My Hero Academia announced two all-new animed specials.
As reported by Japanese news blog Ryokutya 2089, two new MHA original video animation (OVA) episodes have been announced. While announced as primarily home video releases, the two new specials will also be released in Japanese theaters, with the first special premiering this summer. The first special will be baseball-themed, while details about the second entry, including its release date, have yet to be announced. Both specials will be produced by BONES, the animation studio behind the on-going My Hero Academia TV anime series. An international release for both specials has yet to be confirmed.
The series' official Twitter account previously released art of the students of Class 1-A playing baseball. The art was originally announced as part of an April Fool's gag, but now it appears it may have been a slick preview of what the animators were planning for the new animated special. The original image split the series' heroes up into four team, based around the series' pro-hero talent agencies: the Orcas, a team lead by Gang Orca, the Shishido Agency Lionels, Mt. Lady's Mountains and the Fat Gum Agency Fats. Several members of Class 1-A, including Kyoka Jiro and Denki Kaminari, were shown playing in the new league.
In addition to the new specials, BONES is also working on the highly-anticipated sixth season of the anime. The new season will focus on the adaptation of the Paranormal Liberation War arc, which sees Japan's pro-heroes engaging in all-out war with the country's supervillains, who have been united under the leadership of the nihilistic Tomura Shigaraki. Much of the promotional material released so far for the sixth season has been focused on the scale of the upcoming battle and the long-waited next showdown between series protagonist Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Shigaraki, who received a substantial power boost near the end of the previous season. The sixth season of the anime will premiere next Fall, but attendees at this year's HeroFes convention will be treated to a special screening of its first episode months before anyone else sees it.
My Hero Academia was created by Kohei Horikoshi and first introduced Weekly Shonen Jump readers to its world of professional superheroes in 2014. The manga has become one of Shonen Jump's most popular currently-running series, with 65 million copies in circulation worldwide. The series is currently publishing its final arc and is planned to end sometime in 2022.
The first five seasons of My Hero Academia are available for streaming on Crunchyroll, while the original manga is published in English by VIZ Media.
Source: Ryokutya 2089