My Hero Academia Season 9: Canceled or Renewed? The Real Status
Eight explosive seasons down—will My Hero Academia power up for Season 9 or is this the end of Deku’s journey? Here’s the latest on the anime’s future.
Quick gut-check for anyone wondering if My Hero Academia is coming back: after eight seasons of Deku and friends pushing through absolute chaos, the anime wraps it up. No cliffhanger. No tease. Just a proper ending.
The short version
- There is no Season 9. The show ends with Season 8, which adapts the Final War Arc from Kohei Horikoshi's manga.
- The series finale, titled "My Hero Academia," aired December 13, 2025.
- Total count: eight seasons, 181 episodes.
- You can stream the whole run on Crunchyroll.
So why did people ask about a renewal?
Because the show never got "canceled" in the dramatic sense. It finished the story it set out to tell. That means there was nothing to renew or cancel after Season 8—just a curtain call.
How the finale lands
The last episode opens on a tough note: a young boy with a controllable Quirk, shaped by abuse at home, runs away and spirals into jealousy watching everyone else live easy. Just as he’s about to snap, an older woman steps in and offers help. It’s a small moment, but it tees up what the show cares about most: people choosing to help each other before things get ugly.
Then we jump eight years after the final battle. The world is finally calm. Izuku 'Deku' Midoriya is a teacher at U.A. High—and he’s quirkless, having lost his powers in that last fight. Over at a nearby junior high, a kid named Dai wrestles with whether he has it in him to be a hero. Deku meets him, listens, and gives him the kind of straight talk he needed: wanting to help is the core of being a hero, powers or not.
There’s one last swing: All Might drops by with an armor rig he built using data from Deku’s past fights, with some help from Hatsume and Bakugo. The suit would let Deku join the frontline again. Deku accepts, tears and all, suits up, reconnects with allies around the city, and heads out. It’s a clean sendoff that puts a period on his journey while leaving the door cracked for... well, life.
Final note
If you’ve been waiting to binge it all in one go, this is your moment. Eight seasons, full arc, done—and yes, the ending goes for heart over spectacle in a way that might surprise you.