Mina Ashido, also known as the Ridley Hero: Pinky, was a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.
Eight years after the Final War, Mina has graduated from U.A. alongside her classmates, becoming the No. 28 Hero.[4]
Appearance#
Mina is a girl of medium height, set a little more broadly than some of her other female classmates, with, according to her profile, "healthy thighs". Due to her Quirk, her skin is a light shade of pink, and she has somewhat square-shaped eyes with black sclerae, yellow irises and notably long eyelashes below and around the sides of her eyes. Minoru Mineta once commented that "she's got a super athletic body".
Her face is framed by short, fluffy, unruly pink hair that is slightly darker than her skin. She also has two thin pale yellow horns protruding from her head, hooked squarely and leaning diagonally to opposite sides, which seem to be slightly flexible, able to bend a bit to each side.
During her time in Mustafa Private Middle School, her uniform was a plain white seifuku with a black Kansai collar and skirt, a single white trim on both, paired with a red scarf that is tied below, and sporting white knee high socks and brown outdoor school shoes.
At U.A, she wears the regular U.A. uniform for female students. It is topped with a gray dress jacket, two teal stripes, two pockets with folds, and two golden buttons. Underneath, she wears a white dress shirt, a red tie with a small, golden button, and a teal pleated skirt. She also wears brown dress shoes and knee-high socks.
Her Hero Costume, Prism Sky,[5] consists of a plain white mask with thin lines over her eyes and a purple and turquoise skintight bodysuit with a camouflage pattern, ending just above her breasts. Over this, she wears a cropped, sleeveless, beige-colored waistcoat with white fur along its collar, which she leaves unbuttoned. She wears custom made plum violet and beige acid-proof boots with holes in the soles, allowing her to secrete acid from her feet to slide around.
The winter version of her costume is very similar, the only difference being that she replaces her usual waistcoat with another, which is slightly longer and has sleeves down to her elbows. A large hexagonal patch with a purple letter "P" (standing for her hero name, "Pinky") stitched onto the shoulder of each sleeve. The fur lining is on both her collar and hem, along with being thicker and wider, and is joined in the center by two clasps instead of being undone like the rest of her jacket.
From the Paranormal Liberation War and onwards, her waistcoat now has the fur lining under the hem of jacket now.
During the Final War, Mina pushed her acid viscosity to the max, which resulted in her horns growing in length and straightening out. Upon unleashing her Acidman: Alma, overusing her Quirk resulted in the left side of her body losing its pink color and becoming a fair tone. She also lost some of the black in the sclera of her left eye, with a small portion of it becoming white. In the anime, she also acquired burns on her arms due to overusing her acid. Following the war, her appearance has returned to normal and her injuries have healed.
Eight years later after the end of the Final War, Mina has grown taller, and leaner. Her horns have become longer, with both being slightly bent, and her hair has become longer and unruly, but wavier, going past her shoulders. In her casual attire, she wears a form-fitting, black sleeveless mini dress featuring a simple tank-style neckline with thick straps and simple, dark grey ankle socks.
Her costume remains largely the same, with the only differences being a jacket with a longer fur lining, two wristbands with the same camouflage pattern as her bodysuit, and her boots now being redesigned to a sleeker build and a holed patch at the top to flush more acid through. She also wears her mask but occasionally doesn't have it on.
Personality#
Mina is a cheerful and easygoing girl who usually displays a smile. Highly social and excitable, she loves to hang out with her friends and is shown to become very upset when denied an opportunity to be at a gathering. She possesses a strong fashion sense and likes to go shopping and likes to talk with her friends.
Due to her athleticism and energy, Mina enjoys and is very skilled at dancing. Her demeanor becomes more strict and perfectionist when teaching others how to dance, in direct contrast to her usual happy-go-lucky nature. She is known to use her dancing to somehow pacify even those who have bad relationships with others.
Mina is somewhat of a romantic and holds a lot of interest over other people's love lives, to the point of being obnoxiously curious and intrusive about them. Her suspicions, however, tend to be rather baseless most of the time, as she seems to view any instance of a pairing as possible proof of a relationship regardless of compatibility.
Mina's academic performance is quite poor, with Mina goofily laughing about it despite showing clear anxiety and frustration. Because of that, she is often viewed as an airhead by her classmates (second only to Denki Kaminari). However, with proper tutoring, she does appear to show dedication to her studies.
Mina is extremely courageous and is viewed as an ideal personality for hero work. Before entering U.A., Mina would condemn bullying in middle school and even convinced some bullies to come around with her upbeat and easygoing demeanor. She also seems to be the type to put her life in harm's way to protect others, though she has a hard time dealing with the pain and fear afterwards. This stalwart attitude was seen when she lied to Gigantomachia to protect her friends from the behemoth’s anger and successfully got the giant to leave, just before collapsing into tears of fear and relief, showing that the ordeal had terrified her as well.
