News My Hero Academia Netflix’s My Hero Academia Has One Big Advantage Over Other Live-Action Anime, Says Writer Jason Fuchs Writer Jason Fuchs shared that creator Kōhei Horikoshi is intimately involved in the project. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 20, 2025 Screenshot: Crunchyroll Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Crunchyroll Netflix’s live-action feature adaptation of the popular manga, My Hero Academia, is moving along, with IT: Welcome to Derry co-creator Jason Fuchs currently on board to pen the script. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fuchs said that this adaptation will be a success à la One Piece for one main reason: Creator Kōhei Horikoshi is intimately involved in the process. “There’s no treatment, there’s no outline, there’s no scenes, there’s no nothing that Kōhei doesn’t give notes on, react to [with] thumbs up, thumbs down,” Fuchs said. “That makes me feel really confident that we’re gonna deliver something that fans, like myself, feel great about.” My Hero Academia started out as a manga in 2014 and takes place in a world where 80 percent of people manifest a superpower, which is called a “quirk.” It follows high school student Izuku Midoriya (aka Deku), who was born quirkless but ends up at a school that trains heroes. The manga has expanded into several spinoffs, an anime television series, and four anime features. Netflix’s effort will be the first time the material is conveyed in live-action format. And while the project is still in its early days, according to Fuchs, the writer feels confident he can convey the crux of the story through his script. “You want to do something that fans feel respects the canon and the original, but also find an access point for people who’ve never read [the manga], who’s never seen the first films,” he said. He added that Deku, for example, is “a young man who is in that 20 percent of quirkless people in a world where everyone has something special. You connect with him so quickly. You connect with all these characters. Being faithful to those characters informs all of it.” No news on when the live-action adaptation of My Hero Academia will go into production, much less make its way to Netflix. [end-mark] The post Netflix’s <i>My Hero Academia</i> Has One Big Advantage Over Other Live-Action Anime, Says Writer Jason Fuchs appeared first on Reactor.