Superpowers stopped being rare, and the world rearranged itself around them. Heroism became a career with a school system behind it. Izuku Midoriya grows up in that world without a Quirk of his own, which by local arithmetic closes off the only job he has ever wanted, and he keeps preparing for it anyway. All Might, the strongest hero alive, sees the potential in him, passes down his own power, and gets him through the doors of the country's most competitive hero high school.

Kōhei Horikoshi writes and draws it himself, so the powers and the people carrying them come from one hand. A Quirk works as a personality here before it works as a weapon, and fights turn on who reads a strange rule fastest rather than who swings hardest. The register stays classroom-level for long stretches: rivalries measured in practice scores, teachers grading judgement over firepower, a room full of teenagers chasing the same job.

It ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2014 to August 2024 and closed at 42 tankōbon volumes, so the whole decade sits finished on the shelf, ending included. Good fit for readers who want superhero fiction built out of a class roster instead of one icon, and for anyone who wants the school years given as much page space as the fights.