Shihai Kuroiro

Shihai Kuroiro, also known as Scheming Hero: Vantablack, is a character from the My Hero Academia series.
== Charactah Account ==
A Class 1-B boy with jet-black skin due to his Quirk, "Black", which allows him to merge into anything black and control it to an extent. He seems to have a rivalry with Tokoyami due to their similar powers and personalities.
Shihai is a sly, deceitful schemer, who prefers to catch people off guard. He appears to enjoy dark concepts and has a penchant for dramatic speech, similar to Fumikage Tokoyami.
Shihai appears to have a crush on Kinoko Komori, as he nervously averts his eyes and stammers while speaking to her, and celebrates internally when she praises him in the Joint Training Battle. He's also seen standing jealously behind her while she talks to Fumikage. Shihai struggles to talk to girls in general and thinks they have a crush on him if they talk to him.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* My Hero Academia Season 2
* My Hero Academia Season 3
* My Hero Academia Season 4
* My Hero Academia Season 5
* My Hero Academia Season 6
=== Manga ===
* My Hero Academia
* My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions
== Trivia ==
* Shihai's favorite food is squid ink pasta.
** Shihai shares this trait with Mezo Shoji, who is also fond of the dish.
* His favorite things are taboos.
* Shihai's surname contains the kanji for "black" (kuro) and "color" (iro), and his first name contains "branch" (shi) and "distribution" (hai).
** Put together, the kanji for his first name means "domination, control, guidance" (shihai).
* Shihai's Hero name "Vantablack" is based on a substance that is known to absorb more than 99.9% of light, making it one of the darkest substances in the world and causing it to appear as nothing but a black void.
* In the localized version of the anime, Shihai's Hero name is presented as Vantadark. This is likely due to "Vantablack" being a trademarked name, with the rights for its artistic use being exclusive to the sculptor Anish Kapoor.
* Shihai and Fumikage Tokoyami share a few similarities with each other:
** Both enjoy dark concepts.
** Both have a penchant for dramatic speech.
** Their Quirks, Dark Shadow and Black, are darkness-based, which share the function of being more effective in darkness, as well as the weakness for being less effective when exposed to light.
** Their hero names or epithets contain the word "Black."
** Both were born with black-colored physiology.
* Shihai shares his birthday with Death Arms.
* Shihai's Japanese voice actor, Kouhei Amasaki, also voices Neito Monoma.
* Shihai's English voice actor, Howard Wang, is married to Ms. Joke's English voice actor, Amber Lee Connors.
== Gallery ==
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File:Shihai Kuroiro Fan Art 01.png
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== External Links ==
* Shihai Kuroiro at My Hero Academia Wiki
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