Abilities#
Overall Abilities: Despite having minimal combat abilities, Mina makes up for it with her Quirk proficiency and incredible reaction time. Her abilities allowed her to earn 9th place in the Quirk Apprehension Test and Mina has demonstrated a good handle on the applications of her Acid, using it as cover fire for her allies and employing it in various ways. Mina can also control the levels of solubility and viscosity of her acid.
She lowers solubility and ensures that her Quirk doesn't become lethal against most living beings. And by raising viscosity, Mina can generate extremely slimy acid that acts as a protective barrier by gluing it to surfaces. Mina is said to have difficulties facing human adversaries due to not fully mastering her Quirk's corrosive properties, so she's more comfortable battling inorganic foes.[6] Besides her Quirk handling, Mina reflexes surpass most of Class 1-A's students while being the best out of the female members of the said class.[1] Examples include Mina easily dodging Yuga Aoyama's laser attacks, and later on at the Provisional Hero License Exam, with precise flicks, melt several high-speed target balls launched toward her.
During the Joint Training Battle, Mina showcased her improvement, effectively switching between different acid-based techniques, while executing unorthodox, yet impeccable teamwork with Minoru. On Nabu Island, Mina and Fumikage Tokoyami tag-teamed against Slice, wherein Mina successfully weakened the red-haired villainess, and used her agility to evade the majority of the latter’s hair assault.
Her abilities eventually garnered the attention of the Equipped Hero: Yoroi Musha, allowing Mina to intern under the now former No. 9 Pro Hero and improve her offensive and defensive abilities. In the Final War, Mina successfully melted through Gigantomachia's armored skin, which is an impressive feat given that Gigantomachia's exterior is nearly indestructible.
- Dancing Talent: Mina is extremely skilled at dancing, capable of pulling break-dance moves with little effort. She can also teach an amateur to become a decent dancer quickly. Izuku Midoriya has noted that her dancing expertise means she possesses excellent body control: thus, her quick reflexes and skill in close quarters combat.[7]
Quirk#
Acid: Mina's Quirk allows her to produce a corrosive liquid from her body. She can control the solubility and viscosity of this corrosive liquid. There is a limit to how long she can produce the corrosive liquid until her skin gradually loses its natural resistance to it. Overusing her Quirk or pushing it too far can also be fatal, as it dehydrates her body very fast.
Mina can use her acid offensively, but has shown utility with it as well, such as melting handholds for herself to climb with. She is also known to secrete a non-corrosive version of the acid from her feet in order to slide around.
As part of her training, Mina constantly produced acid in order to increase her skin's durability, namely towards the corrosive properties of her Quirk.
Ultimate Moves#
- Acid Veil: Mina's special move. By maximizing her acid's solubility and viscosity, Mina creates a gelatinous acid wall that blocks incoming projectiles. Mina's Acid Veil was strong enough to block hardened balls (which were stronger than concrete) with ease.
- Acid Shot: Mina fires a hail of acidic bullets over a widespread area from above to shower down on to her opponents.[8]
- Acid Layback: Mina projects acid from her shoes to dissolve the surface of the ground beneath her and make it easier to spin on the spot. With the enhanced momentum of her super-fast spin, she can throw projectiles with massively increased force.[8]
- Grape-Pinky Combo Mineta Bounce: After Mina uses Acid Lay-back to spin on the spot and Minoru lays down multiple Pop Off Spheres on the ground and walls, Mina throws Minoru with great force so that he bounces from sphere to sphere. As he is flying through the air and bouncing off of each sphere, he can throw more Pop Off Spheres from his head onto his opponents while making it difficult to be hit back.[8]
- Acidman: After increasing the viscosity of her Quirk, Mina generates a large amount of acid that takes a vaguely anthropomorphic form that covers her entire body. This technique has defensive properties since every attack against Mina will be dissolved by the powerful acid that protects her.
- Alma: After increasing the acidity of her Quirk to the maximum, Mina flings her Acidman at an opponent.[9]
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Equipment#
Acid-proof Shoes: Mina wears special shoes that have holes in their soles, that let Mina secrete acid from her feet. The shoes are not damaged by the corrosive liquid, so Mina can easily use them to slide across the ground on her acid.
Acid-proof Outfit: Mina's costume is also acid-proof, so she can completely cover herself in acid without damaging it.
