My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into 26 tankobon volumes as of March 2020.The manga won the 2019 Harvey Award for Best Manga. As of December 2019, the manga had over 26 million copies in print. Both the manga and anime have received an overwhelming positive response from both critics and audiences, and is considered one of the best of the 2010s.