My Hero Academia (season 3)

My Hero Academia (season 3)
The third season of the My Hero Academia anime television series was produced by Bones and directed by Kenji Nagasaki, with Yōsuke Kuroda handling series composition, Yoshihiko Umakoshi providing character designs and Yuki Hayashi composed the music. Like the rest of the series, it adapts Kōhei Horikoshi's original manga series of the same name from the rest of the 8th volume through the beginning of the 14th volume over 25 episodes. It covers the "Forest Training Camp" (chapters 70–83), "Hideout Raid" (chapters 84–97), "Provisional Hero License Exam" (chapters 98–121), and the beginning of "Shie Hassaikai" arc (chapters 122–124).
The season follows Izuku Midoriya and his classmates from U.A. High, a prestigious high school for heroes in training. The students facing their struggles and challenges as they fight for their survival during a training camp and a quest to save one of their classmates. The second half of the season focuses on the students' preparation for the Provisional Hero License Exam, a test that allows the students to obtain a Hero License and take part of their Hero-Work Studies as full-fledged Heroes.
The season ran from April 7 to September 29, 2018, on ytv and NTV in Japan, and Toho released the season on DVD and Blu-ray in eight compilations, each containing two to four episodes, between July 18, 2018, and February 13, 2019. Funimation licensed the season for an English-language release in North America and released the first compilation on May 7, 2019. FunimationNow is streaming the season in Simuldub, while Crunchyroll and Hulu are simulcasting outside of Asia as it airs. Funimation's adaptation ran from March 3 to August 18, 2019, on Adult Swim's Toonami block.
Four pieces of theme music are used for this season: two opening themes and two ending themes. For the first thirteen episodes, the opening theme is "Odd Future" by Uverworld and the first ending theme is by miwa. For the rest of the season, the second opening theme is "Make my story" by Lenny code fiction and the ending theme is by Masaki Suda.
Episodes
Home video release
Japanese
Toho released the third season of the anime on DVD and Blu-ray in eight volumes in Japan, with the first volume being released on July 18, 2018, and the final volume being released on February 13, 2019.
English
Funimation released the series in North America in two volumes, with the first volume released on May 7, 2019, and the second volume on September 3, 2019. The first volume received a limited edition combo release, along with a standard edition combo release, and a standard edition DVD release. Both volumes received a DVD/Blu-ray release on November 10, 2020. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Manga Entertainment is distributing the series for Funimation, releasing the first part in a limited edition combo release, along with a standard edition DVD and Blu-ray, on May 13, 2019, and the second part on September 9, 2019. In Australia and New Zealand, Madman Entertainment is distributing the series for Funimation, scheduling the first part for release in standard and limited editions on August 7, 2019, and the second part on November 6, 2019.
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References
External links
My Hero Academia episode lists
2018 Japanese television seasons