My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

'' is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

Kōhei Horikoshi is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series '' Ōmagadoki Dōbutsuen'', '' Barrage'' and ''My Hero Academia'', all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. Horikoshi is ...

. The story is set in a world where most of the world population has

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known as "Quirks". The protagonist

Izuku Midoriya , also known by his hero name , is a superhero and the main protagonist of the manga series ''My Hero Academia'', created by Kōhei Horikoshi. In the series, he is an ambitious first-year high schooler and the 9th (and current) holder of "One ...

is a teenage boy who was born without a Quirk, despite his longtime dream to be a

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, until he is approached by

All Might The ''My Hero Academia'' manga and anime series features a vast world with an extensive cast of characters created by Kōhei Horikoshi. The series takes place in a fictional world where more than 80% of the global population possesses some for ...

, 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 is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run ...

'' on July 7, 2014. Its individual chapters have been collected into thirty-eight ''

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'' volumes, the first volume released on November 4, 2014. The series is licensed for English-language release in North America by

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, 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 ''

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'' and later its website. Additionally, the first twenty volumes within a box set of the series was published by Viz Media on October 18, 2022. A

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series entitled '' My Hero Academia: Smash!!'' by Hirofumi Neda started in the ''

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'' digital app on November 9, 2015, and finished on November 6, 2017. Five ''tankōbon'' volumes have been released as of November 2017. In November 2018, during their panel at

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, Viz Media announced that they have licensed the manga. The first volume was released in North America on August 6, 2019. A second spin-off series, '' My Hero Academia: Vigilantes'', began being published biweekly on the ''Shōnen Jump+'' website and app in 2017. The series finalized on May 28, 2022. The series is licensed for the English-language release in North America by Viz Media, who published the first volume on July 3, 2018. A third spin-off series, '' My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions'' by Yōkō Akiyama, began serialization in ''

Saikyō Jump is a Japanese monthly Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine published by Shueisha. The magazine was started on December 3, 2010 with three completely original titles and seven spin-off (media), spin-off manga from series in ''Weekly Shōnen Ju ...

'' on August 2, 2019, with a prologue chapter debuting in ''Jump GIGA'' on July 25, 2019. The series is also licensed for the English-language release in North America by Viz Media. The first volume was released in North America on March 2, 2021. __TOC__

Main series

Volumes

Chapters not yet in ''tankōbon'' format

These chapters have yet to be published in a ''

'' volume. They were originally serialized in Japanese in issues of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from May 2023 to October 2023.

Spin-offs

''My Hero Academia: Smash!!''

Volumes

''My Hero Academia: Vigilantes''

Volumes

''My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions''

Volumes

Chapters not yet in ''tankōbon'' format

These chapters have yet to be published in a ''

'' volume. They were originally serialized in Japanese in issues of ''Saikyō Jump'' from April 2023 to May 2023.

References

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