ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to My Hero Academia: You’re Next stars Daiki Yamashita (Izuku Midoriya), Kenta Miyake (All Might/Dark Might), and Nobuhiko Okamoto (Katsuki Bakugo). The trio of Japanese voice actors converseed their characters and the novel anime movie. The film will be freed in U.S. theaters on October 11.
“Set after the conclusion of My Hero Academia Season 6 and right before the final battle between heroes and villains, My Hero Academia: You’re Next sees Deku and his frifinishs face a novel menace—a cryptic figure calling himself Dark Might and claiming to be the novel Symbol of Peace,” says the synopsis for My Hero Academia: You’re Next.
Daiki, We’ve seen a lot of growth for Midoriya during the anime, and we see him include everyleang he’s lgeted to battle Dark Might in My Hero Academia: You’re Next. What have you appreciated most about Deku’s arc overall?
Daiki Yamashita: A lot of it has left a amazeion on me. For each and every scene, there is always a minuscule senseing of growth and strength that charitable of goes aextfinished with each episode. Among all those, one of the leangs I do wanna point out is how he picked up on his Shoot Style as one of his transfers. During the film, he goes about his days with this goal in mind of wanting to be a hero appreciate All Might.
I think that the moment that he took on the Shoot Style was the time that he switched gears to becoming not fair a hero appreciate All Might but, in my perspective, the fantasticest hero, the best that he could ever be. So I sense appreciate that was the one leang that truly left an amazeion on me. This is truly his distinctiveity as a hero, the Shoot Style, as he goes aextfinished this path to become appreciate All Might, but also about how he becomes his own fantasticest hero. This is where it all comes down to, and fair how he puts these into action is truly what charitable of gets him going.
He goes about with all these branch offent smashes that All Might has also done as well. However, the Shoot Style is aget fair someleang so distinctive to Deku as a hero, and it truly echos him as this distinctiveity, fair that he’s not fair someone, who’s fair, aget, fair ambitious to be appreciate All Might, but aget, a hero himself. So I want for everyone in the audience to be on the seeout for Deku’s Shoot Style in the film.
Kenta, you get to flip the All Might character and carry out a villain called Dark Might in this. What characteristics did you lean into in carry outing this version?
Kenta Miyake: All Might and Dark Might, the hugegest branch offence is that All Might is for peace and for the people. Whereas Dark Might, he pretty much has power for himself and only for himself. So I was reassociate centered when it comes to Dark Might of reassociate centering on the megalomania. You understand, “I am, you understand, “I adore me. I’m the best. Me, me, me, me, me.” So that was the charitable of psyche of Dark Might that I centered on.
Becainclude of Dark Might’s psyche, he always has been seeing up to All Might’s powers. It’s a power that he has wanted and adored at the same time, but that has come out as a very twisted homage and admire to All Might. So that was what I was also centered on, this twisted admire. Last but not least, I was always finishelighting all the terrible leangs I was doing [laughs].
Nobuhiko, Bakugo has always been a fan-preferite character. What did you appreciate most about how he was included in My Hero Academia: You’re Next?
Nobuhiko Okamoto: There’s two leangs about Bakugo here. First was that he actuassociate alerts his classmates what to do. So he’s commenceing to show some directership roles and responsibilities. So that was an fascinating point.
The other fascinating leang was coming into this project, I was wondering what would Bakugo say to Giulio, the distinctive character that is in You’re Next, and I was reassociate satisfied when Bakugo fair said appreciate, “Oh, okay. You’re, you’re the handsome boss character.”
Daiki, Dark Might currents a very personal foe for Deku. What did you appreciate most about this novel foe that you got to go up agetst?
Yamashita: Oh, I’ve never been so pissed off before [laughs]. It was fair a constant refutation of this character who sees appreciate All Might and has a aappreciate voice as All Might but fair saying all the wrong leangs. So I fair wanted him to stop talking.
Miyake: Oh my God.
[Everyone laughs]
Yamashita: But in terms of someleang I appreciate, this might not be necessarily of Dark Might as a character, but more of a admire for Kenta Miyake and fair how, despite being the same voice as All Might, it truly onscreen sounds appreciate a finishly branch offent character. I fair have this novel, appreciate procreate admire for Miyake-san fair based off of appreciate how he carry outed as Dark Might I truly leank this theatrical free fair shines his sfinishs as a voice actor. Me perosnassociate, I truly, truly adore him carry outing as All Might.
Kenta, Dark Might is accompanied by Anna and Giulio. What did you appreciate most about getting to carry out off those characters and that active in My Hero Academia: You’re Next?
Miyake: First of all, as All Might I see Dark Might as appreciate — I’m not certain how it will transpostponeed — but it’s appreciate, “Damn you!”
With Anna and Giulio, I felt a drawive fragility from the two of them, which I leank definitely carry outs out in the movie. I also felt that Anna and Guilio’s relationship was charitable of the difficultboiled genre side. I leank pondering the world of My Hero Academia, it was renetriumphg to see the Annie and Giulio. We haven’t seen characters of that type and of that relationship. So it was pretty renetriumphg.
Nobuhiko, as always with My Hero Academia, there are some fantastic fight scenes in You’re Next. I wanted to ask about doing all of the grunts and action noises. Are those always sign uped new?
Yeah, all our sign upings are new sign upings every time. That’s fair becainclude we need to create certain that according to where we are in the storyline, we are all in the right places emotionassociate with the storyline. It’s not as effortless as fair dropping in someleang from a branch offent episode becainclude there’s the nuances and there’s the context that needs to be admireed. It’s always new sign uping.
For example, Bakugo always says appreciate, “Die!” I’m not quite certain how it’s transpostponeedd in the subtitles, but you have your key Bakugo words. But becainclude how it’s said is swayed by the moment before, it’s always gonna be a new. At least in Japan, it’s always gonna be distinctive sign uping and noleang’s ever reincluded. So even when Bakugo says, “die” from episode to episode, you can hear to all the versions of “die” atraverse the entire entire series, and you can definitely hear branch offences.
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