When Did The First Bakudeku Comic Appear Online?

I still get that little thrill when I stumble across early fan comics, and for Bakugo/Midoriya it felt like everyone made something as soon as the manga gave them any meaningful interaction. From my own browsing, the earliest Bakudeku comics I personally saw were posted around 2015—short, often comedic strips on Tumblr and small Pixiv doujinshi. Since 'My Hero Academia' started in 2014, that timeline makes sense: a month or two later, curious fans begin drawing their interpretations.

If you want a practical tip, check Pixiv and filter by oldest uploads under the relevant tags, and use Danbooru or Gelbooru to look at upload dates of early images. Twitter/X advanced search with date ranges can turn up old comic threads too, though some creators have deleted posts over time. Bottom line: an exact single first comic is almost certainly lost to the chaos of early fandom, but the community evidence points to late 2014–2015 as the birth period for Bakudeku fancomics. Hunting through those archives is fun if you’re into fandom archaeology, and you often come away with surprisingly heartfelt little stories.

Funny thing — when you start digging into fan history it feels like a scavenger hunt with half the items missing. The manga for 'My Hero Academia' began serialization in July 2014, and as soon as people fell in love with the characters, shipping followed fast. That means the timeline for the first Bakugo/Midoriya comics logically starts in late 2014 or sometime in 2015, but pinning a single, definitive “first” is almost impossible because so many early posts were on ephemeral platforms (Tumblr drafts, deleted Pixiv uploads, private Tumblr blogs) or went untagged.

I spent an afternoon cross-checking tags and timestamps across Pixiv, DeviantArt, Tumblr, Twitter, and imageboards, and what kept showing up were earliest public comics and short doujinshi popping up around late 2014 through 2015. A lot of Japanese creators posted small gag comics on Pixiv after the manga chapters introduced the two boys’ dynamic; Western fans then mirrored that on Tumblr and DeviantArt. That matches how fandoms usually explode: manga or source material releases, then fanart, then short comics and full doujinshi in the months that follow. If you want to try your own detective work, I recommend sorting Pixiv by oldest uploads for the '爆豪 緑谷' or English equivalents, using Twitter/X advanced search to filter by dates, and checking archives on Wayback Machine for old Tumblr tag pages. Danbooru or Gelbooru can help too, because imageboard uploads often retain their timestamps and sometimes aggregate earliest examples.

So: there’s evidence of Bakudeku comics as early as late 2014/early 2015 in public archives, but the absolute first? Unknown and likely lost to deletions and private zines. For me, the hunt is half the fun — finding a tiny, awkward early comic showing how quickly people latched onto their relationship is a delight. If you’re curious, start with Pixiv and Wayback, and be ready to find charming rough sketches rather than polished volumes; that’s where the fandom’s raw energy really shows.