My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON (Season 8) marks the beginning of the series’ endgame and just released the first anime trailer as well as new key art at AnimeJapan 2025 in Tokyo. The new trailer and key art come in celebration of the eighth and final season of the superpower anime, with the key art featuring Deku and Shigaraki.
Season 8 will premiere this October as part of the Fall 2025 anime season, streaming on Crunchyroll worldwide excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly on the same day they air in Japan. You can check out the season’s teaser trailer below:
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Naomi Nakayama is returning as Director after directing Season 7 of My Hero Academia in 2024. The series composition is written by Yosuke Kuroda, who has been with the series since the very beginning. Studio BONES FILM is in charge of the series animation.
Additional production staff, all of whom have worked on previous seasons of My Hero Academia, include Chief Director Kenji Nagasaki, character design by Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Hitomi Odashima, and music composed by Yuki Hayashi.
The My Hero Academia anime adapts the manga of the same name by Kohei Horikoshi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump beginning in July 2014 and reached its final chapter in August 2024. My Hero Academia is set in a world where about 80% of the population has an ability / superpower known as a Quirk.
Heroes protect people and society from accidents, disasters, and villains —criminals who use their Quirks for evil. The story follows protagonist Izuku Midoriya, a boy with no Quirk who dreams of becoming a hero and eventually receives a power to call his own from the world’s greatest hero, All Might. Izuku enrolls in a prestigious high school for superheroes in training to develop his abilities and become a hero worthy of All Might’s legacy.
Before we get to the finale of My Hero Academia, we’ll get the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes spin-off from April.
Source: Press Release, AnimeJapan 2025
© K. Horikoshi / Shueisha, My Hero Academia Project
