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Original manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi to serve as general supervisor, original character designer
An event for the sixth season of the My Hero Academia anime revealed on Sunday that the My Hero Academia anime is getting a fourth film.
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Original manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi will serve as the general supervisor and original character designer. The film will have an original story that will take place around the same time as where the TV anime is currently, with the collapse of safe society.
The TV anime’s sixth season premiered in October 2022. The season aired for two continuous cours (quarter of a year) for a total of 25 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and also streamed an English dub. Toonami is airing the anime.
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The anime will get a seventh season.
The anime’s first 13-episode season premiered in April 2016. The 25-episode second season premiered in April 2017, and the third season premiered in April 2018 and ran for 25 episodes. The fourth season premiered in Japan in October 2019, and aired for 25 episodes. A two-episode original video anime for the franchise streamed in Japan in August 2020, and Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the episodes. The show’s fifth season premiered in Japan in March 2021, and aired for 25 episodes. A new two-episode original video anime screened in Japan in June 2022. Crunchyroll is streaming the episodes.
The anime franchise has previously had three films. The My Hero Academia: Two Heroes film opened in Japan in July 2018. The second film, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, opened in Japan in December 2019. My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes’ Mission opened in Japan in August 2021. The film opened in the United States in October 2021, and eventually earned more than US$10 million.
Source: My Hero Academia anime’s website and Twitter account
