The long-running My Hero Academia TV anime series finished its broadcast run this past weekend and received two visuals to commemorate its conclusion. The eighth and final season premiered in Japan on October 4, 2025 and ended on December 13, 2025.
A visual of all the members of U.A. High School’s Class 1-A was released to mark the anime’s final episode broadcast. An English version of the visual was also posted on the show’s official English Twitter/X.
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Our hero academia.
Watch the final episode tomorrow on @Crunchyroll. pic.twitter.com/yuulouROKK
— My Hero Academia (@MHAOfficial) December 12, 2025
Another visual of Izuku Midoriya and his friends in the future as Pro Heroes was also posted on the anime’s Japanese Twitter/X on December 13, 2025.
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The staff for the eighth season consisted of 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 in charge of the animation production, with Bones in charge of the production supervision.
The first TV anime season debuted in 2016, while the seventh season was released 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 also being developed.
The original manga series by Kohei Horikoshi 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 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 Official Japanese Twitter (2), Crunchyroll News
