As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in English digitally by Viz Media's Weekly Shonen Jump and later its website. The series is licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media, who published the first volume on August 4, 2015. Its individual chapters have been collected into thirty-nine tankōbon volumes, the first volume released on November 4, 2014.
My Hero Academia began its serialization in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump on July 7, 2014. The protagonist Izuku Midoriya is a teenage boy who was born without a Quirk, despite his longtime dream to be a superhero, until he is approached by All Might, the most famous hero in Japan and the world and also his childhood idol, who chooses him to inherit his Quirk 'One For All' and helps to enroll him in a prestigious high school for superheroes in training.
The story is set in a world where most of the world population has superhuman abilities known as 'Quirks'. My Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. The twenty volumes that constitutes the first box set of the My Hero Academia manga by Viz Media.