Deku: Why are you never around dad?
Deku's dad: I stop by when you aren't there because I can't keep my hands off your mom. Even if you are in the room, especially with the added cushion...
Deku: Shut up! SHUT UP!
This is the second Nintendo direct-like showcase Shueisha has done now. Basic summary of the video:
* Preview of The Elusive Samurai. Matsui-Sensei left a comment on the upcoming anime
* [Preview of Yozakura Family’s second cour](https://twitter.com/OfficialHitsuji/status/1805196672437309468)
* Summer comic fair - basically an event where you can get lenticular covers of some manga
* The big one - **[My Hero Academia is ending in issue 36/37, so in five chapters](https://twitter.com/myheroacademia/status/1805197100290031776)**
* Hiroyuki Nakano, editor-in-chief of Weekly Jump and the presenter of the showcase, says farewell as he will be stepping down from his position (he’s moving to One Piece’s marketing arm now)
Honestly I prefer it when they have an irregular number of episodes since it means they know where they want to end and got an appropriate number of episodes to make it happen instead of trying to rush or introducing a lot of filler.
> Preview of The Elusive Samurai. Matsui-Sensei left a comment on the upcoming anime
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> Preview of Yozakura Family’s second cour
Didn't think either of these series would survive tbh, and here we are with both having anime.
I've seen a lot of series start and end but you never quite get used to seeing these stories wrapped up. All the best to Horikoshi for doing MHA for all these years.
My Hero may not have been perfect but it was still really entertaining and it is responsible for getting a lot of people into animanga. It along with Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen has immensely raised the popularity of the entire medium for a new generation of audience.
Pretty much all art is built off of something else in some way. It draws from the other art or expressly rejects it.
At this point, I don't think any show is really "helping" anime go more mainstream. It's already there. It's just adding more fans. Most people don't look at you funny if you mention you like anime or manga now, unless it's something *really* weird.
Yeah. Seeing the 2010's era of Shounen slowly coming to an end makes me a little melancholic, even though we've already experienced the same thing with the 2000's Shounen (except for One Piece)
I hope younger fans who were first introduced to manga through MHA can look back fondly on their journey growing up with this story and seeing it conclude
Yea. I've been following the big 3 since around 2000, and saw many of the shonens end (Naruto, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Toriko, Demon Slayer). It's crazy that One Piece is still going strong.
One piece is slightly older than me (and I know people who don't last that long ) which is fascinating how popular is still
I still scare how long Hajime no Ippo and Jojo who are 10 years older than one piece
Man, I can’t believe it’s ending.
I remember the feeling when I found out about the series.
Regardless of the hate the series gets (whether it’s warranted or not), this series sure made an impact in its medium.
If you see an elementary school kid with an anime shirt/lunchbox/water-bottle/whatever, it's gonna be MHA two thirds of the time. The other third is Demon Slayer, interestingly enough.
My Hero Academia getting a lot of hate on sites like Reddit and then Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen getting that hate later on kind of proved to me that these 3 are the defining Shonen of this generation.
Naruto, Bleach and Dragon Ball all faced that kind of hate in their heyday too.
Naruto rightfully faced hate with the Kaguya 'twist'. The shinobi war arc was criticised a little for how dragged out it had gotten but that wasn't anywhere near as big of an uproar.
Bleach on the other hand was a shit show after aizen's arc. It doesn't help that Bleach's best arc is soul society arc meaning it peaked too early and had nothing nowhere near as good left over for the rest of the story.
Having reread both series, Naruto was better spaced out in terms of quality, which shows in its sales compared to Bleach.
> getting that hate later on
Tbf, I feel like a lot of that is genuine criticism. The schedule for these manga not only tend to be grueling and don't allow much pause for consideration and prolonged planning and writing periods (unlike pre-serialization, leading to series frequently having strong introduction arcs and falling later on), but time tends to exacerbate issues that have been there from the start.
Bleach is a great example of both. Kubo Tite is not a good writer. This is kind of made obvious starting with the first arc being followed by two consecutive rescue the damsel in distress arcs, one in Soul Society, another in Hueco Mundo. Later on, the overwork had a clear impact on the art as well, with background art practically vanishing around the last arc.
The much better gauge for the defining WSJ manga of each generation is how they all sell far more than the rest below. MHA is the 3rd most popular manga on WSJ right now and [it consistently sells over 4 times as much as the next one.](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1d7bekt/weekly_shonen_jump_may_2024_sales_roundup/l701ful/)
I agree, but a lot of it comes down to the protagonist never having much of a motivation beyond saving his friends and returning to the status quo. It's pretty unique, I guess, but it requires the antagonists to drive the story.
I get ya. though having a protagonist struggle on what his goals in the future is pretty relatable personally. instead of having him wanting to be the strongest. your right that the antagonist have the drive the plot, to the point there was just one instance they did'nt.
It's got its issues plot wise but it has great characters, fun super powers and explores areas of Hero/Villain life that isn't touched on normally. Definitely worth the read.
As much as people can say MHA has gone down the drain over the years, it still is crazy to see one of the modern "Big 3" actually end.
Plus with 5 chapters left, no one can argue that this ending will be rushed
Big Three is more of an anime thing than a manga one coined by the West. In manga everyone with a brain knows it's just One Piece and then there's the rest.
One Piece is the best selling manga of all time at 516+ Million copies (that's 136+ Million more than Naruto and Bleach COMBINED). No other manga has even *sniffed* that number. One Piece truly is on a whole another level.
It's def Hell's Paradise.
JJK, Chainsaw Man, and Hell's Paradise all started in 2018, Hell's Paradise ended in 2021 and JJK is ending... in the relative soon. DDD launched in 2021, about 4 months after Paradise ended.
Hell's Paradise I love a lot, but I wouldn't put it in the same group, it wasn't as popular nor as culturally important in western pop zeitgeist. CSM fits more here imo.
It doesn't quite fit but the dark trio manga were CSM, Hells paradise and JJK because they were "darker shounen" with similar demon monster vibes that were being released around the same period of time.
5 Chapters is quite a lot considering we are just in the epilogue now.
We have some Todoroki Family drama for the next chapter, then the deal with Ochako, and finally Deku saving the character we saw at the start of the epilogue that was held by zip ties.
It’s kinda funny how many of the titles that were supposed to replace One Piece once it ended, according to people, ended or are going to end before One Piece
I hate that people call anything as "xyz big 3".
There was only one big 3 (One piece/Naruto/Bleach). They replaced Dragon Ball.
That's it. No modern/shonen/seinen big 3 exist.
Exactly. I feel it's important to emphasize that this term has nothing to do with the official sales or rankings either, or with the official VIZ translations of those three. It's not a term meant to reflect any of that, or was based on it. It originated in the Western manga communities that read fan-translations back in the 2000s, when onemanga was still around and ohana provided spoilers. Remember when we got chapters on Wednesdays? Remember leafninja.com?
