There was no way I was going to skip out on painting a character from My Hero Academia. I absolutely love the show. Normally, I prefer my superhero universes, and anime in particular, to be darker and grittier but there’s something about how MHA handles the old tropes that really appeals to me. Like how Deku is the protagonist and he has to start at the bottom in order to make the climb, but he’s never treated as an idiot as a way to allow the show to give you an info dump. Instead he gets all exited and starts info dumping and the other characters get on his case about it. And I love how the show treats ambition not as a horrible thing that must be cast aside in order to grow, but as something to drive your growth forward. It’s kind of the Anit-Naruto in that way, which has a much greater focus on a collective achievement. Wait…I think I just did a Deku rant. AWESOME!!!
One thing that even MHA hasn’t been able to cure me of however is that I’m never a big fan of the main female character that we’re supposed to love. I prefer the side characters because they’re more interesting. Asui is up there but I want to do a piece of just her eventually. For my first MHA piece I wanted to go big, so I went with two of my favorite female characters from the show.
Momo is totally best girl in that show. Not only is her power the exact one that I would want to have, she’s a character that is powered by her intelligence and she’s willing to break rules when it comes to saving her friends. She was the only girl out of that whole crew who went after Bakugo and they would never have found him without her. Plus, she suffers from a fear of failure that is all too familiar for me.
Mina’s just flat out fun. She’s a generally happy person, but she’s still got that fire to win. What I love about her, beside her look, is that she honestly believes that things will work out if she just keeps going forward. More than that, she believes in people. When Kaminari tells her that he wants to go to UA she’s one of the few people that doesn’t make fun of him for not having a flashy power. She believes he can do it. She’s going to be beat him to be the best, but she knows he can make the climb.
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