My Hero Academia's Boys Get a Flowery Shojo Makeover
My Hero Academia's main story may be over, but the spinoff series Team-Up Missions has a few chapters left to be released in English. One such chapter involved the boys of Class 1-A getting a peak at themselves in a very different art style, thanks to Shiketsu's Camie Utsushimi.
Fans may remember Camie from the Provisional License Exams arc, where she was replaced by Toga. The real Camie doesn't appear until the Remedial Courses arc, where she has to join Todoroki and Bakugo in making up for failing the license exam (since she wasn't even there). Camie's Quirk, Glamour, allows her to create illusions, and one commonly seen illusion of Camie's is a bishonen version of Shoto Todoroki, drawn in a shojo romance art style, enhancing his looks far beyond reality. Team-Up Missions took this to the next level, though, by having nearly all of Class 1-A's boys depicted in this style.
Camie's Quirk Gives Class 1-A the Bishonen Treatment
Camie's Illusions Create Shojo Counterparts to Many Characters
In chapter 36 of Team-Up Missions, Camie contacts Todoroki, asking for some help (in her usual slang-filled style of speaking) with developing a new ultimate move, and hopes to get some practice in with her Quirk by creating illusions of students from UA. Since Todoroki has a tough time understanding her, Midoriya takes over, and begins texting her descriptions of his classmates, which she replicates using her Quirk. Up first, of course, is Deku himself, followed by Aoyama, Mineta, Ojiro, Sato, Ida, Shoji, and finally, the only girl to get the treatment, Jiro. The characters are highly bemused, with all but Deku under the impression this is an app.
There's something very inherently funny about seeing these shonen characters redrawn in a shojo art style, surrounded by sparkles and flowers. It's very reflective of the "beauty shots" commonly seen in shojo manga, and each character also gets some kind of silly pick-up line to go with it, making the joke hit even harder. Shoji's is particularly hilarious, as even the eyes on his appendages are drawn in shojo style, creating a very weird effect. Even funnier is that all this practice is ultimately for naught, as Camie ends up creating a horror monster illusion as her new ultimate move.
My Hero Academia Highlights the Differences Between Shonen and Shojo
The Two Styles of Manga Are Quite Distinctive, Although Many May Not Realize It
While many people tend to think of all anime and manga sharing a particular "anime" style, the fact is that there are actually many different art styles employed in the manga industry. My Hero Academia, which uses a pretty conventional shonen style seen in action series, looks very different from, say, Fruits Basket. Shojo tends toward different sorts of stories, such as romance, and thus emphasizes different aspects of characters, so changing a character from one style to another is harder than one might think. Camie clearly has a lot of experience with shojo, as it's even commented on in-universe.
Fans can read My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions' new chapters on Viz's Shonen Jump app.
- Movie(s)
- My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018), My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019), My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
- First Film
- My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
- Cast
- Daiki Yamashita, Kenta Miyake, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Ayane Sakura, Yûki Kaji, Aoi Yuki, Kaito Ishikawa, Toshiki Masuda, Marina Inoue, Yoshimasa Hosoya
- TV Show(s)
- My Hero Academia
- Video Game(s)
- My Hero Academia: Battle for All, My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2
- Character(s)
- Izuku Midoriya, All Might, Katsuki Bakugo, Ochaco Uraraka, Shoto Todoroki, Tsuyu Asui, Tenya Iida, Eijiro Kirishima, Momo Yaoyorozu, Fumikage Tokoyami