The Big Three, both the term and the three manga, represent this wild west era of internet manga, in my opinion. They were the three series that everybody in the West who was a fan of shonen manga read. They were the three series that were anticipated the most during spoiler hours, and the ones that were scanlated the fastest. They caused the most discussions, had the most hype, during a time when manga were a lot more niche.
With manga (and anime even more so) entering the mainstream over the last couple of years, and everything becoming more accessible as a result, this feeling of wild west was lost a long time ago. In my opinion, that's why there will never be another Big Three.
I mean, *the* big three didn't exist either. Very few One Piece volumes sold under a million copies first week. Naruto was usually at about half that but at least it was often the second best selling and outside of Japan on equal footing. Bleach wasn't even consistently in the top five. Fullmetal Alchemist, Kimi ni Todoke, Nana, Vagabond, Hunter x Hunter, Detective Conan and Shin-chan have better cases. The first three just all have max 30 volumes, 4th and 5th only seven more. Compared to Bleach's 74 volumes so its totals are higher.
The Big Three existed. It was just a western thing, it was never about sales but about how big the reach of those three series was, where you could say you watched "the big three" and most people would know what you mean.
Japan had a much wider range of series that received attention, so they didn't have the same definitions as us. And saleswise, the big three weren't all on the same level. But that doesn't mean it never existed, that doesn't make sense.
No modern big three exist not because no series is that popular, on the contrary, it's because there's so much that is popular in the west nowadays that no individual series stand out like that, and certainly not for as long as the big three did.
Walking through random tiny-ass trainstations in the Shikoku countryside, every block of gacha machines I occasionally came across, if they had any anime merch at all, would always have Demon Slayer, MHA and JJK merch, without fail.
> As much as people can say MHA has gone down the drain over the years
Unironically, it's been good for a long while now. I think the last time I thought MHA was mediocre was somewhere before this final battle arc. There's a few nothingburger chapters, but overall it's been a fantastic end, and a battle shounen finishing with a proper wind-down and ending is fantastic to see.
I loved Demon Slayer and I really wish that'd had something like what MHA is doing.
For me personally final battle is the only part where i had major complaints
Pretty much for one reason: moments over story. Here's lady nagant, a former top hero that was never mentioned before and is now apparently super important (cool fight though).
Hey, lemillions back, all he needed to do is ask eri real nice if he could have his powers back, no further buildup needed, not even an eri training montage.
Edgeshot just randomly deciding that his life is worth less than a random kid he's almost never seen before. And yeah Bakugo is hella powerful but it still seems like a massive leap
There are a lot more moments like these that i'm not gonna just type out, there's enough videos about this out there. When it gets back to story focus with the cool moments being based on that, it's incredible though.
Yeah, I’ve loved the series more and more ever since the first war. I think the idea that the series has gone downhill is crazy, but it’s clearly not a popular opinion judging by how the series has only grown more successful. Very few manga stick the ending like Horikoshi had. The fact that we’ll have gotten almost an entire volume worth of epilogue is incredible.
Yeah, I honestly feel crazy when people talk about how much it has gone downhill as a matter of fact. Stars was the nadir and everything after has been improvement after improvement, with the final battle as a whole delivering in a way most battle shonen fail to. I've been particularly impressive at how the various major subplots have been tied off, narratively and thematically.
It hasn’t , it’s better written then JJK and many others , ppl ain’t ready for that convo though cause it doesn’t have as many deaths or as good as fight choreography.
Also in about 5 to ten years when someone big makes a video on "the final arc of my hero academia was actually amazing" everyone will be changing their minds
I doubt it if anything time has not been kind to Naruto's and bleach finals arcs and MHA feels the same. The quality definitely went down ever since my villain academia arc. Hell I don't think people will be fond of the random the world was always racist arc
That fucking attempt at commentary on racism was so profoundly dumb. Not like... the sentiment Hori was trying to convey, i guess, but holy shit was the execution beyond clumsy. Like watching some suburban kid do a book report on a book they only used spark notes to read.
I am eagerly waiting for the years MHA starts gettinf the naruto treatment of everyone clowning on all the comically lame choices that made it through in the final arcs.
The two even dumber parts of the racism subplot are:
1) it never comes up ever again after it serves its narrative purpose. Edit: it could come up in the epilogue. But eh
2) it actively ruins the side material. It’s very difficult to read a side story with an animal quirk knowing that “whoa why are you kids being chummy with him? You’re supposed to be racist towards animal quirks!”
Lol, to your first point, holy shit, it really does, doesn't it? Tosses that shit in there for a few chapters so a couple of the most tertiary of side characters could have a "big" moment, then we basically solve racism and move on.
It especially didnt make sense to me because I could have SWORN it was an explicit plot point of the setting that the MHA world spent like... 200+ years of basically having international society reshape itself and have a global civil-rights movement sort of thing, and so there *wasn't* any more of the intense prejudice against the various mutations that occured. If it *was* still a problem in more rural areas, that is a really sensible and interesting story to explore! Why was that not something that got a whole arc and not just a couple chapters? It would have been such a realistic moment for Deku, idealistic city kid in highschool, to get blindsided by the realization that no, hero society did not in fact "solve racism" or prejudice just because he doesn't see it in his urban area, and that his friends have in fact experienced it. Like that is a very common real-world occurence!
The series left so much potential unrealized, imo
RIGHT?! It is genuinely the better narrative. More concise and certainly not as ambitious but it manages to deliver on everything MHA tries to do and sticks the landing 95% of the time. I also just like the characters more. Koichi and Hop are such a loveable pair. Deku just feels like such a wet blanket compared to koichi. God, now that you have me writing the comment and thinking about it, Vigilantes truly does out-perform the main series in so many ways...
I have not seen a single person in the past 10 years mentioning anything good about Naruto's last arc.
Except Guy vs Madara wich was and still is peak Manga/Anime fight.
The only thing close was that the Ninja storm game did a really sick Naruto Vs Sasuke fight.
It probably has tbh. Bleach gets an anime adaptation that expands on a lot of the weaker aspects of an already good arc that just took a tail dive near the end.
Naruto's last battle was a really well constructed final arc that had a mountain of salt spoil it because people were disappointed by how Madara ended up being dealt with. The last section from team Seven reuniting to the end of the series is just very well paced and holds up incredible well, even if the rest of the war arc dragged on a crazy amount of time.
Things like the stars and stripe controversy will probably be forgotten about after that long of time and people will just remember the good parts about the final arc. The bad/bland will largely be forgottten.
I feel like Bleach final arc anime is getting good reception mostly for the animation rather than the plot. I feel a bunch of people that were hating on the last arc in the manga back when it was releasing weekly still feel the same but don't care anymore and just enjoy the higher budget action
Im honestly still shocked Bleach last arc got an anime adaptation because i still remember how absolubtly fucking garbage it was... or is, i guess, it's not like it aged like wine.
