100 Fun Facts About My Hero Academia

What is the motto of U.A. High School in My Hero Academia, shouted by All Might and his students alike?

Plus Ultra, Latin for 'further beyond', was not coined for the series: the emperor Charles V took it as his motto five centuries ago, and it still stands on the pillars of Spain's coat of arms.

In which magazine was My Hero Academia serialized from July 2014 to August 2024?

Weekly Shonen Jump had run two earlier series by the manga's author, the second cut short, and he doubted he would get another chance; encouraged by his editor, he reworked an old one-shot, and the result ran for ten years.

What bonus did My Hero Academia's final manga volume add?

A new epilogue: 38 pages set after the original ending close the 42nd volume, and the anime later adapted them as a bonus episode of its own.

Who had the first reported Quirk in My Hero Academia?

A glowing newborn in China is where the record begins; by Izuku's day about 80% of people have Quirks, and it is the Quirkless fifth, the hero included, who stand out.

Which animation studio produced the My Hero Academia anime?

Bones was founded in 1998 by three staff who left Sunrise, the studio behind Cowboy Bebop, and one of the breakaway's first projects was making the Cowboy Bebop film together with their old company.

At the end of My Hero Academia, eight years after the final war, what job is Izuku Midoriya doing?

Teaching at U.A. is the Quirkless Izuku's job eight years on, when All Might hands him an armoured suit, paid for by his old classmates, that lets him be a hero again.

Who makes Izuku Midoriya's first hero costume, working from a sketch he once drew?

His mother, Inko, makes it as a present for getting into U.A.; the homemade suit does not last, and by the second season it has been rebuilt as a darker, more battle-ready costume.

What passes One For All from All Might to Izuku?

A hair: One For All passes through its holder's DNA, so after ten months of training All Might plucks a strand and tells the boy, its ninth holder, to eat it.

In My Hero Academia, Izuku reclaims the nickname 'Deku' after Ochaco says it sounds like a Japanese word meaning what?

"You can do it" is what Ochaco hears, because Deku sounds like dekiru; Bakugo had coined the name years before as an insult meaning 'useless', and Izuku makes it his hero name anyway.

Who voices Izuku Midoriya in the North American dub?

Justin Briner read for nearly every boy in Class 1-A, Bakugo and Todoroki included, and says he tried not to get his hopes up about the lead he ended up landing.

Katsuki Bakugo's Explosion Quirk works because his palms sweat a substance resembling what?

Nitroglycerin-like sweat is his fuel, and it has a price: repeated big blasts leave Bakugo's arms and shoulders throbbing with pain.

What childhood nickname does Izuku use for Katsuki Bakugo?

Kacchan goes back to when the two were small; Bakugo's name for Izuku was the put-down 'Deku', and years later he gives him a full apology for the bullying.

Which pro hero was once All Might's sidekick?

Sir Nighteye's Quirk, Foresight, showed him All Might meeting a horrible death, and he pleaded with his old boss to retire and find a successor; the hero carried on regardless.

Who gave Shoto Todoroki the scar on his face by pouring boiling water on him?

His mother Rei snapped after years of her husband's abuse and was sent to a hospital; Shoto only goes to see her again after the U.A. Sports Festival.

Ochaco Uraraka's Zero Gravity Quirk activates when she touches something with what?

Her fingertip pads switch gravity off, and pressing them together switches it back on; overdo it and Ochaco ends up badly nauseous.

Tenya Iida's Engine Quirk gives him super speed thanks to jet engines located where on his body?

His calves hold the engines, which is why Iida fights with kicks: the thrust that makes him so fast also puts superhuman force behind each one.

Which Class 1-A student uses the hero name Froppy?

Tsuyu Asui was first drawn up as a boy; the author turned the frog hero into a girl because Class 1-A was short of them.

Momo Yaoyorozu's Creation Quirk builds non-living objects out of what stored in her body?

Lipids are her raw material, so big creations burn through body fat and she has to eat heavily; she must also know an object's molecular structure to make it.

What gesture does Denki Kaminari make when overusing his Quirk short-circuits his brain?

A thumbs-up is all he can manage once he goes past his wattage limit: his brain shorts out, and the gesture is how the giggling Kaminari tells friends he is fine.

Fumikage Tokoyami's Quirk lets him manifest and control what?

