The My Hero Academia Manga Gallery
Forty-two volumes, one unbroken wall of colour, 2014 to 2024.
This is the paper shelf: every Japanese tankobon cover of My Hero Academia, volume by volume, in the Jump Comics editions Shueisha published between November 2014 and December 2024. Kohei Horikoshi drew all forty-two. The run is complete: the manga ended in Weekly Shonen Jump on 5 August 2024, and the final volume closed the shelf that December.
Read as a wall, the covers tell the decade by themselves: bright school colours at the start, the villains taking whole covers in the middle years, and a final yellow volume that answers the first.
THE FIRST VOLUME
Japan and AmericaVolume 1, twice
Same painting · two trade dresses
Viz kept Horikoshi’s paintings and rebuilt the dressing around them: the English editions carry the same covers with translated logos and credits. The full comparison is on the covers page.
VOLUMES 1 TO 10
2014 to 2016
Volume 1
Shueisha · 4 November 2014. The yellow first cover: school-uniform Deku in front of a grinning All Might, the red crowd of heroes behind them.
Volume 2
Shueisha · 5 January 2015.
Volume 3
Shueisha · 3 April 2015.
Volume 4
Shueisha · 4 June 2015.
Volume 5
Shueisha · 4 August 2015. The first solo portrait cover: Todoroki, split down the middle like his Quirk.
Volume 6
Shueisha · 4 November 2015.
Volume 7
Shueisha · 4 February 2016.
Volume 8
Shueisha · 4 April 2016.
Volume 9
Shueisha · 3 June 2016. Titled for the 2008 one-shot the series grew out of: My Hero.
Volume 10
Shueisha · 2 September 2016.
VOLUMES 11 TO 21
2016 to 2018
Volume 11
Shueisha · 4 November 2016. All Might’s face fills the whole cover, the Kamino volume.
Volume 12
Shueisha · 3 February 2017.
Volume 13
Shueisha · 4 April 2017.
Volume 14
Shueisha · 2 June 2017.
Volume 15
Shueisha · 4 September 2017.
Volume 16
Shueisha · 2 November 2017.
Volume 17
Shueisha · 2 February 2018. Mirio Togata, Lemillion, against plain yellow.
Volume 18
Shueisha · 4 April 2018.
Volume 19
Shueisha · 4 July 2018. The pink festival cover: Jiro with her guitar.
Volume 20
Shueisha · 4 September 2018.
Volume 21
Shueisha · 4 December 2018.
VOLUMES 22 TO 31
2019 to 2021
Volume 22
Shueisha · 4 February 2019.
Volume 23
Shueisha · 2 May 2019.
Volume 24
Shueisha · 2 August 2019. The villains’ volume. The cover itself prints its English gloss: “All It Takes Is One Bad Day.”
Volume 25
Shueisha · 4 December 2019. Shigaraki alone on purple, the origin volume.
Volume 26
Shueisha · 4 March 2020.
Volume 27
Shueisha · 3 July 2020. Titled One’s Justice, the name the fighting-game line carries.
Volume 28
Shueisha · 4 September 2020.
Volume 29
Shueisha · 4 January 2021.
Volume 30
Shueisha · 2 April 2021.
Volume 31
Shueisha · 4 August 2021.
VOLUMES 32 TO 42
2021 to 2024
Volume 32
Shueisha · 4 October 2021. Lady Nagant, and the English words THE NEXT printed on the Japanese cover.
Volume 33
Shueisha · 4 February 2022.
Volume 34
Shueisha · 2 May 2022. Star and Stripe, America’s number one, in her flag colours.
Volume 35
Shueisha · 4 July 2022.
Volume 36
Shueisha · 4 October 2022.
Volume 37
Shueisha · 3 February 2023.
Volume 38
Shueisha · 2 June 2023.
Volume 39
Shueisha · 2 November 2023.
Volume 40
Shueisha · 4 April 2024. The title is printed on the cover in English: “The End of An Era, And —”.
Volume 41
Shueisha · 2 August 2024. Deku and Shigaraki, fist to fist.
Volume 42
Shueisha · 4 December 2024. Yellow again, ten years on: the adult Deku smiling over the whole cast. The bookend to volume 1.
READING THE COVERS
What the wall showsThe frame
Every cover carries the same furniture: the Jump Comics banner at the top right, the hand-lettered logo, and Horikoshi’s name at the foot. Inside that frame, almost everything else is allowed to change.
The colour story
The early volumes are primaries and school colours. From volume 24 the villains take the wall over: purple, red, black. The last volume returns to volume 1’s yellow, deliberately.
The credits
One name on every cover. Unlike long runs that hand covers to studios or guest artists, all forty-two are Horikoshi’s own paintings.