As some of you may know, the manga My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) is very close to publish its last episode, and fans of this popular franchise are already preparing for what will be the end of a successful work that has been in serialization for more than 10 years.
However, in the last hours some comments made by different mangakas whose works are currently published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (Shueisha) have been made public. One of them is Gege Akutami, author of Jujutsu Kaisen, one of the most popular franchises of Shonen Jump, who has made a surprising statement.
Without My Hero Academia there would be no Jujutsu Kaisen.
As previously mentioned, this statement by Gege Akutami was released in the “Author’s Comments” section of the final chapter of My Hero Academia in issue #38 of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The full statement is as follows, “Without My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen would never have started. Congratulations on the completion of the series!!!”.
Over time, we have seen how different mangakas have taken some direct or indirect inspiration from different authors of other franchises, so this statement from the author of the successful manga Jujutsu Kaisen has some impact on the reader, but it makes sense if we see it in how each author takes reference from other works to either be inspired or take courage to create their own manga.
If you want to know more about other authors’ comments, we recommend you to visit the Twitter/X user “Shonen Jump News (@WSJ_manga)” to not miss any words of congratulations for the end of the My Hero Academia manga.
My Hero Academia, also known as “Boku no Hero Academia” in Japan, is an action shonen manga that is written and illustrated by Kouhei Horikoshi. The work made its debut in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in July 2014. Currently, Shueisha Publishing has published 40 compilation volumes of the My Hero Academia manga. A while back, Shueisha Publishing confirmed that the manga managed to surpass the exorbitant figure of 100 million copies in circulation.
Thanks to the enormous repercussion that the My Hero Academia manga has gained and also the great acceptance of the public, in October 2015 it was announced the production of an anime adaptation for the work of Kouhei Horikoshi.
The respective anime adaptation of the manga “My Hero Academia” premiered on television in Japan on April 3, 2016. The series is produced by the animation studio BONES and consists of six seasons (138 episodes in total), 3 movies and a seventh season that is currently airing. In addition, the anime is legally available through the Crunchyroll platform and has an English dubbing.
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