A sentient shadow monster called Dark Shadow: it grows stronger in the dark, and in a forest at night it breaks loose from Tokoyami until two classmates' fire and blasts tame it.

Minoru Mineta's Pop Off Quirk grows sticky grape-like balls on which part of his body?

His head grows them, and because his own body bounces off instead of sticking he uses them as trampolines; pluck too many too fast, though, and his scalp bleeds.

Which student's Quirk, Hardening, lets him turn his body rock-solid, under the hero name Red Riot?

Eijiro Kirishima once froze when a villain threatened his classmates; a speech by his idol, the old-school hero Crimson Riot, gave him back his nerve, and the name is his tribute.

Which Class 1-A student's Quirk lets him fire a laser from his belly button?

Yuga Aoyama can't keep the beam going for long: overusing it gives him a bellyache, a flaw that makes him feel a kinship with Izuku, whose own power wrecks his body.

Hanta Sero's Tape Quirk shoots tape from dispenser-like organs on which body part?

His elbows end in tape-dispenser organs, and he swings between buildings on the tape much as Spider-Man does on webs; the author dreamed him up on a trip to a convenience store.

All Might names his signature Smash attacks after what?

U.S. states and cities, from Texas Smash to Detroit Smash; his strongest, the United States of Smash, is the punch that floors All For One and leaves All Might himself entirely spent.

The injury that limits All Might's hero form to a few hours a day cost him which organ?

His stomach went, along with part of his lungs, in his first fight with All For One, and the wound is what set the top hero looking for a successor.

My Hero Academia's creator credits which manga for his love of drawing hands?

Naruto, as he told its creator Masashi Kishimoto face to face in a 2015 magazine conversation; Kishimoto later sent public congratulations when the anime was about to begin.

Who voices All Might in the North American dub of My Hero Academia?

Christopher Sabat, also the dub's Vegeta in Dragon Ball, has said the series flips the Western formula: its hero gets all his power at once and must learn to use it in tiny doses.

Shota Aizawa's Erasure Quirk stops working on a target the moment he does what?

Blinks break the hold, a cruel limit for a man with chronic dry eye; it is why Aizawa carries eye drops everywhere and always looks worn out.

Nezu, the principal of U.A. High School, has a Quirk called High Spec that gives him what?

Genius intellect, beyond any human's, is what High Spec gives him; experiments people once ran on him also left the polite principal with a sadistic streak that shows when he fights.

Recovery Girl, the U.A. school nurse, heals injuries by doing what to patients?

Kissing them only speeds up the body's own healing and drains the patient's stamina to do it, which is why she hands out sweets afterwards.

Present Mic, whose Voice Quirk is amplified through a boombox-like collar, teaches which subject at U.A.?

English is his subject, but he keeps up a radio host's patter so constantly that the student Kyoka Jiro took him for a mere announcer, not a pro hero.

My Hero Academia's Gran Torino has a Quirk that lets him shoot air from where?

The soles of his feet fire the jets. When Izuku turns up to train, the old hero pretends to be senile, an act he puts on purely to mess with his new pupil.

Which hero becomes Japan's No. 1 after All Might's forced retirement?

Endeavor spent his whole career obsessed with overtaking All Might and reached the top only because his rival was gone; the hollow win pushed him to start making amends to his family.

Hawks's Quirk, Fierce Wings, gives the young top hero feathered wings of what colour?

Red, and sharper than they look: Hawks can pull feathers from his wings, steer each one by thought and wield the largest as blades.

Best Jeanist's Fiber Master Quirk lets him control what?

Tsunagu Hakamada has won the 'Best Jeanist' award eight years running.

Which pro hero began as the author's design for the female lead, before Ochaco Uraraka replaced her?

Mt. Lady: the author could not see how to use a giantess as a main character, so her name and Gigantification Quirk went to a pro who turns up in chapter one instead.

Mirio Togata chose the hero name Lemillion because he wanted to do what?

Help at least a million people: he accepts that he can't save everyone, so he set himself a number, and by the final chapter he has become Japan's top-ranked hero.

What is Tomura Shigaraki's birth name?

Tenko Shimura accidentally killed his whole family when his Quirk first surfaced; All For One took the boy in off the streets and gave him the name he uses now.

At first, Tomura Shigaraki's Decay Quirk only works when he touches a target with what?

All five fingers had to make contact at first, a limit that later falls away: once his power awakens, a single touch crumbles the ground and everything connected to it.

