The official Twitter/X account of the My Hero Academia TV anime series announced this week that Hiiro Ishibashi is joining the show’s voice cast. The eighth and final season began airing in Japan on October 4, 2025.
◤ 新キャラ/キャストが来た! ◢#ヒロアカ FINAL SEASON
第10話(No.169)
「笑顔が好きな女の子」に登場。
謎の少年 < 照元光輝 >
果たして彼は…!?
キャストは #石橋陽彩 さん!@HIIRO_ISHIBASHI
12/13(土)放送の最終回
「僕のヒーローアカデミア」
お楽しみにーー。#heroaca_a #MyHeroAcademia pic.twitter.com/hpdEoToJhH
— 僕のヒーローアカデミア／ヒロアカ アニメ公式 (@heroaca_anime) December 7, 2025
Ishibashi will voice Koki Terumoto — a young boy who was briefly seen towards the end of the eighth season’s 10th episode (169th episode overall) on December 6, 2025. The 11th episode is scheduled to premiere on December 13, 2025.
Meanwhile, the staff for the eighth season includes Kenji Nagasaki as chief director, Naomi Nakayama as director, Yosuke Kuroda as series composer, Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Hitomi Odashima as character designers, and Yuki Hayashi as music composer. Bones Film is handling the animation production, with Bones in charge of the production supervision.
The first TV anime season premiered in 2016, while the seventh season aired in May 2024. The series has also inspired four anime films, including 2024’s My Hero Academia The Movie: You’re Next. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime series and films in select countries and territories worldwide.
The franchise also spawned several manga spinoffs, novels, video games, stage plays, artbooks, and guidebooks. An upcoming Hollywood live-action film is in development.
The anime is based on the manga series by Kohei Horikoshi, which was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from July 7, 2014 to August 5, 2024. Forty-two total tankobon volumes were published. A spinoff titled My Hero Academia: Vigilantes was published from 2016 to 2022 and received its own TV anime adaptation, which will have its second season debut on January 5, 2026.
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VIZ Media licensed the My Hero Academia manga series for English release, describing the main premise as:
Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny.
Sources: My Hero Academia Japanese Twitter, Anime News Network
