[MUSIC] The New Six Releases Behind-the-Scenes Look at "FUEGO" Music Video Shoot

Funimation has announced that Robbie Daymond has been cast as the English voice for Flect Turn in the TV anime adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga. He makes his debut in the 104th Episode.

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). 

Season 5 premiered on March 27, 2021. 

NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENT:

Robbie Daymond as Flect Turn

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.

Misato Kawauchi is joining the cast as Burnin', who is a member of Endeavor's Agency and part of the Flaming Sidekickers.

The Meta Liberation Army Japanese [English] cast includes:

Hiroaki Hirata [Sonny Strait] as Re-Destro / Rikiya Yotsubashi
Junji Majima as Trumpet / Koku Hanabata
Seiichirō Yamashita as Geten
Takako Honda as Curious / Chitose Kizuki
Tomokazu Sugita [Ben Diskin] as Skeptic / Tomoyasu Chikazoku

Kishō Taniyama is voicing the villain Ending.

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:

Crunchyroll streams the series and describes it as:

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:

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.