The North American digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump from Viz Media has added a new title that will begin on February 9th with My Hero Academia. The series comes from Kohei Horikoshi and will be running simultaneously with the Japanese release with the February 9th installment. Horikoshi began the series this past summer and the first volume has already landed, doing better than his previous series Barrage.
Plot concept: 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?
