My Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. The story is set in a world where most of the world population has superhuman abilities known as "Quirks". The protagonist Izuku Midoriya is a teenage boy who was born without a Quirk, despite his longtime dream to be a superhero, until he is approached by All Might, the most famous hero in Japan and the world and also his childhood idol, who chooses him to inherit his Quirk "One For All" and helps to enroll him in a prestigious high school for superheroes in training.
My Hero Academia began its serialization in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump on July 7, 2014.[1] The series ended after a ten-year run on August 5, 2024.[2][3] Its individual chapters have been collected in 41 tankōbon volumes, the first volume released on November 4, 2014. The series is licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media, who published the first volume on August 4, 2015. As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in English digitally by Viz Media's Weekly Shonen Jump and later its website. Additionally, the first 20 volumes within a box set of the series was published by Viz Media on October 18, 2022.[4]
Three spin-off manga series have also been released. The first, My Hero Academia: Smash!! by Hirofumi Neda, is a comedy manga which ran in the Shōnen Jump+ digital app from November 9, 2015, to November 6, 2017.[5] Its chapters were collected in five tankōbon volumes.[6] The second spin-off manga, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, is a prequel to the main series written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court, which ran from August 20, 2016, to May 28, 2022.[7][8] Its chapters were collected in 15 tankōbon volumes.[9] The third spin-off manga, My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions by Yōkō Akiyama, features various side stories. It began serialization in Saikyō Jump on August 2, 2019, with a prologue chapter debuting in Jump GIGA on July 25, 2019.[10]
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- ^ 「僕のヒーローアカデミア」残り5話で完結！最終回は8月5日発売のジャンプに掲載. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. June 24, 2024. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
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- ^ "My Hero Academia Box Set 1". Viz Media. Archived from the original on May 30, 2022. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
- ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (October 22, 2015). "My Hero Academia Gets Spinoff Manga, 'Important Announcement' Next Week". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ Ressler, Karen (September 19, 2017). "My Hero Academia Smash Spinoff Manga to End With 5th Volume in November". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ Ressler, Karen (July 19, 2016). "My Hero Academia Gets 'Vigilante' Spinoff Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 21, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
- ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (May 13, 2022). "My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Spinoff Manga Ends in Next Chapter on May 28". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ ヴィジランテ 15―僕のヒーローアカデミアILLEGALS― (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
- ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (July 13, 2019). "My Hero Academia Gets New Spinoff Manga This Month". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 13, 2019.