A brand-new trailer for My Hero Academia was released on the official TOHO Animation YouTube channel on Saturday, in anticipation of the 6th season of the anime. This third and final trailer features a glimpse at the upcoming war arc between the heroes and villains, and serves as the final trailer released ahead of the October 1 premiere.
The new trailer also featured a brief taste of the official opening for My Hero Academia season 6, "Hitamuki" by SUPER BEAVER. The high-octane trailer showed various aspects of the building tensions between heroes and villains, featuring a familiar ominous soundtrack and closing out with a word from series antagonist Tomura Shigaraki.
The sixth season of My Hero Academia was announced at the end of the previous season, My Hero Academia season 5, which aired between March and September 2021. The previous season largely served as a build-up to the upcoming season, which will see the climactic war between the Paranormal Liberation front led by Tomura Shigaraki, and the heroes.
The trailer zooms in on the preparations made by the heroes for the upcoming affair, which could very well set into motion the end phase of the series, seeing that the official manga is also in the midst of a climactic final battle. In anticipation for the sixth season, anime streaming platform Crunchyroll released the fifth season's OVAs in August this year.
The new season will be made available on Crunchyroll soon after its October 1 release. The premiere date was announced with a new key visual during the My Hero Academia Hero Fes 2022 event, which was hosted in July. This was the first Hero Fes held since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The My Hero Academia anime first aired in 2016, with the first season running for thirteen episodes from April to June that year. The second season came in the following year, running for 25 episodes between April and September 2017. The third season followed in similar fashion, running from April to September 2018; while the fourth season broke the established pattern, running from September 2019 to April 2020. The fifth and most recent season deviated from the established release scheduling seen in previous iterations of the series even further, beginning in March 2021 and running through to September that year.
This following season will be running on a slightly different schedule to the ones before it. As said before, the upcoming sixth season serves as a major turning point in the series, and will have interesting implications for the story going forward; particularly when it comes to the newly-coalesced Paranormal Liberation Front, which was established towards the end of the fifth season during the "My Villain Academia" mini-arc.
The sixth season will form part of the "incredibly stacked" Fall 2022 anime season, which sees the return of various acclaimed anime titles and the debut of some of the most highly anticipated anime in recent times.
Source: Crunchyroll