My Hero Academia's Ochako Was Originally a Totally Different Heroine
Ochako Uraraka, one of the most popular students in My Hero Academia and a main love interest to the main character Izuku Midoriya, was originally going to have a much different design and set of powers. Many manga characters undergo changes from their initial conception to their first appearance on the page but few undergo as radical an alteration. Her initial character was so fully realized that she actually became a completely different character introduced in the first chapters of the series.
My Hero Academia is a manga series written by Kohei Horikoshi that takes place in a world where most people have a superpower called a Quirk. Given the proliferation of powers in the general public, being a professional hero is a respected career. The main character of the series is Izuku Midoriya, aka Deku, a high schooler enrolled in UA High, a school for teenagers who want to become professional heroes. Ochako Uraraka is one of the students in his class who has romantic feelings for Deku. She has the power to nullify gravity for any object that she touches. Over the course of the series she grows and learns to use her power in very creative ways in battle. Her original power would have made this development a bit more difficult.
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In the extra pages of Volume 1 of the manga, Horikoshi revealed that Ochako’s role was originally going to be filled by Yu Takeyama, a character who in the final manga became the pro hero Mt. Lady. Horikoshi mentions that he decided against this initial plan because he thought focusing so in-depth on someone whose Quirk was only being able to grow their body would eventually become too dark. In initial sketches, Yu’s design was also
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