At the end of the fifth season in September last year, My Hero Academia promptly announced the plan to have the sixth season released in the fall of 2022. Nearly ten months later, an official release date has been confirmed, with a new key visual released to help fans save the date.
The news comes after the My Hero Academia Hero Fes event held in Tokyo on Sunday, where the date and key visual were revealed. The new poster features the plethora of heroes from the My Hero Universe with their eyes locked on a single point above their eye level, each engaging with the common enemy; the villains ominously decorating the top part of the poster. The full key visual can be seen below revealing the anime's October 1 premiere.
Is My Hero Academia Dropping the Ball on its Ending?
Hero Fes is an annual event that is scheduled to promote My Hero Academia, and upcoming seasons of the anime series. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was not held in 2020 and 2021; however, it returns in 2022 to deliver more news about the upcoming sixth season of the show. The sixth season of My Hero Academia has been touted as the climactic final war between the heroes and the villains led by the newly-awakened Tomura Shigaraki. This upcoming war arc has been teased throughout the fifth season of the anime, which aired from March to September 2021.
My Hero Academia's first season aired in April 2016, running for 13 episodes between April and June 2016. The second season premiered the following year in April, running for 25 episodes between April and September 2017; a trend which maintained for the following season 3, which arrived in April 2018, and season 4 which ran from October 2019 to April 2020. This sixth season comes highly anticipated as the
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