The Dangers in My Heart Manga Ends in 3 Chapters
The end of the manga comes as the franchise expands with a third anime season in 2027 and a spinoff manga launched in July 2025, making the conclusion a milestone for a series that has grown across multiple media.
Key Facts
- The Dangers in My Heart manga will end in three chapters, as announced in chapter 196.
- The manga was previously announced to conclude with its 14th compiled volume.
- Norio Sakurai launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Champion in March 2018.
- Seven Seas Entertainment released the manga's 12th volume on February 24.
- The anime's third season is scheduled for 2027.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Norio Sakurai's romantic comedy manga The Dangers in My Heart will conclude in three chapters, as announced in the series' 196th chapter on Tuesday. The manga, which began serialization in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion magazine in March 2018, moved to the Champion Cross website in April 2018, and later to the Manga Cross site after a merger in July 2018. The series was previously confirmed to end with its 14th compiled volume. Akita Shoten published the 13th volume on January 8, and Seven Seas Entertainment, which licenses the manga in English, released the 12th volume on February 24. The manga has inspired two television anime seasons, a compilation film, and a third season is scheduled for 2027. The story follows Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy who secretly fantasizes about being a psychological thriller protagonist, and his relationship with class idol Anna Yamada. The manga's light novel adaptation, written by Kota Nozomi and illustrated by Sakurai and sune, shipped in September 2024.
- The 196th chapter ran in Champion Cross, the site that formed in July 2018 when Akita Shoten merged Champion Cross with Champion Tap!, and the manga stayed there through an April 2024 relaunch that renamed the site back to Champion Cross.
- Studio Shin-Ei Animation produced both television seasons and the compilation film, and previously announced the third season.
- The anime's first season premiered on TV Asahi and its affiliates in the "NUMAnimation" programming block in April 2023, with HIDIVE streaming it as it aired in Japan and Netflix carrying it in many countries outside the U.S. and Canada.
- The second season premiered in Japan in January 2024, and HIDIVE streamed it with an English dub.
- The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie opened in Japan on February 13 and sold more than 170,000 tickets worldwide, including screenings in the United States, Latin America, France, Germany, Italy, and parts of Asia. HIDIVE screened it in the U.S. on February 16 in Japanese with English subtitles and on February 18 with an English dub.
- The manga's Twi-Yaba spinoff also has an anime that premiered in December 2023.
- Haika Nanasaka launched a separate spinoff, Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu Love Comedy ga Hajimaranai (The Dangers in My Heart: A Romantic Comedy Will Not Start), on the Champion Cross website in July 2025.
- Seven Seas Entertainment describes the series as following Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy "barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder" who secretly believes he is the tortured lead in a psychological thriller, and Anna Yamada, the class idol.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network News The Dangers in My Heart Manga Ends in 3 Chapters
- Anime Corner The Dangers in My Heart Manga Ends in Three Chapters