The official Twitter account for Horikoshi Kouhei’s Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) manga confirmed this week that the final tankoubon volume will have an extra 38 pages of content that takes place after the manga’s original ending. The final volume, number 42, will be published in Japan on December 4th, 2024.
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Horikoshi (Oumagadoki Zoo and Sensei no Baruji) started the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump in July 2014 and ended it in August 2024. Shueisha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in November 2014 and the 41st volume in August 2024.
Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service published the manga digitally in English, and Viz Media published the manga in English both digitally and in print. Viz Media will release the manga’s 40th volume on February 11th, 2025.
The Boku no Hero Academia manga was adapted into a TV anime series in 2016. The anime’s seventh season premiered in April 2024 and ended with its 21st episode on October 12th, 2024. All seven seasons can be streamed on Crunchyroll, and the show’s staff confirmed that the anime will end with its eighth season in 2025.
The story follows middle school student Izuku Midoriya, who wants to be a hero more than anything, but he doesn’t have an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then, an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…
