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My Hero Academia Reading Order (with Vigilantes, Team-Up Missions, School Briefs)

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Written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi, My Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series that has been serialized since July 2014 and spawned a media franchise with several spin-off manga, light novels, stage plays, video games, an anime television series, and several animated films. Simply put, My Hero Academia is a big success, and one of the best-selling manga series of all time, even appearing on the New York Times bestseller list.

My Hero Academia is also a manga inspired by American comics and more precisely by superhero comic books. Mangaka Kōhei Horikoshi has never hidden his love for the superhero genre, particularly influenced by Marvel Comics with Spider-Man as his favorite character.

Set in a world where 80% of the world’s population has superpowers, known as “Quirks”, My Hero Academia follows the adventures of Izuku Midoriya, one of the few humans without a quirk who still dreams of becoming a hero. After an encounter with his idol, All Might, the world’s greatest hero, Izuku is chosen by All Might to inherit his Quirk “One For All” (which gives him the ability to stockpile his raw power and pass it on to others) and to become his successor. The young man then joins U.A. High School, the top Hero Academy in Japan.

My Hero Academia Manga Order

Following is your reading order for My Hero Academia, including the main series and its optional spin-off and light novels. Story-wise, you only need the main series, though for more Hero Academia, slice-of-life moments, and backstories, we invite you to read the spin-offs.

U.A. Beginnings Saga

From Chapter 01 to Chapter 97, you have the first saga in My Hero Academia, dealing with the beginning of the young Izuku Midoriya as a hero student, introducing the school, fellow hero students and his training to learn to harness his Quirk.

Rise of Villains Saga

From Chapter 98 (collected in My Hero Academia Vol. 11) to chapter 306, this is the Rise of Villains Saga,

My Hero Academia: A Boxset for the first 20 volumes of the series, available on Amazon.

It’s time for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes! If you want to dive into this spin-off manga, it is recommended to stop reading the main series after Chapter 193 to dive into Vigilantes. Published from 2016 to 2022, this spin-off series acts as a prequel to the main series and is centered on Koichi Haimawari who failed to become an official hero but still chose to fight crimes with other vigilantes. The manga is written by Hideyuki Furuhashi, and illustrated by Betten Court. Like all spin-offs, this is an optional reading, though you will find some backstories for several well-known characters from the main series.

It’s time to finish reading My Hero Academia: Vigilantes! After Chapter 257, you can complete the entire Vigilantes story aft

My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions! Written and illustrated by Yoco Akiyama, My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions is another spin-off considered semi-canon (aka some part of it are canon, others not) about the Team-Up Missions Program where some pro heroes have to go on missions with aspiring heroes! Like Vigilantes, you can read this spin-off series after Chapter 257.

Final Act Saga

The third and last saga in My Hero Academia starts with Chapter 307. The manga series concluded in August 2024 in Japan after a ten-year run with Chapter 430.

My Hero Academia: Smash!!

Published between 2015 and 2017, My Hero Academia: Smash!! is a spin-off gag manga written and illustrated by Hirofumi Neda. This is obviously non-canon, with characters in chibi form and offering a comedic take on the series. You can read it whenever ou like (or not read it at all, your choice!)

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