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Netflix India Lists New Seasons of My Hero Academia, Great Pretender Anime
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Netflix India is listing the fourth season of the My Hero Academia anime and the second season of the Great Pretender anime on its streaming service. The fourth season of the My Hero Academia anime will stream on November 20 and the second season of the Great Pretender anime will stream on November 25.
Netflix India describes the fourth season of My Hero Academia:
Feeling even more motivated after All Might retires, Izuku applies for an internship with the agency run by All Might's former sidekick Sir Nighteye.
The anime's first 13-episode season premiered in April 2016. The 25-episode second season premiered in April 2017, and the third season premiered in April 2018 and ran for 25 episodes. The fourth season premiered in Japan in October 2019, and aired for 25 episodes. A two-episode original video anime for the franchise streamed in Japan on August 16. The anime is getting a fifth season that will premiere in spring 2021.
Kenji Nagasaki (Gundam Build Fighters, Classroom Crisis, No. 6) directed the anime at the studio BONES (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Concrete Revolutio, Fullmetal Alchemist). Yousuke Kuroda (Gundam Build Fighters, Honey and Clover, Trigun) oversaw the series' scripts.
The Great Pretender anime premiered in Japan on July 8 on Fuji TV's +UItra programming block.
Netflix India describes season two of the anime:
After their string of successful cons, Makoto leaves Laurent's team. But the web of deceit binding them together goes farther back than he knows.
Hiro Kaburagi (Hozuki's Coolheadedness, My Little Monster, 91 Days) directed the series at Wit Studio. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, FLCL) designed the characters. Ryota Kosawa (Parasyte live-action film, Always: Sunset on Third Street live-action film series) wrote the scripts, and Yutaka Yamada (Tokyo Ghoul anime franchise, Vinland Saga) composed the music. Maiko Okada was the producer.
Yamada composed the opening theme song "G.P." The late Queen singer Freddie Mercury's cover of The Platters song "The Great Pretender" is the anime's ending theme song. This is Japan's first television anime to feature a song by Mercury as its theme.
Artist Daichi Marui launched a manga adaptation of the anime on Mag Garden's Mag Comi website and Line Manga service on June 10. The first compiled book volume of the manga shipped on July 10.
Source: Netflix India (Link 2)