All For One's Quirk lets him do what with other people's Quirks?

Steal and bestow them, and wield many at once; it is why he spends the series trying to seize One For All, the only Quirk able to defy him.

Himiko Toga's Transform Quirk lets her take on someone's appearance after doing what?

Drinking their blood buys the whole disguise, clothes included; later the change goes further still and she can use the other person's Quirk as well.

The scarred villain Dabi, wielder of Blueflame, is secretly which member of the Todoroki family?

Toya, the eldest son, was thought to have died years earlier in a training accident; he picks a nationwide broadcast in the middle of a war to reveal who he is.

Kurogiri, the League of Villains' second-in-command, wields which Quirk?

Warp Gate belongs to a body with a past: Kurogiri is a Nomu built from the corpse of Oboro Shirakumo, a school friend of the teachers Aizawa and Present Mic.

Shie Hassaikai boss Kai Chisaki's Quirk lets him do what to anything he touches?

Disassemble and reassemble it: with a touch he can blow a body apart or rebuild it, even healing his own wounds mid-fight, and the knack gave him his villain name, Overhaul.

Before he became the Hero Killer Stain, Chizome Akaguro operated as a vigilante under what name?

Stendhal hunted criminals from behind a full-face mask; after that short spell as a vigilante he decided that fake heroes were the real disease, and became Stain.

What was Mr. Compress, the flashy League villain who shrinks things into marbles, before turning to crime?

A stage magician by trade, he is also the great-great-grandson of Oji Harima, a thief who robbed corrupt heroes, and that family creed is what brought him to the League.

The first My Hero Academia film, Two Heroes, takes place on what kind of location?

A floating island city, the man-made I-Island: the film's villains seize its own security system and use it to pin down every hero at the party, All Might included.

In Heroes Rising, what does Izuku do to defeat the villain Nine?

Transfers One For All to Bakugo, expecting to lose it for good; afterwards the power turns out to be still inside Izuku, and All Might guesses its past holders wanted him to keep it.

Which courier for jewel thieves ends up on the run with Izuku in World Heroes' Mission?

Rody Soul took the job to feed his little brother and sister and can't hide his mood: Pino, the small pink bird at his side, is his Quirk, and it acts out whatever he is really feeling.

Dark Might, the villain of the 2024 film You're Next, is an evil imitator of which hero?

Toshinori Yagi is All Might, whose parting words after his great battle were 'it's your turn'; mafia boss Valdo Gollini, watching, decided they were meant for him.

The spin-off manga My Hero Academia: Vigilantes follows Koichi Haimawari, a vigilante known as what?

The Crawler turned vigilante after failing to become a pro, and it works out in the end: a licensed hero signs him as a sidekick and he starts again in New York as the Skycrawler.

Which act performed 'The Day', the first opening theme of the My Hero Academia anime?

Porno Graffitti opened the anime with 'The Day' in 2016, then came back almost a decade later to open its final season with 'The Revo'.

Before My Hero Academia, its creator drew the short-lived Barrage and which other series?

Oumagadoki Zoo lasted under a year, but it left its mark: one of its characters, Takahiro, became the model for the winged hero Hawks.

Yoichi Shigaraki, the first user of One For All, was All For One's what?

Younger twin, and the sickly one: Yoichi seemed Quirkless but carried a hidden power that could do nothing except pass itself on, which is why One For All can be handed down.

What is the real name of Star and Stripe, America's top hero?

Cathleen Bate was rescued by All Might as a girl and became a hero because of him; she dies fighting Tomura Shigaraki, but not before her Quirk wrecks many of the powers he carries.

Which streamer boarded Legendary's live-action My Hero Academia film in 2022?

Netflix came aboard in December 2022 with Joby Harold writing, four years after Legendary took the rights; by late 2025 the film was still in development and a new writer was redoing the script.

The battle with All For One that forces All Might to retire takes place where?

Kamino, a ward of Yokohama, is largely destroyed in the fight; All Might wins by burning the last embers of One For All and has to give up hero work for good.

Who directed the My Hero Academia anime when it began in 2016?

Kenji Nagasaki directed the first three seasons and the first three films, then stayed on as chief director while Masahiro Mukai took over the directing from season four.

Which company publishes the My Hero Academia manga in North America?

Viz Media picked the series up in early 2015, seven months after it began in Japan, and from then on put each instalment out in translation as it appeared there.

