My Hero Academia’s final season trailer has dropped, promising an epic conclusion to Deku’s story when it premieres in October 2025.
The fans are not ready to say goodbye, but the anime series is finally coming to an end. At AnimeJapan 2025 in Tokyo, Toho Co., Ltd. dropped a heartwarming new teaser trailer to celebrate My Hero Academia Season 8, titled My Hero Academia Final Season. The teaser announced the final season premiere in October 2025, and the new key art included a sick side-by-side shot of protagonist Izuku “Deku” Midoriya and Tomura Shigaraki with the title of the final season below them. Crunchyroll will be streaming this epic conclusion worldwide, excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly on the same day as Japan. The battle back and forth between the UHA heroes and the League of Villains is finally coming to an end on-screen.
Naomi Nakayama returns to direct My Hero Academia Final Season after directing the last season in 2024. This exciting conclusion of the anime series is based on the popular manga created by Kohei Horikoshi, which was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and reached its final chapter in August 2024. If you have been reading the manga like me, you will already know the tears and gut-wrenching moments to come. Like many series coming to an end, fans were already divisive about the manga’s ending. So, it will be interesting to see if the anime will change it or add to it. A perfect example of an addition to another anime of this scale was the final episode of Attack on Titan.
The series composition is written by Yosuke Kuroda (Trigun) who was with the series since the very beginning. Bones Film continues to animate Season 8. The studio is best known for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Soul Eater, Space Dandy, Bungo Stray Dogs, Mob Psycho 100, Carole & Tuesday, and more. Additional production staff who have all worked on previous seasons of My Hero Academia include Chief Director Kenji Nagasaki, character design by Yoshihiko Umakoshi (1997’s Berserk) and Hitomi Odashima, and music composed by Yuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!). Some of the staff already expressed how this will be an exciting and bittersweet ending to their animation journey.
For those who have not finished Season 7, some spoilers will be listed below as I tease what fans can expect in My Hero Academia Final Season. Season 7’s final episodes tied up the biggest story arcs for the Todoroki family and Ochaco Uraraka. Endeavor and Shoto threw it down with their family member Dabi/Toya in a climactic end. For Ochaco, she and Himiko Toga had their final fight, which was as endearing as it was sad. The two exchanged final words, expressing their love for Deku and revealing their true feelings towards one another.
The obvious highlight of the finale was All Might pushing himself to his final limits to battle All For One for the last time, thanks to the help of a mechanized suit created by Melissa Shield. Melissa is the daughter of David Shield, who was introduced in the anime film My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. In a sense, this was a tear-jerking conclusion to Toshinori Yagi’s storyline as All Might. The final episode looked back into All Might’s first time meeting Nana Shimura and getting his Quirk for the first time. At the same time, Deku was struggling to stave off the ferocious Shigaraki.
For those wanting a small taste of what is to come in My Hero Academia Final Season, the end will be one worth the wait. These final battles will be resolved in a way that makes sense to everything that they have been building up to for the past seven seasons. One of the aspects I hope they expand on is how everyone’s storylines tie up. It felt like the post-battle stories finished a bit too fast throughout the last five or so chapters in the manga. While it was five weeks of winding the story down, it still left a lot of loose threads and did not address some of the endings for everyone in Class 1-A and UHA.
Still, I am confident the anime will finish this heroic odyssey perfectly. Also, My Hero Academia fans should be excited for the spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, premiering on April 7, 2025. This will be a nice way to build up the hype for My Hero Academia Season 8. The hype was already built up from the film that was released last year, My Hero Academia: You’re Next. Be sure to catch up before this epic conclusion, and stay Plus Ultra!
