Character · My Hero Academia
Ochaco Uraraka
She can make anything she touches float away, and she entered the hero course for the least romantic reason in the class: money.
In Otakana the clue reads: Gravity girl who wants to earn for her parents
- Type
- Character
- Series
- My Hero Academia
- Letters
- 7 · Normal
Ochaco Uraraka touches an object with all five fingertips and cancels its weight. Everything she lifts drops again the moment she releases it, and doing too much at once makes her violently nauseous, a drawback the series actually uses in fights instead of mentioning once and forgetting. She wins by taking the floor out from under people, which she means literally.
Her family runs a small construction business that has never quite worked, and she went to U.A. because a professional licence pays. She says so out loud, cheerfully, while everyone around her offers loftier reasons. The series treats the answer with respect. An internship with a hero who fights hand to hand is the point where she stops apologising for wanting to win.
Her hero name is Uravity. The sports festival gives her a match she loses so well that the crowd and a watching professional spend the aftermath talking about her rather than the winner, which is a neat piece of writing about what a defeat can be worth. Kohei Horikoshi keeps her near the centre of 1-A without ever reducing her to the person the plot happens to.
Spelling URARAKA
Seven letters, URARAKA, and the family name is what the row wants; the given name Ochaco is shorter and not the answer. The shape is the help: after the opening U it goes R-A, R-A, K-A, four even beats of u-ra-ra-ka. Three A's and two R's in seven letters. Drop the second RA and you get URAKA, which is the standard way this one fails.