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Kohei Horikoshi has officially confirmed that he is working on a brand-new manga. The announcement coincides with the release of the final volume of My Hero Academia.
In an interview published on Marvel’s website, Horikoshi revealed his plans for the future, stating, “I’m planning to start a new manga as soon as I possibly can.”
While the artist briefly considered collaborating with a separate writer, his editor encouraged him to handle both storytelling and art for the new series.
“I was thinking to committing myself to simply drawing my next project, and letting someone else write the story, but my editor advised me ‘It will be better if you do it all yourself.’ With that in mind, I’ve slowly started writing and drawing the thumbnails of my next manga. However, there are still several events left surrounding MHA, so for a while I’ll still be committed to supporting and promoting it.“
To commemorate the series’ conclusion, Marvel and My Hero Academia publisher Weekly Shonen Jump launched a special art exchange, bringing together iconic characters from both franchises.
Horikoshi led the collaboration with an illustration of Spider-Man alongside MHA’s Izuku Midoriya and All Might.
On the Marvel side, artists Humberto Ramos and Edgar Delgado contributed a piece showcasing Black Cat alongside Mt. Lady, Mirko, Star and Stripe, Ochaco Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Setsuna Tokage.
My Hero Academia‘s final volume (#42) released on Dec 4, 2024.
The volume featured a 38-page bonus manga. This exclusive addition explores events that go beyond the series’ final chapter.
My Hero Academia manga wrapped up its 10-year run on Aug 5, 2024.
To celebrate the legacy of the manga, Kohei Horikoshi is collaborating with Gege Akutami, the creator of Jujutsu Kaisen, which also concluded this year, for a special art exhibition at Jump Festa 2025.
Kohei Horikoshi started serializing the manga in Shueisha’s shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2014. Its chapters have been collected in 41 tankobon volumes as of August 2024.
The series has numerous spin-off manga, including My Hero Academia: Smash!!, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions.
It has also been adapted into an anime series by Bones.
The first season of the anime aired in Japan from April to June 2016, followed by a second season from April to September 2017, then a third season from April to September 2018, a fourth season from October 2019 to April 2020, a fifth season from March to September 2021, a sixth season from October 2022 to March 2023, a seventh season from May to October 2024, and an upcoming eighth and final season which is set to premiere in 2025.
It has also received four animated films, titled My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, and My Hero Academia: You’re Next.
Source: Marvel
