The Dangers In My Heart Ends With Volume 14 And A Relieved Sakurai
Akita Shoten released the 14th and final volume of Norio Sakurai's The Dangers in My Heart on Nov. 6, 2026.
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Why it matters
Sakurai's account puts the ending's shape on a decision made at the series' midpoint, not a late pivot, and ties the graduation finale to a run she describes as physically exhausting.
Key Facts
- Akita Shoten released the 14th and final volume of The Dangers in My Heart on Nov. 6, 2026.
- Norio Sakurai said the ending did not deviate from her original outline.
- Sakurai decided to end the story at Kyotaro and Anna's middle school graduation around the series' midpoint.
- The Dangers in My Heart has surpassed seven million copies in circulation with Volume 14.
- Akita Shoten put up a classroom graduation display at Shibuya Station through Nov. 8, 2026.
In a commemorative Animate Times interview with editor Yuko Fukuda, Sakurai said the ending followed her original outline and that she is relieved she could end it properly. She decided on the middle school graduation finale around the series' midpoint.
Sakurai told Animate Times that preparations for the series began in early 2018 while she was still drawing the gag manga Rororro!, which ran in Weekly Shonen Champion from 2016 to 2020. The overlap made the continuous stretch of work feel longer than eight and a half years, she said.
She also described the shift from pure gag comedies like Kodomo Gakkyuu and Mitsudomoe, saying she had never written emotional dialogue before and kept adjusting grammar and word order on Kyotaro's inner monologues through the final chapter. Volume 14 takes the series past seven million copies in circulation.
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