My Hero Academia Recap: The Story So Far & Every Ending Explained (2026)

Updated October 21, 2026 · 13 titles · spoilers for everything below

My Hero Academia runs from 2016 to 2025 as an eight-season anime with four films and a prequel spin-off, Vigilantes, all adapted from or built around Kohei Horikoshi's manga. In a world where most people are born with superpowers called Quirks, Quirkless Izuku Midoriya inherits One For All from the greatest hero, All Might, and trains at U.A. High. His three years there follow one long war with All For One and his successor, Tomura Shigaraki.

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No. 01 · 2016 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 1 recap

My Hero Academia season 1 (2016) follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without a Quirk in a world of superpowers, who still dreams of becoming a hero. The 13-episode first season from Bones, directed by Kenji Nagasaki, aired on MBS from April to June 2016. Izuku Midoriya (Daiki Yamashita) throws himself at a villain to save his bullying childhood friend Katsuki Bakugo (Nobuhiko Okamoto), and the watching hero All Might (Kenta Miyake) reveals his secret: he is badly injured, and his power, One For All, can be passed on. After months of training on a beach, Izuku inherits it and enters the hero course at U.A. High, but his body breaks whenever he uses it. In Class 1-A he befriends Ochaco Uraraka and Tenya Iida, faces Katsuki in a battle trial and learns from the teacher Shota Aizawa. The League of Villains, led by Tomura Shigaraki, then attacks a training site with a monster built to kill All Might. This is the place to start.

How My Hero Academia Season 1 ends

My Hero Academia season 1 ends with All Might beating the Nomu with blows past his limit, then standing defenseless against Shigaraki. Izuku stalls the villain until the other teachers arrive and drive off Shigaraki and the warp villain Kurogiri. All Might thanks Izuku but tells him his time in hero form is now down to about an hour a day, and Shigaraki reports to his unseen master that this is only the beginning.

No. 02 · 2017 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 2 recap

My Hero Academia season 2 (2017) puts Izuku Midoriya and Class 1-A in front of the whole country at U.A.'s Sports Festival, where pro heroes scout the students. The 25-episode season aired from April to September 2017 on ytv and NTV. At the festival, Izuku pushes Shoto Todoroki, the son of the No. 2 hero Endeavor, to use the fire side of his Quirk that he had sworn off, and Katsuki Bakugo takes first place. Izuku then interns with All Might's old teacher Gran Torino, and in Hosu City he, Shoto and Tenya Iida, who wants revenge for his injured brother, fight the Hero Killer Stain, whose ideals spread among villains after his arrest. The season closes with final exams against the teachers, where Izuku and Katsuki must work together against All Might. It follows season 1 directly and leads into the summer training camp.

How My Hero Academia Season 2 ends

My Hero Academia season 2 ends with the episode "Encounter". Izuku and Katsuki pass their exam against All Might, and Aizawa reveals that the whole class is going to summer training camp regardless of results. On a shopping trip to prepare, Shigaraki finds Izuku alone at a mall and grips his neck to talk about Stain, then walks away, as new recruits arrive at the League of Villains.

No. 03 · 2018 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 3 recap

My Hero Academia season 3 (2018) opens at the summer training camp, where the League of Villains attacks Class 1-A and kidnaps Katsuki Bakugo. The 25-episode season aired from April to September 2018 on ytv and NTV. Izuku Midoriya and a few classmates join the rescue raid in Kamino, and All Might faces All For One, the villain who killed his mentor, in front of the whole country. All Might wins, but his true wasted form is shown on live television and his power is gone, ending his career as the Symbol of Peace. The students move into dorms at U.A. and sit the Provisional Hero License exam, which Katsuki and Shoto Todoroki fail. A night fight between Izuku and Katsuki, who blames himself for All Might's fall, ends with Katsuki learning the truth about One For All. It follows season 2 and leads into the Shie Hassaikai arc.

