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My Hero Academia Anime's 4th Promo Video Previews Animation

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
New key visual, more staff revealed for series premiering on April 3

The official website for the television anime of Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) manga began streaming the show's fourth promotional video on Sunday. The video previews animated clips from show.

Izuku: In the present day, where approximately an eighth of humanity have become super humans due to a special physical condition...
Text: Humanity was suddenly endowed with a superhuman power: "Quirks."
Text: Those who save people and society with their "Quirks": Heroes.
Izuku: Before we knew it, the supernatural became a natural part of our lives. Dreams became reality.
Man: He isn't looking at reality.
Boy: Midoriya!? Yeah, as if!
Old Man: You'd best give up.
Text: A boy who dreams of becoming a hero - Izuku Midoriya
Izuku: People aren't born equal.
Text: "Quirk": Nothing
Izuku: But... Even if that's true... I...
Text: I want to become a hero.
Boy: I wonder if I can become one too...
Girl: I'm sorry, Izuku...!
Notebook: Data on Heroes for the Future #13
Izuku: It's been my goal, ever since I was little...!
Izuku: Someone...! Someone...!
All Might: I have arrived!
A single meeting will change fate.
Izuku: Even if I don't have a Quirk, can I... become a hero!?

The website also revealed a new key visual for the series on Sunday.

Additionally, the website revealed more staff for the series, and revealed that the Boku no Hero Academia TAG CARD GAME trading card game will debut in Japan on April 23. The anime's new staff includes soundtrack composer Yuuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, Blood Lad) and chief animation director Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Air Master, Heartcatch Precure!, Berserk). Umakoshi is already credited as the show's character designer.

The anime will air on the MBS/TBS channel network's "Nichigo" timeslot every Sunday at 5:00 p.m starting on April 3. The anime will star:

Daiki Yamashita as Izuku Midoriya
Kenta Miyake as All Might
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Katsuki Bakugō
Ayane Sakura as Ochako Uraraka
Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida
Aoi Yūki as Tsuyu Asui
Ryō Hirohashi as Minoru Mineta
Marina Inoue as Momo Yaoyorozu
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Fumikage Tokoyami
Tasuku Hatanaka as Denki Kaminari
Toshiki Masuda as Eijirō Kirishima
Yūki Kaji as Shōto Todoroki

Kenji Nagasaki (Gundam Build Fighters, Classroom Crisis, No. 6) is directing the anime at the studio BONES (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Concrete Revolutio, Fullmetal Alchemist). Yousuke Kuroda (Gundam Build Fighters, Honey and Clover, Trigun) is overseeing the series' scripts. The rock band Porno Graffiti is performing the opening, and the rock band Brian the Sun is performing the ending as their major label debut.

Source: MoCa News


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