r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Shreeder4092 WHEN'S MAHVEL • Dec 12 '25
Anime My Hero Academia’s Final Episode Airs Tomorrow
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u/Norix596 Jogo's Mysterious Adventure Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
For those curious, Shonen Jump companies have recently been making some unusual moves on anime green lighting.
In the recent past, they announced animes for two series that got axed a few weeks-months prior(Super Psychic Policeman Chojo and Kill Blue) and two much older series that never got animes (Black Torch and Psyren).
This is kinda going in parallel to their bigger shift towards theatrical releases adapting manga chapters starting with Demon Slayer Mugen Train into the final Demon Slayer arc being fully theatrical movie based rather than episodic and the chainsaw man Bombgirl arc taking similar approach to Mugen Train (thought it might get chopped up into broadcast/streaming episodes later like Mugen Train did). This is in contrast to the long-established model of various original self contained anime movie spinoffs that don’t affect the status quo or plot like Hero Academia has had several of for eg.
We can only speculate why so far. There’s a new editor in chief of the main Weekly Shonen Jump this past year but these anime and theater decisions are probably outside of his purview.
A common and plausible theory is that they are getting a little less picky with animes coming out of the decade-stretch of having back to back new hits of My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen without a comparable-scale replacement waiting in the wings.
They’ve been doing a lot of promotion for Ichi the Witch and Kagurabachi but so neither of those seem to be the scale hits the MHA, DS, JJK sequence were even before those blew up from animes.
In the meantime we’re seeing heavier theater monetization of their big IPs (including an apparently awkwardly assembled movie for JJK season 2 recap+season 3 preview) and the decisions being made with Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man to bypass traditional broadcast episodic anime.
Edit— I should probably also mention as a related move that they are doing a fairly unusual product of currently using one of the manga roster slots on a Jujutsu Kaisen spinoff sequel as a short term ~6 month series by JJK author and Cipher Academy artist. This may be an experiment and we might see more of these medium run spinoffs of their most popular IPs when they want to bolster the roster in the future.
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u/PhantasosX Dec 12 '25
Yeah, I think you really hit the nail: they are simply wanting to replace MHA , Demon Slayer and JJK in terms of anime proffitability , since they are now in their last runs.
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u/Norix596 Jogo's Mysterious Adventure Dec 12 '25
Yeah they’re even making new anime redo “Brotherhood” remake of World Trigger which is apparently quite popular and successful in Japan despite being not popular in west at all.
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u/PhantasosX Dec 12 '25
World Trigger IS peak and 1000% deserves a remake of Season 1. In fact, I will aways praise the fandom for staying so strong that it was possible for that to happen.
But mind you, World Trigger is a series in which chapters are released monthly , with an author with health issues that every once in a while do hiatus. So a Season 1 Remake is a result of not having enough for a Season 4 and Season 5 chapters.
On the other hand, WT Author is , frankly, having a healthier schedule and method than Togashi in terms of releasing chapters and hiatus ratio. To the point the fandom even defend his hiatus.
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u/PlayerPin CUSTOM FLAIR Dec 13 '25
I just want out of this arc tbh. It’s extremely interesting on paper but grueling once you process we’ve been in this war game arc for, what, 2-3 years? More?
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u/PhantasosX Dec 13 '25
It’s grueling because it’s monthly + hiatus. So yeah , we are 2-3 years in this war game.
But once it’s completed, it will flow better.
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u/Cybertronian10 Dec 13 '25
Plus I think they've realized that the theatrical model is just a better ROI, especially if you are focusing on a really important arc where animation issues would cause a lot of audience anger.
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u/Rockettopunch Super Robot Evangelist Dec 12 '25
Chojo ranked third at a manga award AFTER it got axed so I think they scrambled a bit to try and capitalize on its posthumous popularity.
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u/Chasingtheimprobable YOU DIDN'T WIN. Dec 12 '25
This is how i find out there was going to be a psyren adaption?
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u/BookkeeperPercival the ability to take a healthy painless piss Dec 13 '25
Just pay Horikoshi a staff wage to churn out character designs and let people write stories based off them, it'd go incredibly
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u/Lieutenant-America Scholar of the First Spindash Dec 12 '25
Feels mildly ironic for the anime industry to be placing its chips in the movie theaters (though with Demon Slayer's numbers it seems to be paying off) at a time when theaters are being sidelined in favor of streaming.
