I Am a Hero
I Am a Hero (Japanese: アイアムアヒーロー, Hepburn: Ai Amu A Hīrō) is a Japanese zombie manga series written and illustrated by Kengo Hanazawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from April 2009 to February 2017, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes. In North America the manga has been licensed for English language release by Dark Horse Comics.
| I Am a Hero | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Hideo Suzuki | |
| アイアムアヒーロー (Ai Amu a Hīrō) | |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Kengo Hanazawa |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
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| Magazine | Weekly Big Comic Spirits |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | April 27, 2009 – February 27, 2017 |
| Volumes | 22 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Shinsuke Sato |
| Music by | Nima Fakhrara |
| Studio | Toho |
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| Released | April 23, 2016 |
| Runtime | 126 minutes |
A live-action film adaptation premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in October 2015, before being released commercially in April 2016. There are three spin-off manga, set in the same universe, titled I Am a Hero in Osaka, I Am a Hero in Ibaraki, and I Am a Hero in Nagasaki, and an anthology series by various manga artists, I Am a Hero Official Anthology: 8 Tales of the ZQN.
By November 2021, the manga had over 8.3 million copies in circulation. In 2013, I Am a Hero won the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.