Who Would Have Thought the Creator of ‘My Hero Academia’ Had a Knack for Horror?

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Kohei Horikoshi's trades superheros for ritualistic horror in his boy-meets-girl one-shot, 'Quit Laughing, Shijima.'…

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  • Reported by Gizmodo and published Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:30:23 UTC.

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