The official website for the My Hero Academia anime revealed on Saturday that the band BUMP OF CHICKEN will perform the ending theme song for the anime's eighth and final season. The band wrote the the new song, titled "I," for the anime. The anime also revealed two more videos, which preview the opening and ending themes.
The season will debut on October 4 at 5:30 p.m. JST (4:30 a.m. EDT) on YTV and NTV's affiliate channels. Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide excluding Asia as it airs in Japan.
Porno Graffitti performs the opening theme song "THE REVO."
The staff members are returning for the season, including chief director Kenji Nagasaki, director Naomi Nakayama, script supervisor Yōsuke Kuroda, character designers Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Hitomi Odashima, composer Yūki Hayashi, and studio BONES.
The anime's seventh season was announced after the sixth season ended in March 2023. A four-episode My Hero Academia Memories compilation special with some new scenes premiered in April 2024. The seventh season (starting with episode 139 of the overall anime) then debuted in May 2024. The anime again aired on YTV and NTV on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
My Hero Academia: You're Next, the fourth anime film in the franchise, opened in Japan in August 2024. The film screened in IMAX, MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Cinema. TOHO International opened the film in U.S. theaters in October 2024. The Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases of the film shipped in Japan on February 19 and include a bonus anime short titled "A Piece of Cake."
Kōhei Horikoshi launched the manga series in Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2014, and ended it in August 2024. Viz Media publishes the manga in English digitally and in print in North America. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service also published the manga in English digitally. The manga crossed 100 million copies in circulation worldwide in April 2024. The manga's 42nd and final compiled book volume shipped on December 4 and includes 38 pages of new content that take place after the original ending.
The television anime of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals) spinoff manga premiered on April 7 on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels. Crunchyroll streamed the series worldwide excluding Asia, and also streamed an English dub. The anime will get a second season that will debut in January 2026.
Sources: My Hero Academia anime's website, Comic Natalie