Just last month, Viz Media, an English manga publisher, announced that they have licensed Kouhei Hirikoshi’s (Sensei no Bulge, Oumagadoki Doubutsuen) manga, Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) for digital release on Weekly Shounen Jump. Yesterday, they revealed on their official twitter account that they will be releasing the manga in print starting August 2015. Boku no Hero Academia‘s digital English release was last February 9, 2015.
SUPER ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER 2! My Hero Academia will have a graphic novel release starting this August! #manga #mha pic.twitter.com/KhLCDhRMCC
— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) February 19, 2015
The action, adventure, comedy and supernatural shounen manga was released on July 7, 2014 under Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump’s 2014 Issue #32. There are currently two compiled Japanese manga volumes for the series. The first volume shipped on November 4, 2014 containing the first seven chapters. The second volume was released on January 5, 2015 including chapters 8-17. The third volume is planned to ship on April 3, 2015.
The manga was nominated among 14 manga titles for the 8th Manga Taishou Awards. The first volume of the manga reached 7th place on the Weekly Oricon Manga Chart for November 3-9, 2014. As of November 9, 2014, the first volume has sold 71,575 copies. The second volume of the manga reached one rank up with 167,531 copies. As of January 18, 2015, the volume sold 205,179 copies.
Synopsis of Boku no Hero Academia from MAL:
People are not born equal, a realization that 4-year-old Midoriya Izuku faced when bullied by his classmates who had unique special powers. Izuku was one of the rare cases where he was born with absolutely no unique powers. This did not stop Izuku from pursuing his dream, a dream of becoming a great hero like the legendary All-Might. To become the great hero he hopelessly wants to become, he now will join the ranks of one of the highest rated “Hero Academies” in the country: Yueiko. With the help of his idol All-Might, will he be able to claim the ranks and become a true hero?
Read the first few chapters from the first compiled volume of the manga in Japanese here.
Visit the manga’s official Twitter account here or the author’s official Twitter account here.
Source – Viz Media’s Official Twitter account
