Shihai Kuroiro

Shihai Kuroiro, also known as the Scheming Hero: Vantablack (陰謀ヒーロー ベンタブラック), is a student in Class 1-B at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

Appearance
Shihai is a tall young man with fluffy white hair and black eyes, which are long and thin in shape. His most prominent feature is his pitch black skin, its unusual color most likely due to the Quirk he possesses, and his face usually holds an unsure or irritated expression.

His hero costume consists of a simple black jumpsuit with light shoes and a large wristband on his left arm with three rectangular indentations.

Personality
Shihai is a sly, deceitful schemer, who prefers to catch people off guard. He appears to enjoy dark concepts and has a penchant for dramatic speech, similar to Fumikage Tokoyami.

Shihai appears to have a crush on Kinoko Komori, as he nervously averts his eyes and stammers while speaking to her and celebrates internally when she praises him in the Joint Training Battle. He's also seen standing jealously behind her while she talks to Fumikage. Shihai struggles to talk to girls in general and tends to think they have a crush on him if they talk to him.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Shihai may not be the close quarters combat type, but he makes up for it with the great handle he has on his Quirk. In combat, Shihai uses his Black Quirk to hide from enemy attacks or to execute ambushes. Once merged with a black-colored object, Shihai can move through its whole structure at very high speeds, even while carrying a person. Overall, Shihai has proven himself to be a very formidable individual that greatly excels in espionage, as well as the stealthiest student in Class 1-B. During the Joint Training Battle, Shihai used his Quirk efficiency to briefly take control of Fumikage's Dark Shadow, and catch the Jet-Black Hero by surprise.

Tactical Intellect: Shihai has been shown to possess incredible ingenuity in battle. Before the second match of the Joint Training, he devised an effective strategy against the opposing team—Fumikage, specifically. By taking advantage of the fact that both he and Fumikage have darkness-based Quirks, Shihai intentionally made himself Fumikage's primary target. Shihai even made use of the industrial piping of Ground Gamma to make it impossible for the opposing team to ascertain his location. This proved to be an impeccable strategy during the match and was effectively employed in conjunction with the camouflage capabilities of his Black Quirk. Using his incredible speed in unison with the narrow complexity of Ground Gamma as well as taking into account the "umbilical cord" of Dark Shadow getting in the opposing team's way, Shihai made a highly strategic attempt to elude his rival. However, Shihai didn’t anticipate Fumikage's "Black Fallen Angel" technique and the speed it granted him, which allowed Fumikage to eventually catch up to him.

Quirk
Black: Shihai's Quirk allows him to merge his body into anything that is dark in color, whether naturally dark or dark via external circumstances, such as shadows.

With further training, he can now move said black things upon possession, although this is limited to entities that are normally capable of moving. As such, he was able to merge into Fumikage's Dark Shadow and briefly take control over it to attack Fumikage.
 * Enhanced Speed: When he is merged with the darkness, Shihai demonstrates the ability to move at great speed, such as when he managed to take Yuga Aoyama prisoner before his teammates could react. He was also able to evade the nets thrown by Momo Yaoyorozu by leaping into the shadow of a neighboring pipe.

Super Moves

 * Darkseek (ダークシーク): While emerged into a black substance allows him to move around and provide scouting on his opponents.

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Trivia

 * Shihai's favorite food is squid ink pasta.
 * Shihai shares this trait with Mezo Shoji, who is also fond of the dish.
 * His favorite things are taboos.
 * Shihai's surname contains the kanji for "black" (黒) and "color" (色), and his first name contains "branch" (支) and "distribution" (配).
 * Put together, the kanji for his first name means "domination, control, guidance" (支配).
 * Shihai's Hero name "Vantablack" is based on a that is known to absorb more than 99.9% of light, making one of the darkest substances in the world and causing it to appear as nothing but a black void.
 * In the localized version of the anime, Shihai's Hero name is presented as Vantadark. This is likely due to "Vantablack" being a trademarked name, with the rights for its artistic use being exclusive to the artist Anish Kapoor.
 * Shihai and Fumikage Tokoyami share a few similarities with each other:
 * Both enjoy dark concepts.
 * Both have a penchant for dramatic speech.
 * Their Quirks, Dark Shadow and Black, are darkness-based, which share the function of being more effective in darkness, as well as the weakness for being less effective when exposed to light.
 * Their hero names or epithets contain the word "Black."
 * Both were born with black-colored physiology.
 * Shihai shares his birthday with Death Arms.
 * Shihai's Japanese voice actor, Kōhei Amasaki, also voices Neito Monoma.
 * Shihai's English voice actor, Howard Wang, is married to Ms. Joke's English voice actor, Amber Lee Connors.

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