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.
Toho wasn’t specific as to when in the fall MHA Season 8 will premiere, but for the time being, quirkheads can get their fix from the about-to-premiere Vigilantes spinoff. That show takes place several years prior to the beginning of My Hero Academia, and follows Koichi Haimawari, a young man who dreams of being a hero, if only something wasn’t holding him back. He’s got a power; he can glide quickly across any flat surface, like an ice skater. But in this world you need to attend a school like the one Deku goes to in order to be officially recognized as a hero, and Koichi can’t get in.
Just when all seems lost, he meets Knuckleduster, and that’s when he finds out about Vigilantes — those who are not regulated superheroes yet go around superheroing anyway. Knuckleduster is one such Vigilante who agrees to start teaching Koichi the ways of underground, government-unapproved heroics. Also in training is his friend Kazuho Haneyema, who has pink hair (that’s not a quirk, that’s a general anime thing).
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will begin running April 7, exclusively on Crunchyroll, followed by My Hero Academia Season 8 in the fall.
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