Kohei Horikoshi‘S My Hero Academy ended its tenth anniversary on Monday, and to commemorate that, Shueisha locations an commercial within the morning paper of The New York Instances on Monday with an English commentary by Horikoshi:
©Kohei Horikoshi / Shueisha
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©Kohei Horikoshi / Shueisha
Horikoshi’s remark reads:
Thanks for all of the love and help for My Hero Academy! It was additionally a pleasure for me to see that everybody loved the collection. As you go about your each day lives, I hope you’ll often assume fondly of Deku and his associates.
Kohei Horikoshi
The commercial can even be revealed within the worldwide version of The New York Instances together with in Japan on August 6.
Not solely that, Shueisha will conduct a worldwide ballot on the recognition of manga characters for the primary time.
©Kohei Horikoshi / Shueisha
The “World Greatest Hero” recognition ballot is now open and voting ends on September thirtieth Japan time. Followers can vote as soon as per day.
The outcomes of the primary spherical of voting, known as the “Essential Stage,” will likely be introduced by way of a livestream on December 2 at 7:00 p.m. JST (5:00 a.m. EST) on the Shonen Soar YouTube channel. A particular ultimate spherical of voting, the “Plus Extremely Stage,” will then be held for twenty-four hours to find out the #1 character from the highest 3 within the “Essential Stage.” Everybody can vote as soon as per hour for a most of 12 votes throughout that interval.
The Shonen Soar YouTube channel will announce the ultimate winner once more by way of a livestream on December 3.
The successful character can have a statue erected in his/her honor. Horikoshi himself will draw an illustration that can function a mannequin for the statue.
Shueisha additionally introduced a fan artwork contest. Followers can submit their fan artwork to X (previously Twitter) with the hashtags “#WBH_FANART” or “#Fanart that feels such as you’re doing all your greatest” (DoYourBestFanArt). 10 works will then be chosen and the winners will obtain digital knowledge with a personalised signature from Horikoshi. The deadline for submissions is September 1st and the winners will likely be introduced on September fifteenth.
The manga can even rejoice its finish with the ultimate fanbook in January, the primary artbook in April, and a brand new large-scale artwork exhibition in the summertime of 2025. The forty second and ultimate quantity will likely be launched in December.
The manga can even get a board sport titled Boku no Hero Academia YOUR BEST MEMORY to commemorate the completion of the manga. Shueisha Video games will launch the board sport within the winter of 2024.
In commemoration of the completion of Heroaka!
It is a board sport that can assist you create the perfect commencement album.
(My Hero Academia YOUR BEST MEMORY)A sport filled with all the pieces from well-known scenes to each day life to the ultimate half is now accessible!!
Tremendous quantity with 120 playing cards and a complete of 240 scenes!!
Deliberate launch in winter 2024!!Observe-up info@ShueishaGamesJPObserve and wait! picture.twitter.com/x5fDrKtVL7
— My Hero Academia Officer (@myheroacademia) August 5, 2024
Even My Hero Academy the manga has ended, the seventh season of the anime remains to be ongoing, the fourth anime movie, titled My Hero Academia: You are Subsequentpremiered Friday and debuted at #1, and there is nonetheless that live-action Hollywood film within the works Netflix.
With all that plus all of the information introduced at the moment, plainly My Hero Academy followers nonetheless have one thing to sit up for for a very long time to return.
Who will you vote for within the ballot?
Sources: press launch, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Internet
