My Hero Academia and One-Punch Man are popular manga
series that have amassed a global fanbase. This paper, uses a poststructuralist reading to draw parallels between Albert Camus’
The Myth of Sisyphus and Japanese superhero manga, examining
how these works deal with the existential question about the
meaning of life. It observes that the superhero myth functions
with the help of several signs that construct a superhero’s
identity and that these identity markers define their take on the
existential problem. Furthermore, the paperexamines the role
played by the crowd—the in-text audience of the myth—in the
process of mythologization, where they serve as a medium
between the superheroes and the actual reader.