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Toho Animation announced My Hero Academia Final Season will air on October 4, 2025, and Crunchyroll will be the streaming home of the anime starting on the same day. It will be simulcast. There is also a new My Hero Academia Character’s Ultimate Scene Ranking fan poll live worldwide, with the website promising to reveal results the day season 8 debuts.
To go along with the My Hero Academia Final Season anime debut date announcement, there’s new key art for season 8. In the background, we see All for One and All Might, in a nod to what happened in season 7. At the forefront is Deku, who is fighting Shigaraki.
Here’s the new key art for the series:
As for the My Hero Academia Character’s Ultimate Scene Ranking fan poll, we can each vote once per day on the site until September 15, 2025. The ballot contains sections for U.A. High School Students, Pro Heroes, and Villains. If you click on a character, a number of scenes from the anime will be listed alongside videos showing them and a button to vote. These videos are only in Japanese with no English subtitles. As an example, there are 15 possible scenes in the Katsuki Bakugo section. Each segment notes both the season and episode, to make it easier to pick out the one someone wants to support.
My Hero Academia Final Season, which is season 8 of the anime, will start worldwide on October 4, 2025. Viz Media handled the manga in the US. The My Hero Academia Character’s Ultimate Scene Ranking fan poll is open for voting until September 15, 2025.