How My Hero Academia Season 3 ends

My Hero Academia season 3 ends with the episode "Unrivaled". The third-year Mirio Togata, one of U.A.'s Big Three, knocks out all of Class 1-A at once with his Permeation Quirk to show them what work-studies can teach, and the class sees what it still has to learn. Meanwhile, the yakuza boss Overhaul makes contact with the League of Villains, setting up the next arc.

No. 04 · 2018 · Film · optional

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes recap

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018) takes Izuku Midoriya and All Might to I-Island, a floating city of scientists, where villains take the whole island hostage. Directed by Kenji Nagasaki from a script by Yosuke Kuroda, the first film is an original story set during summer break between the Final Exams and Forest Training Camp arcs. All Might visits his old friend David Shield, an inventor whose tests show that One For All is nearly spent, while David's Quirkless daughter Melissa gives Izuku a gauntlet that lets him punch at full power. During a gala, the villain Wolfram seizes the island's security system and binds every pro hero present. Izuku and his classmates climb the central tower to free them, and learn that David staged the attack to steal back a Quirk-amplifying device he hoped would keep All Might going. Watch it after season 2.

How My Hero Academia: Two Heroes ends

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes ends with Wolfram, a real villain hired by David's assistant, using the amplifier and a second Quirk from All For One to build a giant metal body. Class 1-A holds him off until Izuku and All Might strike together and free David. The heroes reflect that Izuku and Melissa are the next generation.

No. 05 · 2019 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 4 recap

My Hero Academia season 4 (2019) sends Izuku Midoriya on a work-study with Sir Nighteye, All Might's old sidekick, and into the yakuza group Shie Hassaikai. The 25-episode season aired from October 2019 to April 2020 on ytv and NTV. Its leader, Kai Chisaki, known as Overhaul, is using a little girl, Eri, to make bullets that erase Quirks. Izuku, Mirio Togata, Eijiro Kirishima and the pros raid the hideout; Mirio loses his Quirk saving Eri, Sir Nighteye dies, and Izuku beats Overhaul at full power with Eri's help. The season then turns lighter, with Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki in a remedial license course and Class 1-A putting on a concert at the school festival to make Eri smile. With All Might retired, Endeavor becomes the No. 1 hero. It follows season 3 and continues into season 5.

How My Hero Academia Season 4 ends

My Hero Academia season 4 ends with the episode "His Start". Endeavor and Hawks fight a High-End Nomu; Endeavor is badly burned but keeps going and destroys it, striking All Might's pose as the crowd cheers. A post-credits scene shows Izuku dreaming of the past users of One For All, including the first, the younger brother of All For One, and waking with power surging from his hand.

No. 06 · 2019 · Film · optional

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising recap

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) strands Class 1-A on remote Nabu Island, which they must defend alone against a villain with stolen Quirks. Directed by Kenji Nagasaki from a script by Yosuke Kuroda, the second film is an original story set during season 5. The villain Nine has been given a copy of All For One's power and is hunting a healing Quirk to cure his failing body. It belongs to young Katsuma Shimano, whom Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo have befriended along with his older sister, Mahoro. When Nine's gang cuts the island off, the class splits up to protect the residents, but Nine overpowers Izuku and Katsuki twice. The film uses ideas Kohei Horikoshi once considered for the manga's ending and was intended to be the last film. Watch it after season 5's joint training episodes.

How My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising ends

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising ends with Izuku passing One For All to Katsuki so they can beat Nine together. All Might later finds that the transfer did not finish: Izuku keeps the power, and Katsuki forgets ever having it. Tomura Shigaraki kills the weakened Nine, and Class 1-A helps rebuild before leaving; Izuku tells Katsuma he can become a hero, as All Might once told him.

No. 07 · 2021 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 5 recap

My Hero Academia season 5 (2021) begins with Class 1-A against Class 1-B in a joint training battle, where a new power, Blackwhip, erupts from Izuku Midoriya. The 25-episode season aired from March to September 2021 on ytv and NTV. Izuku learns that One For All holds the Quirks of its past users, who start to speak to him. The middle stretch turns to the villains: Tomura Shigaraki's League fights the Meta Liberation Army and absorbs it, forming the Paranormal Liberation Front, while the doctor behind the Nomu prepares to remake Shigaraki. Izuku, Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki then intern with Endeavor, who tries to make amends with his family. The Heroes Rising and World Heroes' Mission films are set during this season. It follows season 4 and sets up the war in season 6.

