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School’s over, guys. After a long-running series about how Izuku Midoriya became the number one hero,My Hero Academiahas ended. It was quite a journey to get there, and the manga ended in a somewhat bittersweet yet positive fashion. It’s also implied through interviews that the series is far from over, so we can expect more in the future. Hopefully, we’ll get a big game in the future.
All that said, we’ll dive into the ending of the series, talk about your favorite heroes and villains, as well as how their lives have been since the end,as the manga does have an eight-year time jumpwhere it shows class 1A and others as adults now.
Probably goes without saying, but spoilers ahead.
Izuku Midoriya
Let’s begin with our main protagonist right away. After the whole confrontation with the League of Villains and defeating Shigaraki,Midoriya didn’t keep his quirks,becoming a powerless individual once again.
The manga skips forward eight years, showing thatMidoriya is now a teacher at UA. He reminisces on his time as a hero, and the huge impact those events had on society, as people don’t treat heroes as celebrities as much and better understand that they’re just people trying to help.
Since crime also decreased,heroes began helping more with things that aren’t necessarily crime-fighting, making them look a lot like firefighters.
They used to do those things already, but it became more prominent. Theoverall number of heroes also decreaseddue to fewer villains roaming around.
Midoriya misses the time he had as a hero.Luckily for him,All Might visits him with a briefcase containing a suit filled with quirks dataobtained during All Might’s fight against All For One, where he also used a suit to fight since he was already quirkless at the time.
Developed by Melissa Shield and Mei Hatsume and funded by all his classmates (especially Bakugo),this suit allows him to continue being a hero and help his friends out.
Dai
Do you remember Dai? Well, if you’re here to know the ending, then you probably don’t.Dai is a kid introduced after the eight-year time skip(though he appears at the end of season five) whowants to be a hero but thinks his quirk is too weak for hero work.
He can pull plates off his hair, which is a bit similar to Mineta’s quirk.
The relevant part here is how this affects Midoriya. When the two characters meet,Dai opens up to Midoriya and asks if he can ever become a hero like him.This draws a beautiful parallel to the beginning of the story, where Midoriya asks All Might the same thing, going full circle in his arc.
Midoriya first overthinks about how exactly the quirk can be used, buthe ultimately confirms that Dai can be a hero.Thus, we have Midoriya becoming a great hero once again, a teacher, and because of that, a mentor figure for many.
Ochaco Uraraka
Uraraka goes under an interesting character arc, asshe enters the hero profession simply because of moneyso she can sustain her parents in the long run, but she consolidates as a hero, becoming one as it is the right thing to do.
Uravity has her team with other heroes from her class, but she alsocreated an expansion project for quirk counseling, helping young children whose quirks are innately dangerous and teaching them how to deal with them.Her project went extremely well, and it became a big part of society.
Lastly, it’s worth mentioning the romance story arc between her and Midoriya. The manga doesn’t conclude their story together but also doesn’t deny it,leaving in the open whether they’re a couple or just heroes who work together now.
There are many scenes in the final chapters that imply romance, but they’re too subtle to give full confirmation.
All Might
Time hasn’t been super kind to All Might, but let’s face it: after everything that happened, from losing the embers ofOne for Allto fighting without quirks, the fact that he’s even alive to begin with is a huge positive.
After the final confrontation,All Might spent his time mostly taking care of Gran Torinosince he’s very old now.
We can also see Recovery Girl with them. Since it’s a single scene with no context, it’s safe to assumeRecovery Girl is also taking care of Gran Torino thanks to her powers, but we can’t say whether she’s constantly there with him or just helping on occasion.
Shoto Todoroki, Katsuki Bakugo, And Mirio Togata
Of all the characters who are active heroes — which is pretty much everybody —only a few get their hero ranking position mentioned, though we don’t get specific numbers.
Bakugo, thanks to his explosive personality, keeps getting lower ranks,and there’s a good chance he’ll keep falling, as Aizawa mentions a scandal where he yelled at a reporter for filming him.
Shoto is becoming one of the more popular heroesdue to his good nature, saying thathe’s rising among the ranks rapidly and might threaten Mirio’s position,as well as becoming famous as himself rather than being known as Endeavor’s son.
This implies that Mirio is the current number-one hero after the eight-year skip.
We can also see Shoto’s family together,trying to move on after all the tragic events involving Endeavor’s behavior and Dabi.Endeavor is also recovering after all the fighting that happened.
Everyone Else
Lastly, here are some quick mentions of characters who only briefly appear or are only mentioned during the final chapter.
