Ochako Uraraka

**Ochako Uraraka** is one of the main protagonists of My Hero Academia.

## Description

Her parents own a construction business that hasn't gotten a particularly significant amount of business in years, which affected their lifestyle. Neither of their Quirks that they own are compatible with the jobs, but their daughter's is. Even as a small child, Ochaco desired to help her family out in any way she could, wanting to work for them and use her Quirk to help them make money. That way, they could reduce labor costs and sell their heavy lifting equipment.

However, her father always told Ochaco that the way to truly make him and her mother happy would be for their daughter to achieve her own dreams. As a result, she aspires to become a Pro Hero, wanting to help people and make enough money to give her parents an easy life.

## Trivia

* n a prototype concept, Ochaco was originally "Yu Takeyama," possessing both the identity "Mt. Lady" and the Gigantification Quirk. This was scrapped because the author thought that a main character having such a Quirk would be too troublesome for her. Her original name, Quirk (along with it's abilities) and superhero identity were later instead given to another character who also filled her role in Chapter 1 and her old appearance had been given to Yui Kodai, who has a similar name and Quirk as well.
* While her name was spelled as 'Ochako' in a character illustration on the official manga website, it is spelled as Ochaco on both the anime website and PVs.
* According to Ochaco's Volume 1 profile:
	+ Ochaco's bob hair and dialect are parts of her schoolgirl charm.
	+ Ochaco's favorite thing is the starry sky.
	+ Ochaco loves Japanese food, especially mochi.
	+ Kohei Horikoshi describes Ochaco as "honest".
	+ Horikoshi is proud of the name he came up for her.
* Ochaco's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
	+ Ranked 4th in the First Popularity Poll.
	+ Ranked 10th in the Second Popularity Poll.
	+ Ranked 9th in the Third Popularity Poll.
	+ Ranked 12th in the Fourth Popularity Poll.
	+ Ranked 8th in the Fifth Popularity Poll.
* Ochaco's hero name, **Uravity** (ウラビティ *Urabiti***?**), comes from **Gravity** (グラビティ *Gurabiti***?**) without the "g", and can be derived from her full name by combining *Ura* (麗 *urara***?**), *bi* (日**?**) (which can also be read as *ka*), and "tea" (茶, read as *cha* in her name).
* Ochaco's surname contains the kanji for "beautiful, lovely" (麗 *urara***?**) and "day" (日 *ka***?**), and her first name contains "tea" (お茶 *ocha***?**) and "child" (子 *ko***?**).
* Ochaco's known U.A. data is as follows:
	+ Student No. 5 in Class 1-A.
	+ Ranked 3rd in the U.A. Entrance Exam.
	+ Ranked 10th at Shota's Quirk Apprehension Test.
		- Her fifty-meter dash record is 7.15 seconds. Her previous record was 7.28 in middle school.
		- Her softball throw record is infinite.
	+ Ranked 13th in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
	+ Ranked in the Top 16 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
		- Ochaco received a total of twenty nominations from Pro Heroes for her U.A. Sports Festival performance, making her the 8th most nominated Class 1-A student.
* She shares her birthday with Hinata Hyuga from *Naruto*, another *Weekly Shonen Jump* series.
	+ Interestingly, both characters are known to have a crush on their series' respective main characters of their respective universes.
* Ochaco still owns a flip-phone, while all of her classmates own smartphones.
* Ochaco and Katsuki share the same costume designer.
* Ochaco's Japanese voice actor, Ayane Sakura, also voices Reiko Yanagi. Her English voice actor, Luci Christian, also voices Chiyo Shuzenji as of Season 2.

### XVX

* Uraraka's one of the first characters to appear in Riot Rumble: The Comic, along with Midoriya, Blake, Kanna, Earthworm Jim, Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Felicia.
* She's the 5th MHA character to appear in the series, after Midoriya, Eri, Bakugo and Toga.