My Hero Academia fans get two new OVAs before Season 5 of the anime series hit the TV sets. The makers are working on the fifth season but are set to release two specials for the fans.
Warning: Spoilers from the series.
The Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #35 announced that My Hero Academia will be releasing an original anime episode for fans on Sunday, Aug. 16.
The anime will be available for live streaming exclusively on Hulu in Japan, Anime News Network reported. Meanwhile, fans in the U.S. can watch the new My Hero Academia original episodes on Funimation and Hulu. The episode will release in Japanese with English subtitles.
The episode is called Boku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren, which is translated as Survive! Do-or-Die Survival Training.
The premise of this special episode is before the students try to get their provisional license.
The official synopsis for the episode teases that just before the Provisional License Exam, Class A is divided into two different teams and they are instructed to participate in disaster training.
The mission is to save dolls, who are posing as civilians, who are trapped in an underground mall that is burning, Twitter user Aitaikimochi posted.
Izuku Midoriya is part of Team A and they further split up to look for survivors. However, in the middle of the rescue mission, the establishment crumbles and traps the students.
Now, they face the peril of the mall collapsing on them. There is no electricity and oxygen is low. Meanwhile, some of the students are wounded. The heroes cannot afford to lose any more time and Deku must team up with other students and regroup. Only by working as a team, they can come out of the collapsing structure in time. It will be interesting to see if they can come out of it.
The cast of My Hero Academia anime includes Daiki Yamashita as Izuku Midoriya, Kenta Miyake as All Might, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Katsuki Bakugō, Shinichiro Miki as Sir Nighteye, Tarusuke Shingaki as Mirio Togata, Aoi Yūki as Tsuyu Asui, Ayane Sakura as Ochaco Uraraka, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Present Mic, Eri Kitamura as Mina Ashido, Junichi Suwabe as Shota Aizawa, Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida, Kaori Nazuka as Toru Hagakure, Ryou Hirohashi as Minoru Mineta, Yuuki Kaji as Shōto Todoroki, Yūichi Nakamura as Hawks, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Fumikage Tokoyami and Tsuguo Mogami as Mr. Compress.