My Hero Academia Anime's Final Season Premieres on October 4
The official website for the My Hero Academia anime revealed the key visual and October 4 premiere of the series' eighth and final season, on Tuesday. The season will debut on October 4 at 5:30 p.m. JST on YTV and NTV's affiliate channels.The anime's staff also launched the "My Hero Academia ULTIMATE SCENE RANKING" special fan voting project, where fans from Japan and other parts of the world can vote for their favorite heroes and villains scenes from the anime's seven seasons. Voting period is until September 15, and the results will be announced on the final season's premiere on October 4. 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 seventh season (starting with episode 139 of the overall anime) then debuted in 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 franchise, opened in Japan last August. 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 in August 2024. 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 2024. 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.The television anime of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals) spinoff manga premiered on April 7 on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels. Crunchyroll is streaming the series worldwide excluding Asia, and also streams an English dub. The anime will get a second season in 2026.Sources: My Hero Academia anime's website, Comic Natalie
