My Hero Academia Manga Short Gets Anime Short This Summer

A manga short story that My Hero Academia creator Kōhei Horikoshi drew for the My Hero Academia Fan Book: Ultra Age is inspiring a short anime. The anime short "I am a hero too" will debut this summer.

My Hero Academia Fan Book: Ultra Age went on sale exactly one year earlier, to the day. "I am a hero too" is the second short anime based on a My Hero Academia manga short, after the "More" short that aired on Saturday as "episode 170+1." Crunchyroll is streaming the "More" short, except in Asia. Both shorts are part of the franchise's 10th anniversary project.

The television anime's eighth and final season premiered on October 4 on YTV and NTV's affiliate channels. Crunchyroll streamed the anime worldwide excluding Asia as it aired in Japan, and began streaming its English dub on October 18. The final episode of the anime aired on December 13.

The "My Hero Academia in Concert" world tour featuring composer Yūki Hayashi and scenes from the anime will start its U.S. leg of the tour on September 12 and end on October 25. The world tour will launch in Japan on May 30, and will also have a 10-city European tour between September 20 and October 1.

Kōhei Horikoshi launched the manga series in Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2014, and ended it in August 2024. He added 38 pages of new content in the manga's 42nd and final compiled book volume in December 2024. Viz Media published the manga in English digitally and in print in North America. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service also published the manga in English digitally. The manga crossed 100 million copies in circulation worldwide in April 2024.

Sources: My Hero Academia franchise's website, Comic Natalie