Taneo Tokuda

Taneo Tokuda (特田種男) is a freelance journalist working for Juzo News, a magazine publisher. He is an anime-exclusive character.

Appearance
Taneo is a tall, slender man with dark, wavy hair that hangs on one side of his face and short sideburns on both sides. His face is angular with high cheekbones that the girls of 1-A call handsome. He wears thin-framed glasses with large, round lenses, contrasting with his grayish-blue eyes with mismatched pupils, one white and one black.

He sports a beige blazer over an untucked black dress shirt and dark slacks. He also has a black camera that hangs around his neck when he's reporting.

Personality
Taneo is relaxed and laid-back, strolling into work with a smile to reassure the flustered editor-in-chief of Juzo News. He has a habit of charming and manipulating others with his good looks, punctuating several of his sentences with a flirtatious wink and complaining to his editor to get access to U.A. Owing to his profession, he's also extremely perceptive, deducing the hidden meaning behind All Might's words at Kamino as well as the identity of his successor.

Despite his manipulative exterior, Taneo is a lifelong fan of All Might after the hero rescued his father from a bombing at an industrial complex eighteen years ago. This admiration of All Might is what convinced him to seek out Izuku Midoriya, All Might's successor, as well as keeping his discovery a secret before declaring that he'll save his findings for a book he'll be writing on the new Symbol of Peace. He also has a playful side, pulling Izuku in for a surprise selfie before saying that he'll keep that picture forever inside of him.

Childhood
Eighteen years ago, when he was still a child, Taneo witnessed a fire at the industrial complex where his father worked. It was a terrible catastrophe where even the rescue squads hesitated, but All Might intervenes by risking his life and rescues the twenty-four people who working there at time, including Taneo's father.

He was so excited to see his dad safe that he accidentally took a picture of the scene. He submitted the photograph to a newspaper who used it to illustrate the news. This event inspired him to be a reporter.

Shie Hassaikai Arc
He comes to U.A. while working for Jozu News under the pretense of writing an article on the dorm lives of U.A.'s students after the Kamino incident. He spends most of the day taking photos of the students while slowly narrowing down All Might's potential successors before he spots All Might and Izuku talking to each other. After this, he confronts Izuku about his findings before assuring the young hero student that this will remain a secret until he finishes the book he's writing about him, "When the New Symbol of Peace was Young".

He then reports to his editor that his scoop was a bust before appeasing her with a picture of All Might eating a meat bun.

Abilities
Skilled Reporter: Taneo is a skilled reporter whom the editor-in-chief of Juzo News calls "the heaven-sent scoop finder". Not only was he able to deduce the true meaning behind All Might's words, "You're next.", but he was able to discover the identity of All Might's successor while discreetly snapping a picture of the two of them as proof.

Quirk
Whole-Body Lens: This Quirk allows Taneo to produce lenses anywhere on his body to take pictures and print them out of his chest.

Trivia

 * His mismatched pupils are a reference to the F-number in photography, which refers to the size of the camera's aperture. His right eye has a small, dark pupil, referring to a high f-stop setting that lets in little light. His left eye has a large, white pupil, referring to a low f-stop setting that lets in a great deal of light.