How to Watch My Hero Academia in Order

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And however to navigate the large canon question.

My Hero Academia came retired astatine the cleanable time, releasing conscionable a mates of years earlier Infinity War, astatine the tallness of superhero dominance of popular culture. While Marvel movies were delivering world-ending stakes, the simplicity and comparatively tiny scope of My Hero Academia felt caller and refreshing adjacent if it was acquainted — particularly to anyone who watched Sky High successful the mid-'00s. The amusement is conscionable a precise effectual conflict shonen with everything you'd expect from a bid successful the genre, including memorable characters, themes astir relationship and self-improvement, a consciousness of escalation, and stunning animation.

But astir importantly, the amusement has an absorbing portrayal of a satellite of heroes wherever superpowers interaction each azygous facet of civilization and society. Like astir shonen, determination is plentifulness of supplementary material, similar movies and archetypal video animation (OVAs) and adjacent spin-offs that grow the satellite of the anime. Whether you're conscionable getting into the amusement oregon you privation to spot what you've missed on the way, here's however to ticker My Hero Academia (including the movies) successful order.

How Long Is My Hero Academia?

Adapting Kōhei Horikoshi's manga of the aforesaid name, My Hero Academia has been airing for 7 seasons crossed astir a full decade. In summation to the main show, determination person been 9 OVA's that grow the story, either with silly small broadside stories oregon adaptations of one-shot manga, arsenic good arsenic 4 movies.

How astir canon, though? Well, thing that doesn't straight accommodate the manga, similar the movies and astir of the OVAs, aren't technically canon. Sure, they're amusive and the movies bash often tease immoderate caller power-up that is to travel successful the anime aboriginal on, but they're not indispensable to the story.

How to Watch My Hero Academia Online

Try Mega Fan Crunchyroll

Almost everything MHA, including each play of the show, astir of the OVAs, and each 4 movies, is streaming connected Crunchyroll. The champion anime streaming service, Crunchyroll offers an ad-supported escaped tier arsenic good arsenic a seven-day escaped proceedings of its Premium membership, which starts astatine $7.99/month. In the U.S., each 7 seasons of My Hero Academia are streaming connected Hulu, portion the archetypal 4 seasons are connected Netflix. The My Hero Academia movies are besides disposable arsenic carnal releases.

How to Watch My Hero Academia successful Chronological Order

1. My Hero Academia Season 1 (Episodes 1-13)

Entrance Exam Arc
Quirk Apprehension Test Arc
Battle Trial Arc
U.S.J. Arc

2. OVA: My Hero Academia: Save! Rescue Training!

The archetypal My Hero Academia OVA that was released feels similar a blast from the past, an occurrence that is wholly astir the students of people 1A and the teachers reeling from the USJ Incident from the archetypal season. Now, the students are yet acceptable to resume training, and they marque groups arsenic they are assigned to rescue each other, past look a combat against a villain.

Because the occurrence was lone released successful Japan astatine the yearly Jump Festa instrumentality normal celebrating the assorted Shōnen manga magazines, the OVA is afloat of comic fourth-wall breaks and nods to the audience.

3. My Hero Academia Season 2 (Episodes 14-38)

U.A. Sports Festival Arc
Vs. Hero Killer Arc
Final Exam Arc

4. OVA: My Hero Academia: Training of the Dead

Teacher Aizawa is simply a small spot unorthodox. In this 2nd OVA, helium decides to propulsion his students headfirst into a grooming workout with students from the Isamu Academy High School – which spirals retired of power erstwhile 1 of the students (named Romero successful a touching tribute to the begetter of modern zombies) uses his Quirk and turns a full clump of radical into zombies. What was meant to beryllium a elemental workout astir endurance turns into a due zombie apocalypse. The OVA has immoderate hilarious moments similar seeing the panic successful Deku's eyes erstwhile helium sees All Might successful his weakened state, lone for everyone to deliberation he's a zombie.

5. OVA: My Hero Academia: All Might Rising

While this OVA could person technically kicked disconnected the timeline, it's champion enjoyed arsenic a prologue to the Two Heroes movie it released alongside. This is arsenic adjacent arsenic we got to a due All Might prequel, and it is delightful to ticker All Might emergence from a grieving pupil who conscionable mislaid his teacher to becoming the ever-smiling Symbol of Peace we cognize and love.

6. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

The archetypal My Hero Academia movie sets the winning look that would travel successful each movie successful the franchise since. What starts retired arsenic a amusive getaway abrogation wherever Deku accompanies All Might to sojourn an aged person of the leader ends up arsenic a large trial to Deku arsenic the floating land is taken hostage by a villain. This is the movie for All Might fans arsenic we larn a spot much of his root and his clip successful America.

7. My Hero Academia Season 3 (Episodes 39-63)

Forest Training Camp Arc
Hideout Raid Arc
Provisional License Exam Arc

8. OVA: Make It! Do-or-Die Survival Training

Why does each Class 1-A grooming workout extremity successful disaster? This clip around, the full abandoned promenade that the teacher decided to acceptable this grooming successful starts to illness and the grooming workout rapidly becomes a combat for survival. These episodes are truly for those who don't similar that the main communicative moved distant from the schoolhouse portion of the communicative excessively quickly, and delivers the benignant of Saturday Morning Cartoon-type schoolhouse shenanigans of the earlier seasons.

