My Hero Academia’s Final Season is set to air in the fall of 2025! Furthermore, the official spin-off series My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will be getting an anime adaptation airing in April of 2025!
My Hero Academia is a hero action manga by Kohei Horikoshi that ended in August of this year after a 10 year serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump. It’s set in a world where superhuman abilities known as “quirks” are commonplace and follows our protagonist Izuku Midoriya (also known as Deku) who learns and grows with his friends at U.A. High School, a prestigious school for training heroes as he aims to be a hero, someone who protects society against villains who use their quirks for wrongdoing. The comic has surpassed over 100 million copies in circulation worldwide.
The final chapter of the anime will pick up from the 40th volume of the manga as we head towards the conclusion of the fight between Deku and his greatest enemy Tomura Shigaraki as well as the fight between the “Symbol of Peace” All Might in his armored suit against the “Demon King” All for One.
When the manga ended in Weekly Shōnen Jump this August, the world was in a frenzy. How on earth would the story up to that point be animated? Even if you’re not a fan it will surely be a season you can’t miss.
Before that airs, the official spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will be getting an anime adaptation from April 2025. Vigilantes is connected to the official timeline of My Hero Academia and is written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court. It was serialized in the Shōnen Jump+ manga app from 2017 to 2022 with 15 volumes on sale.
It is set in Japan a few years before the events of the main story where, behind the scenes of the heroes who are accepted by the public, the drama unfolds for the illegal heroes known as vigilantes who are not accepted by anyone but who can’t help but save others.
Together with the announcement of the show, a super teaser visual was released showing the protagonist atop a building gazing out at the dazzling neon of the city at night, foreshadowing the beginning of the story. In the super teaser PV, the vigilantes who are the main characters of the story as well as the familiar heroes from My Hero Academia make an appearance, accompanied by narration from Daiki Yamashita, the voice of My Hero Academia’s protagonist Deku.
Both the visual and the PV raise expectations for the exploits of the vigilantes who stay concealed in the shadows protecting people in secret, a stark contrast to the image of the heroes of My Hero Academia.
©Kohei Horikoshi/Shueisha, My Hero Academia Production Committee
©Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten Court, Kohei Horikoshi/Shueisha, Vigilantes Production Committe
Adapted with permission from Anime!Anime!
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