Kohei Horikoshi

Kohei Horikoshi (堀越 耕平, Horikoshi Kōhei), born November 20, 1986, is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series My Hero Academia.

Biography
A mangaka from Aichi Prefecture, Kohei Horikoshi had graduated from the Nagoya University of Arts. He was a former assistant for Yasuki Tanaka, creator and author of the manga series Hitomi no Catoblepas and Kagijin.

Horikoshi's favorite manga series include Naruto, One Piece, Akira, Tekkonkinkreet and Boys on the Run. In a farewell bid upon the conclusion of the former, Horikoshi referred to it as the greatest shonen manga ever, as Naruto made up his childhood and was one of the primary inspirations behind My Hero Academia. In turn, upon the release of the My Hero Academia anime, Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto congratulated Horikoshi in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump.

Mentors

 * Yasuki Tanaka (Hitomi no Catoblepas, Kagijin)

Assistants

 * Shingo Sasai
 * Yoko Akiyama (Volume 1 to present)
 * Hirofumi Neda (Volume 1 to Volume 6, left to focus on his spin-off manga in Jump)
 * Takuo Nagoya
 * Hiroyuki Fujiya
 * Kazuhiro Watanabe
 * Mitsuo Yuzawa
 * Ryu Horie (Volume 1 to Volume 6)
 * Ippei Watanabe
 * Keisuke Ikeda
 * Fujiya Hiroyumi
 * Monji (Horikoshi's Editor)

Trivia

 * On May 29th, 2018 it was announced that Horikoshi would be attending San Diego Comic-Con International. This will be his first trip to the United States, and his first trip outside of Japan.

Sketches
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Trivia

 * During November 2014, Horikoshi asked his followers on Twitter to think of ideas for new Quirks and send them to him. He then goes on to say he might turn that Quirk into a real hero and announce it at Jump Fiesta 2015.
 * In the First Popularity Poll, Horikoshi ranked 17th.