A new teaser released on the TOHO Animation YouTube channel this Saturday, after the final episode of season 7, revealed that the 8th and final season of My Hero Academia is set to broadcast sometime in 2025. The teaser comes out after an official statement confirmed the series’ 8th season, as well as the staff who will be working on its production.
A brand-new key visual was also revealed, depicting series protagonist Izuku “Deku” Midoriya in a battered state with his costume in tatters from engaging in the climactic battle against Tomura Shigaraki. The upcoming 8th season will complete the adaptation of the final arc of Kōhei Horikoshi’s manga, which ended in August after a 10-year serialization. The short teaser can be seen below.
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My Hero Academia Final Season Release Date Confirmed
My Hero Academia’s eighth and final season will release in 2025.
What We Know About My Hero Academia Season 8
Staff and Cast From Season 7 Return
Along with the 2025 broadcast date, the teaser also revealed some of the staff behind the production of the final season of My Hero Academia, including Kenji Nagasaki, who has been a director on the series since season 1 and served as chief director from season 4 onwards; director Naomi Nakayama; with series composition by Yōsuke Kuroda; character designs by Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Hitomi Odashima; music composition by Yuki Hayashi and of course, animation production by Studio Bones.
The cast includes Daiki Yamashita as Deku, Kenta Miyake as All Might, Kōki Uchiyama as Tomura Shigaraki, Akio Otsuka & Hiroshi Kamiya as All For One, Ayane Sakura as Ochaco Uraraka, Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida and Yuki Kaji as Todoroki Shōto. At the time of writing, no exact premiere date has been revealed. The scheduled 2025 broadcast of the final season of My Hero Academia means that the anime will be wrapping up within a year after the end of the manga.
About My Hero Academia
One of the Defining Titles of the Post-Big Three Era
Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from July 2014 to August 2024, running for 41 volumes. It has sold over 100 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga of all time, and is one of the leading titles that have defined the generation of manga, taking the mantle from Shōnen Jump’s legendary Big Three.
The anime, produced by Studio Bones, began airing in April 2016, with a new season of the series being released each year since. The franchise has spawned a number of movies, the most recent of which, titled, My Hero Academia: You’re Next, hit Japanese theatres in August and is currently on an international run. The upcoming 8th and final season of My Hero Academia is set to broadcast in 2025, concluding the climactic battle between the wielders of All For One and One For All.
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- Release Date
- April 3, 2016
- Main Genre
- Anime
- Studio
- Bones
- Story By
- Kōhei Horikoshi