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As nearly as I can tell, the events of "Boku no Hero Academia" seem to begin
some time around 2174. I base this estimation upon the manga having been begun
in 2014 and the current All Might being the 8th such hero (and taking an
assumed average of 20 years per generation between passings-on of their
power).

Is there a definitive answer for this? If not, are there canon facts, observed
trends, or even fan-based assumptions that might at least weigh to the
contrary (whether earlier or later than 2174)?


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Approximately when is the story of "Boku no Hero Academia" set?


Unless canon ever gives us an exact year, it’s impossible to say for sure.
Thematically though, the story takes place [20 minutes into the
future](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture).

Technology and culture is almost identical to today, _except_ that there are
people with superpowers and this has been for generations. The problems that
the character’s face, and society as a whole face, aren’t that different from
the problems we face in real life (except dialed up to 11 because of the
presence of Quirks, and the fact that this is an action work of fiction).


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I think it's set into a decent future.

From what I've seen (which is mid-season 2), I'm not totally sure and I came
here to find this out, but I actually don't think it is just 20 minutes into
the future as [Mr F.'s answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/48157/2516)
mentioned.

I mainly came here because of a quote stating that it is predicted that humans
would've been a lot more advanced if not for the development of quirks slowing
everything down and how we would have been expected to have had space cruises
by now, so I expect it's around the year 2100.


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First of all, there's the year that the glowing baby was born. There's no way
of knowing what year it was, but since technology isn't that much more
advanced than ours, and we're told it was halted by the appearance of quirks,
we can safely assume that it was in the early-to-mid 21st century. Then
there's the fact that we see snow in Japan, a near-equator country getting hit
by warmer winds from the ocean. Since dealing with quirks tore the world's
focus away from other issues such as climate change, I think we should
definitely assume that the world had time to deal with humanity's massive
carbon footprint, something that, given our current situation, would likely
take twenty or so years to properly deal with. Yes, I know there's the
horribly trashed beach that All Might had Izuku clean up, but litter and
greenhouse gases are two different things, and given the current real-life
situation, I think it's safe to say which one the world prioritized. Besides,
a lot of that could easily have been floating in the ocean for decades. All in
all, I think the glowing baby was born around 2050.

Then there's the initial backlash and the appearance of All for One. It likely
took the world between five and ten years to fully react to the initial
appearance of quirks, and All for One appeared pretty early on, so we'll say
that All for One appeared about ten years after the glowing baby, around 2060.

Now for how long the quirk society has been around. The doctor specifically
states that Izuku is a part of the fourth generation. In the developed world,
parents tend to have kids near middle age, so I think it can be safely assumed
that each generation is around thirty to forty years (we'll round it at
thirty-five on average). If Izuku was born early in his generation, we can
probably say that he was born around 110 years after the fiasco with All for
One and his brother, putting us at around 2170 when he was born. This checks
out with All for One having been in power for over a hundred years.

Now, one reason you may think it doesn't check out is the fact that Izuku is
the ninth holder of One for All, something we previously said appeared around
2060. There are those who draw a pattern from the fact that Toshinori and
Izuku both received One for All at the age of fifteen, and saying this
probably went for everyone. However, they are special cases due to them both
being quirkless kids in a superpowered society that wanted to go to a high
school for heroes - something that kind of required a quirk. Most of the
bearers were likely adults when they received it, due to experience as a hero
and with the quirk they already had being a good mix with something so
powerful. They likely received it at a later age, shortening the time they had
to use it. Most notably, All for One's brother probably didn't hold on to it
for very long, as he knew early on that he would need to pass the quirk on to
future generations. With All Might having probably had the quirk for around
fifteen years before Izuku was born, and the first user probably holding it on
for ten to fifteen years, this puts the average time of holding the quirk at
fifteen years for the others, though some may have passed it on prematurely
due to injuries or expecting to do something that would get them killed, so I
think it's safe to assume that, in this timeframe, the median retention time
of One for All was around twenty or so years.

So with all of that, in addition to Izuku being fourteen at the beginning,
fifteen at the current point in the anime, and sixteen at the current point in
the manga, I believe that _My Hero Academia_ takes place right around the turn
of the 23rd century.


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It's around the years 2060 and 2085. Deku's hero license says 20XX on it, so
it can't be past 2099.

1st gen All Might is around 1950. Also, tech has progressed because of quirks.


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It takes place in our century but in a different universe where 80% of people
have powers. I said our century because the technology is the same as ours and
the different universe because of the power.


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Calculating the time, if Endeavor was born in 1989, it would be 2035 since
he's 46 in the current My Hero universe. But considering this is also in the
past and it's the story being told by Deku, it might be 2048 and by the end,
it would be 2134.


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I've been looking around on different sites to get a clearer answer on this,
but the most I can tell is that at least the current timeline of Deku at UA
takes place in the 21st century since his ID apparently reads 20XX. This is
common in a lot of anime/manga from my experience, but if we take that as an
actual indicator, then the latest it could possibly take place is 2099.

Now, if you want to start mixing fandoms, I do recall that the manga makes
reference to Marvel characters, and if we mix the MCU into things, then MHA
would be taking place not too far from our own timeline.


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