My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi wears his love for American superheroes on his sleeve, and that admiration is mutual. Coinciding with the release of the manga’s 42nd and final volume today in Japan, an official art exchange collaboration with Marvel Comics featuring illustrations by Horikoshi and artists Edgar Delgado and Humberto Ramos was unveiled.
Series fan Oliver Coipel was originally slated to provide the illustration before having to withdraw due to illness. His illustration will also be released once complete.
Art by Kohei Horikoshi
Art by Humberto Ramos / Coloring by Edgar Delgado
Furthermore, in a new interview posted to Marvel’s website, Horikoshi commented the following when asked about what the future holds:
I feel really lucky over the success of MHA, so I know there’s a lot of pressure around my next move. I’m planning to start a new manga as soon as I possibly can.
I was thinking to committing myself to simply drawing my next project, and letting someone else write the story, but my editor advised me ‘It will be better if you do it all yourself.’ With that in mind, I’ve slowly started writing and drawing the thumbnails my next manga. However, there are still several events left surrounding MHA, so for a while I’ll still be committed to supporting and promoting it.
Crunchyroll streams the collection of My Hero Academia anime episodes, specials, movies and more from the franchise, and describes the series as such:
Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.
Source: Marvel Comics, Oricon
