My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising aims to bring Class 1-A together again on February 26. As the second film in the ultra-popular anime franchise that’s already had 4 seasons, fans already know what they’re getting into. The anime premiered in 2016, and it’s been growing exponentially as a pop culture phenomenon ever since.
The story centers around a world where almost every human has powers, called Quirks, which they can use to become heroes or villains as they see fit. One Quirk-less boy named Izuku Midoriya, who desperately wants to be a hero, finds himself granted powers by the famed All Might. This allows him to join U.A. High School, where he trains to become a Pro Hero along with his friends.
Now that the students have been studying for four years, audiences are well-acquainted with their Quirks. But what powers would the voice actors give themselves if they could choose? Screen Rant posed this question to the cast of the My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising English dub, and these were the responses:
Justin Briner (Midoriya): Oh, my goodness. I’ve had about 100. What’s a fun one? I want the quirk that whenever I taste a food, I can tell exactly the ingredients, the seasonings, everything so I could recreate it myself.
Clifford Chapin (Bakugo): I would like to have a Quirk where I could prick my finger and then run the blood over any screen or misspelling or anything, and it would fix all the grammatical errors. And then my hero name could be Type-O. Because it works as a pun, right? Typo, but it’s a blood type. Type-O.
Chris Sabat (All Might): Man, Justin Briner have this deal where we’re going to try and come up with a new one every single time someone asks us this question. I would love the Quirk to be able to stop time. Because I always feel like I need more of it. That way I could be as late to anything as possible.
David Matranga (Todoroki): I would want to be able to change the energy of a room by just thinking it. The mood, the energy, whatever within the room.
Zeno Robinson (Takami): I think if I had a Quirk in real life, it would be crystallization. I’d have crystals coming out of my body. Very defensive and offensive; a good combination of both.
Patrick Seitz (Endeavor): If I had a Quirk, it would be the ability to understand and speak any language. My runner-up Quirk is if I could eat a book and absorb it… Like a bookworm.
Jason Liebrecht (Dabi): I have amazing meat-dar. I can cook any protein, any level of done-ness you would like. That’s my actual Quirk, but if I were to choose a Quirk, I would probably choose time travel or the ability to teleport.
Colin Decker (Funimation’s General Manager): I think it’s probably levitation of some kind. I’m pretty easy, I don’t want fire hands necessarily. Nothing involving electricity; just levitation. So that if I wanted to bounce, I could do that.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising arrives in theaters on February 26.