Battles & Events#
Quirk Apprehension Test Arc Quirk Apprehension Test Battle Trial Arc Battle Trial U.S.J. Arc U.S.J. Incident U.A. Students vs. Kurogiri U.A. Sports Festival Arc U.A. Sports Festival Obstacle Race Cavalry Battle Yuga Aoyama vs. Mina Ashido Fumikage Tokoyami vs. Mina Ashido Vs. Hero Killer Arc Rescue Training Race Final Exams Arc First Term Final Exam Team Ashido & Kaminari vs. Nezu Forest Training Camp Arc Quirk Training Camp Class 1-A vs. Pixie-Bob Vanguard Action Squad Invasion Provisional Hero License Exam Arc Ultimate Move Training Provisional Hero License Exam Crushing of U.A. Class 1-A's Comeback Gang Orca's Invasion Shie Hassaikai Arc Class 1-A vs. Mirio Togata U.A. School Festival Arc U.A. School Festival Pro Hero Arc Class 1-A vs. Nejire Chan & Suneater Joint Training Arc Joint Training Battle Round 5 My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising Hero Work Recommendation Project Tsukuyomi & Pinky vs. Slice Endeavor Agency Arc Hero Interview Training Hero Work-Studies II Paranormal Liberation War Arc Paranormal Liberation War Gunga Mountain Villa Raid Villa Raid Team & Trainees vs. Paranormal Liberation Front Dark Hero Arc Deku vs. Class A Final War Arc Jaku Ruins Team vs. Paranormal Liberation Front Pro Heroes & Trainees vs. All For One
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Trivia#
- Mina's design during the preliminary stages of the series was relatively similar to her final design, albeit with a lankier physique. This design also possessed longer, more elaborate horns, prominently straight teeth like Hanta Sero's, rounder eyes, visible blushes on her cheeks similar to the ones Ochaco Uraraka has, and slightly longer hair.
- Because the twisted horns were considered difficult to draw, this design was eventually dropped, with Mina's current design having smaller, simpler horns.
- Mina ranking in the Popularity Polls are the following:
- Ranked 24th in the 1st Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 21st in the 2nd Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 36th in the 3rd Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 39th in the 4th Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 29th in the 5th Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 28th in the 6th Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 41st in the 7th Popularity Poll.
- Ranked 9th in the 1st English Popularity Poll.
- According to Mina's Volume 4 profile:
- Her favorite thing is dancing, a trait that's shown more in later chapters.
- Her favorite foods are Okra and Natto.
- Mina is considered one of the stronger students in Class 1-A, having the best reflexes among the girls.
- Kohei Horikoshi regrets not giving Mina more screen time, at least by that point.
- Incidentally, Mina is the only Class 1-A student featured in the extras section of Volume 4.
- Mina's known U.A. data is as follows:
- Mina is student No. 2 in Class 1-A.
- Ranked ninth during Shota Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.
- Ranked in the Top 8 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
- Ranked nineteenth in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
- According to Mina's Ultra Analysis profile:
- She is more observant than people give her credit for, making her especially good at coming up with team attacks.
- Mina has "never liked anyone, but wishes she can be in love".
- Her personality is described as "pure energy".
- Mina learned how to breakdance when she was little, and later used it in street performing.[10]
- Mina and Yuga are the only Class 1-A participants of the U.A. Sports Festival Fighting Tournament who didn't receive a nomination from a Pro Hero.
- Mina's surname contains the kanji for "reed" and "door", and her first name contains "three" and "apple tree".
- Mina's surname is almost homophones to the Japanese pronunciation of "acid".
- The first kanji in her given name, "three", can be read as "san", which is also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for "acid".
- Mina's initial choice of her hero name, Ridley Hero: Alien Queen, is a direct reference to the Xenomorph from Alien, where the titular creature is an extraterrestrial being that possesses acidic blood. "Ridley Hero" also references the film's director, Ridley Scott.
- In My Hero Academia: Ultra Archive: The Official Character Guide, Mina's profile mistakenly lists her birthday as July 15th.
- Mina, Momo Yaoyorozu, Minoru, and Tsuyu Asui all share the same costume designer.[11]
- Mina is the only girl in her class to wear shorts under her skirt, which is implied to be so that she can breakdance while in her school uniform.
- As a Pro Hero, Mina is incredibly popular among younger people, and is frequently mentioned at dancing events.[5]
- Mina shares her Japanese and English voice actresses with other characters.
- Her Japanese voice actress, Eri Kitamura, also voices Tenya Ida's mother.
- Her English voice actress, Caitlin Glass, also voices Kai Chisaki as a child, and Toy-Toy.
Quotes#
- (To Eijiro Kirishima) "The old you's not going anywhere with that emo look on your face! If you overcome that gloomy self of yours... let me know. Or else I'll start spreading rumors about high school debut man."[12]