The My Hero Academia manga will go on a final break next week before the series ends, and fans are feeling emotional.
After a decade of serialization,My Hero Academiaisfinally ending. The manga wraps up its last arc – the Final War Arc – inChapter 423. The epilogue starts fromChapter 424, revealing what happened to major characters after the story’s climax.
However, following a decade-long journey, the manga’s creator Kohei Horikoshi didn’t want to end the series with only one chapter. Instead, he decided to give his readers a prolonged look at the aftermath of the final war againstAll For One and Shigaraki.
“Writing conventions say that the conclusion of a story should be short,” the authorcommented, “But this is not the type of manga that can immediately end after the fighting is done, so I’ll keep going for a little while.”
Break next week, one last time
But we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the other chapters, as My Hero Academia will go on afinal break after Chapter 427before resuming serialization the week after. So, Chapter 428 will be released on July 21, with the final two chapters dropping on July 28 and August 5 respectively.
Fans of the series are feeling emotional in lieu of this announcement. One X/Twitter user wrote, “Don’t say it like that, omg, I’m gonna be sick,” while another joined, “Why is this the tweet that just made me start crying.”
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“‘One last time.’ I hate that,” commented a third, and a fourth said, “At least I get a break before I’m gonna cry about the next chapter again.” Another fan agreed, “Okay, this is heartbreaking. After all of those years, I’m going to cry at work right now because of that.”
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Anamika Das was an Anime Writer on Dexerto’s UK team. She previously wrote for platforms like Otakus' Notes and Seinen Manga. Anamika is an avid fan of anime, the shounen genre in particular. She loves My Hero Academia, Haikyuu!!, Jujutsu Kaisen, Boruto, and is obsessed with One Piece.
