Deku's
story still has one more page to tell on television. During Boku no
Hero Academia's "Super Stage" event at Jump
Festa 2026, the production of a television special was
officially announced that will premiere on May 2, 2026 at 5:30
p.m. on Yomiuri TV and NTV.
This new
project will adapt the story titled "More" (Chapter
431), a special plot drawn by original author Kohei Horikoshi that
was not published during the original serialization in the Weekly
Shonen Jump, but was later included in the final volume (Volume 42) of the
manga.
The story
is set eight years after the graduation of Class 1-A from U.A.
Academy and portrays Izuku Midoriya and his already established peers as professional
heroes, exploring what happens beyond the end of the original anime and
manga.
Tenth
Anniversary Celebration
The
special, technically billed as the "170th anime episode plus one," is
part of the commemorations for the 10th anniversary of the
anime adaptation, which takes place in 2026. Its broadcast will strategically
coincide with the "Golden Week" in Japan.
Context
of the franchise
The manga
finished its serialization in August 2024 and its final volume was published in
December of that same year. For its part, the final season of the anime (the
eighth global installment) aired in the fall of 2025, closing the main cycle of
the series produced by the Bones studio.
