<P> My Hero Academia (僕 の ヒーロー アカデミア, Boku no Hīrō Akademia) is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi . It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2014, and 14 volumes have been collected in tankōbon format . The series has been licensed for English - language release by Viz Media, and began serialization in their weekly digital manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump on February 9, 2015 . The story follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without superpowers in a world where they are the norm, but who still dreams of becoming a superhero himself, and is scouted by the world's greatest hero who shares his powers with Izuku after recognizing his value and enrolls him in a high school for heroes in training . The manga was adapted into an anime television series; the first season aired from April 3 to June 26, 2016, and a second season premiered on April 1, 2017 . </P> <P> On an Earth - like world where people with superpowers known as "Quirks" (個性, Kosei) are the norm, Izuku Midoriya is a regular middle school student who has dreams of one day becoming a Hero (ヒーロー, Hīrō) despite being bullied by his classmates for not having a Quirk . After being the only one to try and save his childhood bully Katsuki from a Villain (敵 (ヴィラン), Viran), the world's greatest Hero All Might bestows upon him his own quirk "One For All". The story follows Izuku's entrance into U.A. High School (雄英 高校, Yūei Kōkō), a school that cultivates the next generation of Super Heroes . </P> <P> My Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi . It began its serialization in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in July 2014 . As of June 2, 2017 the series been collected into fourteen tankōbon volumes . 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 Shounen Jump . As of February 7, 2017, 8 volumes have been released . </P> <P> On October 29, 2015, the series' official Twitter announced that My Hero Academia would receive an anime adaptation produced by Studio Bones . </P>

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