My Hero Academia Unveils Final Top 5 Hero Rankings: Mirio, Shoto, and More!
Kohei Horikoshi released the
My Hero Academia Ultra Age fanbook
earlier this month. Like other data books, this is also full of new information and lore. And the most interesting information released by this book is the Top 5 heroes in the hero rankings at the end of the series.
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This information gets revealed in a bonus chapter that features Eri returning to UA a few years after the series. She's there to see Deku, but unfortunately, Deku has already wrapped up his work and left. As she is talking to Aizawa, they notice an announcement comes on the TV. And then they announce the hero ranking chart for that time of the year.
Top 5 heroes in My Hero Academia
We already knew at the end of the My Hero Academia manga that Mirio Togata and Shoto Todoroki are the number 1 and number 2 heroes.
Their ranking are still the same, and now we have numbers 3-5.
At number 3 is Mt. Lady. We already knew at the end of the series that Mt. Lady is up there at the top in the rankings, so this number 3 position did not come as a surprise.
What was surprising was the number 4 ranking. New Hero number 4 is
One For All Hero Deku
. That's right, despite having lost his quirk, Izuku managed to climb up to number 4 in the hero rankings. We knew the hero suit he got was powerful, but to think he would climb so high is impressive.
At number 5 comes the Great Explosion Murder God Dynamite. Bakugo was actually ranked number 15 previously, so it is nice to see that he is back in the top 5 once Midoriya got back into the fold. It is nice to see their rivalry is still ongoing.
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