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Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…

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Kohei Horikoshi was born in Aichi, Japan, in 1986. He received a Tezuka Award Honorable Mention in 2006, and following the publication of several short stories in Akamaru Jump, his first serialized work in Weekly Shonen Jump was Oumagadoki Zoo in 2010. My Hero Academia is his third series in Weekly Shonen Jump.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ VIZ Media LLC; Illustrated edition (August 4, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781421582696
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421582696
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 - 17 years
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.7 x 7.5 inches

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He studied Japanese language and translation at Dartmouth College and abroad at Kanda Gaigo Daigaku in Chiba, Japan. He then spent two years living and working as an English teacher in Miyagi, Japan before returning to the U.S.
As a professional translator, he works with publishers Viz Media, Yen Press, and Udon Entertainment on a wide range of titles such as "MY HERO ACADEMIA," "DR. STONE," "DRAGON BALL SUPER," "YOWAMUSHI PEDAL," "HELL'S PARADISE: JIGOKURAKU," "OTHERWORLDLY IZAKAYA NOBU," and others.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2023

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My grandson spent hours reading this one,he has read it more than once,very engrossing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2023

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My daughter was borrowing her friends copy of this book and hadn’t finished it by the time the friend wanted it back. I saw that it didn’t cost very much so I just bought her her own copy and it showed up literally a few hours after I ordered it.

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Mutants- I mean quirks are the new norm. Most people have some type of quirk. It seems our main character, and typical Shonen kid, Deku is without a quirk despite both of his parents having one. But how does he become the number one hero? Shut up, it’s a Shonen, we don’t ask questions here. Deku has an unhealthy obsession with the current number one hero, All Might. This causes Deku to have large dreams to join the largest and hardest school, U.A. Feeling slightly defeated, Deku runs into All Might during a fight against a villain. Deku latches onto All Might(literally) and learns All Mights secret.

The same villain escapes and attacks the city again. While the other hero’s try to fight off the villain, it’s Deku that kicks everyone into action. All Might realizes Deku’s potential and reveals another secret with him. Deku can take All Mights quirk. Queue montage music! Deku trains relentlessly for the awaiting admission test. The lowly Deku, barely accommodating to his new quirk steps into the test with wet pants. Never one to back down, Deku goes beyond Plus Ultra and passes his test. (Come on guys it’s a Shonen.) However, his new quirk comes with severe consequences he must learn to use it wisely.

So what’s the big idea for his new teacher to test everyone’s quirk. Because school! Deku must limit himself to his use of his quirk, finding it extremely difficult as all of his classmates have shown some extension of their quirks. Deku rips himself a new one by trying to use his quirk again, but with the guidance from his teacher, Easer Head, no his head is not literally an eraser despite how cool that would be, Deku learns to limit himself. With tears in young Deku’s eyes, he moves onto his next class. A cops and robbers scenario where he must use more of his self-destructive quirk. With a costume in mind, if you guessed his crazy obsession was back, you’re right. He gears up looking too much like All Might, basically flashing in front of everyone that he’s the new All Might. He gears up to fight his arch nemesis/ old friend, Bakugo.

Will everyone see the obvious connection between All Might and Deku? Is there going to be 800 episodes of unnecessary filler to finally reach a disappointing ending? God I hope not! Let’s find out in Vol. 2.

MHA, I was very skeptical about at first but I’m so happy I picked it up. There’s no dragging me around on a never ending take of each character. The story is a sweet touch on what this manga is going to be about, with a strong sense of action. Not only do each characters have a personality you can relate to, they’re not overbearing. There’s so much I can’t wait for with this manga and the characters development. I give this manga a Present Mic Plus Ultra out of ten. (A ten out of ten.)

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The Beginning of a Japanese Homage to Western Super-Hero Comics

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*My Hero Academia*, by Kohei Horikoshi, is a manga series that is in many ways a tribute to American super-hero comics. From the chapter titles having artwork that emulates the covers of American comic books, and the general style and tone being more in line with American super-hero comics than *shonen* manga, the book is one big shout-out to the American genre.

The story takes place in the future where increasing numbers of the populace have developed abilities called "quirks". These abilities help the people who have them to do amazing feats, or sometimes just mundane things that aren't super-useful. They are basically like the mutants in Marvel Comics or meta-humans in DC Comics.

Because of this, some people decided to use their new abilities to hurt others and enrich themselves in selfish, illegal, immoral ways. These new super-powered villains are sometimes really difficult, if not impossible, to stop. For ordinary folks or even those with less impressive quirks, at least. For those with powerful enough quirks, such villains can be fought successfully.

Such powerfully-endowed folks are able to become professional heroes who are paid by governments world-wide for their services, and some can get fame and fortune by doing so. And this brings us to our story.

There is a boy in Japan named Izuku Midoriya who desperately wants to become a hero. To do so, he must attend a "hero school" and he wants to go to the premiered Hero school in his country, the U.A. High School. Unfortunately, he is a quirkless - one of the few people left who has no quirk at all, not even a mundane one.

Of course, between the lack of a quirk, the bullying of the only boy in their school to have a powerful quirk, and the mockery of everyone else over his dreams, Midoriya is miserable. When he is saved from attack by his personal hero - and the strongest hero on the planet - All-Might, his fortunes turn around. All-Might is so impressed with his heart that he helps Midoriya fulfill his dreams.

So begins the story of this young boy's rise from the victim of bullying and useless dreams, to beginning a journey to friends and becoming the world's greatest hero.

