'My Hero Academia' Season 3 Opening Contains A Special Manga Easter Egg

Fans were impressed with the premiere of My Hero Academia's third season, but they were mostly [...]

By Nick Valdez

Fans were impressed with the premiere of My Hero Academia's third season, but they were mostly taken aback by the show's opening title sequence. Teasing major plot lines fans of the manga know come later, the opening reveals quite a bit.

It also goes the extra mile and pays tribute to one color page in the manga in a really cool way. But it does also hint at future events to come.

In the opening, there's a brief scene of Izuku sitting next to All Might on a bench as both of them don their hero outfits. This is a direct reference to a color page in Kohei Horikoshi's original manga in which Izuku sits in his hero outfit next to a dejected, de-powered All Might wearing a hoodie of his hero costume.

Not only are the same bench and tree depicted here, this reference also hugely teases future events. Just like the later scene of a raging All Might facing down a mysterious man in black teasing later manga events, this scene does as well as fans learn of the outcome of that teased All Might battle.

My Hero Academia's first movie, My Hero Academia: The Movie - The Two Heroes, is scheduled to open August 3. The film will cover a story not seen in the originalmanga with series creator Horikoshi noting that, "Of course the movie will be filled with Class A's great efforts, that character's past that hasn't been in the manga yet, flashy action scenes, and much more." The film also previously revealed its first key visual depicting a character fans have never seen before, and a trailer revealing an All Might in his prime.

For those unfamiliar with My Hero Academia, the series was created by Kohei Horikoshi and has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014. The story follows Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a world where everyone has super powers but he was born without them. Dreaming to become a superhero anyway, he's eventually scouted by the world's best hero All Might and enrolls in a school for professional heroes. The series has been collected into 15 volumes so far, and has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release since 2015.

The third season of the series is currently adapting the the School Trip arc, the students of Class 1-A head to a forest in order to bring the control of their Quirks to a new level. Suddenly, the League of Villains attacks in order to kidnap one of the students and Midoriya and the others must think quickly on their feet in order to survive.

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