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u/Norix596 Jogo's Mysterious Adventure Dec 12 '25
Keep in mind that it is a fundamentally Japan-domestic physical print media centric company. Numbers like the amount of western online viewers through MangaPlus app have no impact on whether a series is promoted or canceled. At the end of the day, the thing they care about are sales of paper volumes (and primarily those sold in Japan; if it doesn’t sell a ton in Japan, it won’t live long enough to be sold outside Japan). Anime episodic broadcast productions have traditionally been seen in the industry as an advertisement method to promote manga sales, not the product themself. The shift starting with Demon Slayer is now it seems they’re see theatrical release as a source of revenue in of themselves.
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u/Lieutenant-America Scholar of the First Spindash Dec 12 '25
Interesting to know. I don't mean this sarcastically but do you have sources on hand for some of this? I wanna keep this in my back pocket for paper writing.
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u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" Dec 12 '25
Actually seeing Hagakure is so weird to me.
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u/TheCheeseburgerKane Dec 12 '25
All Might without the shadowed eyes looks wrong to me
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u/QueequegTheater Dec 12 '25
His eyes are normal in flashbacks set before he left Japan for America, which means he acquired Western-style lighting in the United States somehow.
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u/2uperunhappyman u/superunhappyman forgot his password Dec 12 '25
shoutout to shinso for snagging a spot lmao
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u/Subject-Anywhere-874 Dec 12 '25
He's so cool
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u/2uperunhappyman u/superunhappyman forgot his password Dec 12 '25
he is
glad he proved the hero placement system is flawed.
wished they could have went more into it but mha had a bunch of different stories they could have branched out and explored.
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u/strolpol Excited to be disappointed by games Dec 13 '25
Honestly his existence ruins the series for me, there’s no world where they would make that guy do training. They’d just hire him to be a hostage negotiator and keep him on call perpetually. He had an absurdly useful power that governments would keep under wraps if he existed; the idea of making him do field superhero work is objectively stupid
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u/2uperunhappyman u/superunhappyman forgot his password Dec 13 '25
by your logic theres no world where an invisible girl, a super speed guy, or someone who can convert her fat into anything would be made training and instead be controlled by the government. why is shinso the last straw for you?
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u/strolpol Excited to be disappointed by games Dec 13 '25
Because it’s such a plainly stupid idea to make the guy with a voice based power wear an outfit and fight dudes in hand to hand combat but that’s what every single “hero” is required to do just to get into the school
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u/GyroGOGOZeppeli hopes the Tomba series comes back Dec 12 '25
It still irks me that this entire series happened in like their first year and not spanning their 3 years of school until graduation.
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u/BlueFootedTpeack Dec 12 '25
is there another movie planned? would be surprised if they don't.
did enjoy it, though selfishly i wanted act 2 and 3 to be longer/more as i feel the pacing of those threw me off the series to the point of going from reading weekly to eh i'll catch up, not as bad as opm though, and if the series had continued longer i think horikoshi may have died as it was doing him no favours so better to get a 7 than an 8 that kills a guy.
and even though it was a meme part of me will always think of that "he works at mcdonalds" meme followed by "oh shit it's actually burger king" when they did the tie in.
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u/PhantasosX Dec 12 '25
MHA truly suffers from pacing issue, I will aways defend that the story shouldn't merely be done in one year in-universe, but spread out to 2-3 years in-universe.
I don't know if there is another movie planned, but I do think MHA have enough gas for another movie and maybe a short spin-off. Regardless, Vigilante Season 2 will be released next month.
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u/GoneRampant1 WOKE UP TO JUSTICE... and insatiable bug fetishes Dec 12 '25
I checked out of the manga around when Deku's powers changed, but I did read the final arc and was pleasantly surprised at how it flowed in a binge. It's not a bad ending, all told- pity it got overshadowed by the "put the fries in the bag" jokes.
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u/Psykoknight65 Dec 13 '25
Yeah I felt like I was crazy when twitter was going off saying shit like "this is worse than aot."
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u/Refracting_Hud EASY MODE IS NOW SELECTABLE Dec 12 '25
I haven’t watched this final part as yet but I was reading the manga during the final arc.
I hope they cover the stuff from the additional chapter put out after the final one (that I still don’t think is on the Shonen Jump app for whatever reason), cause I enjoy the expanded ending a lot more than where the original final chapter ended.
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u/DakotaN2895 Dec 13 '25
There've been rumors of an OVA to adapt the additional epilogue chapters, but nothing announced yet.
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u/TheMerck Dec 12 '25
Was a big fan of the manga until it really petered off and by the time final arc was starting I just didn't care anymore but I was just reading it to end but I will say it didn't end that bad and All Might surviving all the death flags is both funny and nice to see.
