My Hero Academia returns this Saturday with the highly anticipated premiere of its seventh season. The latest season of the mega-popular superhero action anime is set to adapt the “Star and Stripe” arc of Kōhei Horikoshi’s original manga. That means the arrival of America’s No. 1 Hero, Star and Stripe, in Japan to aid Izuku Midoriya and his classmates in their battle against Tomura Shigaraki and the Paranormal Liberation Front.
Since its debut in 2016, My Hero Academia has grown to become one of the most popular shōnen anime in the world, inspiring a fandom arguably magnified by the pop culture shift instigated by the phenomenon of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DCU. During this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards, Polygon had the opportunity to speak to multiple celebrity anime fans about their love of My Hero Academia, as well as ask what quirk they think they would have if they lived in the world of Horikoshi’s superhero epic.
Megan Thee Stallion
“If I could choose my own quirk, I would choose to be a part of the Todoroki family because I feel like those are already quirks that I would have. Because I’m Tina Snow; that’s my ice powers, and I’m the Hot Girl coach; that’s my fire power. I just feel like that’s where I would be.”
Iman Vellani
“Freezing time, but without me aging. I would like more sleep; I would like more time to watch TV and movies. Sometimes I feel like when I’m doing press and I get to travel, it’s just all press and I don’t have enough time to just go where I want. So freezing time, or teleportation, though I do like being on a plane.”
Yaeji
“I think [my quirk] would have to do something with time, which is a heavy burden to carry. But maybe there’s more specific rules to it, something that manipulates time that allows you to speed up or slow it down.”
Mercedes Varnado
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“Either flying or being invisible. Just because I love overseeing things, I love being part of the world, and I love traveling. So just to be able to travel faster would be awesome. I’d like to be invisible so I can escape from any situation; Like, if I don’t like something, I could just go.”
What quirk would you choose to have in the world of My Hero Academia?
My Hero Academia season 7 premieres Saturday, May 4 at 2:30 a.m PT on Crunchyroll.