My Hero Academia Season 3

Season 3
Staff
Director	Kenji Nagasaki
Script Writer	Yōsuke Kuroda
Character Designer(s)	Yoshihiko Umakoshi Hitomi Odashima (Assistant)
Composer	Yuki Hayashi
Studio	Bones
Statistics
Original Run	JP: April 7, 2018 - September 29, 2018 EN: March 3, 2019 - August 18, 2019
Episodes	25
Chapters Adapted	Chapter 70 - 124
Timeslot	NTV/YTV (Saturdays at 5:30PM JST) Adult Swim (Toonami: Sundays at 12:00AM (Episode 39-44); Saturdays at 11:30PM (Episode 45-50); 10:30PM (Episode 51-56); Sundays at 3:30AM (Episode 57-63) EST)
Streamer(s)	Funimation, Hulu (Dubbed) Crunchyroll (Subtitled) VRV (via Funimation and Crunchyroll)
Sequence
Previous	← Season 2
Next	Season 4 →

Season 3 of the My Hero Academia anime was announced in the 44th issue of the 2017 Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. It began airing in Japan on April 7, 2018 to September 29, 2018, covering an camp invasion of Villains, the battle of an old foe for All Might, and Class 1-A trying to earn their Provisional Hero Licenses. It acts as a sequel to the second season, and was followed by a fourth season.

Summary

"Summer is here, and the heroes of Class 1-A and 1-B are in for the toughest training camp of their lives! A group of seasoned pros pushes everyone’s Quirks to new heights as the students face one overwhelming challenge after another. Braving the elements in this secret location becomes the least of their worries when routine training turns into a critical struggle for survival."

The season is comprised of 25 episodes, covering the Forest Training Camp Arc, Hideout Raid Arc,and the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc, along with the beginnings of the Shie Hassaikai Arc.

Production

This season retains the same core staff and studio as the previous ones, except with the addition of Hitomi Odashima being listed as an assistant character designer. At a panel for an event held in October of 2017, the staff revealed that the season was being handled by Bones’ sub-studio C, which had previously worked on the anime's second season. The sub-studio had already begun production on the season at the time of the announcement. This season remained in the same time slot that the second season had previously occupied, airing every Saturday at 5:30pm in Japan on the Nippon TV (NTV) and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV) stations.

The cast members for the characters introduced in this season of the anime are as follow:

Cast (Japanese)

Heroes

• Meiko Kawasaki as Mandalay
• Chisa Sagunama as Ragdoll
• Shinosuke Ogami as Tiger
• Serina Machiyama as Pixie-Bob
• Mie Sonozaki as Nana Shimura
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yosetsu Awase
• Aoi Yūki as Setsuna Tokage
• Yurianne Eve as Yui Kodai
• Junichi Suwabe as Jurota Shishida
• Ayane Sakura as Reiko Yanagi
• Shuhei Matsuda as Gang Orca
• Kenta Kamakari as Edgeshot
• Eiji Hanawa as Hound Dog
• Mariko Nagai as Ms. Joke
• Yūta Kasuya as Yo Shindo
• Megumi Han as Tatami Nakagame
• Kenta Ōkuma as Itejiro Toteki
• Hiromichi Kogami as Shikkui Makabe
• Minori Chihara as Camie Utsushimi
• Ryōta Iwasaki as Inasa Yoarashi
• Makoto Furukawa as Seiji Shishikura
• Volcano Ōta as Nagamasa Mora
• Reina Ueda as Saiko Intelli
• Tarusuke Shingaki as Mirio Togata
• Kiyono Yasuno as Nejire Hado
• Yuto Uemura as Tamaki Amajiki
• Shin-ichiro Miki as Sir Nighteye
• Rie Murakawa as Bubble Girl

Villains

• Kiyotaka Furushima as Mustard
• Shuhei Matsuda as Moonfish
• Kousuke Takaguchi as Muscular
• Daichi Endō as Twice
• Tsuguo Mogami as Mr. Compress
• Ryō Iwasaki as Spinner
• Satoru Inoue as Magne
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Overhaul
• Takumi Asahina as Chronostasis