9. My Hero Academia Season 4 (Episodes 64-88)

The Shie Hassaikai Arc
Remedial Course Arc
U.A. School Festival Arc
Start of Pro Hero Arc

10. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

This is by acold my favourite My Hero Academia movie to date. Heroes Rising showcases Class 1-A moving unneurotic arsenic due heroes without relying connected a mentor, a chill location, and besides a cameo from the champion hero, Godzillo. Most importantly, this movie is simply a dainty for Bakugo and Deku fans, giving america much penetration into their narration and dynamic. It besides has the champion climax of immoderate of the movies by having Deku and Bakugo enactment unneurotic and present a phenomenal associated attack.

11. My Hero Academia Season 5 (Episodes 88-106)

Rest of Pro Hero Arc
Joint Training Arc
Endeavor Agency Arc

12. OVA: Departure

This is different abbreviated OVA, and 1 that really adapts a one-shot from the manga. It is mostly a drama sketch astir Hawks that ties into the adjacent movie, but what makes it basal retired is its stunning animation.

13. My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

This movie has the highest stakes of the movies up to this constituent and a chill ocular style, but what truly makes World Heroes' Mission peculiar is the instauration of champion boy, Rody. He instantly becomes 1 of the champion characters successful the franchise and seeing his dynamic with Deku is fantastic. Timeline-wise, this is the 1 spot My Hero Academia gets a spot funky, arsenic the anime deviates from the manga.

14. My Hero Academia Season 5 (Episodes 107-113)

Meta Liberation Army Arc

15. OVA: Laugh! As If You Are successful Hell

What if our favourite heroes had to halt a transgression whose powerfulness made everyone astir him laughter uncontrollably? That's the elemental but saccharine premise of this OVA, which is 1 of the funniest episodes of My Hero Academia. The villain is fundamentally a Joker benignant who makes everyone laughs and helium is simply a dainty to watch, adjacent if the occurrence itself doesn't connection overmuch that we hadn't seen before.

16. OVA: HLB

A shot episode! A classical trope of the anime medium, and 1 that My Hero Academia does spectacularly. Sure, determination are fewer surprises to beryllium had, but that's fine, due to the fact that the amusive is conscionable watching the chaotic show of Quirks utilized for thing arsenic mundane arsenic a sports match.

17. My Hero Academia Season 6 (Episodes 114-138)

Paranormal Liberation War Arc
Dark Hero Arc

18. OVA: U.A. Heroes Battle

What if My Hero Academia turned into Yu-Gi-Oh? Bored during Winter Break and sequestered successful their dorms, the 1-A students walk the clip by playing a caller heroes paper game. It's fundamentally an excuse to amusement the characters conflict each different (in a VR recreation of the paper characters battling it out), but it is large "what if" amusive – similar seeing All Might fight… a dog.

19. My Hero Academia Season 7 (Episodes 139-159)

Star and Stripe Arc
U.A. Traitor Arc
Final War Arc

20. OVA: A Piece of Cake

Deku is simply a immense leader nerd, that overmuch audiences person known from the start, but sometimes the anime seems to hide astir it. That's wherever A Piece of Cake comes from, adapting a one-shot manga that's each astir the 1-A students discovering Deku's diary with extended notes astir their Quirks, and having chaotic reactions to his tips, suggestions, and silly drawings. It's a amusive remainder successful what's different a alternatively bleak section successful the story, and a amusive broadside communicative wherever the kids get to beryllium kids (possibly for the past time).

21. My Hero Academia: You're Next

The latest My Hero Academia movie has immoderate jaw-dropping visuals and a large last fight. The communicative introduces fascinating characters, including an anti-All Might villain arsenic good arsenic a caller protagonist that has large chemistry with our main heroes.

My Hero Academia successful Release Order

Season 1 (2016)
OVA: Save! Rescue Training! (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
OVA: Training of the Dead (2017)
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
Season 3 (2018)
OVA: All Might Rising (2019)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Season 4 (2020)
OVA: Make It! Do-or-Die Survival Training (2020)
Season 5 (2021)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission (2021)
OVA: Departure (2022)
OVA: Hero League Baseball (2022)
OVA: Laugh! As If You Are successful Hell (2022)
Season 6 (2022-2023)
OVA: U.A. Heroes Battle (2023)
Season 7 (2024)
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
OVA: A Piece of Cake (2025)

What's Next for My Hero Academia?

My Hero Academia is reaching its end. The last play of the amusement volition statesman airing this October, but for those who aren't acceptable to fto spell of this universe, fret not. There are bound to beryllium much OVAs oregon movies successful the future, and successful the meantime, we bash person the spin-off series, Vigilantes, to look guardant to. The upcoming spin-off takes spot 5 years earlier the events of the main series, has a darker and much mature tone, and features appearances by immoderate fan-favorite characters. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes starts airing successful Japan adjacent week, connected April 7.

Rafael Motamayor is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything anime and animation.

Originally posted:

Mar 31, 2025 9:58 pm