Toho is marking the tenth anniversary of “My Hero Academia The Animation” with a new key visual, an updated visual for the upcoming special episode “More,” and a global free-streaming campaign, timed to the exact decade since the anime’s first broadcast in 2016.
The celebration, first flagged at Jump Festa, continues to expand on the franchise’s scale: Kohei Horikoshi’s source manga concluded in August 2024 after selling more than 100 million copies worldwide, while the anime itself ran for eight seasons, 170 episodes and four theatrical films.
Central to the anniversary push is a limited-time binge event on the Toho animation official YouTube channel, making Seasons 1 through 3 – episodes 1 to 63 – available free of charge with subtitles in seven languages: English, French, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. Season 1 goes live April 3, with subsequent batches rolling out monthly through August 2026.
The series follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without superpowers in a world where 80% of the population possesses abilities called Quirks, as he trains at U.A. High School to become a professional hero. The story chronicles Midoriya and his classmates as they develop their abilities and navigate the challenges of hero society.
Toho has also released a new English-language key visual for “More,” a standalone episode premiering May 2, exclusively on Crunchyroll worldwide, excluding Asian territories. The episode adapts chapter 431 of Horikoshi’s manga – originally published in the final collected volume – and picks up the story of Izuku “Deku” Midoriya and his U.A. High School cohort eight years after graduation.
The anniversary programme is set to run throughout 2026 and will encompass a global concert tour, brand collaborations and further announcements to be disclosed in the coming months.
“My Hero Academia” is currently available on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Ani-One Asia and Laftel.
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