Nirengeki Shoda

Appearance

Nirengeki is a chubby young man of average height, with short, ice-blue hair and a round face. He has large, wide eyes with small pupils, and is usually seen looking a little sheepish and apologetic; his eyebrows are almost always pointed upwards.

His hero costume consists of a black, high-collared suit with a trim of white pale lines around its collar and hem, and a similar pattern over his torso and shoulders, along with plain black pants and white knee-high boots. A blue scouter-looking device is worn over his left eye, and he has a connected radar on the back of one of his gloved hands.

Personality

Nirengeki has a very humble attitude, as he will not take credit for something he does not feel he earned by his own strength. He's good friends with Tenya Ida and complimented Ashido on her punch afterward, implying that he is mature and does not hold grudges.

Abilities

Overall Abilities: Nirengeki is a rather competent fighter who not only excels in one-on-one combat but also possesses good Quirk handling. His Quirk, Twin Impact, allows Nirengeki to remotely cause attacks to repeat a second time, but with significantly amplified force involved compared to the initial impact. He can also exploit his Quirk for mobility purposes, such as jumping higher and dashing faster. Nirengeki also has good camaraderie, augmenting the attacks of himself, and those of his allies, when their initial assault doesn't have sufficient strength. The more potency there is behind a base attack, the stronger it will become when Nirengeki enhances it. Nirengeki's overall abilities make him a pivotal, supporting asset to have on a team, wherein he can increase the singular attacks of his comrades, or the collaboration attacks initiated by him and his comrades working together, as there's only so much force he can produce on his own.

During the Joint Training Battle, Nirengeki not only demonstrated his comradeship by magnifying the cooperation attack enacted by Reiko Yanagi and Yui Kodai, but showcased impressive reaction time. After reading the sporadic movements of Minoru Mineta, he was able to defeat the Fresh-Picked Hero with a single punch. And while Minoru's constitution may not be very high, to defeat someone in a single hit is quite the feat on Nirengeki's part. His abilities eventually garnered the attention of the Lion Hero: Shishido, giving Nirengeki the opportunity to intern under the No. 13 Pro Hero, and improve on his flurry of attacks and the ability to read ahead of situations.

Tactical Intellect: Nirengeki has been shown to be very astute, as was able to immediately deduce that Mina Ashido had blocked his attack, despite it not being visible to him, considering he had to rely on the use of his tracker.

Quirk

Twin Impact (ツインインパクト Tsuin Inpakuto^?): Nirengeki's Quirk allows him to strike a target and then make the point of contact experience a second impact. The second impact is several times stronger than the initial blow.

He also uses his Quirk on objects to send them flying at opponents or to send possible weapons away.

Equipment

Impact Location Recording Devices: Nirengeki wears gloves and a scouter-like half-visor over his left eye. These devices allow him to keep track of the places where he landed a blow, allowing him to activate his Quirk at the most ideal times.

Trivia

• Nirengeki's surname contains the kanji for "level" (庄 shō) and "rice field" (田 da), and his first name contains "two" (二 ni), "join" (連 ren) and "attack" (撃 geki).
  • Put together, the first and second characters of his first name mean "double" (二連 niren), meaning that his first name put together means "double attack," and his last name is homophonous with the Japanese word for "palm-strike" (掌打 shōda). Thus, his full name literally translates to "palm strike, double attack," which is a clear reference to his Quirk.
    • In the fifth volume, Horikoshi referred to this as his "greatest naming achievement to date."
• He likes to watch boxing matches.
• He shares his birthday with his classmate, Manga Fukidashi.
• Along with Ibara Shiozaki, Nirengeki was also originally planned to be in Class 1-A.
• Nirengeki's English voice actor, Dallas Reid, also voices Juzo Honenuki.

Quotes

• (To Midnight and the other U.A. Sports Festival participants) "This is a contest of skill. Letting someone who didn't do anything advance... doesn't it defeat the whole point of the Sports Festival? Isn't it even against the rules?"