My Hero Academia Season 8 has already aired. It was released as My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON, it ran 11 episodes from 4 October to 13 December 2025, and it is streaming now. If you arrived here looking for a future premiere date, there is not one, and the official site says so plainly: its ON AIR page lists “SEASON1-8(FINAL SEASON)” as available to stream rather than as something still to come.
My Hero Academia Season 8: the actual record
The eighth and last season of the main television series was branded FINAL SEASON rather than Season 8, which is why searching for “Season 8” turns up so much confusion. Here is what it actually was.
- Episodes: 11
- Aired: 4 October 2025 to 13 December 2025
- Episode length: about 23 minutes
- Animation production: bones film
- Season: Fall 2025
For comparison, Season 7 ran 21 episodes from 4 May to 12 October 2024 at bones. The Final Season was deliberately short, because it adapts the closing stretch of the manga rather than a full arc cycle.
Where to watch Season 8 now
The Final Season streams on Crunchyroll and Hulu for English speaking viewers, according to the platform list on its AniList entry. In Japan the official ON AIR page lists it across Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, U-NEXT, dAnime Store, ABEMA Premium, DMM TV, FOD, Lemino, TELASA and others, alongside seasons 1 to 7 and the films. Availability differs by country, so check your own service rather than trusting a regional list.
Why you may have seen an October 2026 date
An earlier version of this page said the Season 8 release date was “confirmed for October 2026” and listed an episode guide running to 25 episodes. Both of those were wrong. No such date was ever announced, and the real season was 11 episodes that had already finished airing when that claim was published here. We have corrected it rather than quietly deleting it, because anyone who read the old version deserves to know what changed.
If you have seen a 2026 date elsewhere, it is worth checking whether the page is describing the Final Season, one of the specials, or the separate Vigilantes series, which did air in 2026 and is a different show.
What came after the Final Season
The main series finished, but the franchise did not stop moving.
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 1, 13 episodes, 7 April to 30 June 2025, bones film.
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2, 13 episodes, 5 January to 30 March 2026, bones film. This is the one most often mistaken for a new main season.
- My Hero Academia More, a one episode special released 2 May 2026.
- My Hero Academia: I am a hero too, a short special released 3 August 2026.
- The FINAL SEASON Blu-ray and DVD Volume 2 went on sale on 20 May 2026.
Is more My Hero Academia anime coming?
Nothing new for the main series has been announced. The official site’s news feed through 2026 is merchandise, cafe and store collaborations, tenth anniversary goods and events, including a Jump Festa 2027 stage announced on 19 October 2026 and a Hero Aca Ultra Expo set for 17 and 18 April 2027. Events like those are where an announcement would surface if one were coming, so they are worth watching, but an event listing is not an announcement and we will not report it as one.
Quick answers
When did My Hero Academia Season 8 air? 4 October to 13 December 2025, as My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON.
How many episodes is Season 8? 11.
Who animated it? bones film.
Is Season 8 the end? Of the main television series, yes. Vigilantes and the specials continue separately.
Is there a Season 9? Nothing has been announced.
If you are tracking the other big shounen returns around it, One Punch Man Season 3 already aired in 2025, and its second part is set for 2027. We keep the same running record for Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer Infinity Castle and Bleach Thousand Year Blood War. The confusion runs the other way round for [Oshi no Ko], where a Final Season was announced in August 2026 and many viewers still think Season 3 ended the story.
Checked against the official site and AniList on 29 October 2026: the My Hero Academia official site ON AIR and news pages, and AniList entries 182896 and 204356.
