The staff for the television anime adaptation of Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) manga revealed the full-color anime character design for Katsuki Bakugō on Monday. Nobuhiko Okamoto (A Certain Magical Index's Accelerator, Blue Exorcist's Rin) will voice the character.

Katsuki is the protagonist Izuku's rival who has known Izuku since childhood. Okamoto will appear at the Jump Super Stage event at Jump Festa 2016 in Chiba on December 19-20.

The anime also stars Daiki Yamashita (Yowamushi Pedal's Sakamichi Onoda, Log Horizon's Tōya) as Izuku Midoriya and Kenta Miyake (Assassination Classroom's Akira Takaoka, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders' Mohammed Abdul) as All Might.

Kenji Nagasaki (Gundam Build Fighters, Classroom Crisis, No. 6) is directing the anime at the studio BONES (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Concrete Revolutio, Fullmetal Alchemist). Yousuke Kuroda (Gundam Build Fighters, Honey and Clover, Trigun) is overseeing the series' scripts. Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Air Master, Heartcatch Precure!, Berserk) is designing the characters for animation.

Source: Comic Natalie