My Hero Academia Season 7: When It’s Happening And Where You Can See It
When it comes to My Hero Academia season 7, there’s reason to be excited. After all, it is the world’s most popular manga and anime, starting out in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in 2014, with the anime following only two years later.
The tale of a world where almost everyone has a superpower (a “quirk”) has been praised for bringing together the best parts of the genre all into one massive story, from school life to an amazing cast of characters, all wrapped up in an optimistic shell that makes being a hero cool again.
Season 6 recently finished airing on Hulu, and now millions of fans want to know, what about My Hero Academia Season 7?
First Trailer For My Hero Academia Season 7
Right after the conclusion of My Hero Academia Season 6, a new trailer was shared for Season 7, giving fans an early look at what to expect. At the same time, Star and Stripe’s voice performer was revealed to be Romi Park, known for voicing Hange in Attack on Titan.
Season 7 won’t be the end of My Hero Academia, but it will set the stage for the finale, and it’s going to contain the most tragic events of the series. Back in Season 1, All-Might said, “there’s nothing nobler than self-sacrifice,” and while heroes have fallen, everything is building to a moment of sacrifice.
For now, fans can only look forward to the arrival of Star and Stripe, and the traitor finally being revealed while anxiously waiting for the manga to reach its grand conclusion.
The World Of My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia follows Izuku Midoriya (aka Deku), a young man without a quirk, until the greatest hero in the world, All Might, decides to take him on as his heir, acquiring the quirk “One for All,” which allows him to share power with others.
It gets very complicated very quickly, and that’s before trying to explain how the quirk was created, but it makes Midoriya one of the most powerful heroes attending U.A. High School.
U.A. High School is important as everyone that wants to become a professional hero has to be trained properly in the use of their quirks, finally earning a Hero License.
But before that happens, students must intern with heroes, or take part in a work-study, which has them acting as official sidekicks (imagine if Robin was a summer intern under Batman, and that’s how it works.)
My Hero Academia Season 7 Will Pick Up After The Darkest Season Yet
My Hero Academia Season 6 adapted the Paranormal Liberation War, finally bringing to a head the conflict between the heroes and the Paranormal Liberation Front. And then there was the Dark Hero arc, which sets up a new status quo for the Professional Heroes and Class 1-A. It expanded the world as new heroes from around the world, including America’s Stars and Stripes, rush to assist in the upcoming fight against the villainous All for One.
In total, Season 6 was the darkest season of My Hero Academia yet, turning the public against the heroes, in particular Izuku, thanks to his All For One quirk, making him a target of One For All.
Out of desperation, Izuku leaves U.A. High School, worried for his friends, before they convince him to return and lead the final battle. Stacking the deck against the heroes, a massive villainous jailbreak from Tartarus results in more villains out in the world, including All For One.
It should be noted that currently, My Hero Academia Season 6 can only be watched with subtitles, except on Crunchyroll, the only service with an English dub available.
What To Expect In My Hero Academia Season 7
The next arc of the manga, “Star and Stripe,” was set up by the final episode of My Hero Academia Season 6, with the introduction of America’s greatest hero.
The first part of the “Final Act Saga,” is a short arc with only seven issues in the manga, but the fallout from what happens when Star and Stripe joins the battle pushes the Professional Heroes, and Class 1-A, to take the fight directly to All For One.
Following that arc, and also likely to be part of Season 7, is the ominously titled “U.A. Traitor” arc; though it’s possible to read the manga and learn who it is, that won’t be spoiled here.
Those two arcs will likely be the two covered in Season 7, with only one left to be adapted from the manga, and there’s a big reason why it’s not part of the next season.
The Anime Is Going To Catch Up To The Manga
The My Hero Academia manga is up to Chapter 395, covering the “Final War” arc, which will be the climactic finale of the series, bringing together all of the surviving heroes and villains into the largest battle of all time.
It’s the largest arc in the manga, which means the opening prologue chapters might be the conclusion to Season 7. If that’s the case, it’s going to make the wait for Season 8 unbearable.
Season 7 Should Premiere In 2024
There’s no set release date for My Hero Academia Season 7 other than Spring 2024. So far, every series has been released in quick succession, with no more than 13 months between them, and with Season 6 having finished on March 25, 2023, it stands to reason that Season 7 might hit as soon as next April.
The manga, originally expected to finish in 2023, may go into 2024, according to creator Kohei Horikoshi. Though there’s more of the series to come, Horikoshi has confirmed that the “Final Act Saga” is going to be the end.
