THE LIBRARY
Collector guides, cover censuses, and edition answers, documented issue by issue. Every page answers one specific question, completely.
MY HERO ACADEMIA
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Are My Hero Academia covers the same in Japanese and English?
Yes: Viz kept all 42 of Horikoshi’s cover paintings for the English My Hero Academia and rebuilt the trade dress around them. Two pairs, pictured and compared.
How can you tell a first printing of My Hero Academia?
A first printing of a My Hero Academia Jump Comics volume is identified in the colophon at the back: the printing line and date. The method, and what to check.
How did My Hero Academia begin?
My Hero Academia began as the 2008 Akamaru Jump one-shot My Hero. After Barrage was cancelled in 2012, Horikoshi rebuilt it into the 2014 Weekly Shonen Jump series.
How does Kohei Horikoshi draw?
Horikoshi’s art: Kishimoto’s influence and a love of drawing hands, a figure collector’s superhero anatomy, a hidden horror streak, and a documented warning…
How many copies has My Hero Academia sold?
Over 100 million copies in circulation worldwide by April 2024, spin-offs included, and a regular on the New York Times bestseller list. The numbers, documented.
How many volumes of My Hero Academia are there?
My Hero Academia has 42 tankobon volumes and 430 magazine chapters, plus a bonus chapter 431 printed only in the final volume. The full count, documented.
What are the My Hero Academia movie booklet manga?
The giveaway manga of the four films: Vol. 0 Origin, Vol. R, Vol. W, and Vol. Next, printed for first audiences only, with one-shots by Horikoshi and Yoko Akiyama.
Where has My Hero Academia crossed over?
The guest record: playable in Jump Force, outfits in Fortnite and Overwatch 2, collaborations in Granblue Fantasy and two Roblox games. The crossover census.
What are the English editions of My Hero Academia?
Viz Media’s English My Hero Academia: volume 1 in August 2015, a chapter simulpub from the start, all 42 volumes by October 2025, and two box sets.
What My Hero Academia exhibitions have there been?
Two major original-art exhibitions: Drawing Smash (Tokyo and Osaka, 2021) and the tenth-anniversary exhibition (Tokyo, June to August 2025, then a four-city tour).
What is the final season of My Hero Academia?
Season 8, the Final Season: 11 episodes, 4 October to 13 December 2025, ending the Bones anime, followed by the bonus special adapting chapter 431 on 2 May 2026.
What is the My Hero Academia live-action film?
Legendary’s live-action My Hero Academia: rights in October 2018, director Shinsuke Sato, Netflix aboard December 2022, Jason Fuchs rewriting in 2025. Still in…
The My Hero Academia Manga Gallery
Every Japanese tankobon cover of My Hero Academia, volumes 1 to 42, Jump Comics editions from 2014 to 2024, with the English volume 1 beside the Japanese original.
What are the My Hero Academia mobile games?
The mobile and free-to-play shelf: The Strongest Hero (2021), Ultra Impact (2022), and Byking’s cross-platform battle royale Ultra Rumble (2023).
What are the My Hero One’s Justice games?
Byking’s arena fighters for Bandai Namco: One’s Justice (26 October 2018, over 500,000 units by January 2019), One’s Justice 2 (March 2020), and All’s Justice…
What are the My Hero Academia OVAs?
Eleven OVAs and specials sit beside the 170 TV episodes of My Hero Academia: Jump Festa pieces, limited-edition manga bundles, streaming specials, and film tie-ins.
What is My Hero Academia: School Briefs?
School Briefs (Yuei Hakusho) is the light-novel line by Anri Yoshi: six volumes of school-life stories from 2016, published in English by Viz, plus the film novels.
What are My Hero Academia: Smash!! and Team-Up Missions?
The two companion spin-offs: Smash!!, Hirofumi Neda’s comedy (5 vols, 2015–17), and Team-Up Missions, Yoko Akiyama’s team-up anthology (2019–2025), both from Viz.
What are the My Hero Academia stage plays?
My Hero Academia: The “Ultra” Stage: four 2.5-dimensional stage productions, 2019 to 2023, from the first run through The Best Hero, with a COVID postponement…
What are Ultra Age and Ultra Artworks?
The closing books of the franchise: Ultra Age, the final fan book (2 May 2025), and Ultra Artworks, the official illustration collection (4 June 2025), with the…
What are Ultra Archive and Ultra Analysis?
Shueisha’s official character guides: Ultra Archive (2 May 2016) and Ultra Analysis (4 October 2019), the stat books of My Hero Academia. Only Analysis reached…
What is the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime?
The Vigilantes anime by Bones Film: announced at Jump Festa ’25, season 1 in spring 2025 and season 2 in winter 2026, 26 episodes adapting the complete prequel…
What is in My Hero Academia volume 42?
Volume 42 of My Hero Academia (4 December 2024) collects chapters 423 to 430 and adds 38 pages of new content, including the book-only epilogue chapter 431, More.
The History of My Hero Academia
The history of My Hero Academia: Horikoshi’s road from two cancelled Jump series to the 2014 launch, the anime era, and the 2024 ending after ten years.
How was the My Hero Academia anime made?
The story of the Bones production: producer Wakana Okamura’s choice, director Kenji Nagasaki, designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and eight seasons built in batches,…
What are the My Hero Academia movies?
Four films: Two Heroes (2018), Heroes Rising (2019), World Heroes’ Mission (2021), and You’re Next (2024), each with a Horikoshi booklet manga given to first…
What did Kohei Horikoshi draw before My Hero Academia?
Before My Hero Academia, Horikoshi published three one-shots (Tenko, My Hero, Shinka Rhapsody) and two cancelled Weekly Shonen Jump series: Oumagadoki Zoo and…
What is My Hero Academia: Vigilantes?
Vigilantes is the prequel spin-off by Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court: 15 volumes (2016–2022), set five years before the main series, about unlicensed heroes.
What My Hero Academia video games are there?
The My Hero Academia game census: the 3DS Battle for All (2016), Byking’s One’s Justice pair, Ultra Rumble, All’s Justice (2026), and the two mobile games.
When did My Hero Academia end?
My Hero Academia ended on 5 August 2024 in Weekly Shonen Jump, after an epilogue arc Horikoshi insisted on and a five-chapter countdown announced that June.
Who composed the music for My Hero Academia?
Yuki Hayashi composed the music for the entire My Hero Academia screen franchise: eight TV seasons, four films, the OVAs, and the Vigilantes anime with two…
Who is Kohei Horikoshi?
Kohei Horikoshi (born 20 November 1986, Aichi): assistant turned Jump author whose third series, My Hero Academia, ran 2014 to 2024 and passed 100 million copies.
MYSTICAL NINJA
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What is Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon?
The Goemon series' leap into 3D: a big, funny Konami adventure in which a blue-haired thief crosses feudal Japan to stop villains who want to turn the whole country into a stage.
Who was Goemon, the thief the games are named for?
A real bandit executed in Kyoto in 1594, and almost everything else you have heard about him was written afterward. The record and the legend are two different men.
Why does Mystical Ninja have a giant robot and musical numbers?
Because the music is the plot and the spectacle is the series' house style. The villains are performers converting Japan into a stage, so Goemon answers spectacle with spectacle.
Why did most Goemon games never leave Japan?
Konami gave the answer itself in 1996: the games were regarded as too specific to the Japanese market to release worldwide. The record bears it out, 23 mainline games, five released overseas.
Who sang the musical numbers in Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon?
Hironobu Kageyama and Ichirou Mizuki, anime song royalty singing inside a 128 megabit cartridge.