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Netflix has long been trying to fill its entertainment coffers with offerings to please every taste and one realm they haven’t shied away from has been that of manga or anime-adjacent properties—even if those adaptations haven’t always been up to everyone’s standards. Working with Legendary pictures who, after the Warner Bros. Discovery reshuffling have been broadening their distribution horizons, Netflix has taken on the anime, My Hero Academia, for its leap to live action.

THR has reported that Netflix has acquired yet another anime property in the form of My Hero Academia which will be joining Netflix’s existing lineup that includes Death Note and Cowboy Bebop among others.

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Netflix hasn’t shied away from animation in general and it’s only been in the recent subscriber downturn that they’ve restructured that aspect of their business model, but to date they’ve seen both animated and live-action takes on anime or manga properties including Castlevania, Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, and the whole mess surrounding their live-action take of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not afraid of another bite at the anime apple, Netflix has teamed up with Legendary Entertainment to take on My Hero Academia with a script by Joby Harold and Shinsuke Sato making his leap to English-language direction for the series that is just starting to enter production.

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Joby Harold is known to audiences for his recent work scripting the Disney+ Obi-Wan series as well as the Zack Snyder action-horror heist romp, Army of the Dead, which he wrote for Netflix. He’ll be taking lead scripting duties for the adaptation of the Kōhei Horikoshi manga of the same name while Shinsuke Sato is well known to fans of anime and manga, having been the man behind several live-action adaptations such as Bleach, Death Note: Light Up The New World, and Kingdom. He’ll be taking on his first English-language production with the Netflix series.

The series, purchased by Legendary back in 2018 and produced by Mary Parent (formerly of MGM and Universal) and Alex Garcia, focuses on a world where 80% of the population has developed powers the series names “quirks.” Focused on the quirk-less Izuku Midoriya (Deku), a fan of superheroes who finds himself in the 20% that isn’t super, he almost doesn’t go to the prestigious academy heroes train at. A random meeting with All Might, however, changes that view and Deku steps up to try to become the greatest hero. After some misfires regarding their other adaptations, hopefully Netflix nails this take and gives fans the My Hero Academia they want.

My Hero Academia is in production.

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter