The Dangers in My Heart manga ends after eight years
Norio Sakurai's BokuYaba closed on 15 September with its final chapter on Champion Cross and more than seven million copies in print — with a third anime season still due in 2027.
The Dangers in My Heart, the reliably lovely school romance better known to its fans as BokuYaba, ended on 15 September. Norio Sakurai's final chapter went live on Akita Shoten's Champion Cross, closing a serialisation that began in 2018.
The series follows Kyotaro Ichikawa, a withdrawn middle-schooler with an unpleasantly theatrical inner monologue, and Anna Yamada, the popular classmate he cannot quite admit he has fallen for. It started in Weekly Shonen Champion before moving to Champion Cross, and finished with more than seven million copies in circulation.
The last collected volume, volume 14, arrives on 6 November. A special edition will bundle the 12th Junior High School Graduation Album Art Book, roughly 200 pages of illustrations, which is exactly the sort of extra that makes the physical release worth pre-ordering.
Sakurai signs off
Sakurai marked the ending with a handwritten message to readers. "I'm truly relieved from the bottom of my heart that I was able to bring more than eight years of serialization to a healthy and successful end...!" he wrote, adding that the series "was a work blessed with so many wonderful connections". That is a rare note of contentment from a creator who actually got to choose the finish line.
The anime still has somewhere to go
The adaptation has been a quiet phenomenon. The first season ran for 12 episodes in spring 2023; the second ran for 13 in winter 2024, swept our weekly rankings and took anime of the year honours. A third season is scheduled for 2027.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and HIDIVE streams the anime, so western readers have a legal route to both — worth saying out loud in a fandom that often does not.
Our opinion
Romance manga endings are usually where goodwill goes to die, so a creator closing the book on his own terms after eight years, at seven million copies, deserves to be celebrated. It also leaves the anime in an enviable position: the last season has a finished story to adapt rather than an ongoing one to guess at, which is precisely how BokuYaba avoided the filler and the drift that ruin most long-running adaptations. If you have been putting off season two because you suspected it would fall apart, the manga just told you it will not.