In a current interview with Viz Media, Kohei Horikoshi revealed that he had detailed backstories of a number of characters in My Hero Academia manga that he selected to not embrace.

Whereas discussing this, he admitted to having absolutely developed backstories for the earlier inheritors of One For All, which he revealed to have deliberately ignored.

“I’ve characters and backstories that I created however didn’t embrace within the story. As an example, I’ve detailed tales for the earlier inheritors of One For All. I deliberately left these out.“

Horikoshi’s inspiration for this artistic selection comes from the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the place the long run from which the characters originate is hinted at however not absolutely depicted.

The creator aimed to copy this method in My Hero Academia, permitting readers to fill within the gaps with their imaginations.

“Slightly than drawing out all of the well-thought-out backgrounds and episodes, I needed to trace at these parts as a substitute. As an example, in Terminator 2, John Connor turns into a pacesetter sooner or later, and Schwarzenegger’s character is shipped from that future world. However there aren’t many depictions of the long run itself. As a result of the long run isn’t depicted intimately, the viewers’ imaginations develop, and I assumed that was actually nice. So, I needed to create one thing like Terminator 2. I may need strayed a bit from the unique query although…“

When requested if he may discover these untold tales sooner or later, Horikoshi firmly declined.

My Hero Academia began serializing in Shueisha’s shonen manga journal Weekly Shonen Leap since July 2014, with its chapters collected in 40 tankobon volumes as of April 2024. 

The sequence is about to finish after a ten-year run on Aug 5, 2024.

The sequence has quite a few spin-off manga, together with My Hero Academia: Smash!!, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and My Hero Academia: Workforce-Up Missions.

It has additionally been tailored into an anime tv sequence by Bones. The primary season aired in Japan from April to June 2016, adopted by a second season from April to September 2017, then a 3rd season from April to September 2018, a fourth season from October 2019 to April 2020, a fifth season from March to September 2021, a sixth season from October 2022 to March 2023, and a seventh season which premiered in Could 2024.

It has additionally obtained three animated movies, titled My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, and My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, and 9 unique video animations (OVAs).

A fourth animated movie, titled My Hero Academia: You’re Subsequent, is about to be launched in August 2024.

Supply: Viz Media