My Hero Academia Season 4

My Hero Academia Season 4 picks up with Izuku Midoriya and his classmates stepping out of the classroom and into full hero work-studies. Izuku joins the agency of the foresight hero Sir Nighteye, where he works alongside third-year student Mirio Togata, a cheerful and remarkably capable upperclassman whose skill gives Izuku a daunting standard to measure himself against. The internship draws the pair into an investigation of the Shie Hassaikai, a yakuza organization led by the masked and methodical Overhaul, who is pursuing a drug capable of erasing Quirks. A young girl named Eri sits at the center of that operation, and reaching her becomes the driving objective of the season's main arc.

Meanwhile, the criminal underworld remains unsettled in the wake of All For One's downfall. Tomura Shigaraki and the League of Villains move to expand their own influence, putting them in direct competition with the yakuza over control of the shadows. That rivalry unfolds alongside the heroes' mission and adds a second front of pressure, as shifting loyalties among villains close in around the students without their full awareness.

Across its run the season balances that tense operation with lighter school material, including a remedial training arc for students who need to sharpen their public image and a school festival that gives the ensemble cast room for comedy. Later episodes widen the view toward the professional hero world, showing how the students' training intersects with the duties and dangers faced by working heroes. The result is a stretch of the story that mixes large-scale conflict with quieter character moments for Izuku, Mirio, and their classmates.

My Hero Academia Season 4 was produced by the studio Bones, with Kenji Nagasaki credited as chief director and Masahiro Mukai as director. The season adapts Kōhei Horikoshi's original My Hero Academia manga, drawing its material from the second half of the fourteenth volume through the opening chapters of the twenty-first volume. Across its 25 episodes, the season covers the Shie Hassaikai arc (chapters 125 to 162), the Remedial Course arc (chapters 163 to 168), the U.A. School Festival arc (chapters 169 to 183), and the first part of the Pro Hero arc (chapters 184 to 190), while partially including chapters 191 to 193.

The season aired from October 12, 2019 to April 4, 2020 on ytv and NTV, placing it in the Fall 2019 broadcast season. Each episode runs roughly 24 minutes, and the finished season consists of 25 episodes. An English dub was produced, and the season has been made available through multiple streaming services, including Crunchyroll, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, iQ, Netflix, and FunimationNow.

My Hero Academia Season 4 is the fourth television installment in the My Hero Academia anime franchise, continuing the adaptation of Kōhei Horikoshi's manga. It picks up where the previous season left off, functioning as a direct continuation rather than a reboot, spin-off, or stand-alone entry, and it retains the same core cast and production studio, Bones, as the earlier seasons.

This entry remains an adaptation of the source manga rather than an original story. Its twenty-five episodes adapt material spanning from roughly the second half of the fourteenth manga volume into the opening chapters of the twenty-first, arranged into several story arcs. As a numbered season, it is one component of a much larger franchise that also includes films and further seasons, and it assumes viewers already know the characters and events established beforehand.

Within the franchise's viewing order, Season 4 sits on the main narrative line with no alternate-continuity status. Later seasons carry the story forward from its conclusion, so it serves as a bridge between what precedes it and what follows.