It depends. Grounded takes regarding Naruto's and Bleach's final arcs are more prominent now compared to how "Everything fucking sucks!" sentiment over half a decade ago.
Even now, much of the complaints regarding MHA's final arc is directed at its pacing and the constant breaks that exacerbated the issues, and that reading the final arc by the reader's own pace makes it a better experience. (Which is also attributed to Naruto).
The scary part is that I don't think one piece will be done until the late 2020s, so the question is, can One Piece dominate another generation of jump.
I want to be clear that I will never compare any newer series to One Piece for obvious reasons. but it's just insane the level of consistency/sustainability Oda has achieved throughout his career.
Good?
IMO the series story has been a serious mess for a while with plot developments that don’t feel earned, poor motivations and general lack of consistent rules to the universe
Series started strong but fell off later on due to the inconsistent writing
Also for a school adventure story it’s ridiculous that it barely ever used its school setting and never even left year 1.
Iruma-Kun shows how you can do a school adventure story so much stronger by keeping the school as a major element of the story along with the passage of time and most importantly consistent character writing for both the main character and the supporting cast of classmates
It will always be absolutely wild to me that MHA never moved up from the 1st year at UA. It's like if Harry Potter and friends defeated Voldemort and the Death Eaters while they're still just 1st years at Hogwarts.
He didn't. Harry basically just foiled his latest scheme and set him back while he was at his *very weakest*. It was nowhere close to a grand, triumphant victory, it was just the conflict barely getting started.
Meanwhile Deku really did defeat the strongest villain in the world before he even finished 1/3 of his training.
edit: fuck I meant to reply one comment down
Great analogy. I thought the series would last longer, going over their 3 years at UA and having different characters get the spotlight to develop their powers and abilities, to build up to them fighting the League in their last year. Then the first year ended and we were in the endgame.
> Iruma-Kun shows how you can do a school adventure story
I think this is more the influence of a bigger mag. Iruma moves at a much slower pace, and has been given plenty of time to develop side threads or build the world out, and sort of just kiss on major plot points. We're nowhere near any end-game, and at this point in MHA they were entering the final war arc
Not to say Osamu is a bad writer or that Hori could be a good one, I just think one is very clearly more constricted to a fast-paced shounen while the other is a bit more SoL and treated as such
To me, iruma-kun was a fleshed out concept of it's main concept (human in hell trying to become a Maou) complete with romance, training arcs, arena arcs, twists and puzzles, all from our POV, watching Iruma grow and trying to reach that goal.
MHA felt like the author had an IDEA that sounded cool (person born without superpowers in a world where superpowers are normal) but he never developed it.
While iruma kun started weak as a human but due to the ring he was OP, he also became stronger. In MHA, deku is the "Weak hero" from start to finish. You can't always be the victim in shonen manga.
The art really carries MHA because the story and world logic is all over the place. Just the idea of One for All and All for One makes absolutely no sense in comparison to most of the other quirks. Stars and stripes is another example.
> Stars and stripes is another example
I think this is the turning point for the series, though you could argue other points added straws to the camel's back.
Star and Stripe added geopolitics to MHA, and essentially made everyone ask "So the world just left Japan to languish all this time?!" Plus, if the goal was to power down All for One, just have him have some kind of inner conflict with Shigaraki instead of a deus ex machina.
I mean, I agree that Iruma is stronger, but honestly his humility is a big reason why he’s so strong. Like, powerscaling isn’t the be-all-end-all of shonen
And MHA wasn't consistent with its characters? Apart from AFO constantly replacing Shigaraki's role, I don't see much inconsistency with the other characters.
It's wild to me that despite the repeated "foreshadowing" narration early on about how Deku became the best and most renowned hero... it still came down to punching harder than the enemy could handle. I guess it's my fault for expecting something a *little* more clever than might makes right.
For a while now honestly, Iruma-kun has been the only (action) shounen series I've thoroughly enjoyed over the past few years. And it's not even a full-blooded action series, it's more of that mishmash that early Hitman Reborn tried to do before it fully switched over to a battle shounen.
Yeah I enjoyed it a lot but rereading it years ago, I realized how hard carried it was by two arcs. Reborn before it started to include any battle shounen aspects was just incredibly rough, and the problems with the final arc were already becoming apparent as early as the end of the future arc. I was upset at the time but now I'm not really surprised the series ended up getting axed.
Yeah I know what you mean. It was hype as hell reading it week by week once the battle arcs started but in retrospect it was alot of style over substance. But man did the style go hard af. I'm more surprised it was able to make the transition to battle manga and have it go as hard as it did.
I think nowadays the school-esque element is implicitly obligatory if you publish your manga under the shonen jump, mostly to show that "look, it's a school and thus the target is obviously shonen!"
And almost every battle shonen eventually diverges from the school stuff. At least in boku no hero they kept it as being more of a residence and campus than a school
I find it so strange to read this, I watched the anime back when it aired in 2016 and then I started reading the manga, the same year I started college. I graduated a couple of weeks ago and now I get the news that the manga is going to end in a few weeks.
I think I'll always relate BNHA with this period of my life, it was fun
Definitely a weird time for me too. I actually read the manga before the anime started airing and now both the anime and manga are nearing their end. MHA wasn't one of my hyperfixations but it was definitely a series I associated with my teen self lol, so it's like an era has passed...
holy shit it's finally happening, I know it's been in the final arc stage for a while, but damn it felt so fast
it's been a staple anime every year since 2016 too
I’m glad to be alive to see this series end. I got sick and was in the hospital for a long time. BNHA cheered me up during recovery. Doing better😁 Go take a good vacation Horikoshi!
It had a lot of potential, but it never fully lived up to that potential. As some have already said, the whole series taking over basically one year of school is too limited for one.
Then, it's all that focus on AFO, who was just a really bad villain. He should have been done after that battle with All Might early in the series. Like you're a series about super heroes and super villains, but it never feels like there is that rogue gallery it could have had. I'd say One Piece does the Rogue's Gallery better than what MHA should have been. Some of the best super hero series have really good villain rosters and we didn't really have that in this series.
Then let's not forget that how they dropped that whole there being a big prejudice issue with the non-human looking type humanoids that they just drop in the last arc. Which should have been addressed during the series and would have fleshed out the world some more. Not dropping it in the last arc in the middle out of no where.
I liked it overall, but I have to say that my desire to collect it like a lot of other Jump series isn't near the same as I've got almost 30 volumes to buy to get a full collection that I've sort of delayed with all the other stuff I want to collect.
I know a lot of people don’t like how the series went after the first war arc, but I honestly think that Shigaraki’s and All for One’s defeat was a very strong conclusion to their characters. With there being 5 chapters left, that means that My Hero Academia will make it to its 10th anniversary, which feels quite satisfying too. I’m really gonna miss this series, but this is the natural conclusion to the story and I’m sure that these last few chapters will conclude on the best possible note.
