My Hero Academia season 2

The 2017 season: the U.A. Sports Festival, the Hero Killer Stain and the final exams.

My Hero Academia season 2 is the second season of the anime, produced by Bones and directed by Kenji Nagasaki, with Yōsuke Kuroda handling series composition, Yoshihiko Umakoshi designing the characters and Yuki Hayashi composing the music. It adapts Kōhei Horikoshi's manga from the rest of the 3rd volume to the end of the 8th, covering the "U.A. Sports Festival" (chapters 22-44), "Vs. Hero Killer" (chapters 45-59) and "Final Exams" (chapters 60-69) arcs, and aired from April 1 to September 30, 2017, on ytv and NTV in Japan.

Quick Facts

Episodes: 25
Network: ytv, NTV
First aired: 1 April 2017
Last aired: 30 September 2017

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Background

The season follows Izuku Midoriya as he and his classmates get the chance to show off their Quirks at the Sports Festival, where Pro Heroes can hire the students as interns. Matters worsen in Hosu City when Stain appears, leading to a confrontation with the League of Villains and the young Hero interns. Near the end of the first semester the Class 1-A students face their teachers in combat during the final exams, and Izuku and Bakugo must set aside their differences to take on their idol.

Toho released the season on DVD and Blu-ray in eight compilations of two to four episodes between July 19, 2017, and February 14, 2018. Funimation licensed it for North America and released it in two compilations on April 3 and June 5, 2018, with FunimationNow, Crunchyroll and Hulu streaming it outside Asia as it aired and Animax Asia simulcasting it the same day; Funimation's dub ran on Adult Swim's Toonami block from August 11, 2018, to February 24, 2019. Sony Pictures UK distributed the season in the United Kingdom and Ireland on standard edition DVD and Blu-ray volumes between April 2 and June 11, 2018. Universal Sony distributed it in Australia and New Zealand in limited edition volumes between May 9 and June 13, 2018.

Four pieces of theme music are used: the first opening, for the first thirteen episodes, is "Peace Sign" by Kenshi Yonezu, with the first ending performed by Little Glee Monster, while amazarashi performs the second opening and LiSA the second ending.