Minoru Mineta

**Minoru Mineta** is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Minoru Mineta, Fresh-Picked Hero: "Grape Juice"
* **Origin**: My Hero Academia
* **Gender**: Male
* **Age**: 16
* **Birthday**: October 8
* **Classification**: Human, Mutant-Type Quirk User, Hero-In-Training, U.A. High School First-Year Student
* **Height**: 108 cm (3'6.5")
* **Weight**: 20 kg (44 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Light
* **Eye Color**: Black
* **Hair Color**: Purple and Black
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **C-Class**
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**: Grape Rush
* **Voice Actor**: Ryō Hirohashi

## Appearance

Minoru is a relatively short teenage boy with a large, round head, and rather large cheeks. His nose is small and stubby and points slightly upwards, and he has an unusually distinguishable philtrum, oval-shaped eyes with large, black pupils, and notably thin eyebrows. He has four large purple and black balls in something resembling a mohawk where his hair should be.

His Hero Costume is very simplistic, having a purple shirt and mask with a yellow cape, pants, boots and gloves. His pants are white with a lighter purple trim, and they stick out quite a lot around his waist.

## Personality

Minoru is perverted to the point of infamy, which makes him unpopular with the girls and even some of the boys, who consider his interests and mannerisms depraved. When an opportunity to peep at the girls arises, Minoru becomes very determined to take it, although this often leads to painful results. Minoru can also be very hypocritical, criticizing others for perceived perverted behavior even if they turn out to be misunderstandings. Minoru's interest in women is one of his motivations to become a hero, alongside general popularity.

Minoru easily freaks out in moments of great stress or fear, acting in an impulsive way, crying when the situation does not look favorable and abusing his Quirk recklessly, to the point of hurting himself in the process. He is quite unashamed of those traits, openly admitting them out loud. Minoru has a habit of rubbing salt in people's wounds, both accidentally and intentionally.

Despite all of this, Minoru is shown to actually be surprisingly intelligent, able to score very high on tests, and being in the top half of Class 1-A's grades, despite being considered a slacker by the majority of the class. Additionally, he is quite capable of coming up with creative and competent strategies in order to achieve victory, as seen when he fought against Midnight. He is capable of growing from his previous experiences and becoming braver. He also seems capable of deceiving even a Pro Hero like Midnight to help succeed with his plans. He is capable of pushing through his flaws when the need arises.

Minoru has demonstrated loyalty to his classmates. To complete final exams, either he or Hanta could escape from Midnight and both would pass as a team, but after incapacitating her, Minoru took the time to drag his unconscious partner with him to escape together.

## Abilities and Equipment

**Pop Off**: Minoru's Quirk allows him to produce and pull ball shaped objects from his head. The duration of its adhesive quality is determined by his overall health. He can pull a large amount of these objects from his head; however, if he overuses it, it can cause bleeding.

* **Grape Rush**: Minoru rushes towards the enemy and throws lots of his sticky objects at the enemy while running toward them, sticking the enemy in place and allowing Minoru to rush past them.

**Hero Outfit**: Minoru's hero outfit was made with the purpose of letting him use his Quirk without it sticking to it.

* **The Grape Face Mask**: This equipment is a simple facemask that covers almost all of Minoru's face and leaves the top of his head exposed so that he can grab his grapes like hairs.
* **The Gloves that Pluck**: This equipment were made using the special substance that exudes from Minoru's scalp, this was to prevent his grapes from sticking to them. However this is only for the palms of the gloves.
* **The Grape Pants**: This equipment was design to have nubs that look like a pattern were would modeled after his grape like hair and have almost the same stickiness as them. This was so that he could hold small objects on his person
* **The Minoru Mantle**: This equipment was originally desired to flutter in the wind, however, the designers decided to make it shorter so that it wouldn't get stuck on his hair.

**Keen Intellect**: Despite his lewd personality, Minoru is quite intelligent, scoring 9th place in the midterms, displaying his skill in academics, something made more impressive by the fact he is never seen studying. Minoru is also very clever in battle, such as using his Pop Off Quirk to create effective traps, something for which his spheres are very suitable. Pop Off tends to be a fairly underestimated ability, which allows Minoru to surprise those that let their guard down. He can also employ unorthodox strategies, even ones befitting his perverted nature. At the U.A. Sports Festival, knowing how physically conditioned Momo Yaoyorozu is, Minoru used his Pop Off balls to latch onto her back so he can pass the Obstacle Race portion of the festival.

During the Cavalry Battle, he teamed up with Mezo Shoji and Tsuyu Asui and devised an effective strategy that involved the two smaller students latching onto Mezo's back while shrouded by the latter's Dupli-Arms, and in tandem, Minoru traps his opponents with his Pop Off balls, while Tsuyu uses her tongue to take the other contestants' points. Minoru's ingenuity was also showcased when he and Hanta Sero were paired together against Midnight for the First Term Final Exam. Minoru is knowledgeable of heroes with their own lascivious personalities and knew of Midnight's sadistic side that arises when her opponent runs away from her. Taking advantage of this trait, Minoru pretended to flee and lured her into a trap using his "Grape Rush" Ultimate Move to bind the R-Rated Hero and secure victory for both him and Hanta.

## Weaknesses

He bleeds if he uses his Quirk too often.

He can easily cower if he feels he can't handle a situation.

## Relationships

*Main Article: Minoru Mineta/Relationships*