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hamliet · 3 years

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I saw a post going around showing Horikoshi’s comment on BNHA saying “he thinks he will conclude soon”. I know “soon” is very vague and can mean any kind of time frame, but based on all that’s left in the story, how many chapters, or years even, do you think we have left of the story before it is finished? A year feels like such a long time but that’s only 50 chapters soooo I wonder what he meant by “soon” 👀

Hi! Yes, Horikoshi made that comment a week or two ago.

It actually didn’t take me by surprise, I’ll say. I truly don’t think we have that much story left. I’ve said before that this arc felt like the end of The Last Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back, wherein the heroes take a decisive blow (or, well, kind of). The second act of a three-part story.

After this arc, I can’t see filler training or festival arcs working in the narrative anymore (plus, again, they kinda didn’t work that well to begin with, imo). Enji has a major choice to make, hero society isn’t exactly doing swell, and Shigaraki is like a loose walking nuke. The stakes are too high for a return to the middling middle.

I know the wikia divides it into unofficial sagas, the first of which ends at Kamino and the second of which ends probably with this climactic arc. The first is slightly under 100 chapters, this middle section is around 200 chapters and seriously bloated, and if Horikoshi returns to the pacing of the beginning I’m pretty sure he can end it in around 100 chapters, so about two years. For a point of comparison, Isayama’s been saying SnK’s ending soon for like three years now, even giving a 2020 endgame and well, now we’ve got 3-4 more chapters officially. Horikoshi’s original plan was 19 volumes, then 30, and now my guess would be around 40.

If it ends too soon, obviously we’d get a sequel, but I also don’t think one is necessary. The only time I know of sequels in manga/anime are like... Tokyo Ghoul:re and Boruto (the latter of which isn't even the same mangaka i think?) I’m sure there are others but I really don’t think there’s much precedent for a sequel or a series of mangas (that seems to be more a western thing). Plus, both of those stories (Tokyo Ghoul and Naruto) completed the majority of their story and character arcs before progressing to a sequel, whereas we’re nowhere near a cathartic point for BNHA to end. I’m not like, uber opposed to a sequel, but this is just my prediction as it stands now.

Of course, who knows. This could be a Tokyo Ghoul situation where I clowned myself epically, but I don’t think this is the case right now. We are close to the end. Deku has just seen what he needs to do: save Shigaraki, Ochaco Himiko, Shouto Touya, Bakugou saved Deku, Aizawa will need to try to get through to Shirukumo/Kurogiri again, AFO is making his move to possess Shigaraki, Mirio’s got his quirk back (yeah that was super rushed and poorly done imo). Probably not every character who could be fleshed out will be. That’s a flaw worth critiquing, but not a series-ruining one for me (it could be for others).

I’ve also never thought Deku’s statement “this is how I became the top hero!” actually means that he grew up graduated became an adult and became the top hero. I wouldn’t be surprised to have him become a top hero after saving Shigaraki. I mean, who else is at the top right now who hasn’t been destroyed by this arc? Best Jeanist? (#yikes) I also have always been doubtful that the story would cover all three years of UA, so I won’t be shocked if it doesn’t. Or maybe there will be a timeskip, but again, I don’t know that the stakes encourage that.

As for the story itself, my major issue with the “soon” is that I would love to see society actually dismantled and fixed, but I’ve also been skeptical it would go that way, so my guess is we’ll settle for improvement that may or may not be actually satisfying for all the villains’ complaints. I am personally not gonna get too upset about that, even if I will critique it. My investment is in saving the villain trio.

I am still wondering about the Anon who feared a Naruto ending because I do not know what they meant by that and I am literally dying of curiosity. Anon, if you’re out there, TELLL MEEEEEE (is it a timeskip with marriage and kids?)

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