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This My Hero Academia Animator Is Worth Keeping an Eye On

Written by Matthew Magnus Lundeen
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No matter where his career in the anime industry takes him, Kohei Hirota deserves appreciation.

When fans watched Episode 151 of My Hero Academia and saw Deku unleash Overdrive on Shigaraki, a not-insignificant portion of sakuga-savvy viewers might have thought it was animated by Yutaka Nakamura. After all, the legendary Studio Bones animator makes a habit of working on the series, but actually, it was the work of Kohei Hirota, a relative newcomer to the industry who anime fans would do well to remember.

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