• My Hero Academia

     is a manga created by Kôhei Horikoshi in 2014, where 80% of the population has a superpower, except the young Izuku, a superhero fan

  • The title has established itself as one of the market leaders, with already 6 million copies sold in France and numerous adaptations

  • The film 

    My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

     is released on Wednesday on a circuit of 250 rooms, the opportunity to discover this universe under manga and comics influences

The Japanese in general, and manga in particular, did not wait for

My Hero Academia

 to stage superheroes. They even have their own superheroes with the

super sentai

, these television series popularized in France by

Bioman

. Moreover, one of the first of its kind,

Battle Fever J

, in 1979, was born from the collaboration between the production company Toei and the house of ideas Marvel. But recently, the manga has mostly reappropriated American superheroes, Superman and Batman, with

One-Punch Man

and his super strong but charismatic anti-hero, or, therefore,

My Hero Academia

.

The MHA

phenomenon

is such that, if the first two films

Two Heroes

and

Heroes Rising

had the right to event screenings in the cinema, the third,

World Heroes' Mission

, benefits from a real national release on Wednesday by CGR Events and Crunchyroll, on a circuit of 250 copies.

With the hope of a

Demon Slayer

success  ?

The best-selling manga in France (after "One Piece")

Created by Kôhei Horikoshi in 2014, 

My Hero Academia

manga is published in

Weekly Shônen Jump ,

Dragon Ball

magazine

,

One Piece

and

Naruto

.

The author of the latter, Masashi Kishimoto, even saw him as his successor.

Note that volume 1 of

Naruto

is still the best-selling manga in France, with 275,000 copies sold in 2021, and that Kana is preparing a new edition for March 2022. Published for five years by Ki-oon in France,

My Hero Academia

quickly established itself as a market leader, second only to the

One Piece juggernaut

, with 2.7 million sales last year alone, and 6 million in all, for the 30 volumes already released.

My Hero Academia

of course responds to the codes of shônen manga, and more precisely to the famous "nekketsu", with the young Izuku who is an absolute fan of superheroes and who is ready to do anything to integrate the Hero Academia and thus walk in the not his idol, All Might.

Problem: he has no power.

Indeed, in the world of

MHA

, 80% of the population has a superpower, also called "Alter", but not the rest.

A small X-Men side and more broadly comics that we find even in powers, costumes, etc.

It is enough to see All Might, homage to Superman as can be The Protector in

The Boys

.

On the power of great stories

From this promise, the mangaka Kôhei Horikoshi deploys a long-term story, worthy of the greatest comic book and manga series, with unforgettable super-villains, increasingly daunting fights, but also always humor and humanity.

As the co-founder of Ki-oon editions, Ahmed Agne, pointed out when the manga was launched: “ 

Naruto

dreamed of becoming the greatest of ninjas, Harry Potter a great magician, Luke Skywalker a powerful Jedi… The power of great stories, c is to begin their mythology with postulates of departures a priori simple, and to develop them in a way anything but simplistic.

As in any initiatory story, it is the journey to reach the initial objective and the relationships between the different characters that make the salt of the narration.

»

After the Paranormal Liberation War, one of the great pieces of the manga,

My Hero Academia

has just entered its final act and the final fight against One For All.

The animated series, produced by the BONES studio (Fullmetal Alchemist) and very faithful to the paper work, is not there yet, and it will be necessary to wait for season 6 or 7. The film 

World Heroes' Mission

 can be taken apart by the fans, even if it fits into the arc of the Endeavor agency, around volume 25 of the manga and season 5 of the anime.

The others may be lost, even if the pitch remains classic and accessible: Izuku and his friends must face the organization Humarise and its leader Flect Turn who want to eradicate the Quirks.

On screen, the result is as much about the X-Men as it is about

Dragon Ball Z

.

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