My Hero Academia Final Season English Dub Begins October 18

The official My Hero Academia account revealed on Monday that the English dub for the anime’s eighth and final season will begin streaming on Saturday, October 18, sharing a dubbed trailer alongside the news.

Happily for longtime viewers, the dub brings back its familiar cast. Manuel Aragon directs, Zach Bolton produces, and Jeramey Kraatz adapts the script, keeping the voices fans have followed for years.

The final season first premiered in Japan on October 4 on YTV and NTV affiliated channels, with Crunchyroll streaming it worldwide outside of Asia as it airs. The band Porno Graffitti performs the opening theme, THE REVO.

Much of the core team is returning as well, including chief director Kenji Nagasaki, character designers Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Hitomi Odashima, composer Yūki Hayashi, and studio BONES.

This marks the end of a long journey for the franchise, which most recently expanded with the film My Hero Academia: You’re Next in 2024 before arriving at this concluding chapter.

My take: Keeping the original dub cast for the grand finale matters so much, since these voices have grown up with Deku and the others. I am bracing myself to feel quite emotional as the dub carries this story to its end.