Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga ended today, bringing the superhero story to its conclusion after a decade of going Plus Ultra in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump. To commemorate the end of the series, a bunch of projects will be held, including a worldwide character poll, a manga exhibition and more. A new trailer celebrating the final chapter was released on the series’ official accounts.
My Hero Academia Final Chapter Trailer
To cap off the series, My Hero Academia will be holding a worldwide character poll. The poll will be held in two rounds. The first round, called MAIN STAGE, starts today and runs until September 30 with one vote allowed per day over on the poll’s official website. The winner of MAIN STAGE will be announced on the SHONEN JUMP CHANNEL OFFICIAL on December 2 and will get the title of WORLD BEST HERO and a special video.The second round, titled PLUS ULTRA STAGE, will run from December 2 at 8 PM JST for 24 hours with the top three winners from MAIN STAGE. People will be able to vote once an hour up to 12 times per the 24-hour period. The results for the PLUS ULTRA STAGE will announced on December 3 at 9:30 JST. The number one hero will be crowned THE MHA, getting a special illustration from Horikoshi and a statue based on that illustration in the future.
Alongside the poll, My Hero Academia will release a fan book in January 2025, to which fans can submit questions for Horikoshi to answer until September 1. An art book will follow in February 2025 and a manga art exhibition will be held in Japan in summer 2025.
Finally, Kohei Horikoshi’s thank you message to fans will be published in today’s edition of The New York Times’ domestic and international newspapers. A preview of the page was released.
My Hero Academia debuted in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump on July 7, 2014, from the mind of Kohei Horikoshi, and has amassed 430 chapters and 41 collected volumes, with the final volume set to be released in Japan in December. Three spin-off manga series have also been published alongside a range of light novels. VIZ Media released the series weekly alongside its Japanese publication on the Shonen Jump app and in print, with volume 38 recently published in English on June 4.Alongside the manga, a seventh anime series is currently airing and a fourth original film is currently in theaters in Japan. Crunchyroll streams all the TV anime episodes, specials and more and describes the series as such:
Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.
©Kohei Horikoshi / Shueisha
Sources: Press Release, Comic Natalie
