My Hero Academia is one of the most popular shonen anime and manga out right now. It's a series that shares a lot of similarities with the western world of comic books, taking a lot of inspiration from lots of cape comics. This, of course, includes similarities with the Marvel Comics series, X-Men.
It even goes as far as having a superhero school for gifted youth like the X-Men as well. This school is U.A. High School, and it is the highest-ranked high school for heroics and the top-rated Hero School in all of Japan. This list will be looking at the little known facts about this amazing school.
10 IT USED TO BE AN ORDINARY SCHOOL
My Hero Academia is a series that likes to fill in the small details that not many other series would go into. This, in turn, makes the world behind the screen or on the pages seem even more realistic and more immersive to the reader and viewers.
One of these little details that the series decided to fill up is the small pieces of history behind the main school in the series. This detail is the fact that U.A. High School used to be an ordinary day school. However, for reasons unknown, it was changed into a boarding school that houses all the heroic students that gain admission.
9 THE SCHOOL HAS LONG WEEKS
U.A. High School has a very tiring schedule and enforces it in order to create the best heroes that money can buy. This might also be one of the reasons that the school is the highest ranking in all of Japan.
It is confirmed that the students go to school in U.A. from Monday to Saturday. This means that every one that is accepted into the school for gifted youth has to be ready to work hard and only have Sunday off. For those that don't know, this isn't how real-life boarding school schedules are either, with real students having usual school weeks.
8 THE SCHOOL HAS 11 LOCATIONS OF THE MAIN BUILDING SHOWN OFF SO FAR
U.A. High School's campus is huge. In fact, the whole campus could be somewhat compared to a small town that houses heroes. While the school may have dozens of different locations in its main building, only 11 of those locations have been shown off first hand in the series so far.
These locations include Class 1-A, Class 1-B, the development studio, Lunch Rush Cafeteria, Recovery Girl's Nurse Office, the conference room, the P.E. grounds, the teacher's lounge, the principal's office, the administration office, and the equipment room.
7 STUDENTS STILL STUDY NORMAL SUBJECTS
For those that think that the students at U.A. High School simply study how to be a superhero, it may be surprising that the students study normal subjects that real-life students study as well.
It is said that Japanese, math, science, foreign language, and other subjects are all required for each and every student. Each departments' students have to study and pass these core subjects that can change each year.
6 THERE ISN'T JUST ONE HERO DEPARTMENT AT THE SCHOOL
Much like there is never just one type of hero in superhero comics there isn't just one department at U.A. High School. There are multiple departments made to push each students' strengths.
These departments are the Department of Heroes where students learn everything they need to know to become great heroes, the Department of General Education for students who didn't make the hero department cut, the Department of Support for supporting heroes, and the Department of Management where the heroic business students are raised.
5 THE SCHOOL ACTUALLY HAS A TIMETABLE
Going back to those small pieces of information that make the world of My Hero Academia a bit more immersive, the school actually has a timetable much like schools in real-life.
The timetable is 8:25-8:35 for homeroom, 8:40-9:30 for 1st period, 9:40-10:3o for 2nd period, 10:40-11:30 for 3rd, 11:40-12:30 for 4th, 12:30-1:20 for lunch, 1:20-2:10 5th, and 2:20-3:10 for the last period.
4 THE SCHOOL IS RATHER RELAXED ON THEIR UNIFORM POLICY
The main outfit, that is mandatory for U.A. High School students, is made up of a long-sleeve white button-up with outerwear of a gray jacket with blue-green stripes and a red tie. The bottom piece of the outfit, of course, differs with boys and girls with pants being for boys and skirts being for the girls.
While this clothing is enforced it seems that the school is rather lax when it comes to the dress code. Bakugo wears his outfit with some buttons being unbuttoned, with no tie, and with his pants sagging and Deku doesn't tie his tie properly.
3 THE NAME HOLDS A SECRET MEANING
The name U.A. High School isn't just in place due to being some kind of name that rolls off the tongue. In fact, besides in the case of Japanese speaking fans, the hidden message of the school's name will be missed.
The kanji for U.A. is 雄英, which sounds like "yūei". This kanji is actually the inverted kanji for hero in Japanese which is 英雄 and sounds like "eiyū".
2 THE SCHOOL'S MOTTO HOLDS A SECRET MEANING AS WELL
The name of the school isn't the only thing that most audiences of My Hero Academia will miss while sitting through the anime or reading the motto. The now-iconic catchphrase is another piece of lore that many probably still haven't figured out.
Much like the U.A. title, the school's motto "Plus Ultra" isn't simply there for being catchy but is also a translation title. "Plus Ultra" is actually Latin for "further beyond" and it is the national motto for Spain.
1 THERE ARE TWO THEMEPARK REFERENCES ON CAMPUS
My Hero Academia is a series that loves to reference other pieces of media and in the case of U.A. High School, real-world locations. Two locations on campus actually reference two very popular Japanese theme parks.
Gym Gamma, which is also known as Training Kitchen Land, has a name that translates to "Torēningu no Daidokoro Rando". This gives it the initials TDL which is a reference to Tokyo Disney Land. A similar case is seen with the Unforeseen Simulation Joint building which has the initials USJ, referencing Universal Studios Japan.