My Hero Academia (season 1)


The first season of the My Hero Academia anime series was produced by Bones and MBS and directed by Kenji Nagasaki. It adapts Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga from the beginning of the first to shortly after the third volume over 13 episodes, following the first adventures of Izuku Midoriya.
The season initially ran from April 3 to June 26, 2016, on MBS in Japan, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in five compilations, each containing two to three episodes, by Toho between June 29 and October 12, 2016. Funimation licensed the series for an English dubbed release in North America and released the episodes in a single DVD and Blu-Ray compilation on April 18, 2017. Eventually, their adaptation ran from May 5 to August 4, 2018, on Adult Swim as part of their Toonami block.
Two pieces of theme music are used for this season: an opening theme and an ending theme. The opening theme is "The Day", performed by Porno Graffitti and the ending theme is "Heroes", performed by Brian the Sun.

Episode list


Home video release

Japanese

released the series on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan on five volumes, with the first volume being released on June 29, 2016, and the last volume being released on October 12, 2016.

English

The series was released in North America by Funimation, who released a limited edition combo set, a standard combo set, and a DVD set on April 18, 2017. Funimation also released the series in Australia and New Zealand through Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, where it received a limited edition combo release. Universal Sony later released standard editions of the DVD and Blu-ray in Australia and New Zealand on August 15, 2018. Funimation later released the series in Australia and New Zealand via Madman Entertainment, with the combo release scheduled for December 4, 2019. In the UK and Ireland, Funimation distributed the limited edition combo release through Universal Pictures UK on May 15, 2019, and the standard edition DVD and Blu-ray through Manga Entertainment on June 10, 2019.

Reception

This is the ratings for the first season of My Hero Academia, which aired on Toonami in the US.