I Am a Hero

I Am a Hero
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Hideo Suzuki
アイアムアヒーロー
(Ai Amu a Hīrō)
Genre
Manga
Written byKengo Hanazawa
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
MagazineWeekly Big Comic Spirits
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 27, 2009February 27, 2017
Volumes22
Live-action film
Directed byShinsuke Sato
Music byNima Fakhrara
StudioToho
Licensed by
ReleasedApril 23, 2016 (2016-04-23)
Runtime126 minutes

I Am a Hero (Japanese: アイアムアヒーロー, Hepburn: Ai Amu A Hīrō) is a Japanese zombie manga series written and illustrated by Kengo Hanazawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from April 2009 to February 2017, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes. In North America the manga has been licensed for English language release by Dark Horse Comics.

A live-action film adaptation premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in October 2015, before being released commercially in April 2016. There are three spin-off manga, set in the same universe, titled I Am a Hero in Osaka, I Am a Hero in Ibaraki, and I Am a Hero in Nagasaki, and an anthology series by various manga artists, I Am a Hero Official Anthology: 8 Tales of the ZQN.

By November 2021, the manga had over 8.3 million copies in circulation. In 2013, I Am a Hero won the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.

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