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My Hero Academia Anime's 5th Season Debuts on Toonami on May 8
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Funimation announced on Saturday that Adult Swim's Toonami programming block will start airing the fifth season of the My Hero Academia anime on May 8.
The season premiered in Japan on March 27. Funimation and Crunchyroll are both streaming the anime with English subtitles. Funimation began streaming the season's English dub on Saturday. The fifth season covers the "Joint Training" arc of the original manga that pits class 1A against class 1B.
The anime's first 13-episode season premiered in April 2016. The 25-episode second season premiered in April 2017, and the third season premiered in April 2018 and ran for 25 episodes. The fourth season premiered in Japan in October 2019, and aired for 25 episodes. A two-episode original video anime for the franchise streamed in Japan last August, and Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the episodes.
The My Hero Academia: Two Heroes film opened in Japan in July 2018. The second film, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (Boku no Hero Academia the Movie -Heroes: Rising-), opened in Japan in December 2019. A third anime film titled My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission will premiere on August 6.
Source: Funimation (Nicholas Friedman)
