His chosen successor, of course, is Midoriya. After a fateful run-in with All Might, the world’s greatest hero, he learns that his idol is dying and wants to pass on his mantle.
But his dream is to become a superhero and to attend the premier Japanese school for aspiring superheroes, UA High. In a world where most people have superpowers, middle school student Izuku Midoriya is part of 20 percent of the population born without them. The first volume was the second highest selling super hero graphic novel last year behind only Batman: The Killing Joke, and it’s since gone global with over 13 million copies of the series in print. The superhero series is based on a comic by Kohei Horikoshi that started in 2014 in the comic anthology magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. One of the biggest anime this spring is My Hero Academia, returning for its third season from animation studio Bones ( Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Space Dandy, Mob Psycho 100).