Kyoka Jirou (My Hero Academia)

**Kyoka Jiro** (spelled Kyoka Jirou in the *Krazy Kids* series) ( *Jirō Kyōka*), 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 student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero. She first appears in the *Krazy Kids: High School Kraziness* episode "Rockstar Singer".

## Personal

### Relatives

Kyotoku Jirou (father)Mika Jirou (mother)

### Friends

Bryan Gul, Ian-Deheza Zapata, Jasmine Morano, Vextorian Vixon, Erik Martinez (secondary friend)

### Likes

Bryan Gul (mostly), singing, rock music, saving people, listening to music, having fun

### Dislikes

People messing with her, getting distracted, inappropriate behavior

## Media

### Voiced By

Trina NishimuraChrissy Costanza (Singing)

## Appearance

Kyoka is a petite, fair-skinned girl with a slender build. She has triangular, lazy-looking onyx eyes with notably long lower eyelashes and rather small eyebrows. Her hair is short, only around chin length, and is dark purple in color with an asymmetrical fringe, and two reflections shaped like heartbeat monitor waves on either side of her head. Her most prominent features are the flexible, plug-like earphone jacks hanging from each of her earlobes at the end of two thin cords, which act like extra limbs; she is able to control these at will, and they are very flexible, able to change length if so desired.

Unlike the other students, Kyoka sometimes wears a waistcoat over her school uniform, in place of the usual U.A. blazer.

Her hero costume consists of a black leather jacket, long salmon-colored shirt with several rips at the collar and hem, black pants, and boots with stereos built into their shafts. She also has two small, triangular red paint marks just below her eyes, a plain black choker, and white fingerless gloves.

Later on, her costume gains a set of headphones with two bracelets that double up as her amplifiers and she changes her face paint to two larger chevron-shaped marks.

Following the Paranormal Liberation War, she has a small scar on her right earphone jack.

In the Krazy Kids series, she is a girl who Bryan loves due to her personality and interest in music.

## Personality

Kyoka has a pragmatic, unenthusiastic, and teasing personality that is mostly shown to those she finds irritating, like her fellow classmate Denki Kaminari, whose cluelessness makes him an easy target for her snarky comments. Kyoka is not always like this though, as she does enjoy socializing with others, in which case she is usually nice and friendly.

Kyoka often gesticulates through her elongated earlobes in place of her hands. She can also be quite aggressive, evidenced when she uses the Earphone Jacks her Quirk provides to physically punish people when provoked or to keep them in line, most notably Denki, Minoru Mineta, Sebastian Mengoni and Jean Bastori. During hero activities, however, Kyoka prefers smarter approaches, usually by coming up with a plan herself. She is surprisingly organized and makes sure to convey her ideas in a way that's easy to understand.

Despite the fact that she comes off as cold and indifferent, Kyoka also has a much more sensitive side, being very defensive towards her friends, empathetic with others' feelings, and getting flustered when her talents and capabilities are brought up. While Kyoka is hard to unnerve or surprise, she is afraid of horror-based activities and has an aversion to nudity. She is a bit self-conscious about her looks as well.

In addition, she seems to have an attraction to Bryan Gul, who really adores her personality and music interest, and is revealed to be her hero partner. It's also shown that Bryan is also very lovey-dovey, silly-billy, goofy or funny to make her laugh and joyful. Another thing that is shown is that Kyoka calls Bryan her "little rockstar", which makes him feel very flattered.

Like her parents, Kyoka has a major interest in rock music and owns several instruments which she is able to play to some extent. However, she seemed to be somewhat embarrassed about her interests at first, because she perceived them as completely unrelated to heroism, but thanks to a great presentation during the U.A. School Festival, she was able to outgrow that mindset.

## Trivia

* In the preliminary stages of the manga, Kyoka was virtually unchanged from her original design, albeit her hair lacked its signature streaks.
* Kyoka's surname contains the kanji for "ear" (耳 *ji***?**) and "son, male" (郎 *rō***?**), and her first name contains "sound, reverberation" (響 *kyō***?**), and "incense" (香 *ka***?**).
	+ Kyoka's first name contains syllables coming from her parents' names. "Kyō" (響) from her father, Kyotoku, and "香" (Ka) from her mother, Mika.
* According to Kyoka's Volume 3 profile:
	+ Her favorite thing is rock.
	+ Kyoka may have been the first *My Hero Academia* character Kohei Horikoshi came up with. He was inspired to make a character that could plug their ears into objects while listening to music on his earphones during a trip back home.
* Kyoka's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
	+ Kyoka ranked 16th in the First Popularity Poll.
	+ Kyoka ranked 7th in the Second Popularity Poll.
	+ Kyoka ranked 22nd in the Third Popularity Poll.
	+ Kyoka ranked 21st in the Fourth Popularity Poll.
	+ Kyoka ranked 12th in the Fifth Popularity Poll.
	+ Kyoka ranked 15th in the Sixth Popularity Poll.
	+ Kyoka ranked 20th in the Seventh Popularity Poll.
* Kyoka's known U.A. data is as follows:
	+ Student No. 12 in Class 1-A
	+ Ranked 17th in the Quirk Apprehension Test
	+ Ranked 7th in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
	+ Ranked in the Top 42 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
* Kyoka's hairstreaks are drawn similarly to the waves of an EKG, a possible reference to how she uses her earphone jacks to amplify her heartbeat.
* Kyoka is so far the only student in Class 1-A whose hero name is the exact same as her Quirk (**Earphone Jack**).
* Kyoka and Denki share the same costume designer.
* Kyoka's Japanese voice actor, Kei Shindō, also voices Kinoko Komori, Fuyumi Todoroki and Shoto Todoroki as a child.
* It's possible that Bryan is Kyoka's attraction due to his funny and music loving personality despite the fact that Kaminari loves her.