CATDOLL: My Hero Academia author vows to surpass One Piece

The superhero manga My Hero Academia drawn by Kohei Horikoshi has attracted widespread attention since it was announced that it would be produced as a TV animation. Many people also believe that this work will become the future mainstay of JUMP. And Shueisha also gave it high expectations when promoting this work. Recently, the original author Kohei Horikoshi said in a conversation with Masashi Kishimoto of Naruto that he wanted to have a head-on confrontation with One Piece at the beginning of the creation.

Horikoshi: When I first started drawing My Hero Academia, I wanted to draw comics happily, but I also wanted to compete with Naruto and One Piece. In the previous series, I didn't have such a strong feeling. But it is precisely because I have it now that I can get to where I am today, right?

Kishimoto: Definitely. I think this feeling is great. It's not that I think "I want to draw a manga like Naruto" or "I want to draw a manga like One Piece", but I want to "beat them!" If it's not like this, it won't work. And since I'm drawing a manga, I have to think about surpassing "One Piece". This is a very high wall. I also created with this idea in mind, but the height of that wall is really not a joke (laughs). And thinking that you will continue to challenge in the future, I am also excited. The next time I see Oda, I will tell him: "Just create with the mood of killing Horikoshi-kun!"

In this regard, many Japanese netizens commented: "I am very happy to see such an ambitious cartoonist in this era.", "I am afraid Oda would also like to have such an opponent!", "I really hope that the animation will be well made, maybe it will explode in popularity." So can "My Hero Academia" catch up with "One Piece"? Let's wait and see.