Fans of The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu) are celebrating the manga’s conclusion in a particularly heartwarming way: a special advertisement featuring congratulatory messages from readers has gone on display at Shibuya Station in Tokyo, celebrating the graduation of characters Kyotaro Ichikawa and Anna Yamada.
Titled “Everyone’s Congratulatory Telegram Advertisement”, the campaign brings together messages submitted by fans through the official Dangers in My Heart X account in September. The advertisement went on display on November 2 and will remain at the underground second-floor area near the Hachiko ticket gates of Shibuya Station’s Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line until November 8, 2026, according to OtakuMantra’s report.
Messages like cherry blossom petals
Designed to resemble cherry blossom petals, the individual messages surround an illustration of Kyotaro Ichikawa and Anna Yamada standing together as they celebrate their graduation. It is a fitting design for a series about adolescence: hundreds of small, personal notes forming a single image of two characters growing up.
The graduation of Ichikawa and Yamada marks an important moment for readers who have followed their relationship throughout Norio Sakurai’s manga. For fans, seeing their own words on a station wall — in one of the busiest stations in the world, beside the famous Hachiko gates — turns private reading into public celebration.
A finale that keeps giving
The celebrations will continue on November 6, the release date of the manga’s final 14th volume, when a special promotional video commemorating the manga’s completion and the characters’ graduation premieres on YouTube at 12:00 PM JST. The special edition of the final volume will include an additional artbook titled The 12th Middle School Graduation Album.
Manga finales are often bittersweet for fans. This one has been staged as a graduation in the fullest sense: messages from readers, a public display, a commemorative video and a graduation album. Ichikawa and Yamada are fictional, but the affection at Shibuya Station is real — and for a week in November, commuters can walk past it on their way to work.