How My Hero Academia Season 5 ends

My Hero Academia season 5 ends with the episode "The High, Deep Blue Sky". Hawks, undercover with the villains, is close to pinning down Shigaraki's sponsor, Dr. Garaki, who is making Shigaraki strong enough to take One For All. At U.A., Class 1-A shows off what it learned in work-studies, and All Might gives Izuku and Katsuki what he has found out about the past users of One For All.

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No. 08 · 2021 · Film · optional

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission recap

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021) sends pro heroes and U.A. students around the world to stop Humarise, a cult planting bombs that kill people with Quirks. Directed by Kenji Nagasaki from a script by Yosuke Kuroda, the third film is set during the Endeavor Agency arc of season 5. Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki are posted to Otheon, where Izuku chases a young courier, Rody Soul, and ends up framed for mass murder by a police chief working for the cult. On the run with Rody, Izuku learns that Rody's father helped build the bombs and that a briefcase they carry holds a code that can shut them down. The cult's leader, Flect Turn, gives the world two hours before every bomb goes off. Watch it during season 5, alongside the internship episodes.

How My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission ends

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission ends with Izuku beating Flect Turn by hitting him harder than his reflecting Quirk can take, while Rody, wounded, plugs the kill code in and stops the bombs. Humarise is arrested and the heroes recover in hospital. Izuku and Rody say goodbye, and Rody starts work toward becoming a pilot.

No. 09 · 2022 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 6 recap

My Hero Academia season 6 (2022) is the Paranormal Liberation War, the heroes' surprise attack on the villains of Tomura Shigaraki's new army. The 25-episode season aired from October 2022 to March 2023 on ytv and NTV. With intelligence from the undercover Hawks, the pros and U.A. students hit the villains' base and the hospital where Shigaraki is being remade. Shigaraki wakes early and lays waste to a city, Endeavor's lost son Toya returns as the villain Dabi, and heroes are killed. The villains escape, All For One breaks out of prison, and the public turns on heroes. Izuku Midoriya, now a target, leaves U.A. to fight alone, until Class 1-A tracks him down. It follows season 5 and leads into the final war of season 7.

How My Hero Academia Season 6 ends

My Hero Academia season 6 ends with the episode "No Man Is an Island". After Class 1-A brings Izuku back to U.A., All Might visits Kamino, where the escaped Hero Killer Stain gives him a data disk from the prison and reminds him that he inspired people. All Might tells the class that the final battle is coming soon.

No. 10 · 2024 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 7 recap

My Hero Academia season 7 (2024) opens with Star and Stripe, America's No. 1 hero, flying in to fight Tomura Shigaraki at All Might's request. The 21-episode season aired from May to October 2024 on ytv and NTV, after four "Memories" recap specials in April. Her stand costs her life but damages Shigaraki. At U.A., Yuga Aoyama is exposed as All For One's spy, forced into it to protect his family, and Class 1-A turns his betrayal into a trap. The heroes then launch the final war, warping each villain away to be fought on separate grounds. Shoto Todoroki faces his brother Dabi, Ochaco Uraraka faces Himiko Toga, Katsuki Bakugo nearly dies against Shigaraki, and All Might, without a Quirk, prepares to face All For One. The You're Next film is set in this season. It follows season 6 and ends mid-battle.

How My Hero Academia Season 7 ends

My Hero Academia season 7 ends with the episode "Battle Without a Quirk". Himiko Toga gives Ochaco her own blood to save her and dies, and All Might, Quirkless in an armored suit, fights All For One with support gear named for each student of Class 1-A, as the war continues into season 8.

