Shoto

Shoto is a romanized form of a Japanese given name. In Japanese, names are written with kanji, and the meaning of Shoto depends on the characters used. The name is used for males and can appear in Japanese communities around the world when rendered in Latin script.

The most widely known use of the term in popular culture is Shoto Todoroki, a central character in the manga and anime series My Hero Academia. Created by Kohei Horikoshi, Shoto Todoroki is a student at U.A. High School who possesses a dual power: ice and fire inherited from his parents, a trait that drives much of his personal history and development within the story.

Beyond this character, Shoto can appear as a personal name for other individuals or fictional characters. The spelling in English may appear as Shoto, Shōto, or Shotō depending on transliteration choices; diacritics are sometimes omitted in non-Japanese texts. While primarily encountered as a given name, the term Shoto does not designate a single, widely recognized non-name entity in global reference works.