Kohei Horikoshi is a legendary name among mangaka. After all, he created one of the most popular modern shonen of all time — My Hero Academia. MHA follows the story of Izuku Midoriya and shows his rise to becoming the greatest Hero. Sadly, Horikoshi's My Hero Academia story ended in 2024 with the release of its Chapter 430. More recently, its anime ended as well, in December 2025, leaving behind a big gap to fill.
Luckily for many fans of Kohei Horikoshi's work, he made a brief return on August 10, 2026, with a brand new manga series titled “Quit Laughing, Shijima.” Quit Laughing, Shijima was a simple one-shot, but its popularity has been astonishing. So far this week, it ranks as the second-hottest series among all shonen, just behind One Piece and ahead of other big modern ongoing shonen like Dandadan, Spy X Family, and Sakamoto Days. Quit Laughing, Shijima has the potential for a full-fledged serialization and, hopefully, an anime adaptation.
Kohei Horikoshi is quite a popular mangaka, and his magnum opus is My Hero Academia, a shonen series that was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 2014 to 2024. This series especially caught on following its anime adaptation, which came in 2016 by Studio Bones, making it one of the most well-known and iconic anime series globally. Horikoshi’s main manga might have ended, but there was one new project fans were excited to see getting published recently. This new project was a one-shot manga, which, instead of the typical superhero story, told a horror romance.
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