Shoto Todoroki in My Hero Academia has a distinctive scar over his left eye, and there is a little girl with a similar birthmark in the real world. lastflashqueen posted on January 11 a Tiktok video of her being happy with the character’s plush: “He has a birthmark like me.” January 11 is the character’s birthday.
Days later, the video went beyond language barriers, national boundaries and platforms, and arrived in the home of My Hero Academia, Japan, where the author of the series, Kohei Horikoshi, and the Japanese voice actor of Shoto Todoroki, Yuki Kaji, live.
“Horikoshi-sensei told me about a video of a girl who has a scar in the same place as Shoto does, and I watched it.” Yuki Kaji revealed on his X page that the TikTok video reached Kohei Horikoshi first. It seems the author wanted to share it with him. The voice actor continued to describe the girl with a Shoto Todoroki plush in the video: “Saying ‘like me,’ she was hugging a doll with an adorable smile.” As if saying to the character he plays, he expressed his feeling: “Even if it’s a heavy past to you, I realized it still has the potential that it can save someone…” The post concluded with Yuki Kaji’s smile on the scarred hero: “I saw over there a way of being the hero only Shoto could do☺️”
My Hero Academia is a Shonen manga series Kohei Horikohi launched in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2024. The decade-long serialization ended in August 2024 and the final, volume 42 was released in December of that year.
The title first inspired a TV anime adaptation by studio BONES in 2016 and has since made a total of seven TV anime seasons and four anime film adaptations. Season 8 is currently planned to conclude the anime series in 2025.
Source: Official X, TikTok
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