What is My Hero Academia: School Briefs?
My Hero Academia: School Briefs, in Japanese Yuei Hakusho, is a light-novel series written by Anri Yoshi and published under Shueisha’s Jump J-Books line. The first volume appeared on 4 April 2016, the week the anime premiered, and six volumes were out by October 2021. Where the manga races from crisis to crisis, the novels stop and live in the school: dorm life, festivals, training days, and the quiet scenes between battles, with illustrations by Horikoshi.
Viz publishes the series in English. Yoshi also wrote the prose adaptations of the films, one novel per movie from Two Heroes to You’re Next, so the franchise’s whole light-novel shelf, briefs and film books alike, comes from a single pen. A drama CD was bundled with the limited edition of manga volume 7, with an original Horikoshi story scripted by Yosuke Kuroda, part of the same prose-and-audio margin.