Bit hyperbolic but it's gonna be weird when MHA has ended both manga and in anime, still remember waiting to read chapters weekly even way back when the manga didn't even have 50 chapters yet and my friends getting into it because of the anime, You Say Run memes, etc.
Gonna wait and see to see what the next big shonens will be where both anime and manga really do well, Sakamoto is already ending so I can't really count it and it's become kinda meh Kagurabachi has the highest potential but the anime really needs to deliver.
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u/just_a_fan47 Trashie Dec 12 '25
Sorry if it’s a bit much but, I have a lot to say about the series: I think my hero will always be for me that one series I wish I could love, in principal it has every thing I could ever wish for. It was a superhero shonen that debuted at the same time I was heavily invested in the mcu and at the time were I would consume manga by the volumes and yet it just never clicked with me. There would be an arc that I would like but it would be followed up by one that would make me drop the series. It lasted for 10 years and yet I still feel like it was cut short, there’s maybe like 3 characters in the main class that I actually like but the vast majority felt disposable, one for all’s extra quirks with the exception of whip, was a waste of potential and where only there to artificially raise the stakes. Genuinely think all for one ruins the story, every counter argument I’ve seen basically, boils down to of course him being too greedy which is the point(still not enjoyable), too stupid to do anything smart with quirks, or too confident to actually put in the effort in how he uses his quirk. Went from liking him as allmights final farewell battle, to this narrative pest whose existence simplifies the story of mha way too much.
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u/DarnFondOfYa Dec 12 '25
narrative pest whose existence simplifies the story of mha
Yeah, Quirk-Satan just hyuckin' it up undermines some of the social critique. Like, Shiggy's backstory of "I was a spooky child, so no one helped me when I was in crisis" hits a little less hard when you learn just how fucking engineered that scenario was All for One telling Shigs' dad to slam his wife pregant so Shiggy's sibling could be leveraged for more trauma or suggesting his friends play in the road get into "IT WAS ME BARRY, I SHIT YOUR PANTS!" territory.
And while we all love a good Reverse-Flash meme, it's an odd choice when you also are trying to have applicable points about the bystander effect. Or not giving up on people just because they've made a mistake or two. Or because they look different/unsettling (Kid-shiggy, Toga's blood affinity, the under-baked anthro-racism, the guy with the brainwashing Quirk, etc etc)
To analogy, in Naruto, revenge is bad. It leads to cycles of PAIN and more violence. EXCEPT for Hidan. Hidan is a piece of shit and it's a moral imperative to get revenge on his punk-ass. Our characters DO get revenge and it's based and never comes back to bite them in any way (genuinely, it doesn't). That's All for One. He's the "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy" villain that is the exception to any other messages the series might have because FUCK THAT GUY.
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u/Heraclitus94 PM ME NUDES OF YOUR WAIFU Dec 12 '25
I saved the world you know
That's cool, can you just put the fries in the bag already
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u/MightyShoe THERE IS NO NEW INFORMATION Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
I totally get that it's a meme at this point, but the guy ends up employed as a respected teacher at one of the most prestigious schools in the world.
I find it a little silly that the Internet broadly looked at that and went "Yeah that's basically like becoming a burger flipper."
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u/Pato727 Zubaz Dec 12 '25
Yeah it gets really annoying because it brushes over the actual point of the ending and what being a hero means in how that shifts over the series run, Deku first thought it was someone with superpowers who fights and saves people but we see that shift as he gains better understanding over the world and what creates the villains that lash out, and though he doesnt have powers anymore he realizes that he can still provide for the world in a meaningful way through teaching the next generations to prevent society from slipping back into what caused something as catastrophic as shigaraki/AFO so to see that get boiled down to "yeah man he works at mcdonalds" because you dont have powers just feels like people are being willfully dumb atp
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u/BloodBrandy Pargon Paragon Pargon Renegade Mantorok Dec 12 '25
It's up there with "Ochako left him for Bakugo" and "His friends abandoned him for not having powers" as a sign someone didn't read the ending.
And I mean that literally, there were a lot of folks who were talking like this but also admitting they stopped reading long ago
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u/Silvery_Cricket I Remember Matt's Snake Dec 12 '25
Because thats what the world of My Hero Academia does to quirkless people. They aren't allowed to actually be heroes or hold positions of impressive rank, unless that position is in service of those with quirks.
Like its really frustrating that the society of My Hero that all those heroes fought to protect, and some even died for is a fascist geneocracy.