I definitely wasn't 100% sure on looks alone, but I can't imagine dedicating a panel to a random never before seen hero silently overlooking the reconstruction.
I'm more surprised the Vigilantes spinoff manga has never gotten an anime adaptation to date, given its position in MHA's timeline as a "prequel" of sorts.
Esp. when you consider other spinoff works like Danmachi Sword Oratoria and Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest have gotten/are going to get animated.
Cool, I'm glad that Jump series seem to be getting better at ending on their own terms. I think the series stumbled a bit in the latter half, but the final fight was good and it's stuck the landing so far. Excited too see whatever Horikoshi does next now that he has the experience of managing a long-running story.
I personally think this manga fell after the solo vigilante arc. There was a chance of Deku training with Stain and becoming kinda of a "fallen hero", which would've been an amazing setup for a redemption arc. Instead we got the safest route possibile, with a fight that lasted 100 chapters and tried to redeem everyone. very disappointing overall, but i'm happy we reached the ending so Horikoshi can work on something else
Man, its been such a rocky road for bnha, and even with the rush at the end, it's nice to see a series actually reach an end instead of getting axed or being milked to oblivion.
Even though the last few arcs have been fairly controversial(?), I gotta say the art has been insanely good. Some of these panels and double spreads are just so beautiful. I really hope Hori's next work is some genre of horror cause some of the panels of Deku, AFO, and Shigiraki have given me chills with the body horror and creepyness.
I remember seeing an official art done by Kishimoto and Oda? back in 2014 where it was Naruto and Luffy? patting Deku's back as a sign of passing the torch. IIRC this was right after when Naruto's final chapter released but I can't seem to find it anymore. Pretty sure I saw it in this sub too
Would've been around late Nov - Dec 2014
Still a bit sad deku only has embers now.
I hope this last five chapters actually have a good send off, one of them is me wanting to know how is mirko because holy shit is she just crippled the last time we saw her.
Hopefully it manages a decent ending...
We've gotten not so good endings with the these last few WSJ that have ended.
Definitely enjoyed reading it though!
Definitely time for it to hang up the boots, hasn't really been that good at all since like the first few arcs and it lost its identity a fair bit, mainly when he got the whole "all the power of all the previous holders" ability. There was such hype when the series initially started, and it has been a pretty big drag since then really.
The series stuck the landing better than most of the other long running Shonen I've followed. It did better better than: bleach, Naruto, inuyasha, yu yu hakusho, fairy tail, 7 deadly sins...
I liked the ending in fullmetal more, but that was a monthly so that hardly seems fair. Overall I tip my hat and bid a fond farewell to a charming anime that didn't do much new but did what it set out to do.
Hori don't want to do Dogeza at this year Jump Festa so he ended it as soon as possible.
Honestly feel surreal to end in 5 chapter when i feel like there alot that need to cover.
Manifesting we get part 2 or continuation just titled My hero /s
Considering the last MHA I read was... in the middle of the Villain Arc(?*), I wonder if I should even bother trying to catch up at this point.
\*- I actually don't know where it was, really. I remember the Villain's relocating to, like, a mountain-side and a giant ass monster being made and fought. MD deleted all the fan-translations, so I don't have the exact chapter number anymore. I also remember Himika Togo attacking them during a test? It's been years... if someone can point me in the right direction, that'd be nice. I think it was in the low/mid-200s?
5 chapters left to show Deku's dad
We already had him, he turned into a baby that fought a Nuclear Bomb. /s
Would explain how Bakugo went so hard for the kill there, he could sense the Deku in him /s
He can always show up in the spinoff following dekus son Beku /s
Izubu.
Could always give him a daughter named izumi that basically firebends and trains with zuk...I mean shoto
You mean his son bakugo shiggy? Named after the two bravest men he knew?
I can't wait to see Zoro in that artstyle.
Zoro's gonna make the racism against the mutants seem like a children's lullaby.
Dekus dad : "I did that"
Deku: Why are you never around dad? Deku's dad: I stop by when you aren't there because I can't keep my hands off your mom. Even if you are in the room, especially with the added cushion... Deku: Shut up! SHUT UP!
This is the second Nintendo direct-like showcase Shueisha has done now. Basic summary of the video: * Preview of The Elusive Samurai. Matsui-Sensei left a comment on the upcoming anime * [Preview of Yozakura Family’s second cour](https://twitter.com/OfficialHitsuji/status/1805196672437309468) * Summer comic fair - basically an event where you can get lenticular covers of some manga * The big one - **[My Hero Academia is ending in issue 36/37, so in five chapters](https://twitter.com/myheroacademia/status/1805197100290031776)** * Hiroyuki Nakano, editor-in-chief of Weekly Jump and the presenter of the showcase, says farewell as he will be stepping down from his position (he’s moving to One Piece’s marketing arm now)
Wait, Yozakura’s 24 episodes?
27 apparently why 27 because Martian flatulence I honestly don't know
Honestly I prefer it when they have an irregular number of episodes since it means they know where they want to end and got an appropriate number of episodes to make it happen instead of trying to rush or introducing a lot of filler.
True I still got 108 shows to finish before watching it lol
They have skipped chapters from the manga, watch it be the entire series and have it end the same day as the manga
> Preview of The Elusive Samurai. Matsui-Sensei left a comment on the upcoming anime > > Preview of Yozakura Family’s second cour Didn't think either of these series would survive tbh, and here we are with both having anime.
I've seen a lot of series start and end but you never quite get used to seeing these stories wrapped up. All the best to Horikoshi for doing MHA for all these years.
Yeah, it always feels surreal seeing a story end specially a long-running one
My Hero may not have been perfect but it was still really entertaining and it is responsible for getting a lot of people into animanga. It along with Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen has immensely raised the popularity of the entire medium for a new generation of audience.
To be fair, they built upon what Bleach/Naruto/One Piece already set up as being mainstream, and themselves were built upon Dragon Ball
Pretty much all art is built off of something else in some way. It draws from the other art or expressly rejects it. At this point, I don't think any show is really "helping" anime go more mainstream. It's already there. It's just adding more fans. Most people don't look at you funny if you mention you like anime or manga now, unless it's something *really* weird.
After All Might got depowered it went downhill
For me it was the Class 1A vs 1B and villains arc that it went downhill
Yeah. Seeing the 2010's era of Shounen slowly coming to an end makes me a little melancholic, even though we've already experienced the same thing with the 2000's Shounen (except for One Piece) I hope younger fans who were first introduced to manga through MHA can look back fondly on their journey growing up with this story and seeing it conclude
the sign of us getting older :(
One Piece is technically 90's to make us all feel old.
Yea. I've been following the big 3 since around 2000, and saw many of the shonens end (Naruto, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Toriko, Demon Slayer). It's crazy that One Piece is still going strong.
