My Hero Academia is a superhero story with a twist—lots of twists, actually. Almost everyone in the manga has some sort of superpower, but most of the superpowers are really weird, and some don’t seem particularly useful. Into this world comes Izuki Midoriya, known as Deku to his classmates, who is sort of a superhero otaku: he has no superpowers himself, but he obsessively studies the world of superheroes and knows everything about them. Also, like all good shonen heroes, he has a lot of heart. When the greatest superhero in the world notices him and bestows his own superpower on him, Deku’s life changes, and he manages to get into UA, the elite superhero academy. After that, the manga becomes one big playground for the imagination of manga-ka Kohei Horikoshi, who is obviously having a lot of fun coming up with oddball superpowers for the students and ever-stranger villains for them to do battle against. It’s ridiculous, and ridiculously fun.