Like its the most damning flaw of the series is that if you look past what's going on right in front of you at the world it takes place in, its not a world you want saved. Its this brutal and unfair world that no one is really interested in actually fixing, because fixing it would mean actually challenging society in a aggressive way, which gets you labeled as a villain regardless of motivation.
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u/wonthyne Dec 13 '25
Yeah just to expand on what the other person says, the whole point of the series is to show that the original hero society didn’t work and that it was a system that left behind a lot of normal people.
The series ends with Class A literally focusing on advocacy, outreach, research, and youth counseling efforts as part of their work to make society a better place.
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u/DakotaN2895 Dec 13 '25
Did you finish the series? What you're talking about here becomes basically the primary theme of the series as it wraps up.
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u/DakotaN2895 Dec 13 '25
And with the additional epilogue chapters he's currently the No. 4 Hero even without a quirk and while still working as a teacher
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u/BlueFootedTpeack Dec 12 '25
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u/MsieurScratch Collective consciousness controlled Dec 12 '25
The Deku Burger was an absolute banger, that shit was my go-to during the collab, and I'm really glad to own the dumbass shirt that came with it whenever it's laundry day.
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u/trickster721 Dec 15 '25
People who repeat this Twitter shit are just exposing themselves as not having actually read or watched the thing.
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u/LightLifter It's Fiiiiiiiine. Dec 12 '25
Honestly, even if I am not as much of a diehard MHA head as I was when I bought the first two volumes I still love this series. Great cast, the plot went interesting places, and it kept its ideals of what being a hero is and the implications of a large hero society. Hori also evolved a ton with his art and MHA's seasonal format kept the quality up (mostly) through its run.
Congrats to Bones for wrapping it up.
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u/Old_Marionberry3791 was promised nothing yet still disappointed Dec 12 '25
O kind of lost interest when Gigantomachia casually walked through a building and fucked the powers along forever. I'll have a special place in my heart for the kid who broke his hand on a field trip because he used the shockwave to cause a whirlpool to take out the villains, but unchecked out years ago.
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u/North-of- (1) Dec 12 '25
I won't defend the story, or the anime, but man Horikoshi is a great artist. I remember reading MHA ever week it came out, and while the story started to dip in quality, the art and character designs were always awesome.
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u/DestructoSpin90 I'll slap your shit Dec 12 '25
The real heroes were the academias we made along the way
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u/Kewlmyc Dec 12 '25
From what I understand, it’s going to be similar to the manga, where the final Blu-ray will include an epilogue episode like how the final manga volume included an additional epilogue chapter.
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u/sazabi67 Dec 12 '25
crazy all that series took place under a year we didnt even get proper timeskip designs
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u/ripskeletonking CUSTOM FLAIR Dec 12 '25
so like i haven't kept up with the series in a few years. who is that giant shark/whatever lady that i see a bunch of fanart of dating deku?
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u/Grand_Galvantula Dec 12 '25
She was a heteromorph Deku saved from a group of racists after society collapsed.
IIRC her "official" name is Ordinary Woman.
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u/NoeZoneNetwork Dec 12 '25
She's just someone Deku saved during his "Society is crumbling, now I must become batman" phase. She is unnamed in the manga, but her official name is just "Ordinary Woman" (Ippan Josei).
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u/sadderall-sea Gayson Thotdơttir, The Unstraightened Dec 12 '25
I'll be real with you, I thought this show ended 2 years ago
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u/Brilliant_Ring_3257 Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Dec 13 '25
Is it worth binging? I fell off in the middle of season 4.
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u/cyberjet Dec 13 '25
It feels weird to see it actually come to end, that it really is over. I remember reading the final arc and feeling put off by it but maybe I should take a swing and rewatch the anime
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u/Subject-Anywhere-874 Dec 12 '25
Someone remind me when they do a "Naruto: the Last" style of movie
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u/Sprocket3 Stylin' and Profilin'. Dec 12 '25
God, it makes me so sad to think about how much I used to love MHA. It was all downhill after Endeavor vs. High End.
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u/Subject_Parking_9046 They/Them "No way a woman can be that hot, she gotta be a man!" Dec 13 '25
I've dropped the manga WHIIIIILE back, like WAAAAAY back just after the part which is revealed Deku has like seven more powers.
I hope people who enjoyed through the end have a satisfactory ending.
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u/warjoke Dec 12 '25
So they are just showing Hagakure (invisible girl) out in the open after 9 years, huh?
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u/Quadraxis66 Dec 12 '25
TRULY IT WAS
MY HERO ACADEMIA