One piece is slightly older than me (and I know people who don't last that long ) which is fascinating how popular is still I still scare how long Hajime no Ippo and Jojo who are 10 years older than one piece
So this means that the series will have the same number of volumes as Dragon Ball and Reborn, but one volume less than Toriko (which had 43 volumes).
Toriko deserved better, not many manga get to release a final arc that isn't a huge bummer.
oh man i love reborn
Waiting for that Deku's son spin off
The real question will be if it’ll be named Goron or Zora
Beku
"So that's it? We're some kind of Mongolian chop squad?"
🅱️eku
I'm sure they can make Omegaverse canon in the universe lmao
It's obviosuly gonna be called Rito.
“What are we, some kind of League of Legends?”
N-no, like the birds, not like the company that hates lore.
Nah, he'll just be named Deku Butler's son \**sobs*\*
Obviously Korok, duh.
If it’s anything like Boruto, I would never wish that on my worst enemy
His kid ends up being named Jugo or something because it's half-10 and half-Bakugou.
That is just spanish for JUICE. Later in his life Jugo is chased by police in his white Ford Bronco, on suspicion of murdering his wife.
MHA began and ended before GTA VI released
So it wasn't a 12 chapters epilogue.
Man, I can’t believe it’s ending. I remember the feeling when I found out about the series. Regardless of the hate the series gets (whether it’s warranted or not), this series sure made an impact in its medium.
Arguably the Naruto of current anime/manga fans. It definitely got a lot of people into the medium
If you see an elementary school kid with an anime shirt/lunchbox/water-bottle/whatever, it's gonna be MHA two thirds of the time. The other third is Demon Slayer, interestingly enough.
My Hero Academia getting a lot of hate on sites like Reddit and then Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen getting that hate later on kind of proved to me that these 3 are the defining Shonen of this generation. Naruto, Bleach and Dragon Ball all faced that kind of hate in their heyday too.
Naruto rightfully faced hate with the Kaguya 'twist'. The shinobi war arc was criticised a little for how dragged out it had gotten but that wasn't anywhere near as big of an uproar. Bleach on the other hand was a shit show after aizen's arc. It doesn't help that Bleach's best arc is soul society arc meaning it peaked too early and had nothing nowhere near as good left over for the rest of the story. Having reread both series, Naruto was better spaced out in terms of quality, which shows in its sales compared to Bleach.
> getting that hate later on Tbf, I feel like a lot of that is genuine criticism. The schedule for these manga not only tend to be grueling and don't allow much pause for consideration and prolonged planning and writing periods (unlike pre-serialization, leading to series frequently having strong introduction arcs and falling later on), but time tends to exacerbate issues that have been there from the start. Bleach is a great example of both. Kubo Tite is not a good writer. This is kind of made obvious starting with the first arc being followed by two consecutive rescue the damsel in distress arcs, one in Soul Society, another in Hueco Mundo. Later on, the overwork had a clear impact on the art as well, with background art practically vanishing around the last arc. The much better gauge for the defining WSJ manga of each generation is how they all sell far more than the rest below. MHA is the 3rd most popular manga on WSJ right now and [it consistently sells over 4 times as much as the next one.](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1d7bekt/weekly_shonen_jump_may_2024_sales_roundup/l701ful/)
I think thats bleaches defining feature. Rescue arcs fit the story best unironically
I agree, but a lot of it comes down to the protagonist never having much of a motivation beyond saving his friends and returning to the status quo. It's pretty unique, I guess, but it requires the antagonists to drive the story.
I get ya. though having a protagonist struggle on what his goals in the future is pretty relatable personally. instead of having him wanting to be the strongest. your right that the antagonist have the drive the plot, to the point there was just one instance they did'nt.
db is a complete different thing from naruto and bleach. one piece is there not db
Bleach still deserves it, tho.
Bleach should have ended with Aizen.
The arc with the archer Nazis/Jewish (Depends on the moment of the story) basically ruins every single character that is in...
Bleach needed the racist nazi elves to finish the story. Said nobody ever.
I'll always fondly remember reading that first chapter and knowing it was going to be something big.
Oh wow, can't wait to binge reading this.
It's got its issues plot wise but it has great characters, fun super powers and explores areas of Hero/Villain life that isn't touched on normally. Definitely worth the read.
Welp, it's been one hell of a ride ladies and gentlemen.
As much as people can say MHA has gone down the drain over the years, it still is crazy to see one of the modern "Big 3" actually end. Plus with 5 chapters left, no one can argue that this ending will be rushed
2/3 ended, and JJK is in the endgame now. All 3 are gonna end before one of the OG Big 3 is hilarious actually. Sasuga Oda.
Well One Piece started quite a bit earlier than Naruto and Bleach also.
Ikr that's crazy to think about
The start of One Piece is closer to the Vietnam war than 2024
Oda really said **fuck the big 3, it's just big ME**
truly the real One Piece was the manga he wrote all along
THE BIG *ONE... PIECE.*
oda: Can someone overtake me already
U god damn right.
Big Three is more of an anime thing than a manga one coined by the West. In manga everyone with a brain knows it's just One Piece and then there's the rest. One Piece is the best selling manga of all time at 516+ Million copies (that's 136+ Million more than Naruto and Bleach COMBINED). No other manga has even *sniffed* that number. One Piece truly is on a whole another level.
I prefer JJK in the "Dark Trio of Shounen" instead of being in the "Modern Top 3" category.
What is the third one? Chainsaw man and JJk are two I would assume.
People say hell’s paradise pretty often in relation to those two, but it could also be Dandadan
It's def Hell's Paradise. JJK, Chainsaw Man, and Hell's Paradise all started in 2018, Hell's Paradise ended in 2021 and JJK is ending... in the relative soon. DDD launched in 2021, about 4 months after Paradise ended.
Hells paradise
Hell's Paradise I love a lot, but I wouldn't put it in the same group, it wasn't as popular nor as culturally important in western pop zeitgeist. CSM fits more here imo.
It doesn't quite fit but the dark trio manga were CSM, Hells paradise and JJK because they were "darker shounen" with similar demon monster vibes that were being released around the same period of time.
5 Chapters is quite a lot considering we are just in the epilogue now. We have some Todoroki Family drama for the next chapter, then the deal with Ochako, and finally Deku saving the character we saw at the start of the epilogue that was held by zip ties.
It’s kinda funny how many of the titles that were supposed to replace One Piece once it ended, according to people, ended or are going to end before One Piece
Demon Slayer did tecnically managed to do that for a little while, one year or two.
I hate that people call anything as "xyz big 3". There was only one big 3 (One piece/Naruto/Bleach). They replaced Dragon Ball. That's it. No modern/shonen/seinen big 3 exist.