Which manga artist, a native of Aichi Prefecture and a fan of Marvel comics, created My Hero Academia?

Kohei Horikoshi began the series in 2014 after his previous manga was cancelled after just two volumes, which had left him depressed and out of ideas.

All Might, long Japan's No. 1 hero in My Hero Academia, is hailed by the public under which title?

Symbol of Peace has a dark mirror in the story: All Might's arch-enemy, All For One, is known as the Symbol of Evil.

My Hero Academia's author took inspiration from which director's Spider-Man trilogy, alongside Star Wars and X-Men?

Sam Raimi's films echo in Class 1-A: Hanta Sero swings between buildings on tape much as Spider-Man does on his webs.

In My Hero Academia's first episode, All Might rescues Izuku from a villain whose body is made of what?

Sludge is no one-off threat: the same villain escapes and attacks a classmate, which prompts the powerless Izuku to rush in.

Izuku scores nothing in the practical of My Hero Academia's U.A. entrance exam, yet passes thanks to what?

Rescue points turned a zero into a pass: Izuku earned 60 of them for running to Ochaco Uraraka's aid and smashing a giant machine.

Shoto Todoroki's Quirk in My Hero Academia makes fire from one half of his body and ice from which?

His right side makes the ice, and for years he refused to use the flames of his left because of his abusive upbringing.

What name does My Hero Academia give the brain-exposed monsters, built from dead bodies, used by the League of Villains?

Nomu means 'brainless' in Japanese: they lack brain function, which keeps them obedient, and the strongest carry as many as six Quirks at once.

The Japanese title of My Hero Academia replaces the opening word My with which two Japanese words?

Boku no opens the title in Japan, Boku no Hiro Akademia, and gives the series its common fan abbreviation, BNHA.

Which Class 1-A student in My Hero Academia wears only gloves and boots as a hero costume to suit her Quirk?

Toru Hagakure is invisible, so her gloves and boots are all anyone sees. The author switched the character from male to female, partly because he found an invisible girl a funny idea.

Tomura Shigaraki's forces storm which maximum-security prison in My Hero Academia to break out All For One?

Tartarus is where the 'dregs of society' are thrown, never to be released, yet the raid cuts its power and sets every prisoner free.

Expecting robots, Class 1-A students in My Hero Academia instead fight whom in pairs for their practical final exam?

Their teachers do not hold back, and the last match pits Izuku and his childhood rival against All Might himself.

In the Cavalry Battle of My Hero Academia's U.A. Sports Festival, teams score by stealing what from their rivals?

Headbands carry each team's score, and Izuku's alone is worth ten million, which makes every other team chase him.

Which General Course student in My Hero Academia brainwashes Izuku in the first round of the Sports Festival tournament?

Hitoshi Shinso can control anyone who answers him, and his showing at the festival leads to training that earns him a place in the hero course.

Tenya Iida inherits which hero name in My Hero Academia after the Hero Killer Stain cripples his older brother?

Ingenium was first the name of his brother Tensei, who asked Tenya to carry it on once his injuries ended his career.

Which My Hero Academia technique, learned under Gran Torino, lets Izuku spread One For All through his whole body?

Full Cowl came to Izuku while microwaving frozen pastries: like the food, he needed the energy to flow evenly through all of him.

Which inherited Quirk first bursts out of Izuku's control in My Hero Academia's joint training battle against Class 1-B?

Blackwhip shoots tendrils of black energy and once belonged to the fifth holder of One For All, who appears as a spirit to coach Izuku.

Which video-uploading villain, helped by La Brava, tries to sneak into My Hero Academia's U.A. School Festival?

Gentle Criminal films his stunts in the hope of being remembered, and Izuku confronts him just as the festival is about to begin.

Which Class 1-A student in My Hero Academia sings lead on 'Hero too' at the U.A. School Festival concert?

Kyoka Jiro had been embarrassed that her love of rock music had nothing to do with heroism, until the concert changed her mind.

Which girl do heroes free from the Shie Hassaikai in My Hero Academia, where her Quirk is used to make drugs?

Eri is the granddaughter of the gang's old boss, and her Rewind Quirk later restores Mirio Togata's lost powers.

Which Support Course inventor in My Hero Academia calls the gadgets she builds her 'super cute babies'?

