My Hero Academia Anime's Final Season Unveils Trailer, Visual, Crunchyroll Stream, October Premiere
TOHO animation unveiled during AnimeJapan 2025 on Saturday a new trailer and key visual for the eighth and final season of the My Hero Academia anime. The company also confirmed that Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide excluding Asia as it airs in Japan, starting in October. The new visual adds Tomura Shigaraki to the previous visual that only featured protagonist Deku.The staff members are returning for the season, including chief director Kenji Nagasaki, director Naomi Nakayama, script supervisor Yōsuke Kuroda, character designers Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Hitomi Odashima, composer Yuki Hayashi, and studio BONES.The anime's seventh season was announced after the sixth season ended in March 2023. A four-episode My Hero Academia Memories compilation special with some new scenes premiered in April 2024. The new seventh season (starting with episode 139 of the overall anime) then debuted ini May 2024. The anime again aired on YTV and NTV on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.My Hero Academia: You're Next, the fourth anime film in the My Hero Academia franchise, opened in Japan on August 2. The film screened in IMAX, MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Cinema. TOHO International opened the film in U.S. theaters on October 11. The Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases of the film shipped in Japan on February 19 and include a bonus anime short titled "A Piece of Cake."Kōhei Horikoshi launched the manga series in Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2014, and ended it on August 5. Viz Media publishes the manga in English digitally and in print in North America. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service also published the manga in English digitally. The manga crossed 100 million copies in circulation worldwide in April. The manga's 42nd and final compiled book volume shipped on December 4 and includes 38 pages of new content that take place after the original ending.Update: Crunchyroll's English-subtitled trailer added.Source: Email correspondence