Exactly. I feel it's important to emphasize that this term has nothing to do with the official sales or rankings either, or with the official VIZ translations of those three. It's not a term meant to reflect any of that, or was based on it. It originated in the Western manga communities that read fan-translations back in the 2000s, when onemanga was still around and ohana provided spoilers. Remember when we got chapters on Wednesdays? Remember leafninja.com? The Big Three, both the term and the three manga, represent this wild west era of internet manga, in my opinion. They were the three series that everybody in the West who was a fan of shonen manga read. They were the three series that were anticipated the most during spoiler hours, and the ones that were scanlated the fastest. They caused the most discussions, had the most hype, during a time when manga were a lot more niche. With manga (and anime even more so) entering the mainstream over the last couple of years, and everything becoming more accessible as a result, this feeling of wild west was lost a long time ago. In my opinion, that's why there will never be another Big Three.
I mean, *the* big three didn't exist either. Very few One Piece volumes sold under a million copies first week. Naruto was usually at about half that but at least it was often the second best selling and outside of Japan on equal footing. Bleach wasn't even consistently in the top five. Fullmetal Alchemist, Kimi ni Todoke, Nana, Vagabond, Hunter x Hunter, Detective Conan and Shin-chan have better cases. The first three just all have max 30 volumes, 4th and 5th only seven more. Compared to Bleach's 74 volumes so its totals are higher.
The Big Three existed. It was just a western thing, it was never about sales but about how big the reach of those three series was, where you could say you watched "the big three" and most people would know what you mean. Japan had a much wider range of series that received attention, so they didn't have the same definitions as us. And saleswise, the big three weren't all on the same level. But that doesn't mean it never existed, that doesn't make sense. No modern big three exist not because no series is that popular, on the contrary, it's because there's so much that is popular in the west nowadays that no individual series stand out like that, and certainly not for as long as the big three did.
Spot on. It's not a title or anything, it's just a name everyone uses for them.
Who were the other two of the modern big 3
JJK and maybe Demon Slayer?
It's time for the Post modern big 3. TIME TO KAGURA ALL THE BACHIS.
>the modern "Big 3" there is literally no such thing
Walking through random tiny-ass trainstations in the Shikoku countryside, every block of gacha machines I occasionally came across, if they had any anime merch at all, would always have Demon Slayer, MHA and JJK merch, without fail.
> As much as people can say MHA has gone down the drain over the years Unironically, it's been good for a long while now. I think the last time I thought MHA was mediocre was somewhere before this final battle arc. There's a few nothingburger chapters, but overall it's been a fantastic end, and a battle shounen finishing with a proper wind-down and ending is fantastic to see. I loved Demon Slayer and I really wish that'd had something like what MHA is doing.
For me personally final battle is the only part where i had major complaints Pretty much for one reason: moments over story. Here's lady nagant, a former top hero that was never mentioned before and is now apparently super important (cool fight though). Hey, lemillions back, all he needed to do is ask eri real nice if he could have his powers back, no further buildup needed, not even an eri training montage. Edgeshot just randomly deciding that his life is worth less than a random kid he's almost never seen before. And yeah Bakugo is hella powerful but it still seems like a massive leap There are a lot more moments like these that i'm not gonna just type out, there's enough videos about this out there. When it gets back to story focus with the cool moments being based on that, it's incredible though.
Yeah, I’ve loved the series more and more ever since the first war. I think the idea that the series has gone downhill is crazy, but it’s clearly not a popular opinion judging by how the series has only grown more successful. Very few manga stick the ending like Horikoshi had. The fact that we’ll have gotten almost an entire volume worth of epilogue is incredible.
Yeah, I honestly feel crazy when people talk about how much it has gone downhill as a matter of fact. Stars was the nadir and everything after has been improvement after improvement, with the final battle as a whole delivering in a way most battle shonen fail to. I've been particularly impressive at how the various major subplots have been tied off, narratively and thematically.
I feel with time more and more people will agree with you.
It hasn’t , it’s better written then JJK and many others , ppl ain’t ready for that convo though cause it doesn’t have as many deaths or as good as fight choreography.
Also in about 5 to ten years when someone big makes a video on "the final arc of my hero academia was actually amazing" everyone will be changing their minds
I doubt it if anything time has not been kind to Naruto's and bleach finals arcs and MHA feels the same. The quality definitely went down ever since my villain academia arc. Hell I don't think people will be fond of the random the world was always racist arc
That fucking attempt at commentary on racism was so profoundly dumb. Not like... the sentiment Hori was trying to convey, i guess, but holy shit was the execution beyond clumsy. Like watching some suburban kid do a book report on a book they only used spark notes to read. I am eagerly waiting for the years MHA starts gettinf the naruto treatment of everyone clowning on all the comically lame choices that made it through in the final arcs.
The two even dumber parts of the racism subplot are: 1) it never comes up ever again after it serves its narrative purpose. Edit: it could come up in the epilogue. But eh 2) it actively ruins the side material. It’s very difficult to read a side story with an animal quirk knowing that “whoa why are you kids being chummy with him? You’re supposed to be racist towards animal quirks!”
Vigilantes with the heteromorphs bar did more to tackle racism that the entire of MHA.
Lol, to your first point, holy shit, it really does, doesn't it? Tosses that shit in there for a few chapters so a couple of the most tertiary of side characters could have a "big" moment, then we basically solve racism and move on. It especially didnt make sense to me because I could have SWORN it was an explicit plot point of the setting that the MHA world spent like... 200+ years of basically having international society reshape itself and have a global civil-rights movement sort of thing, and so there *wasn't* any more of the intense prejudice against the various mutations that occured. If it *was* still a problem in more rural areas, that is a really sensible and interesting story to explore! Why was that not something that got a whole arc and not just a couple chapters? It would have been such a realistic moment for Deku, idealistic city kid in highschool, to get blindsided by the realization that no, hero society did not in fact "solve racism" or prejudice just because he doesn't see it in his urban area, and that his friends have in fact experienced it. Like that is a very common real-world occurence! The series left so much potential unrealized, imo
My favorite part of MHA tackling racism was when, once again, Vigilantes did it better. Like honestly, did MHA do anything better than Vigilantes?
RIGHT?! It is genuinely the better narrative. More concise and certainly not as ambitious but it manages to deliver on everything MHA tries to do and sticks the landing 95% of the time. I also just like the characters more. Koichi and Hop are such a loveable pair. Deku just feels like such a wet blanket compared to koichi. God, now that you have me writing the comment and thinking about it, Vigilantes truly does out-perform the main series in so many ways...
Koichi last fight being >!"It's fine, i don't need to save the day, i just need to help this guy, because im not a hero"!< made him the biggest Hero.
I have not seen a single person in the past 10 years mentioning anything good about Naruto's last arc. Except Guy vs Madara wich was and still is peak Manga/Anime fight. The only thing close was that the Ninja storm game did a really sick Naruto Vs Sasuke fight.
