Smith, Michelle (June 27, 2019). "My Hero Academia, Vols. 1-19". Soliloquy in Blue. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
Horikoshi, Kohei (August 4, 2015). Izuku Midoriya: Origin. My Hero Academia. Vol. 1. Translated by Cook, Caleb. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 87. ISBN978-1-4215-8269-6. This guy started out in a one-shot that didn't end up serialized, but I felt like using him again, so he's largely unchanged.
Smith, Michelle (June 27, 2019). "My Hero Academia, Vols. 1-19". Soliloquy in Blue. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2021.