The official Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga has released a new visual in celebration of the anime's 100th Episode depicting Deku walking on a path of his past achievements.
Crunchyroll streams the series and describes it as:
In a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered Quirk, Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that won’t stop him from enrolling in a prestigious hero academy. Now, Izuku is tangled in another dangerous internship as he struggles to keep pace with his upperclassman—Mirio.
DISH// performs the opening theme song titled, "No.1."
The Peggies perform the ending theme song "Ashiato" (Footprints).
Sōichiro Hoshi has been cast as the first-generation holder of One for All. They've also confirmed that Sayaka Kinoshita is voicing the character Mirko.
Season 5 covers the Joint Training Arc, which puts Classes 1-A and 1-B against each other.
Season 5 premiered on March 27, 2021.
100TH EPISODE VISUAL:
Funimation began streaming the Japanese simulcast of the series, starting March 27 in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom and Ireland. The series will stream on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand, and on Wakanim in Scandinavia.
Details to come on the SimulDub™, which will arrive after the Japanese broadcast.
Crunchyroll began streaming the new season the same day in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Kenji Nagasaki is returning as the chief director of the anime at studio BONES, and Masahiro Mukai returns as director. Yousuke Kuroda is once again writing and overseeing the series scripts, Yoshihiko Umakoshi and previous assistant character designer Hitomi Odashima are again in charge of the character designs, and Yuki Hayashi is returning to compose the music.
KEY VISUAL:
Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.
Funimation describes the previous Season 4 as: