A new teaser graphic sets up a showdown between My Hero Academia’s main hero-in-training and his toughest adversary for the anime’s next season.Izuku “Deku” Midoriya and Tomura Shigaraki take the focus in a new teaser image for the second season of My Hero Academia.
The new artwork was shared immediately through the official MHA Twitter account. The creators of the series are building up the long-awaited showdown between the heirs of All Might and All For One to be the centerpiece of the anime’s sixth season, which will adapt the dramatic Paranormal Liberation War storyline from Kohei Horikoshi’s original manga. Both Deku and Shigaraki developed their skills and expanded their movesets over the anime’s previous season, and many fans are curious to see how the conflict will appear when it’s completely animated. The sixth season of the popular shonen anime was originally revealed last September, when a short video that once again promised Deku and Shigaraki’s imminent fight was published immediately after the airing of the fifth season’s last episode. A launch date for the next season has yet to be revealed.
Of course, fans who read the My Hero Academia manga already know how that conflict plays out, as Horikoshi’s book has already moved past the Paranormal Liberation War arc and onto the next phase of the plot. The manga recently returned from its most recent break and is continuing to build towards the story’ imminent conclusion. Horikoshi has already indicated the MHA has already gone on for longer than he had originally intended, and Weekly Shonen Jump announced earlier this year that the superhero tale has already entered its “last act.”
While it appears both the anime and manga are barreling towards their inevitable denouement, it appears the franchise’s popularity isn’t in any danger of decreasing anytime soon: Funimation recently reported that the third movie in the series, World Heroes’ Mission, has generated over $40 million USD during its international theatrical run, with $10 million of that coming from the United States alone. The movie is only the 11th anime release in history to break the $10 million USD mark in United States. World Heroes’ Mission was similarly popular when it was released in Japan last summer, when it exceeded both of the previous movies in the franchise and set a new series record.
My Hero Academia was first published in 2014 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump and has now attained a worldwide circulation of over 50 million copies. The manga is accessible in English and released internationally by VIZ Media. All five seasons of the anime are available for streaming on Funimation, Crunchyroll, Netflix and Hulu.
