My Hero Academia’s 4th Anime Film Reveals Release Date & New Trailer

The official website of the fourth anime film of My Hero Academia unveiled the much anticipated details regarding the film, including its title, release date, and a new trailer on Jan 29, 2024.

Titled “My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: You’re Next,” the film is scheduled to hit the Japanese theatres on Aug 2, 2024.

Tensai Okamura will serve as the director for the anime film.

Other staff includes:

• Scriptwriter: Yosuke Kuroda
• Character Designer: Yoshihiko Umakoshi
• Music Composer: Yuki Hayashi
• Animation Advisor: Kenji Nagasaki
• Animation Studio: bones

The movie will be based on an original story by author Kohei Horikoshi, who will also be handling the character designs and be in charge of general supervision of the movie. The author said that the events of the movie will align with the chronology of the My Hero Academia anime.

The movie is set in the same timeline as the upcoming seventh season of the TV anime, premiering on May 4, 2024.

The third movie instalment of the franchise, My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, released in 2021. It was animated by Bones with Kenji Nagasaki helming it.

My Hero Academia is a manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2014, with its chapters collected into 39 tankōbon volumes as of November 2023. The series has numerous spin-off manga, including My Hero Academia: Smash!!, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions.

Source: Official Website