This story was really sweet and is, like *Tiger & Bunny* a really unique tale. There are some subversions of typical Japanese genres that seem to uphold American ideas of individualism over Japanese cultural community. It's not subversive, but it does hit points that aren't often hit in Japanese series. Not that the Japanese never value individuality. Japan is a varied country of different viewpoints underneath the cultural conformity. Also, some ideas are everywhere, across cultural lines, just with differing emphases and so forth. But the tone is more American melded with Japanese. It's really quite interesting.

I love Japanese culture, though there is bad just as in American culture. It's cool to see shout-outs and other stuff to American genres from a Japanese fan of such. It's as if the opposite of me in Japan wrote a series and such.

The characters are also a unique mix of Japanese and American types. And in the notes on some characters, you can see where the mangaka stated he decided to go against some style that his editors asked for. These characters are the ones that have a more American feel to them. There are other characters that are explicitly Japanese styles of characters too.

*My Hero Academia* has a fun story wherein the author uses some really unique mixes of Japanese and American tropes and styles. It's one of my favorite series in manga or otherwise, and one that I highly recommend.

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Wayne Wozniak

Amazing book

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This is an amazing manga series for kids! Mine loved the first book and it made them get the next 5 books.

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This is the edition printed in Italy

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The pages are thin, and you can see the next page just slightly, but I don't find it a big concern personally. As someone that's been watching the anime it's nice to go back and see what details are different in the manga. I don't care for the suggestive fake ads on the back of some of these. I know it's shonen, but I like to be able to read books in public/work places.

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JOVONNA PARRISH

My teen is happy they finally got this volume

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2023

Leisure

Great as a Gift or For Yourself

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Read through it cause I didn't want to watch the anime again. It's a neat story with a lot of hope. And I love having it on my bookcase for my collection of mangas.

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Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on July 31, 2022

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I have to say MHA never stops amazing me. I, as a teenager, personally am a big fan of the anime so I decided I wanted to read the mangas. And I don't regret it AT ALL. The story in the book is the exact same as the anime, literally, but I love that! The ilustrations are amazing and the price is extremly good for what the book is.
PLUS, in between the chapters the author tells us a bit about how he started drawing and imagining the main charaters along with some of their personal info., I LOVE EVERYTHING. I read it over-night but 0 regrets, it was so worth it.
On the other hand, the story is amzing, it has many twists that just keep coming and coming, if this is y'alls first book of the series, wait to read the next ones, the story just keeps getting better from here, it's no normal hero-themed book, it's superior >>>>>

Also, there are people saying that it's printed backwards... That's not an error of the printer or of amazon. The avarage japanese mangas are printed from "back to front". They are simply read in the direction of the Japanese script. It's written from right to left and from top to bottom, which is far from our system (as a person from Europe). Plus, at the end of the book it perfectly explains how it's meant to be read.

In conclusion, totally PLUS ULTRA (and worth buying 100%).

kira

not bad

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on July 6, 2019

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expected this to be really good because of the hype, I haven’t watched the show yet but this is a good first book

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Stan FREDO

Une entrée en matière avec tous les cadrans au vert !

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on April 16, 2016

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Pas encore trentenaire, Kōhei Horikoshi est l'auteur de cette série toujours en cours de publication dans le célèbre magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump, donc orientée principalement vers un public de jeunes adolescents et tout récemment traduite en français . Dans le monde que l'auteur nous propose, 80 % de la population dispose d'au moins un "quirk" (super-pouvoir), qui se révèle avant l'âge de cinq ans, mais un nombre très limité devient "super-héros". Le collégien Izuku "Deku" Midoriya n'est pas de ceux qui ont un super-pouvoir, contrairement à son "ami" Katsuki "Kacchan" Bakugo et à bien d'autres jeunes de sa classe. Tous aspirent à intégrer la très sélective école des super-héros, mais il faut bien entendu d'abord avoir un "quirk" pour espérer passer le concours.
Izuku va rencontrer fortuitement All Might, le plus puissant des super-héros, et va se faire apprécier de lui en se lançant à la rescousse de Katsuki, attaqué par un "super-villain", bien qu'il n'ait aucun super-pouvoir. Izuku va devenir l'élu de All Might, qui va lui faire passer son "quirk", à la maîtrise duquel Izuku va devoir s'employer.
Le contexte n'est pas nouveau : on l'a vu dans les années récentes avec les séries consacrées aux USA par Marvel Comics aux X-Men (dont récemment ' Wolverine & the X-Men by Jason Aaron Omnibus ') ou bien ' Avengers Academy Volume 1 et suivants', et en France avec ' Freaks' Squeele tome 1 et suivants' à la formation de jeunes dotés de super-pouvoirs. 'My Hero Academia' en reprend les aspects les plus classiques : des épreuves dangereuses et de durs examens à l'extérieur plus souvent que des cours organisés selon des pédagogies innovantes, des amis (... ?) et des ennemis (Kacchan), la rencontre amoureuse (Ochako Uraraka, quoiqu'à ce stade, "amoureuse" est un bien grand mot), des profs vaches (Shota Aizawa), des profs sympa (All Might)...
Graphiquement, pas de doute, c'est un "manga", et pas dans le style du très policé Jirō Taniguchi ou même de celui de Naoki Urasawa : les cheveux sont en pétard pour les deux principaux protagonistes, gros plans sur les visages colériques ou marqués par la peur, lorsque les yeux s'écarquillent au point de manger le visage, la sueur goutte sur les fronts et les joues, les yeux baignent dans les larmes... Des traits autour des personnages soulignent la vitesse, la mise en page est relativement chaotique, le lettrage va du tout petit au très grand, les transitions sont économisées etc.
Cette série va bien évidemment plaire à son public cible !

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Satisfait

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interesante

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on July 7, 2018

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Intersante libro para la persona que le guste este tipo de temas. Buena compra. Llegada en fecha. Es lo que se espera.

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