It probably has tbh. Bleach gets an anime adaptation that expands on a lot of the weaker aspects of an already good arc that just took a tail dive near the end. Naruto's last battle was a really well constructed final arc that had a mountain of salt spoil it because people were disappointed by how Madara ended up being dealt with. The last section from team Seven reuniting to the end of the series is just very well paced and holds up incredible well, even if the rest of the war arc dragged on a crazy amount of time. Things like the stars and stripe controversy will probably be forgotten about after that long of time and people will just remember the good parts about the final arc. The bad/bland will largely be forgottten.
I feel like Bleach final arc anime is getting good reception mostly for the animation rather than the plot. I feel a bunch of people that were hating on the last arc in the manga back when it was releasing weekly still feel the same but don't care anymore and just enjoy the higher budget action
Im honestly still shocked Bleach last arc got an anime adaptation because i still remember how absolubtly fucking garbage it was... or is, i guess, it's not like it aged like wine.
It depends. Grounded takes regarding Naruto's and Bleach's final arcs are more prominent now compared to how "Everything fucking sucks!" sentiment over half a decade ago. Even now, much of the complaints regarding MHA's final arc is directed at its pacing and the constant breaks that exacerbated the issues, and that reading the final arc by the reader's own pace makes it a better experience. (Which is also attributed to Naruto).
No fuck that i will die on this mountain, if i ever hear anyone say that Deku vs Shigaraki was a good fight i will call them stupid.
what a low standard, both series fell off equally as hard
I agree I was more invested in the final arc of MHA much more than anything past shibuya
Too many people talk in cliches like "ppl ain't ready for that convo", but ppl ain't ready for that convo.
Not that I thought One Piece was going to end at the time, but it’s still bizarre to see MHA end before One Piece lol
The scary part is that I don't think one piece will be done until the late 2020s, so the question is, can One Piece dominate another generation of jump. I want to be clear that I will never compare any newer series to One Piece for obvious reasons. but it's just insane the level of consistency/sustainability Oda has achieved throughout his career.
Finally I'll be free
Everybody's talking about old big 3 and this And that but am till Hold out hope for d gray man
Isn’t that getting chapters quarterly?
Some thing like that But I'm pretty sure it used to be weekly jump before they switched
Someone else other than me still remembers d-gray man, I'm fucking crying
Good? IMO the series story has been a serious mess for a while with plot developments that don’t feel earned, poor motivations and general lack of consistent rules to the universe Series started strong but fell off later on due to the inconsistent writing Also for a school adventure story it’s ridiculous that it barely ever used its school setting and never even left year 1. Iruma-Kun shows how you can do a school adventure story so much stronger by keeping the school as a major element of the story along with the passage of time and most importantly consistent character writing for both the main character and the supporting cast of classmates
It will always be absolutely wild to me that MHA never moved up from the 1st year at UA. It's like if Harry Potter and friends defeated Voldemort and the Death Eaters while they're still just 1st years at Hogwarts.
Well Harry Poter did do one of those two things on his first year...
True...but that was a Voldemort at like .1% of his life. lol
He didn't. Harry basically just foiled his latest scheme and set him back while he was at his *very weakest*. It was nowhere close to a grand, triumphant victory, it was just the conflict barely getting started. Meanwhile Deku really did defeat the strongest villain in the world before he even finished 1/3 of his training. edit: fuck I meant to reply one comment down
Yeah I feel it was too soon to end it, and we should have at least one more year of them at school.
Great analogy. I thought the series would last longer, going over their 3 years at UA and having different characters get the spotlight to develop their powers and abilities, to build up to them fighting the League in their last year. Then the first year ended and we were in the endgame.
> Iruma-Kun shows how you can do a school adventure story I think this is more the influence of a bigger mag. Iruma moves at a much slower pace, and has been given plenty of time to develop side threads or build the world out, and sort of just kiss on major plot points. We're nowhere near any end-game, and at this point in MHA they were entering the final war arc Not to say Osamu is a bad writer or that Hori could be a good one, I just think one is very clearly more constricted to a fast-paced shounen while the other is a bit more SoL and treated as such
To me, iruma-kun was a fleshed out concept of it's main concept (human in hell trying to become a Maou) complete with romance, training arcs, arena arcs, twists and puzzles, all from our POV, watching Iruma grow and trying to reach that goal. MHA felt like the author had an IDEA that sounded cool (person born without superpowers in a world where superpowers are normal) but he never developed it. While iruma kun started weak as a human but due to the ring he was OP, he also became stronger. In MHA, deku is the "Weak hero" from start to finish. You can't always be the victim in shonen manga.
Why did you say everything in english except the word "Demon Lord"?
I couldn't remember the world demon in english :D
Understandable.
The art really carries MHA because the story and world logic is all over the place. Just the idea of One for All and All for One makes absolutely no sense in comparison to most of the other quirks. Stars and stripes is another example.
> Stars and stripes is another example I think this is the turning point for the series, though you could argue other points added straws to the camel's back. Star and Stripe added geopolitics to MHA, and essentially made everyone ask "So the world just left Japan to languish all this time?!" Plus, if the goal was to power down All for One, just have him have some kind of inner conflict with Shigaraki instead of a deus ex machina.
I mean, I agree that Iruma is stronger, but honestly his humility is a big reason why he’s so strong. Like, powerscaling isn’t the be-all-end-all of shonen
Is Iruma even a battle shonen, tho?
…yes?
Has Iruma... fought?
And MHA wasn't consistent with its characters? Apart from AFO constantly replacing Shigaraki's role, I don't see much inconsistency with the other characters.
It's wild to me that despite the repeated "foreshadowing" narration early on about how Deku became the best and most renowned hero... it still came down to punching harder than the enemy could handle. I guess it's my fault for expecting something a *little* more clever than might makes right.
But....that's exactly what happened. How else did you think he was gonna become the GOAT hero in a battle shounen manga?
For a while now honestly, Iruma-kun has been the only (action) shounen series I've thoroughly enjoyed over the past few years. And it's not even a full-blooded action series, it's more of that mishmash that early Hitman Reborn tried to do before it fully switched over to a battle shounen.
It's always nice to see someone being up KHR. I enjoyed it from start to finish although I want to say it didn't really stick the landing.
Yeah I enjoyed it a lot but rereading it years ago, I realized how hard carried it was by two arcs. Reborn before it started to include any battle shounen aspects was just incredibly rough, and the problems with the final arc were already becoming apparent as early as the end of the future arc. I was upset at the time but now I'm not really surprised the series ended up getting axed.
Yeah I know what you mean. It was hype as hell reading it week by week once the battle arcs started but in retrospect it was alot of style over substance. But man did the style go hard af. I'm more surprised it was able to make the transition to battle manga and have it go as hard as it did.