Others

• Michiru Yamazaki as Kota Izumi
• Shiori Sakurai as Moko Tamashi
• Kōji Hiwatari as Kyotoku Jiro
• Akeno Watanabe as Mika Jiro
• Yuka Adachi as Mitsuki Bakugo
• Taichi Takeda as Masaru Bakugo
• Masami Iwasaki as Yokumiru Mera
• Mirai Shida as Melissa Shield
• Ryōhei Kimura as David Shield (Young)
• Kenichirō Matsuda as Shiketsu High Teacher

Cast (English)

Heroes

• Jill Harris as Mandalay
• Tia Ballard as Ragdoll
• Marcus Stimac as Tiger
• Cherami Leigh as Pixie-Bob
• Stephanie Young as Nana Shimura
• Orion Pitts as Yosetsu Awase
• Dawn M. Bennett as Setsuna Tokage
• Patric Carroll as Jurota Shishida
• Ryan Reynolds as Reiko Yanagi
• Madeleine Morris as Yui Kodai
• Tyler Walker as Gang Orca
• John Burgmeier as Edgeshot
• Zach Bolton as Hound Dog
• Amber Lee Connors as Ms. Joke
• Bryce Papenbrook as Yo Shindo
• Kristen McGuire as Tatami Nakagame
• Lee George as Itejiro Toteki
• Brad Hawkins as Shikkui Makabe
• Brittney Karbowski as Camie Utsushimi
• Matt Shipman as Inasa Yoarashi
• Stephen Fu as Seiji Shishikura
• Randy E. Aguebor (Ep.56)/Jim Johnson (Ep. 59 - 60) as Nagamasa Mora
• Jeannie Tirado as Saiko Intelli
• Blake Shepard as Red Seijin High School Student
• Ricco Fajardo as Mirio Togata
• Lindsay Seidel as Nejire Hado
• Aaron Dismuke as Tamaki Amajiki
• Brandon McInnis as Sir Nighteye
• Kara Edwards as Bubble Girl

Villains

• Daman Mills as Mustard, Moonfish and Nomu (Chainsaw)
• Tyler Walker as Gang Orca
• Jim Foronda as Muscular
• Newton Pittman as Twice
• Kent Williams as Mr. Compress
• Larry Brantley as Spinner
• Jeremy Inman as Magne
• Kellen Goff as Kai Chisaki
• Anthony Bowling as Chronostasis
• Chris Gardner as Team Reservoir Dogs Yellow

Others

• Cassandra Lee Morris as Kota Izumi
• Jeannie Tirado as Moko Tamashi
• Bryan Massey as Kyotoku Jiro
• Katelyn Barr as Mika Jiro
• Rachel Glass as Mitsuki Bakugo
• Patrick McAlister as Masaru Bakugo
• Kenny Green as Yokumiru Mera
• Erica Mendez as Melissa Shield
• Ray Chase as David Shield (Young)

English Recasts

• Matt Shipman as Sen Kaibara

Crew

• Director - Kenji Nagasaki
• Script Writer - Yōsuke Kuroda
• Composer - Yuki Hayashi
• Character Designer - Yoshihiko Umakoshi
  • Assistant Designer - Hitomi Odashima
• Opening/Ending Directors:
  • Masahiro Mukai - (OP 1)
  • Shinji Satō - (OP 2)
  • Naomi Nakayama - (ED 1 and 2)
• Episode Directors:
  • Takudai Kakuchi - (Episode 39)
  • Tomo Ōkubo - (Episodes 40, 45, 60 and 62)
  • Tetsuya Miyanishi - (Episodes 41, 46, 49, 51, 54 and 58)
  • Shōji Ikeno - (Episodes 42, 44, 50 and 56)
  • Naoki Hishikawa - (Episode 43)
  • Yūsuke Kamata - (Episode 47)
  • Yūji Ōya - (Episode 48)
  • Satoshi Takafuji - (Episode 52)
  • Masahiro Mukai - (Episodes 53 and 57)
  • Takahiro Hasui - (Episode 55)
  • Ikuro Sato - (Episode 59)
  • Masashi Abe - (Episode 61)
    • Shōji Ikeno - (Episode 61)
  • Kenji Nagasaki - (Episode 63)
• Storyboard Artists:
  • Iwao Teraoka - (OP 1)
  • Shinji Satō - (OP 2, Episode 40, 44, 58, 59 and 61)
  • Naomi Nakayama - (ED 1 and 2)
  • Takudai Kakuchi - (Episode 39)
  • Tomo Ōkubo - (Episode 45)
  • Satoshi Matsumoto - (Episode 41)
  • Michio Fukuda - (Episode 42)
  • Ken Ōtsuka - (Episodes 43 and 47)
  • Shinji Ishihira - (Episodes 46, 48, 49, 52, 55, 57, 60 and 62)
  • Satomi Nakamura - (Episode 50)
  • Takashi Kawabata - (Episode 51)
  • Kō Matsuo - (Episode 53)
  • Motonobu Hori- (Episode 54)
  • Atsushi Takahashi - (Episode 56)
  • Kenji Nagasaki - (Episode 63)

History

Days before the announcement page in the Jump magazine was released, the final episode of Season 2 confirmed a third season of the anime being in the works upon airing. FUNimation Entertainment announced at its panel at New York Comic Con on October 5, 2017 that they will stream the season in 2018.

A fan event held on November 26, 2017 confirmed that the season would premiere in April, with the unveiling of the season's first key visual. The visual, featuring Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, and All Might, was drawn by Yoshihiko Umakoshi in order to commemorate the event. The tenth 2018 issue of the Jump magazine further revealed the season's premiere date to be on April 7, 2018. The news of this date was also featured on the wraparound jacket band of the third volume of the spinoff manga, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes. A second visual for the season, featuring students of Class 1-A facing off against the League of Villains, was revealed on the official website for the anime. The visual was also featured in the Jump magazine’s twelfth 2018 issue.

The character designs and the cast members for both Kota Izumi and the Wild, Wild Pussycats were first officially shown in the ninth issue of the 2018 Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. They had been previously teased by the anime's official Twitter, and were fully revealed upon the issue's publication. The eleventh issue of the magazine followed a similar suit, revealing the character designs and voice actors for three villains new to the anime: Mustard, Moonfish, and Muscular. Twice, Spinner, Mr. Compress, and Magne eventually had both their designs and their voice actors announced with the release of the fifteenth issue of Jump.

A promotional video for this season was first shown on December 16, 2017 at Jump Festa 2018, before being streamed on the anime’s official website the very same day. A second promotional video was first shown on television on March 3, 2018 at 5:30PM JST, before being streamed on the website.

At a press release on March 5, 2018, Funimation announced that the season will receive an English dub. A trailer, featuring dubbed footage of the first promotional video, was uploaded to the company's YouTube channel on the same day. The dub will simultaneously premiere with the original Japanese broadcast for the first six episodes, like that of Season 2. Funimation also revealed that the season's subtitled broadcast will stream on both Crunchyroll and Hulu.

Episodes

This season ran for two cours, or 25 episodes, as confirmed by Funimation on March 5, 2018. The first episode of the series, however, is a recap episode containing anime-original content partially based off Chapter 49.5.

Story Arc	# of Episodes	Original Air Date
Forest Training Camp Arc	7 (Episodes 39 to 45)	Japanese: April 7, 2018 - May 19, 2018 English: March 3, 2019 - April 13, 2019
Hideout Raid Arc	5 (Episodes 46 to 50)	Japanese: May 26, 2018 - June 23, 2018 English: April 20, 2019 - May 18, 2019
Provisional Hero License Exam Arc	11 (Episodes 51 to 61)	Japanese: June 30, 2018 - September 15, 2018 English: May 25, 2019 - August 4, 2019
Shie Hassaikai Arc	2 (Episodes 62 to 63)	Japanese: September 22, 2018 - September 29, 2018 English: August 11, 2019 - August 18, 2019

Soundtrack

Opening Themes

• Episodes 39–51: 「ODD FUTURE」 by UVERworld
• Episodes 52–63: 「Make my story」 by Lenny (レニー) code (コード) fiction (フィクション)

Ending Themes

• Episodes 39–51: 「Update」 by miwa
• Episodes 52–63: 「Long Hope Philia」 by Masaki Suda

Original Soundtrack

• 僕のヒーローアカデミア 2018 オリジナル・サウンドトラック (My Hero Academia 2018 Original Soundtrack) by Yuki Hayashi

Promotional Material

The Season 3 announcement page.

Teaser frame released by the official Twitter account for the anime.

Weekly Shonen Jump page featuring the anime’s designs for both the Wild, Wild Pussycats and Kota Izumi.

A special Valentine's Day-themed Jump page, which first revealed the season's airdate to be April 7.

Shonen Jump page first revealing the anime's designs for Muscular, Mustard, and Moonfish.

Jump page revealing the second key visual for the season.

Jump page revealing the artists for the season's opening and ending themes.

Jump page featuring screenshots from the season's second promotional video.

Jump page first revealing the anime's designs for Twice, Mr. Compress, Spinner and Magne.

Promotional page number 3.

A promotional page uploaded by Yonko Productions on March 30, 2018.

A promotional poster for the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc, introducing characters such as Camie and Inasa.

Jump page first revealing the anime's designs for Mirio Togata, Nejire Hado, and Tamaki Amajiki.

Key Visuals

Teaser Key Visual

Key Visual #1

Go For It! All Might!! Key Visual.

Go For It! All Might!! Key Visual 2.

Go For It! All Might!! Key Visual 3.

2nd Key Visual #2

BD/DVD Covers

Vol.1
Episodes 39-42

Vol.2
Episodes 43-45

Vol.3
Episodes 46-48

Vol.4
Episodes 49-51

Vol.5
Episodes 52-54

Vol.6
Episodes 55-57

Vol.7
Episodes 58-60

Vol.8
Episodes 61-63

Character Designs

Wild, Wild Pussycats

Ryuko's character design sheet.

Shino's colored character design sheet.

Tomoko's colored character design sheet.

Yawara's colored character design sheet.

Kota's colored character design sheet.

Vanguard Action Squad

Muscular's character design sheet.

Mustard's character design sheet.

Moonfish's character design sheet.

Twice's character design sheet.

Mr. Compress's character design sheet.

Spinner's character design sheet.

Magne's character design sheet.

Class 1-A

Izuku's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Ochaco's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Tenya's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Mina's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Koji's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Katsuki's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Eijiro's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Kyoka's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Denki's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Momo's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Shoto's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Rikido's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Mezo's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Toru's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Hanta's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Minoru's casual camp outfit design sheet.

Pro Heroes

Kugo's character design sheet.

Shinya's character design sheet.

Villains

All For One's character design sheet.

Shiketsu High Students

Inasa's character design sheet.

Camie's character design sheet.

Seiji's character design sheet.

The Big 3

Mirio's character design sheet.

Nejire's character design sheet.

Tamaki's character design sheet.

Shie Hassaikai

Kai's character design sheet.

Promotional Videos

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』（ヒロアカ）TVアニメ第3期制作決定CM

The Season 3 announcement video.

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』（ヒロアカ）TVアニメ第3期PV第1弾

The first Promotional Video for the third season.

『僕のヒーローアカデミア』（ヒロアカ）TVアニメ第3期PV第2弾／OPテーマ：「ODD FUTURE」UVERworld

The second Promotional Video for the third season.

My Hero Academia Season 3 PV SimulDub

The English dubbed trailer for the third season.

ヒロアカ最新PV)『僕のヒーローアカデミア』TVアニメ第3期PV第4弾／OPテーマ：「Make my story」Lenny code fiction

The fourth Promotional Video for the third season.

Trivia

• Both UVERworld and Miwa have also performed opening themes for different seasons of Bleach, another highly popular Weekly Shonen Jump title.
• The second promotional video was released during the airing of Time Bokan: The Villains' Strike Back. Time Bokan had previously aired in the same timeslot that this season is currently airing in.
• This is the last season where Kenji Nagasaki serves as the director, becoming the chief director for the rest of the series.