The official Twitter account of My Hero Academia issued a statement on Feb 10, 2024, announcing that the release of the upcoming chapter of the manga has been delayed due to author Kohei Horikoshi’s coming down with a sudden illness.
My Hero Academia chapter 414, which was set to be published in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #11 releasing on Feb 13, 2024, has been rescheduled to be published on Feb 19, 2024.
“Notice: The serialization of ‘My Hero Academia,’ scheduled to be published in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 11 (on sale February 13th), will be suspended due to the sudden illness of the author. The continuation will be published in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 12 (on sale February 19th). Thank you for your understanding,” the tweet read.
No further information regarding the author’s illness has been disclosed as of yet.
My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into 39 tankobon volumes as of November 2023.
As of February 2023, the manga had over 85 million copies in circulation worldwide.
The series has numerous spin-off manga, including My Hero Academia: Smash!!, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions.
The manga received a TV anime adaptation by Studio Bones. Its first season aired in Japan from April to June 2016, followed by a second season from April to September 2017, third season from April to September 2018, fourth season from October 2019 to April 2020, and a fifth season from March to September 2021.
The sixth season of the anime aired from Oct 1, 2022, and a seventh season is set to premiere in May 2024.
It has also received three animated films, titled My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, and My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission respectively. A fourth animated film, titled My Hero Academia: You’re Next, is set to be released in August 2024.
It is also receiving a live-action Hollywood film produced by Netflix and Legendary Pictures, with Shinsuke Sato taking the director’s chair.
Source: Twitter