My Hero Academia Teases Its Next Movie's Original Story

03/02/2021 06:09 pm EST

The next big movie for My Hero Academia is set to arrive this summer, and it seems as if plot details are beginning to leak online for a film that gives Midoriya, Bakugo, and Shoto Todoroki some fresh new outfits. With the film being touted as the arrival of the "Three Musketeers", the next installment of UA Academy's venture onto the big screen will have a lot to live up to as fans unanimously approved of the previous two films in Two Heroes and Heroes Rising respectively. With the fifth season of My Hero Academia's anime set to arrive later this month, it's clear that 2021 will be a big year for Class 1-A.

There have not been any significant updates for the film since that initial announcement, but that drought will seemingly end soon with the upcoming special event for My Hero Academia celebrating the anime's fifth anniversary. It seems we'll be seeing more of this upcoming film, and an update to its website is teasing more of the film's original story much like the first two films have had.

While there are no concrete details for the upcoming third movie listed on the special fifth anniversary website, it does list it as having an "original story you can only see in this movie." It seems that like the first two films, this new film won't be adapting any of the material directly from Kohei Horikoshi's original manga release. Therefore, it's safe to infer that it's likely not going to be entirely canon.

Two Heroes and Heroes Rising do fit into the canon at certain points of the main series, but they don't have any real bearing on the events before of after the respective films take place. That does not mean they are any less enjoyable, but fans hoping to see this tie back into the main series might be disappointed. Then again, depending on where in the series this film takes place will flesh out the elements we already have experienced even more so.

My Hero Academia's third movie is currently planned for a release this Summer in Japan, so hopefully we'll find out more concrete details soon enough! But what do you think? What would you want to see in the next My Hero Academia movie? Does it matter whether or not it's going to be canon? Let us know your thoughts in the comments or you can even reach out to me directly about all things animated and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!

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