My Hero Academia World Best Hero Top 100 Characters Ranked

Shueisha has shared the results of the My Hero Academia World Best Hero character poll, which reveals the top 100 ranking of favorite characters from the manga and anime series, and Bakugo and Deku came out on top. This comes after people were previously able to vote on the topic back in August 2024. The official website also broke it down by regions.

Note: This story includes some spoilers for characters that appear in the My Hero Academia manga and anime series.

The new video introduces the top 100 most popular characters in the My Hero Academia series out of a total of 278 characters. The video is approximately 54 minutes long and the voiceover is in Japanese only, with YouTube offering official English closed captions. Daiki Yamashita and Nobuhiko Okamoto, the Japanese voice actors for Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo in the anime adaptation, appeared in the video as special guests.

The ranking consisted of the results of a total of 6.12 million votes coming from all over the world. The video also included various pre-answered Q&A sections with My Hero Academia author Kohei Horikoshi. However, the mangaka didn’t make a live appearance for those segments, as only his answers appeared during the video.

You can check out the My Hero Academia World Best Hero ranking video here:

For those who want to jump straight to the fan favorite characters, here are the top 25 overall My Hero Academia characters from the World Best Hero poll:

1. Katsuki Bakugo (Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight)
2. Izuku Midoriya (Deku)
3. Shoto Todoroki
4. Shota Aizawa (Eraser Head)
5. Eijiro Kirishima (Red Riot)
6. Enji Todoroki (Endeavor)
7. Takami Keigo (Hawks)
8. Toya Todoroki (Dabi)
9. Tomura Shigaraki
10. Neito Monoma
11. Ochaco Uraraka (Uravity)
12. Toshinori Yagi (All Might)
13. Himiko Toga
14. Denki Kaminari (Chargebolt) 
15. Hitoshi Shinso
16. Tamaki Amajiki (Suneater)
17. Rody Soul
18. Tenya Ida (Ingenium)
19. Fumikage Tokoyami (Tsukuyomi)
20. Kyoka Jiro (Earphone Jack)
21. Mirio Togata (Lemillion)
22. Momo Yaoyorozu (Creati)
23. Rumi Usagiyama (Mirko)
24. Hanta Sero (Cellophane)
25. Hizashi Yamada (Present Mic)

While Bakugo was the number one favorite overall and in almost every region, Deku did take first place in Europe. The top three also included Shoto in third place in Japan, Asia, North America, Europe, and Africa. In the Middle East, Dabi took third place. Eijiro was in third in Oceania and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The My Hero Academia manga is available to read on Viz Media and MangaPlus. The anime adaptation is available to stream on Crunchyroll.