Mei Hatsume's creations often explode, and her Zoom Quirk lets her focus on objects up to 5 kilometres away.

Which boastful Class 1-B student in My Hero Academia can borrow another person's Quirk simply by touching them?

Neito Monoma can store four copied Quirks but use only one at a time, and as a child he was told his power would never make him a hero.

Which third-year U.A. student in My Hero Academia gains the traits of whatever they eat, under the hero name Suneater?

Tamaki Amajiki suffers from social anxiety despite his talent, a trait the author drew from facing an enormous crowd at a 2017 fan event.

Which U.A. art history instructor in My Hero Academia gives Class 1-A feedback as they choose their hero names?

Midnight puts foes to sleep with a fragrance from her body, and was first planned to run Class 1-A's homeroom before Shota Aizawa got the job.

Which spacesuit-clad U.A. instructor in My Hero Academia developed the USJ facility and wields the Quirk Black Hole?

Thirteen's Black Hole turns anything it sucks in to dust, and in an early concept the character was named No. 6 instead.

Which heroine in My Hero Academia works alone rather than in an agency and fights with rabbit-like leg strength?

Mirko takes her hero name from the mixed martial arts fighter Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic.

Which shinobi-styled pro hero in My Hero Academia leads The Lurkers and can manipulate the thinness of his body?

Edgeshot folds himself into sharp shapes to pierce targets, and worked out All For One's warping Quirk after seeing it only once.

Which League of Villains member in My Hero Academia is fatally wounded by Hawks while saving Himiko Toga?

Twice can duplicate anything he touches, yet long refused to copy himself because his clones once turned on one another.

Izuku pushes past his limit to save young Kota from which villain at My Hero Academia's forest training camp?

Muscular had killed Kota's hero parents, and the boy's hatred of heroes ends when Izuku beats him.

Which online shooter sold My Hero Academia outfits and added abilities such as 'Deku's Smash' and 'Todoroki's Ice Wall'?

Fortnite's crossover let players buy outfits of Izuku, All Might, Ochaco Uraraka and even members of the League of Villains.

On the first day at U.A. in My Hero Academia, Shota Aizawa threatens what for whoever ranks last in his Quirk test?

Expulsion turns out to be a ruse to bring out the best in the class, revealed only after Izuku finishes last.

Which event opens the U.A. Sports Festival in My Hero Academia, with students from every branch of the school competing?

An obstacle race around the stadium opens the festival, and Izuku wins it on wits alone without showing off his Quirk.

Rikido Sato's strength-boosting Quirk in My Hero Academia is fuelled by eating what, at a cost to his thinking?

Sugar buys him three more minutes of strength for every ten grams, and needing it has made him a talented baker.

Which distributor licensed the first season of My Hero Academia for a dubbed release in North America?

Funimation put the first season out on DVD and Blu-ray in April 2017, and by the third it was streaming a same-season 'Simuldub'.

Overusing her gravity-cancelling Quirk leaves Ochaco Uraraka of My Hero Academia suffering from severe what?

Nausea is the price of making too much weightless, and floating her own body brings it on as well.

Which former government sniper do villains free from prison to hunt Izuku in My Hero Academia's sixth season?

Lady Nagant takes a second Quirk, Air Walk, as payment for the job, and once beaten she tells the heroes where All For One is hiding.

Which rival of U.A. in My Hero Academia, regarded as the top hero school in western Japan, does Inasa Yoarashi attend?

Shiketsu High runs on far stricter, more militaristic rules than U.A., and Inasa was U.A.'s top recommended applicant before he withdrew.

Which musician, also known as Hachi, sang the first opening theme of My Hero Academia's second season?

Kenshi Yonezu took the job after the anime's producers approached him, and named Digimon Adventure's 'Butter-Fly' as his reference point.

Which composer, also behind the Haikyu!! soundtrack, wrote the music for the My Hero Academia anime and its films?

Yuki Hayashi scored every season and all four films, then returned for the Vigilantes spin-off anime in 2025.

Which Japanese voice actor, a Best Male Newcomer winner at the Seiyu Awards, plays Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia?

Daiki Yamashita is best known for the role, which he has voiced in every season of the anime since it began in 2016.

My Hero Academia has won Best Manga at Japan's Sugoi Japan Award and at which American comics awards?

The Harveys shortlisted the series in 2018 without a win, then handed it the Best Manga prize the following year.