In anticipation of the upcoming My Hero Academia Final Season, a new visual has been unveiled of the main characters, highlighting their everyday school lives at U.A High School. The eighth and final season is expected to premiere in Japan in October 2025.
Meanwhile, series creator Kohei Horikoshi drew a special illustration for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, which premiered in Japan today on April 7, 2025. Two cours containing a total of 26 episodes are expected to be broadcast, with the first cour running for 13 episodes.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will also premiere its English dub on the same day as the Japanese language version with subtitles. New episodes will released each week on Crunchyroll. Additionally, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, and Italian dubs will also launch on the day when new episodes premiere. The dub languages will be released 15 minutes after new subtitled episodes are launched, starting April 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM PST.
The first season of My Hero Academia premiered in 2016, with the recent seventh season aired in May 2024. Bones has handled the animation production for all seasons so far.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is based on the superhero manga series written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court. It is a spinoff prequel that takes place five years before the main story. It was first serialized in Shueisha’s Jump Giga magazine on August 20, 2016, before transferring to Shonen Jump+ in October 2016. The series ended on May 28, 2022 with 15 total tankobon volumes released.
Horikoshi’s original My Hero Academia manga series was serialized from Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from July 7, 2014 to August 5, 2024. A total of 42 tankobon volumes were released.
The franchise inspired several manga spinoffs, novels, video games, stage plays, art and guidebooks, and four anime films. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime series and films worldwide, outside of Japan.
Viz Media releases the My Hero Academia manga in English for North America, and describes the main synopsis as:
Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…
Source: My Hero Academia Official Twitter, Kohei Horikoshi Official Twitter, press release
