“I have these lightbulb moments”: Kohei Horikoshi’s Process for Deciding My Hero Academia Character’s Powers is Both Unique and Unusual

Kohei Horikoshi needs no introduction as the writer and artist behind the massively successful series, My Hero Academia. The widely popular phenomenon established itself as a mainstream shonen manga among other industry titans like Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, and Demon Slayer. Horikoshi did not have it easy at first as a young manga artist entering the industry in the late 2000s, but he persevered despite the odds and achieved success in 2014 with his superhero manga, My Hero Academia. [caption id="attachment_272109" align="aligncenter" width="1919"] My Hero Academia characters | Crunchyroll[/caption] An enormous fan of North American comics himself, Horikoshi made his