed Abdul) as All Might, and Nobuhiko Okamoto (A Certain Magical Index's Accelerator, Bakuman.'s Eiji Niizuma) as Katsuki Bakugō.
Kenji Nagasaki (Gundam Build Fighters, Classroom Crisis, No. 6) is directing the anime at the studio BONES (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Concrete Revolutio, Fullmetal Alchemist). Yousuke Kuroda (Gundam Build Fighters, Honey and Clover, Trigun) is overseeing the series' scripts. Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Air Master, Heartcatch Precure!, Berserk) is designing the characters for animation.
Several of the main cast members will appear at the Jump Super Stage event at Jump Festa 2016 in Chiba on December 19-20.
Images via Comic Natalie
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