My Hero Academia - Anime Rendition (Pre-Air Discussions)

[Yojimbo]

Well, at least we know next season will be the last. Curious to see how many episodes it will take to adapt the rest of the manga.

10/12/24: Here's my theory but I think you might seen it already:
The season finale adapted up to Chapter 398 of the manga. So that leaves 26 chapters for season 8 to adapt. Season 7 was 21 episodes that adapted from chapter 329 to 398, or 69 chapters. So in theory, season 8 will only be 8-9 episodes, max 10.

10/28: Non-anime but could impact the last season, the final volume will have a new, expanded ending. 50-60 new pages. Hey, maybe we'll finally meet Izuku's dad! Not!

12/21: Season 8 set for Fall 2025.

Vigilantes is being adapted into an anime series and it premieres April 2025! edit: started a thread for it.

3/4/25: Kohei Horikoshi made new artwork for the art exhibition starting this summer.

3/11: Season 8 reportedly premieres in October.

3/22: Season 8 teaser posted.


AnimeJapan panel streamed.

 

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"My Hero Academia’s Final Season Begins This October"​

"For the time being, Deku and friends are on hiatus, taking a well-deserved break while a separate group of adventurers — the Vigilantes — are starring in their own prequel spinoff. But eventually, the more familiar cast will return for their eighth and final season when My Hero Academia wraps everything up this fall. Toho Amination confirmed the return date over the weekend during AnimeJapan in Tokyo.

The season was announced with a short trailer, narrated from the dual perspectives of Hero Deku and Villain Tomura Shigaraki. The trailer offers no new footage (unless I missed something), using stock clips of Deku and Shigaraki from the existing seasons.

The eighth season will be directed by Naomi Nakayama, who also directed My Hero Academia Season 7 last year. Yosuke Kuroda (Trigun) is once again writing the episode scripts, just as he has done since the very beginning. Studio BONES is providing the animation."

Read the full article here.

 

[Yojimbo]

4/8: If you finished the manga, a new book's cover features a look at Deku in his suit of armor.

4/10: Vigilantes is getting another manga chapter in Shonen Jump Plus on April 15th in Japan as well as a new one-shot that will focus on the older brother of Shoto Todoroki, Natsuya, from the main series.

4/21: New season 8 visual of Armored All Might.

5/1: A summary of a new epilogue manga included in the "Ultra Age: The Final Fan Book" data book that reveals Deku's Pro Hero rank.

5/3: Ultra Age also revealed the name of All Might's mother to be Toshie Yagi.

5/5: More bits from Ultra Age:

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-The growth of Aishido's horns matches the growth of her quirk and Aoyama was allowed to re-enroll into UA.
-All For One's name is Zen Shigaraki.
-All Might became UA's Vice Principal.
-Bakugo is #5 in the hero ranks.

5/10: More bits from Ultra Age:

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-Shigaraki's original Quirk was similar to Nana's.
-The new #1 Pro Hero is an American named Agate Minou and she was inspired by Star and Stripe's sacrifice and wants to break barriers to inspire people, too. Her quick is called "Fault Line"

5/11: Another from Ultra Age regarding Eri:

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Mandalay and the other Pussycats took in Eri and raised her alongside Kota.

6/1: Panel at Anime Expo on July 5.

6/16: Hero rankings from Ultra Age.

Final Season Part 2 teaser posted.


7/5: Summary of Anime Expo panel.

Horikoshi revealed that with the manga over, he's been able to contribute to the final season and suggested some new scenes to be added.

7/15: Season 8 premieres on October 4.

8/16: Main season 8 trailer and poster posted.

edit: welp, the video was set to private. Guess someone jumped the gun.

8/17: Trailer is back up. The theme song “THE REVO” by PORNOGRAFFITI. They did the season 1 opening theme song.


9/10: Season 8 promo posted.

 

[Frontier]

9/10: Season 8 promo posted.

Looks like they're going all out with the animation this season !

 

[Yojimbo]

9/16: First 2 episodes of the final season will be screened at New York Comic Con on October 11 at 2:45 pm in Room 406.1.

9/20: Final season confirmed for Hulu, too.

9/27: Bump of Chicken is performing the end theme.


10/13: MHA Final Season English dub starts October 18.

 

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"The “My Hero Academia” Final Season English Dub Premieres this Saturday on Crunchyroll"​

"Subtitled episodes of My Hero Academia‘s final season premiered on October 4 and fans of the English audio track have been wondering when the dub will be released. Now we have confirmation that this Saturday (October 18) is the day that the dub premieres. That means we have a fairly short turnaround of only two weeks after the subtitled premiere. Spy X Family also premiered its first subtitled episode on October 4, so it is a little surprising that the dub for that series was not announced simultaneously. Will the dub for that series be announced soon or will it be an additional week or more behind the subtitled release? We’ll keep you posted.

In the meantime, here's the trailer for the English Dub"

Read the full article here.

 

[Yojimbo]

11/10: Final season confirmed to have 11 episodes total.

11/24: Reportedly there will be a '12th episode' in the form of a OVA.