The official Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga has released a new visual and promotional video previewing the 5th Season's second cour, which will be entering the "Internship at Endeavor's Agency" arc.
MAN WITH A MISSION will be performing the new opening theme song titled, "Merry-Go-Round," and Soushi Sakiyama will be performing the new ending theme song titled, "Uso ja nai" (Not a Lie).
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.
Season 5 premiered on March 27, 2021.
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DISH// performed the first opening theme song titled, "No.1."
The Peggies performed the first 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.
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.
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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: