My Hero Academia Season 2

Season 2
Staff
Director	Kenji Nagasaki
Script Writer	Yōsuke Kuroda
Character Designer(s)	Yoshihiko Umakoshi Hitomi Odashima (Assistant)
Composer	Yuki Hayashi
Studio	Bones
Statistics
Original Run	March 25, 2017 (Episode 13.5) JP: April 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017 EN: August 11, 2018 - February 24, 2019
Episodes	25 + Recap
Chapters Adapted	Chapter 21 - 70
Timeslot	NTV/YTV (Saturdays at 5:30PM JST) Adult Swim (Toonami: Saturdays at 11:30PM (Episode 14-30); Sundays at 12:00AM (Episode 31-38) EST)
Streamer(s)	Funimation (Dubbed) Crunchyroll, Hulu (Subtitled) VRV (via Funimation and Crunchyroll)
Sequence
Previous	← Season 1
Next	Season 3 →

Season 2 of the My Hero Academia anime aired from April 1, 2017 to September 30, 2017, covering U.A.'s popular Sports Festival, the a Hero Killer named Stain, and students fighting their teachers for Final Exams. It acts as a sequel to the first season, and was followed by a third season.

Summary

The season is comprised of 25 episodes, covering the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, the Vs. Hero Killer Arc, and the Final Exams Arc.

Production

Characters that were introduced and cast this season are as follow:

Cast (Japanese)

Heroes

• Wataru Hatano as Hitoshi Shinso
• Kōji Okino as Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and Gunhead
• Miho Sakurazaka as Ibara Shiozaki
• Kōsuke Kuwano as Hiryu Rin
• Masamichi Kitada as Juzo Honenuki and Tensei Ida
• Kaede Hondo as Pony Tsunotori
• Masakazu Nishida as Sen Kaibara, Kosei Tsuburaba and Ectoplasm
• Saki Ogasawara as Itsuka Kendo
• Kenta Ōkuma as Nirengeki Shoda and Manual
• Kōhei Amasaki as Neito Monoma
• Takuma Nagatsuka as Koji Koda
• Tetsu Inada as Endeavor
• Shuhei Matsuda as Vlad King
• Yō Kitazawa as Power Loader
• Kenichi Ogata as Gran Torino
• Hikaru Midorikawa as Best Jeanist
• Takahiro Fujiwara as Fourth Kind
• Mai Yamane as Uwabami
• KENN as Native
• Ryōta Takeuchi as Kenji Tsuragamae
• Tomokazu Seki as Selkie
• Ami Koshimizu as Sirius
• Keiichi Nakagawa as Mick

Villains

• Go Inoue as Stain
• Seirou Ogino as Giran
• Hiro Shimono as Dabi
• Misato Fukuen as Himiko Toga
• Akio Ōtsuka as All For One
• Minoru Inaba as Daruma Ujiko
• Anri Katsu as Innsmouth
• Akio Suyama as Karasu
• Ryōta Iwasaki as Tonbi

Others

• Shiori Sakurai as Mei Hatsume
• Michiko Neya as Rei Todoroki
• Kei Shindō as Fuyumi Todoroki and Shoto Todoroki (Child)
• Go Inoue as Daikaku Miyagi
• Eri Kitamura as Tenya's Mother
• Rieko Eba as Ochako's Mother
• Shuhei Matsuda as Ochako's Father

Cast (English)

Heroes

• Jarrod Greene as Hitoshi Shinso
• David Wald as Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
• Bryn Apprill as Ibara Shiozaki
• Anthony Bowling as Hiryu Rin
• Dallas Reid as Juzo Honenuki and Nirengeki Shoda
• Sarah Wiedenheft as Pony Tsunotori
• Ian Ferguson as Sen Kaibara
• Aaron Dismuke as Kosei Tsuburaba
• Jad Saxton as Itsuka Kendo
• Austin Tindle asNeito Monoma
• Patrick Seitz as Endeavor
• Phil Parsons as Tensei Ida
• Brandon Potter as Gunhead
• Ben Bryant as Vlad King
• David Wilson-Brown as Power Loader
• Mike McFarland as Ectoplasm
• Charles C. Campbell as Gran Torino
• Ethan Gallardo as Manual
• Micah Solusod as Best Jeanist
• Jason Douglas as Fourth Kind
• Anastasia Muñoz as Uwabami
• Josh Martin as Native
• Chris Guerrero as Kenji Tsuragamae
• Ray Hurd as Selkie
• Emily Neves as Sirius
• Mikaela Krantz as Shoto Todoroki (Child)

Villains

• Robert McCollum as Stain
• Ben Phillips as Giran
• Jason Liebrecht as Dabi
• Leah Clark as Himiko Toga
• John Swasey as All For One
• Mark Stoddard as Daruma Ujiko
• Tyson Rinehart as Innsmouth
• Matt Grounds as Karasu
• Chris Burnett as Tonbi
• Terri Doty as Monko

Others

• Alexis Tipton as Mei Hatsume
• Morgan Garrett as Rei Todoroki
• Kate Oxley as Fuyumi Todoroki
• Tyson Rinehart as Daikaku Miyagi
• Amanda Gish as Koda's Mother
• Rachel Robinson as Tenya's Mother
• Rachel Thompson as Ochako's Mother
• Garret Storms as Ochako's Father

English Recasts

• Christopher Wehkamp as Shota Aizawa (Season 2-Present)
• David Trosko as Present Mic (Eps. 17-present/ Season 2 redubs)
• Luci Christian as Recovery Girl (Season 2-present)

Crew

• Director - Kenji Nagasaki
• Script Writer - Yōsuke Kuroda
• Composer - Yuki Hayashi
• Character Designer - Yoshihiko Umakoshi
  • Assitant Designer - Hitomi Odashima
• Opening/Ending Directors:
  • Yasuyuki Kai - (OP 1)
  • Tomo Ōkubo - (OP 2)
  • Naomi Nakayama - (ED 1)
  • Hiroko Utsumi - (ED 2)
• Episode Directors:
  • Tetsuya Miyanishi (Episodes 1, 18 and 23)
  • Tomo Ōkubo (Episodes 15, 20, 28, 34 and 37)
  • Hitomi Ezoe (Episodes 16, 22 and 29)
    • Sayaka Ikeda (Episodes 29)
  • Takudai Kakuchi (Episodes 17, 26, 31, 35 and 38)
  • Yōhei Fukui (Episode 19)
  • Tōru Yoshida (Episode 11)
  • Yūji Ōya (Episode 27)
  • Ikuro Sato (Episode 32)
  • Takayuki Yamamoto (Episode 33)
  • Nobutaka Yoda (Episode 13.5)
  • Saka Ikeda (Episode 29)
  • Satoshi Takafuji (Episodes, 21, 25, 30 and 36)
  • Setsumu Doukawa (Episodes 14, 18 and 23)
• Storyboard Artists:
  • Yasuyuki Kai - (OP 1)
  • Kenji Nagasaki - (OP 2, Episode 14)
    • Seiji Mizushima - (OP 2)
  • Naomi Nakayama - (ED 1)
  • Hiroko Utsumi - (ED 2)
  • Kō Matsuo - (Episodes 15, 17, 21, 27, 33 and 38)
  • Shinji Ishihira - (Episodes 16, 22 and 34)
  • Ken Ōtsuka - (Episodes 18, 24, 25, 30 and 36)
  • Seiji Mizushima - (Episodes 19 and 31)
  • Tomo Ōkubo - (Episodes 20 and 28)
  • Shinji Satō - (Episodes 23, 32 and 37)
  • Satomi Nakamura - (Episode 26)
  • Michio Fukuda - (Episodes 29 and 35)

Episodes

Story Arc	# of Episodes	Original Air Date
U.A. Sports Festival Arc	12 (Episodes 14 to 25)	Japanese: April 1, 2017 - June 17, 2017 English: August 11, 2018 - November 3, 2018
Vs. Hero Killer Arc	8 (Episodes 26 to 33)	Japanese: June 24, 2017 - August 19, 2017 English: November 10, 2018 - January 20, 2019
Final Exams Arc	5 (Episodes 34 to 38)	Japanese: September 2, 2017 - September 30, 2017 English: January 27, 2019 - February 24, 2019

Soundtrack

Opening Themes

• Episodes 14-26: 「Peace Sign」 by Kenshi Yonezu
• Episodes 27-38: 「Singin' to the Sky」 by amazarashi

Ending Themes

• Episode 14-26: 「That's Why I'm Not Alone」 by Little Glee Monster
• Episode 27-37: 「'Cause You're My Hero.」 by LiSA

Promotional Material

Key Visuals

Key Visual #1

Key Visual #2

Key Visual #3

Key Visual #4

Key Visual #5

BD/DVD Covers

Vol.1
Episodes 14-17

Vol.2
Episodes 18-20

Vol.3
Episodes 21-23

Vol.4
Episodes 24-26

Vol.5
Episodes 27-29

Vol.6
Episodes 30-32

Vol.7
Episodes 33-35

Vol.8
Episodes 36-38

Character Designs

Class 1-A

Izuku's updated character design sheet.

Class 1-B

Itsuka's character design sheet.

Neito's character design sheet.

Tetsutetsu's character design sheet.

Kosei's character design sheet.

Sen's character design sheet.

Reiko's character design sheet.

Setsuna's character design sheet.

Manga's character design sheet.

Kojiro's character design sheet.

Jurota's character design sheet.

Kinoko's character design sheet.

Shihai's character design sheet.

Hiryu's character design sheet.

Juzo's character design sheet.

Nirengeki's character design sheet.

Yosetsu's character design sheet.

Pony's character design sheet.

Togaru's character design sheet.

Class 1-C

Hitoshi's character design sheet.

Class 1-H

Mei's character design sheet.

Pro Heroes

Endeavor's character design sheet.

Villains

Himiko's character design sheet.

Dabi's character design sheet.

Innsmouth's character design sheet.

Promotional Videos

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』TVアニメ第2期PV第1弾

The first PV of the second season.

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』TVアニメ第2期PV第2弾

The 2nd PV of the second season.

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』TVアニメ新シリーズPV第3弾＜OPテーマ：「ピースサイン」米津玄師＞

The 3rd PV of the second season, featuring the opening "Peace Sign".

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』第2期第2クールPV（ヒロアカ新OPテーマ：「空に歌えば」amazarashi）

The 4th PV of the second season, featuring the second opening "Singin' to the Sky".

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』×米津玄師「ピースサイン」スペシャルミュージックビデオ

Animated music video featuring the opening "Peace Sign".

Trivia

• A change was made for the Final Exams Arc in the anime, as each would happen after one another, instead of at the same time in the manga, making this the first major change in adaption until Season 5's arc switch.