My Hero Academia Season Two Resumes Next Month

If you haven’t been watching My Hero Academia’s second season, then drop everything and catch up. The show is on its second cour of the summer, and as summer shows go, is taking a short break. Looking toward the new episodes, Shonen Jump recently gave fans a preview of when the next episode is coming.

The show will be returning after the short break for a new episode on July 8th. Fans of the franchise are hyped as key villain stain has arrived. Check out the announcement for the second cour below.

If you are not familiar with My Hero Academia, the series officially began back in 2014 when Weekly Shonen Jump published Kōhei Horikoshi’s manga. The original series was then adapted into an anime in April 2016 and exploded in popularity.

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

However, his classmates are soon silenced when Izuku proves himself by doing something truly heroic; he saves a fellow classmate of his from a villain when no one else would step up to the challenge, and the world’s greatest superhero, All Might, decides to gift the Izuku a special power. The new 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, and strive for being the most famous superhero in the world.

The show is currently available to watch on Funimation, Hulu, and Crunchyroll. Funimation is currently simulcasting the new season, same day as release, with English subtitles in the U.S. on both Hulu and Crunchyroll. However the Simuldub (English dubbed simulcast) is exclusive to Funimation’s on streaming service FunimationNow.

You can read Viz Media’s synopsis of My Hero Academia below:

“What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called Quirks? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy, of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?”

Kohei Horikoshi was born in Aichi, Japan, in 1986. He received a Tezuka Award Honorable Mention in 2006, and after publishing several short stories in Akamaru Jump, his first serialized work in Weekly Shonen Jump was Oumagadoki Doubutsuen in 2010. Barrage was his second series and My Hero Academia his third series in Weekly Shonen Jump.