My Hero Academia WORLD BEST HERO: Global Character Popularity Poll Results – TOP 100 RANKING!

[Article updated today]

“WORLD BEST HERO” is My Hero Academia‘s first global character popularity poll, where anyone in the world can participate online! The long-awaited Top 100 global character popularity poll, held in August 2024 to celebrate the final chapter of My Hero Academia, finally reveals the results for the MAIN STAGE & PLUS ULTRA STAGE!

• The MAIN STAGE is a two-month popularity poll to rank a total of 278 characters and determine who will get an illustration by Kohei Horikoshi-sensei. (Results announcement: December 2)

Rewards:

• 1st place in the MAIN STAGE:
  A special movie to celebrate the WORLD BEST HERO.
• 1st to 3rd places in the MAIN STAGE:
  Advancement to the PLUS ULTRA STAGE
• 1st to 10th places in the MAIN STAGE:
  A brand new illustration by Kohei Horikoshi-sensei

Let’s decide the world’s number one hero with all the fans worldwide! Here are the results of MAIN STAGE‘s ranking of the top 100 characters from My Hero Academia!

TOP 100 to 61:

TOP 60 to 21:

TOP 20 to 1:

THE WORLD BEST HERO is Katsuki Bakugo!

It’s not over yet…

• The PLUS ULTRA STAGE is a 24-hour limited-time voting championship among the top three characters from the MAIN STAGE to decide who will be made into a bronze statue (Results announcement: December 3)

TOP 3:

• Katsuki Bakugo
• Izuku Midoriya
• Shoto Todoroki

Rewards:

• PLUS ULTRA STAGE winner:
  To commemorate the crowning of “THE MHA”, Kohei Horikoshi-sensei will draw a brand new illustration which will be later used to create a special bronze statue! _{(*This bronze statue is planned to be exhibited in 2025. Details to be announced later.)}

In the “PLUS ULTRA Stage” vote, featuring the top three characters from the initial poll, Katsuki Bakugo emerged as the winner, with Izuku Midoriya in second place and Shoto Todoroki in third. As a result, Bakugo has been granted the honorary title of “THE MHA,” and a statue of him is set to be unveiled in Japan in 2025.

THE MHA is Katsuki Bakugo!

In the “WORLD BEST HERO” poll, which received around 6.12 million votes, Katsuki Bakugo secured the top spot with 1,647,611 votes.

As a reminder, My Hero Academia Final Vol. 42 will be released in Japan on December 4, 2024, with a brand new 38-page episode describing what happens after the final chapter!

_{Vol 42 Cover:}

Since its debut in 2016, My Hero Academia has become a phenomenon. Now, as the final season looms, viewers are both excited and heartbroken to say goodbye to the characters and world that have become a part of their lives.

The final season of My Hero Academia marks the end of an era, both for anime fans and for the superhero genre in general. As we look forward to 2025, anticipation builds for the epic conclusion to one of the most influential anime series of its generation.

Kohei Horikoshi‘s original manga series debuted in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on July 7, 2014, and concluded on August 4. All the released seasons are currently available for streaming on Crunchyroll!

Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.

Source: @myheroacademia

© Kohei Horikoshi / Shueisha

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