45 Shows Like My Hero Academia (2016) to Watch When You're Done
After he saves a bully from a Villain, a normal student is granted a superpower that allows him to attend a high school training academy for Heroes.
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This hit anime drops a powerless boy into a world where almost everyone has superpowers, then grants him a borrowed gift and a place at the top hero academy. Energetic, earnest and big on heart, it reinvents the superhero coming-of-age for the shōnen age. If its underdog spirit and spectacular battles hooked you, the great modern shōnen anime share its blend of training, friendship and heroics.
If you loved My Hero Academia (2016) by Koichi Kakimoto, here are 45 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Digimon: Digital Monsters, X-Men, Cardcaptor Sakura. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
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1998
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2013
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2019
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2015
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1997
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2007
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