No. 11 · 2024 · Film · optional

My Hero Academia: You're Next recap

My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024) pits Izuku Midoriya against Dark Might, a mafia boss who sets out to replace All Might as the Symbol of Peace. Directed by Tensai Okamura from a script by Yosuke Kuroda, the fourth film is an original story set during season 7, after the U.A. traitor episodes. Valdo of the Gollini family uses Anna Scervino, a girl whose Quirk boosts other Quirks, to swallow Class 1-A and a city into a giant flying fortress. Izuku teams up with Giulio Gandini, Anna's bodyguard, whose own power can hold hers in check, as the class fights its way through the fortress. Giulio carries a promise to kill Anna if her Quirk ever runs out of control. Watch it after season 7's traitor episodes.

How My Hero Academia: You're Next ends

My Hero Academia: You're Next ends with Izuku, Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki beating Dark Might as Anna's Quirk overloads the fortress. Izuku destroys it, and Giulio's Quirk absorbs Anna's, leaving her Quirkless and free, and Anna talks Giulio into staying with her. A final scene shows All For One waiting as Shigaraki wakes.

No. 12 · 2025 · Series · optional

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes recap

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (2025) follows Koichi Haimawari, a college student who uses his gliding Quirk to help people without a Hero license. Set five years before Izuku Midoriya enters U.A., the Bones Film series aired on Tokyo MX from April to June 2025 and from January to March 2026, 26 episodes in all, directed by Kenichi Suzuki and based on the spin-off manga by Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court. After thugs attack Koichi and the street performer Kazuho Haneyama, the brutal vigilante Knuckleduster saves them and takes them on as his crew, with Koichi as The Crawler and Kazuho as Pop Step. In the Naruhata district they fight dealers of a Quirk-boosting drug that turns users into monsters, cross paths with All Might and the detective Naomasa Tsukauchi, and uncover the people behind the drug. The prequel shows the street-level world the main series only glimpses and works best after it.

How My Hero Academia: Vigilantes ends

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes ends with the episode "Graduation and Career Path", after All Might saves the collapsing Sky Egg tower and Knuckleduster faces the villain known as Number 6, who carries the speed Quirk of Knuckleduster's old enemy. Detective Tsukauchi lets Koichi off for his vigilantism in thanks for his help. The story then jumps two years: Koichi is a respected figure in Naruhata as The Crawler and is in his final year of college.

No. 13 · 2025 · Series

My Hero Academia Season 8 recap

My Hero Academia season 8 (2025) is the final season, finishing the war with All For One and Tomura Shigaraki and ending the series. The 11 episodes aired from October 4 to December 13, 2025, on ytv and NTV, and cover the last three volumes of the manga, with new scenes from Kohei Horikoshi. Izuku Midoriya fights Shigaraki above the city while the battle is broadcast across Japan, passing the Quirks inside One For All into him to reach Tenko Shimura, the boy beneath the villain. All Might and Katsuki Bakugo face All For One, and the other fights across the battlefield end. The last three episodes are an epilogue about rebuilding, the families and what each character does next. It follows season 7 directly.

How My Hero Academia Season 8 ends

My Hero Academia ends with the episode "My Hero Academia". Izuku reaches Tenko, but All For One takes over again; with every hero and Class 1-A backing him, Izuku smashes him apart, and Tenko dies. Eight years later, Izuku is 24 and a Quirkless teacher at U.A., until All Might gives him a suit built by Mei Hatsume and Melissa Shield so he can be a hero again. A television special adapting the manga's bonus final chapter premiered on May 2, 2026.

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My Hero Academia Season 8 (2025) is the latest. My Hero Academia ends with the episode "My Hero Academia". Izuku reaches Tenko, but All For One takes over again; with every hero and Class 1-A backing him, Izuku smashes him apart, and Tenko dies. Eight years later, Izuku is 24 and a Quirkless teacher at U.A., until All Might gives him a suit built by Mei Hatsume and Melissa Shield so he can be a hero again. A television special adapting the manga's bonus final chapter premiered on May 2, 2026.

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