After shooting, skinning and butchering a deer, he is then shown in winter, tracking a boar, after which the manga ends. At some point during this chapter-or perhaps even before-there appears to have been a significant time-skip, as Hideo is shown to be balding when he removes his cap. In the final pages, Hideo locates a gun shop and begins making ammo for his rifle, after his crops are eaten by a herd of deer. During an earthquake in the penultimate chapter, he even calls out for his imaginary friend Yajima, but he doesn’t appear. He converses with statues and road signs, but is otherwise sane and healthy, transformed from the beginning of the manga where he was afraid of the dark and experienced numerous delusions. Hideo lives out his days alone, ransacking supermarkets for food and eventually cultivating a small farm.

Hideo is then left to fend for himself in a post-apocalyptic world, where he believes he is the only survivor. Thereafter, the hive mind and-presumingly-the Kurusu conglomerate become idle after deciding to spare the final remnants of humanity in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Hideo is engulfed by the monstrous hive mind, but is spared by Hiromi. It’s shown later that they land on the Izu Shichito islands off the coast of Tokyo, which are seemingly unaffected by the zombie apocalypse. The ending has divided readers-understandably so-as it leaves many questions unanswered, but I don’t believe it’s as open as it seems.Īfter the showdown atop the Sunrise building in Tokyo, a group of survivors manage to escape via the helicopter. Kengo Hanazawa’s manga I Am a Hero ended just the other day, after eight years of publication.

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