Just before the start of the new chapter "Final Exam Arc! My Hero Academia": A cross interview with Ayane Sakura, Aoi Yuki, and Marina Inoue!

The second season of the TV anime "My Hero Academia" has finally entered its final stages. Each season of this work has always demonstrated the "personality" of each hero. This time, three female voice actors, Ayane Sakura (who plays Ochako Reichi), Aoi Yuki (who plays Umei Froguki), and Marina Inoue (who plays Momo Yaumann), who play the female characters who have more opportunities to play active roles in the second season, gathered to talk about their memories of the second season and their feelings toward the characters!　They talked about their memories of the second season and their feelings toward the characters to the fullest.

Enjoy the three women's clever talk!

--The second season of the TV anime "My Hero Academia" (hereafter referred to as "Hero Academia") is finally approaching its climax.

Marina Inoue (Inoue): To put it broadly, the second season has a very strong image of the sports festival.

Aoi Yuki (Yuuki): You have drawn it very carefully.

Inoue: In the first season, the students of Yuuei High School were only introduced in about six episodes, so it was like we were just starting to explore the world of the students. The characters had just entered the school, so they didn't get along with each other that well. While everyone had different goals, at the end of the first season we had an episode of fighting a common enemy (villain), and in the second season we were all able to appear together from the very first episode. I had the impression that the atmosphere was quite different from that of the first season.

Ayane Sakura (Sakura): In the first season, the theme was basically "What is a hero? But in the second season, we delved deeper into the background of each character and the story of their families. The many incidents were really well organized. And even though the A group alone was strong, the B group also made an appearance, adding even more characters to the story (laughs).

Ayane Sakura, who plays Ochako Reichi

Inoue: It's really hard to remember the names (laughs). The number of characters has increased to the point where even the viewers are wondering, "Who is this? But they all have strong personalities, and I'm very glad that they showed us their personalities so well on the screen.

Yuuki: In the first season, the only classmates I had were Izuhisa, Ochako, and Mineida, but in the second season, there was a girl's team, which made me happy. We had to fight an enemy that we couldn't fight unless we were united as a class, and I could see how we would get along with this girl.

Also, when I read the original story, I thought, "Oh my God, the villains are attacking us! Then, "It's a sports festival! I realized that in order to be a hero, you have to maintain this tension and groove while making the attacks of enemies (villains) a part of your everyday life.

Sakura: You can't stop, can you?

--In "Hiroaka", besides school life, emergencies occur frequently, such as encounters with Stayne and attacks by villains. Were there any "emergencies" that happened during the recording?

Yuuki: Elegant Aoyama's (CV: Kosuke Kuwano) dialogue is so funny that someone blurts it out (laughs).

Aoi Yuuki, who plays the role of Ume Frogblower

Sakura That's right!　（In episode 36 (broadcast on September 16), Aoyama-kun was so unfair that everyone laughed. It was a serious scene in the final exam where Ochako and Aoyama must team up to win against Mr. No. 13, but Aoyama-kun was so absent-minded (laughs).

Inoue: He never reads the air (laughs). Also, Kaminari Denki (CV: Yu Hatanaka) sometimes gets a little confused.

Sakura: Hatanaka-san sometimes lets his acting go too fast and doesn't speak clearly (laughs).

Yuuki: He doesn't even read the script!

Inoue: You get a good reaction from the audience in the test, and then you do the same thing in the performance, only to be told by everyone, "That's not what I meant! and everyone would give me a hard time about it.

--Everyone was having a great time recording the show, just like in the anime.

Yuuki: The cast is full of unique personalities!　I get the impression that everyone is living in their own time-space (laughs).

SakuraI 'm sure that if we didn't have people with such strong personalities, they would be buried in the crowd. There are so many characters.

Inoue: (A staff member) said, "It's hard to pay for the cast because there are so many characters.

Everyone (laughs).

--(Laughs) - I guess the more characters there are, the fewer lines each person has to say.

Inoue: I had a lot of trouble. The main theme of "Hiroaca" is "individuality," so I had to show each character's personality in just one word. I remember it was especially difficult in the first season, when there were no "duty times" (featuring a single character).

SakuraIf I acted with hesitation, Masafumi Mima, the sound director, would ask me, "How did you feel when you did this? Masafumi Mima, the sound director, would ask me, "How did you feel about this? Even if it is an explanatory line, it must be a line that has a purpose for the character's voice, or he will see right through it.

Inoue: It is more nerve-wracking and difficult to say just one word.

Yuuki: There is a sense of "If I make a mistake in this, it will be the end of me. With "Hiroaca," the more people you have, the bigger the art as a whole becomes, so everyone feels like they have to share one part at a time.

--The 35th episode to be aired on September 9 will be "Yaomomo's turn" in "Yaomomo: Rising". How did you feel about this episode?

Inoue: At first, I thought Yaomomo was a very serious, honest, and noble young lady with a bit of a twang.　As you read the story, you will realize that she is a very pure, honest, and cute normal girl. Yaomomo, an honor student who entered the school as a recommended student, was surrounded by many unique characters and lost her confidence more and more.

Marina Inoue as Momo Yaomomo

In my mind, I had been acting as "a person who has lost confidence" in Yaomomo, but unlike me, who is an ordinary person, she was a "hero who has a protector and has to fight. So even if you lose confidence, if there is an enemy in front of you, a hero should not be defeated by your feelings. In this way, I was reminded that she is a hero in "Eight Hundred Million: Rising". It was a point of great reflection for me that I had taken the existence of a hero too much for granted and looked at Yaomomo too much as a single human being.

Yaomomo is a hero, so he has to fight! I felt again that "Yaomo is a hero, so he has to fight!