As I’m sure you all know, the One Piece manga comes out every few months with a new volume featuring ten or so chapters, a Q&A corner with One Piece‘s author Eiichiro Oda himself, the occasional interviews and the famous “Usopp Gallery Pirates.”

The Usopp Gallery Pirates corner features art sent in by fans from Japan, and on rare occasions even from other countries. This weekend, it has come to the attention of Japanese My Hero Academia fans at 2ch that the author of My Hero Academia, Kohei Horikoshi, was actually featured previously in the Usopp Gallery Pirates (via ONESOKU).

The volume in which Kohei Horikoshi sent in his drawing was Vol. 23 “Vivi’s Adventure” published in Japan in 2002, featuring a rendition of Horikoshi’s “The Tough Man” Smoker.

My Hero Academia is a new Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump series also available to read on the official english Shonen Jump from Viz Media to people residing in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for a low sum of just $25.99/year, featuring 10+ weekly manga series. The subscription also features other bonuses so be sure to check it out on their official website. The series has now “beaten” One Piece in the popularity rankings a few times and, for what it’s worth, has definitely gotten my official William Stamp of Approval since chapter 1 first came out.

Who would have guessed that almost thirteen years later this man would become one of the newest up-and-coming authors of Jump.