| “ | Momo: You're lucky that worked out so well! Kyoka: I'm sorry! Next time I'll ask before saving our butts! |
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| ~ Momo Yaoyorozu scolding Kyoka for recklessly using Denki Kaminari as a taser during Tomura Shigaraki's attack on the USJ. |
| “ | I've been training to fight villains for a long time, but I didn't know it would feel like this! He's pure evil! Every cell of my body is on edge! Midoriya, Aoyama; I can't believe it! You've been facing this the entire time?! | „ |
| ~ Kyoka's thoughts when All For One attempts to brutally kill her during the final battle. |
Kyoka Jiro (耳郎 響香), also known as the Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack (ヒアヒーロー イヤホン＝ジャック, Hia Hīrō Iyahon Jakku), is a major protagonist in the My Hero Academia franchise.
Kyoka is a student at the prestigious U.A. High School training to become a Professional Hero. She is a part of Class 1-A of the Heroes Studies course. Jiro's quirk, Earphone Jack, affords her with long, controllable earlobes that function like headphone cables.
She is voiced by Kei Shindō in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Trina Nishimura in the English version. Her singing voice in both versions was provided by Chrissy Costanza.
Appearance[]
Kyoka is a medium height girl with a slim build, lazy looking black eyes with small pupils and short, dark purple hair with an asymmetrical fringe and two chin-length bangs on either side. One of her most notable features is her Earphone Jacks hanging off each of her ears, due to her Quirk.
Sometimes, instead of the U.A blazer, Kyoka wears the waistcoat.
Her hero costume consists of a black jacket, ending at her waist and the sleeves at her wrists, a pale red shirt with large rips at the hem-line and collar. She sports large black boots to use her Quirk with. Kyoka also wears a plain black choker, black tights, white fingerless gloves and two red tear-drop shaped marks below her eyes.
Personality[]
Kyoka is a straight-forward and calm girl who, despite her usually unenthusiastic demeanour, has a teasing side towards others, most notably Denki Kaminari, whose dumbed-out and short-circuited face she finds to be funny. Despite this, she is friendly towards most of her classmates and enjoys hanging out with them.
Kyoka can be aggressive when angered, often using her Earphone Jacks to punish those who get on her bad side, key examples being Denki Kaminari and Minoru Mineta during their perverted antics. While often coming off as cold however, Kyoka does also have an insecure side towards her own traits, being self-conscious of her appearance and being slightly affected when Mineta didn't comment about her while trying to peek on the girls.
Kyoka is also protective of Momo, as she tried to cover her from Denki when Momo's clothing was damaged and her breasts were exposed, and punched Hanta when he accidentally mocked Momo's quirk, demanding him to apologize to her.
When the occasion arises, Kyoka can also prove to be surprisingly intelligent, able to utilize Kaminari's Electrification Quirk to defeat villains at the USJ by using her classmate as a "human stun-gun". She also came up with the idea of using Koda's Quirk to use bugs to defeat Present Mic during the Final Exams.
Furthermore, Kyoka also possessed a complex regarding her passion for rock music and became embarrassed and reluctant when others inquired about it. It's revealed that this was because she perceived her passion as being unrelated to heroism, but eventually became motivated when taking the role of head singer during the School Festival. After this, Kyoka completely overcame this mentality and proved herself to be a great singer.
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Etymology[]
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Kyoka shares two traits with Denki Kaminari and Tenya Iida:
- Similar to Kaminari, Kyoka has highlights in her hair that resemble audio waveforms in her case, which perfectly fit her sound-themed Quirk.
- Similar to Tenya and his leg mufflers, Kyoka has actual earphone jacks as part of her body, which she inherited from her mother. She can even plug them into her cellphone and listen to music.
- Kyoka tends to fiddle with her earlobes or twirl them around her fingers.
- Kyoka is the spitting image of her mother, down to having the same Quirk, except for the fact that her mother wears glasses. It's subtle, but she inherited her father's eyes down to their shape.
- In theme with her style, Kyoka has the gruffest voice of all the girls in 1-A.
- Kyoka's favorite music genre is rock, evident by her hero costume and love for music.
- After losing her left Earphone Jack by All For One during the final battle, it is unclear if Kyoka lost the entire ear due to her hair covering the side of her head where it would be.
- Despite her interest in rock music, her fairly boyish fashion sense, and her sarcastic personality, her character file states that she has a girly side. In Two Heroes, she wears a pink dress and a floral hair accessory to the party.
- Kyoka is the only girl in Class 1-A who isn't outwardly sexualised in any way and she is one of the least sexualised female characters in general.
- Kyoka's Quirk was inspired when Horikoshi wanted to make a character who could plug their ears into objects while he was listening to music on a trip back home. Her Quirk may have actually been the first that Horikoshi came up with.
- Kyoka is the only student in her class that wears a waistcoat as part of her school uniform while everyone else wears jackets.
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