Key Takeaways
- A new My Hero Academia short story will be adapted into anime.
- The story is a prologue to the upcoming movie You’re Next.
- My Hero Academia manga will end in December 2024, with a special epilogue.
A new My Hero Academia short story will be adapted into anime and included in the My Hero Academia: You’re Next movie BD/DVD in Japan. You’re Next is the 4th My Hero Academia movie, and it was released in 2024.
Like previous movies in the franchise, it features an original story, with mostly the main staff from previous movies (including Yosuke Kuroda as the main scriptwriter), but with a change in direction: Tensai Okamura (Wolf’s Rain, Blue Exorcist) replaced Kenji Nagasaki.
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The home-video release starts on February 19, 2025, in Japan, but the short OVA is exclusive to those who buy the deluxe edition (“Plus Ultra Edition”). The animation adapts the “A Piece of Cake” one-shot manga, penned by Kohei Horikoshi himself.
What is the “A Piece of Cake” one-shot?
This one-shot was included in a booklet that was given as a bonus for those who watched the movie in Japanese theaters. It is a prologue to the movie itself, show Deku/Midoriya, Bakugo and others from Hero Class 1-A before the movie, which takes place during the U.A Traitor Arc of the manga. The main antagonist tries to imitate a hero admired by Midoriya.
The end of My Hero Academia manga
My Hero Academia finished serialization in August 2024, after 10 years of publication. The last volume is scheduled for December, and it will include a special epilogue. It is one of the most popular manga series of the 2010s, and the next anime season is already confirmed to be the last one, bringing the end of the story into animation.
The story takes place in a world with superheroes (and there are government institutions that regulate the work of those heroes). Midoriya dreams in becoming a hero, but lacks a Quirk (what special abilities are called), at least up until he inherits the Quirk of his favorite hero, All Might.
My Hero Academia
manga and several manga/novel spin-offs are published in the US by Viz Media. The anime is availabe to stream on Crunchyroll, both subbed and dubbed.
Source: ANN