At AnimeJapan 2025 in Tokyo, Toho Co., Ltd. unveiled a new teaser trailer and key art to celebrate the eighth season of the anime sensation My Hero Academia. Premiering this October, My Hero Academia Final Season will stream on Crunchyroll worldwide, excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly, same-day as Japan.
Directed by Naomi Nakayama, who returns after directing My Hero Academia Season 7 in 2024, My Hero Academia Final Season will be the exciting conclusion of the anime series based on the popular manga created by Kohei Horikoshi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and reached its final chapter in August 2024.
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Yosuke Kuroda (Trigun), who has been with the series since its very beginning, wrote the series composition. The iconic animation studio, Studio Bones, will produce the animation. Studio Bones is best known for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Soul Eater, Space Dandy, Bungo Stray Dogs, Mob Psycho 100, Carole & Tuesday, and more.
Additional production staff who have all worked on previous seasons of My Hero Academia include Chief Director Kenji Nagasaki, character design by Yoshihiko Umakoshi (1997’s Berserk) and Hitomi Odashima, and music composed by Yuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!).
More about My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia is a Japanese anime series based on the popular comics by Kohei Horikoshi. It is set in a world where about 80% of the population has a superpowered Quirk. Heroes protect people and society from accidents, disasters, and villains—criminals who use their Quirks for evil. The story of Izuku Midoriya and his classmates at U.A. High School and their growth, fights, and friendship unfolds as they aim to become heroes. The anime series will release its eighth and final season in Fall 2025.
My Hero Academia has been going on for a while, with the series featuring some high highs and some low lows. Our critic mentioned Season 7 feeling more like a part one, with the hope that the final season might bring the story to a more fitting end: “My Hero Academia Season 7 delivers some great emotional beats and huge epic battles despite mismanaging some important elements of its narrative. It isn’t the flawless execution fans hoped for, but maybe the next season will be able to right the ship.”
We have until October to see whether My Hero Academia Final Season rights the ship. As it stands, the hype is real as we wait for the Fall anime season to roll around.
