My Hero Academia will become a live-action film produced by Netflix
Entertainment news sources Variety and Deadline reported on Monday that Netflix will produce and distribute Legendary's Hollywood live-action film adaptation of the manga My Hero Academia by Kōhei Horikoshi . Joby Harold (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Army of the Dead, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Godzilla and the Titans) is writing the script.
Shinsuke Sato (live-action Bleach, Alice in Borderland , Kingdom, Death Note Light up the NEW world , Gantz , I am a Hero ) is directing the film.
Alex Garcia and Jay Ashenfelter are overseeing the project for Legendary Entertainment, while Ryōsuke Yoritomi, the manga editor, will oversee the project for Shueisha. TOHO will distribute the film in Japan.
Horikoshi launched the manga series in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in July 2014. The 36th volume of the manga's compiled book was shipped to Japan on October 4. Viz Media publishes the manga in English digitally and in print in North America. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service also publishes the English manga digitally.
The 13-episode first season of the anime premiered in April 2016. The 25-episode second season premiered in April 2017, and the third season premiered in April 2018. It's April 25 and ran for 2019 episodes. The fourth season premiered in Japan in October 25 and ran for 2020 episodes. A two-episode original video anime for the franchise was streamed in Japan in August 2021, and Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the episodes. The show's fifth season premiered in Japan in March 25 and ran for XNUMX episodes.
The sixth season of the anime premiered on October 1st. The season will air for two continuous courses (term one year) for a total of 25 episodes. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan, and an English dub is also streaming. Toonami is airing the anime.
