My Hero Academia Reveals Updated Season 2 Premiere Date

After making its debut last year, My Hero Academia is slated to make a return with Season 2 this spring. The acclaimed shonen series was a hit with fans around the world, so Bones Studio was more than happy to get fans hyped for the upcoming season. So far, fans have been told the show will debut in the spring, but now the foolks at Nippon TV and Yomiuri TV have released an updated premiere date.

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So, if you are wanting to mark your calendars, then you will want to circle down on March 25th.

In the newest volume of My Hero Academia, the manga confirmed the exact premiere date of the franchise’s anime. The show will make its debut and run on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. This latest announcement will be an exciting one for fans as it was previously said that My Hero Academia would not return until April.

Helmed by Bones Studio, My Hero Academia‘s second season will be directed by Kenji Nagasaki. Yousuke Kuroda will oversee and pen its scripts while Yoshihiko Umakoshi serves as chief animation direction. Music will be composed by Yuuki Hayashi. And, most importantly, the entirely of the first season’s cast will be returning along with several new additions. Characters like Mei Hatsume, Itsuka Kendo, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and more will be added to the superhero anime.

If you are not familiar with My Hero Academia, then you should know the series kicked off in 2014 when Weekly Shonen Jump published Kōhei Horikoshi’s manga. The series was then adapted into an anime in April 2016 and quickly gained popularity.

The show follows a middle school student named Izuku Midoriya. The boy is a regular teenager who was born in an alternate universe where everyone is born with superpowers. That is, except for him. Izuku dreams of still becoming a famous and beloved superhero, but he finds himself mocked for the optimistic goal.

However, his classmates are soon put in their place with Izuku does something truly heroic; The boy saves a fellow classmate of his from a villain when no one else would, and the world’s greatest superhero, All Might, decides to gift the boy with a power. The gift, which is known as One For All, allows Izuku to channel great physical strength – and it finally allows him to enter the training academy U.A. High School.

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If you want to catch up on the well-loved anime, then you still have time to do so before the second season of My Hero Academia premieres. Sites such as Hulu provide English subbed episodes of the first season, so you can binge all 13 episodes to your heart’s content.

My Hero Academia will return March 25, 2017.

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