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My Hero Academia Anime Reveals 5 More Character Designs, Corrects Cast Member

The staff of the television anime of Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) manga revealed five more characters in their school uniform and hero costume on Monday.

The website additionally revealed that its cast list that the 15th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine published on Monday had a mistake in it. The magazine had announced that Masakazu Nishida would play Hanta Sero, but the website stated that the correct voice actor for the character is Kiyotaka Furushima. The website apologized for the mistake. Nishida is already voicing the character of Mezō Shōji.

The new character designs and their respective correct cast members are as follows:

Kosuke Miyoshi as Mashirao Ojiro

Kiyotaka Furushima as Hanta Sero

Kaori Nazuka as Tooru Hagakure

Tooru Nara as Rikidō Satō

Kōji Kōda (voice actor not yet revealed)

Previously-announced cast members include:

Daiki Yamashita as Izuku Midoriya
Kenta Miyake as All Might
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Katsuki Bakugō
Ayane Sakura as Ochako Uraraka
Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida
Aoi Yūki as Tsuyu Asui
Ryō Hirohashi as Minoru Mineta
Marina Inoue as Momo Yaoyorozu
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Fumikage Tokoyami
Tasuku Hatanaka as Denki Kaminari
Toshiki Masuda as Eijirō Kirishima
Yūki Kaji as Shōto Todoroki
Eri Kitamura as Mina Ashido
Kōsuke Kuwano as Yūga Aoyama
Kei Shindō as Kyōka Jirō
Masakazu Nishida as Mezō Shōji

The anime will air on the MBS/TBS channel network's "Nichigo" timeslot every Sunday at 5:00 p.m starting on April 3. Funimation will stream the series in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland as it airs in Japan.

Viz Media is publishing the manga, and it describes the story:

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks" at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny...

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. The rock band Porno Graffiti is performing the opening, and the rock band Brian the Sun is performing the ending as their major label debut.

Images via Comic Natalie