After 10 years and more than 400 instalments, Kōhei Horikoshi's world-conquering My Hero Academia has finally come to a close. Chapter 430 of the hit manga was published in the most recent issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump and on the VIZ website yesterday, offering a tantalizing glimpse at the future of Deku and his classmates. To mark the occasion, One Piece creator – and Horikoshi's friend – Eiichiro Oda paid tribute to the series with a drawing that highlights the bond between the two artists.
The cover of One Piece Chapter 1,122 (below) depicts the villainous Smoker blazing away on two cigars, with the words "Hero Academia" visible in the background. It's accompanied with the caption: "Cover request: Redraw the artwork of Smoker a boy from Aichi Prefecture submitted 22 years ago." The boy in question was actually the then-teenaged Horikoshi, who sent some fan art of Smoker to Oda all those years back before he was himself a professional artist.
