Fans now have a better idea of when they can expect My Hero Academia's sixth season.
According to Weekly Shonen Jump News - Unofficial, the next season of MHA will make its debut sometime during Fall 2022, premiering about a year after the conclusion of the show's fifth season, which aired its final episode last September. The popular shonen show confirmed a sixth season was in production immediately following the conclusion of the previous season, with a short teaser trailer and a poster image that hyped up Izuku "Deku" Midoriya's long-awaited face off with a newly powered up Tomura Shigaraki.
My Hero Academia Season 6 begins broadcasting in Fall 2022
— Shonen Jump News - Unofficial (@WSJ_manga) December 16, 2021
The next season of the anime will adapt the eventful Paranormal Liberation War arc, which sees the world's pro-heroes and the students of UA High School engaging in an all-out war with the Meta-Liberation Army, a group of the world's most powerful supervillains. Much of Season 5 focuses on the build-up of the conflict, with both Deku and Shigaraki honing and enhancing their powers, so anticipation for the long-awaited clash between the successors to One for All and All for One is high.
Kohei Horikoshi's original My Hero Academia manga, meanwhile, has moved beyond the Paranormal Liberation War arc is rapidly setting up the series' long-teased climax. After several twists, the manga recently revealed the identity of the traitor with UA High School, and featured a jaw-dropping battle between the series' central antagonist, All for One, and the United State's top pro-hero, Star and Stripe. While an final end date has yet to be announced, publisher Shueisha announced earlier this year that the manga had already entered its "final act."
The My Hero Academia manga may be ending soon, but the series remains as popular as ever -- the franchise's third and latest movie, World Heroes' Mission, shattered series records when it was released in Japan earlier this year, easily outperforming MHA's previous two movies despite being released during a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The movie appears to have done well during its international theatrical release as well, as it became only the 11th anime movie in history to earn more than $10 million USD at the American box office.
The series will get its own presentation at this year's Jump Festa, which kicks off in Chiba, Japan on Dec. 18. A livestream of the event will be available through the official Shonen Jump YouTube channel and on the magazine's website.
The MHA anime TV series is available for streaming through Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll and Funimation. Horikoshi's manga series is distributed internationally by VIZ Media.
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