The 25th and final episode of the fifth season of the My Hero Academia anime (113 episodes) announced on Saturday that the anime will get a sixth season. The new season will adapt the “Mystic Liberation War” part of Kōhei Horikoshi’s original manga, about an all-out battle between heroes and villains.
The fifth season premiered in Japan on March 27 and includes the manga’s “General Training,” “Internship at Endeavor’s Agency,” and “Villain Academy” rounds. Funimation and Crunchyroll are both streaming the anime with English subtitles. Funimation is streaming the English dub of the season. The season began airing on Adult Swim’s Toonami show on May 8.
The anime’s 13-episode first season premiered in April 2016. The 25-episode second season premiered in April 2017, and the third season premiered in April 2018 and spanned 25 episodes. The fourth season premiered in Japan in October 2019 and aired for 25 episodes. A two-episode original anime video for the franchise streamed in Japan in August 2020, and Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the episodes.
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes opens in Japan in May 2018. The second film, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, opens in May 2019. The third film in theaters is titled My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes premieres on August 6. Funimation will screen the film in North America in October, and will also screen the film through its affiliates in other countries in Europe, Oceania, and the Americas. Latin.
