60 Fun Facts About My Hero Academia

Who wrote and illustrated the My Hero Academia manga?

He was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1986 and had published a one-shot called My Hero back in 2008.

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

The first chapter ran on July 7, 2014 and the last on August 5, 2024, a run of almost exactly ten years.

How many tankobon volumes collect the complete My Hero Academia manga?

The final volume sold a million copies in its first week in December 2024.

Roughly what share of the human population in the series has developed superpowers called Quirks?

That leaves Quirkless people like young Izuku a small and often looked-down-on minority.

Which animation studio produced the My Hero Academia anime?

The first season aired from April 3 to June 26, 2016, and the eighth and final season wrapped in December 2025.

U.A. High School, the prestigious hero academy, is located in which Japanese prefecture?

Izuku and Bakugo both grew up in a town near the prefecture, which is why they could commute at first.

Which prize did My Hero Academia take for Best Manga in 2019?

By April 2024 the manga had more than 100 million copies in circulation.

Izuku Midoriya becomes which numbered user of One For All?

He is the first holder to form a psychic link with the spirits of past users and inherit their Quirks.

Izuku reclaims the nickname 'Deku' after Ochaco points out it sounds like a Japanese word meaning what?

Bakugo had used the name as an insult meaning 'useless' since childhood.

Who voices Izuku Midoriya in the North American dub?

Daiki Yamashita voices him in Japanese, and the character's birthday is July 15.

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

His eventual hero name is the mouthful 'Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight'.

What childhood nickname does Izuku use for Katsuki Bakugo?

Both boys are from a place near Shizuoka Prefecture and were friends before Bakugo turned on him for being Quirkless.

Shoto Todoroki freezes with one side of his body and shoots flames from the other. Which side is fire?

He refused to use his fire side for years because it came from his abusive father Endeavor.

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

She had been driven to a breakdown by Endeavor's abuse, and Shoto is the youngest of the four Todoroki children.

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

Her hero name is Uravity, and she wants to earn money to support her poor parents.

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

He takes up the hero name Ingenium after his brother Tensei is forced to retire by the Hero Killer Stain.

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

Horikoshi originally planned the character as a boy but changed it because Class 1-A had too few girls.

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

She has to know the molecular structure of whatever she makes, and Horikoshi confirmed she cannot create living beings.

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

His hero name Chargebolt combines the English word charge with the Japanese for lightning.

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

Dark Shadow grows more powerful, and harder to control, the darker the surroundings get.

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

His own body bounces off the balls instead of sticking, so he can use them as trampolines.

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

The name honours his favourite hero, Crimson Riot.

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

His self-chosen hero name is 'Can't Stop Twinkling'.

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

His hero name is Cellophane.

What is All Might's real name?

He is the eighth holder of One For All and known as the Symbol of Peace.

After his injury, All Might can only hold his muscular hero form for roughly how long each day?

The wound was inflicted by All For One, and the Kamino battle finally forced his retirement.

Which American comic-book hero was the Symbol of Peace's design particularly inspired by?

Horikoshi grew up on Naruto, Dragon Ball and One Piece but was also heavily influenced by Marvel comics.

Christopher Sabat voices All Might in the dub. Who voices him in Japanese?

Sabat is also famous as the dubbed voice of Vegeta and Piccolo in Dragon Ball.

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

He suffers from dry eye, which is why he always looks exhausted; the character is loosely based on Batman.

Principal Nezu of U.A. is a rare Quirk-bearing animal with the head of what?

His Quirk High Spec gives him superhuman intelligence.

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

Chiyo Shuzenji has worked at U.A. for more than forty years and her word carries as much weight as Nezu's.

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

His real name, Hizashi Yamada, is a nod to a Japanese radio host.

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

The Jet Quirk lets the tiny old man ricochet around a room faster than the eye can follow.

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

Enji Todoroki's Hellflame Quirk gives him pyrokinesis; he later retires to a wheelchair to make amends with his family.

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

Keigo Takami works as a double agent inside the Paranormal Liberation Front and ends up killing Twice.

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

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

Mt. Lady, whose Quirk is Gigantification, was originally conceived by Horikoshi as what?

Ochaco replaced her because Horikoshi could not work out how to use a giantess in the story.

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

His Permeation Quirk lets him phase through anything solid, including the ground.

What is Tomura Shigaraki's birth name?

He is the grandson of Nana Shimura, All Might's own master, and was taken in by All For One after his Quirk killed his family.

Shigaraki's Decay Quirk disintegrates whatever he touches, but only when he makes contact with what?

He is voiced by Koki Uchiyama in Japanese and Eric Vale in English.

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

The 'Symbol of Evil' is the older twin brother of Yoichi, the very first user of One For All.

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

In the final war she saves Ochaco with a blood transfusion that costs Toga her own life.

Dabi, whose Blueflame burns hotter than his father's Hellflame, is secretly which Todoroki?

Horikoshi made him Shoto's archnemesis, and Endeavor promises to visit him daily in the end.

Kurogiri, the League of Villains' second-in-command, generates portals with which Quirk?

He was built from the body of Oboro Shirakumo, Aizawa and Present Mic's dead school friend.

Overhaul, mysophobic boss of the Shie Hassaikai, has a Quirk that lets him do what to anything he touches?

He experimented on the young girl Eri to make a Quirk-destroying drug and restore the yakuza's power.

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

That earlier career is shown in the Vigilantes spin-off, and Spinner joined the League out of admiration for him.

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

Atsuhiro Sako is the great-great-grandson of the gentleman thief Oji Harima.

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

On I-Island Izuku meets Melissa Shield, the Quirkless daughter of All Might's old friend David, and fights the villain Wolfram.

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

Horikoshi had once planned that scene as the finale of the whole series.

In World Heroes' Mission, the cult Humarise frames Izuku for mass murder in which country?

The film earned about $47 million worldwide, the most of any entry in the franchise.

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

Tensai Okamura directed, replacing Kenji Nagasaki, who had helmed the first three films.

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

Written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and drawn by Betten Court, it is set five years before the main story and got its own anime in 2025.

Which band performed 'The Day', the opening theme of the anime's first season?

The ending theme, 'Heroes', was by Brian the Sun.

Before My Hero Academia, Horikoshi had two short-lived series cancelled. One was Barrage; what was the other?

Oumagadoki Zoo ran in 2010 to 2011 and Barrage in 2012, before he graduated to a ten-year hit.

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

One For All was born when All For One forced a power-stockpiling Quirk onto Yoichi, merging it with a hidden Quirk that could only pass itself on.

Star and Stripe, America's top hero, has a Quirk called New Order. What is her real name?

All Might saved her as a child, and her hero name comes from a nickname for the US flag.

Which streamer acquired the rights to Legendary's live-action My Hero Academia film?

The deal was announced on December 12, 2022.

By April 2024, roughly how many copies of the My Hero Academia manga were in circulation?

The figure includes spin-offs and makes it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.

Who directed the My Hero Academia anime series at Bones?

Yosuke Kuroda wrote the series and Yoshihiko Umakoshi handled character designs; season one aired from April to June 2016.

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

Its first volume appeared on August 4, 2015, and chapters were released digitally in English at the same time as Japan.