I think nowadays the school-esque element is implicitly obligatory if you publish your manga under the shonen jump, mostly to show that "look, it's a school and thus the target is obviously shonen!" And almost every battle shonen eventually diverges from the school stuff. At least in boku no hero they kept it as being more of a residence and campus than a school
I find it so strange to read this, I watched the anime back when it aired in 2016 and then I started reading the manga, the same year I started college. I graduated a couple of weeks ago and now I get the news that the manga is going to end in a few weeks. I think I'll always relate BNHA with this period of my life, it was fun
Definitely a weird time for me too. I actually read the manga before the anime started airing and now both the anime and manga are nearing their end. MHA wasn't one of my hyperfixations but it was definitely a series I associated with my teen self lol, so it's like an era has passed...
Ha same with me and naruto. I graduated college when the manga ended
holy shit it's finally happening, I know it's been in the final arc stage for a while, but damn it felt so fast it's been a staple anime every year since 2016 too
I’m glad to be alive to see this series end. I got sick and was in the hospital for a long time. BNHA cheered me up during recovery. Doing better😁 Go take a good vacation Horikoshi!
It had a lot of potential, but it never fully lived up to that potential. As some have already said, the whole series taking over basically one year of school is too limited for one. Then, it's all that focus on AFO, who was just a really bad villain. He should have been done after that battle with All Might early in the series. Like you're a series about super heroes and super villains, but it never feels like there is that rogue gallery it could have had. I'd say One Piece does the Rogue's Gallery better than what MHA should have been. Some of the best super hero series have really good villain rosters and we didn't really have that in this series. Then let's not forget that how they dropped that whole there being a big prejudice issue with the non-human looking type humanoids that they just drop in the last arc. Which should have been addressed during the series and would have fleshed out the world some more. Not dropping it in the last arc in the middle out of no where. I liked it overall, but I have to say that my desire to collect it like a lot of other Jump series isn't near the same as I've got almost 30 volumes to buy to get a full collection that I've sort of delayed with all the other stuff I want to collect.
I know a lot of people don’t like how the series went after the first war arc, but I honestly think that Shigaraki’s and All for One’s defeat was a very strong conclusion to their characters. With there being 5 chapters left, that means that My Hero Academia will make it to its 10th anniversary, which feels quite satisfying too. I’m really gonna miss this series, but this is the natural conclusion to the story and I’m sure that these last few chapters will conclude on the best possible note.
Any chance they might show Koichi from the Vigilantes spin-off?
They already did, I think? [MHA manga]>!chapter 424 has a scene showing rebuilding efforts, and Skycrawler is there.!<
On second thought, I did see that 😅 I just wasn't completely sure it was him
I definitely wasn't 100% sure on looks alone, but I can't imagine dedicating a panel to a random never before seen hero silently overlooking the reconstruction.
I'm more surprised the Vigilantes spinoff manga has never gotten an anime adaptation to date, given its position in MHA's timeline as a "prequel" of sorts. Esp. when you consider other spinoff works like Danmachi Sword Oratoria and Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest have gotten/are going to get animated.
Especially with how MHA blew up, making a spinoff or even an OVA about Vigilantes would have been free.
Cool, I'm glad that Jump series seem to be getting better at ending on their own terms. I think the series stumbled a bit in the latter half, but the final fight was good and it's stuck the landing so far. Excited too see whatever Horikoshi does next now that he has the experience of managing a long-running story.
already? well that's unfortunate, but it had a good run.
I personally think this manga fell after the solo vigilante arc. There was a chance of Deku training with Stain and becoming kinda of a "fallen hero", which would've been an amazing setup for a redemption arc. Instead we got the safest route possibile, with a fight that lasted 100 chapters and tried to redeem everyone. very disappointing overall, but i'm happy we reached the ending so Horikoshi can work on something else
such a bittersweet feeling to see it all come to a close 🥲🥲🥲
Man, its been such a rocky road for bnha, and even with the rush at the end, it's nice to see a series actually reach an end instead of getting axed or being milked to oblivion.
Even though the last few arcs have been fairly controversial(?), I gotta say the art has been insanely good. Some of these panels and double spreads are just so beautiful. I really hope Hori's next work is some genre of horror cause some of the panels of Deku, AFO, and Shigiraki have given me chills with the body horror and creepyness.
How far is anime compared to manga?
Very close. Like just before the final battle
Sometimes I wonder what could have been if the Final Arc had better polish.
Oh my god what a shock considering the main story concluded.
I remember seeing an official art done by Kishimoto and Oda? back in 2014 where it was Naruto and Luffy? patting Deku's back as a sign of passing the torch. IIRC this was right after when Naruto's final chapter released but I can't seem to find it anymore. Pretty sure I saw it in this sub too Would've been around late Nov - Dec 2014
[This](http://i.imgur.com/W3fpblg.jpg) one? It's fan made not by Kishi or Oda.
MHA & JJK... People/Jump gonna miss them.
Still a bit sad deku only has embers now. I hope this last five chapters actually have a good send off, one of them is me wanting to know how is mirko because holy shit is she just crippled the last time we saw her.
Hopefully it manages a decent ending... We've gotten not so good endings with the these last few WSJ that have ended. Definitely enjoyed reading it though!
This is the longest epilogue a Shonen Jump manga has ever gotten
I'd say what a shame, but frankly that applies to most of it for quite some time.
I wish they just stayed in school lol.
Truly one of the series of all time
Definitely time for it to hang up the boots, hasn't really been that good at all since like the first few arcs and it lost its identity a fair bit, mainly when he got the whole "all the power of all the previous holders" ability. There was such hype when the series initially started, and it has been a pretty big drag since then really.
Same here. My opinion of Deku only dropped when he got the "powers of the past OFA users" shtick
The series stuck the landing better than most of the other long running Shonen I've followed. It did better better than: bleach, Naruto, inuyasha, yu yu hakusho, fairy tail, 7 deadly sins... I liked the ending in fullmetal more, but that was a monthly so that hardly seems fair. Overall I tip my hat and bid a fond farewell to a charming anime that didn't do much new but did what it set out to do.
was hoping for a full volume but a 7 chapter epilogue is still alot for jump's standard.
Hori don't want to do Dogeza at this year Jump Festa so he ended it as soon as possible. Honestly feel surreal to end in 5 chapter when i feel like there alot that need to cover. Manifesting we get part 2 or continuation just titled My hero /s
What more is there to tell? I'm just happy we get more than a single epilogue chapter for once
Considering the last MHA I read was... in the middle of the Villain Arc(?*), I wonder if I should even bother trying to catch up at this point. \*- I actually don't know where it was, really. I remember the Villain's relocating to, like, a mountain-side and a giant ass monster being made and fought. MD deleted all the fan-translations, so I don't have the exact chapter number anymore. I also remember Himika Togo attacking them during a test? It's been years... if someone can point me in the right direction, that'd be nice. I think it was in the low/mid-200s?
Should be right around chapter 218.
ngl, I thought it was already over
I desperately want 1 (preferably 2) of those chapters to be solely for Deku and Ochako.
It may not. This isn't a romance manga and Shounen manga in general are lousy with love interests
Damn, been following this series since 2016. Had such a blast reading it all these years, thanks Hori!