My Hero Academia summer short 2026

My Hero Academia is not actually done. That was the surprise on May 2. Right after the franchise dropped its extra episode “More,” the anime’s official channels announced another piece of new animation — a short called *I am a hero too* set for summer 2026, centered on Eri as a high-schooler. That matters because fans were bracing for a victory lap, not another canon follow-up. ### What is this thing, exactly? It’s a short anime, not a new full season and not a recap movie. The official 10th-anniversary page lists it as a separate project, and Crunchyroll’s announcement says it adapts the “I Am a Hero Too” bonus chapter for a summer 2026 release. No exact date is out yet. The short comes from a bonus one-shot drawn by creator Kohei Horikoshi for *My Hero Academia: Ultra Age*. So this is not the anime team inventing filler to keep the brand warm — it’s an adaptation of Horikoshi-authored material that pushes beyond the main ending. ### Why Eri? Eri has always carried a weird amount of emotional weight in this series. She started as the child everyone had to save, but the long-term question was always whether she’d ever get to live as a normal kid instead of a symbol of trauma. *I am a hero too* looks like the answer to that quest for a new point of view and, presumably, her own version of heroism. ### How does this connect to “More”? The timing is the whole point. Crunchyroll notes the short was revealed after the broadcast of episode No.170+1 “More,” and Polygon frames the announcement as arriving almost immediately after that epilogue-style release. So the franchise is clearly chaining these together into the future. ### Is this part of a bigger anniversary plan? Yes — and that helps explain why it appeared now. The official anniversary site says the anime first aired on April 3, 2016 and that the 10th-anniversary project formally kicked off on April 3, 2026. The page lists *I am a hero too* as Project 10 alongside the franchise push. ### So is this a sequel or a side story? A little of both. It’s a side story in scale — a short, Eri-focused, probably compact. But it’s also a sequel in timeline, because it takes place after the main finale material and follows a character forward into high school. Think of it less like “bonus content” and more like one extra room added onto a house that looked finished. ### What don’t we know yet? A lot. There’s no exact premiere date, no trailer, and no detailed staff breakdown attached to this short yet. The only hard public points right now are the title, the Eri focus, the Horikoshi one-shot origin, and the summer 2026 window. It’s not just that My Hero Academia has another anime project coming. It’s that the franchise used its 10th anniversary to open a fresh canon lane after the ending — and it picked Eri, of all characters, to do it. That makes *I am a hero too* feel small in runtime but bigger in meaning.