If you
thought that the history of the U.A. students had been frozen after the
graduation of Deku and company, Kohei Horikoshi still has a
couple of cards up his sleeve. To celebrate the franchise's tenth anniversary
properly, the official website of Boku no Hero Academia (or My
Hero Academia) has just dropped a nostalgic bombshell: the production of a
new original anime titled I Am a Hero Too. This project will land
on streaming platforms worldwide on August 3, 2026,
giving us our necessary dose of heroism to save the summer.
A
teenager named Eri and the weight of peace
The coolest
thing about this premiere is that it directly adapts the canon one-shot that
the creator of the work himself originally published in the Ultra Age fanbook.
The plot gives us an eight-year time jump into the future to put us in the
shoes of Eri, who stopped being that scared girl who needed to be rescued by
Lemillion to become a high school student. Far from the brutal threats of
villains of yesteryear, this tale shows us how the new generation navigates
school and daily life in a peaceful society that no longer needs heroes to risk
their skins at every second.
Synopsis
of Boku no Hero Academia
In a world
where 80% of the world's population has developed superpowers known as
"Gifts," society has been divided between professional heroes who
protect peace and villains who use their abilities for evil. Izuku Midoriya, a
young man who belongs to the unfortunate 20% who was born without any special
abilities, dreams of becoming the greatest hero of all, just like his idol All
Might. His destiny changes drastically when a chance encounter with the Symbol
of Peace grants him the opportunity to inherit legendary power, leading him to
enroll in the prestigious U.A. Academy to learn what it really means to carry
the weight of being a hero.
