Crunchyroll's Definitive Best Shonen Of The Decade Is Back For One Final Release

Crunchyroll's Definitive Best Shonen Of The Decade Is Back For One Final Release

Custom Image by Hannah Diffey Published Oct 7, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Hannah is a senior writer and self-publisher at ScreenRant. There, she focuses on writing news, features, and list-style articles about all things comics, books, anime, and manga. She works as a freelance writer in the entertainment industry, focusing on video games, anime, and literature. Her published works can be found on Screen Rant, FinanceBuzz, She Reads, and She Writes. Sign in to your ScreenRant account For fans who followed My Hero Academia from Izuku Midoriya's first nervous steps at U.A. to the climactic battles of its final saga, one major home-video release is still arriving. Crunchyroll has officially scheduled My Hero Academia Season 7 – The Complete Season for October 20, 2026, giving U.S. collectors one more chance to own the anime's penultimate season in a single Blu-ray package. The release is part of Crunchyroll's October 2026 home-video lineup, but My Hero Academia stands apart because this edition is a complete-season collection and a Walmart exclusive. Walmart's current listing confirms the October 20 release date and identifies the set as a four-disc Blu-ray release, making this more than another split seasonal volume for longtime viewers. Season 7 Finally Gets A Complete Blu-ray Collection Season 7 is one of My Hero Academia's most consequential installments, adapting the manga's increasingly intense conflict between the heroes and villains. Rather than breaking the season into multiple home-video purchases, the Complete Season edition packages the entire television run together, a much cleaner option for collectors building the series from U.A.'s earliest days onward. Crunchyroll's official announcement places My Hero Academia Season 7 – The Complete Season among the October 20 releases, alongside several other anime home-video titles. The distinction matters because the set follows earlier releases for Season 7, including Part 1 and Part 2, effectively giving fans a single-package alternative to buying those installments separately. From the Slime Villain to the Final War · Eight Questions How Well Do You Know My Hero Academia? “Plus Ultra!” 🏫U.A. HighClass 1-A 🧡All MightSymbol of Peace 💥BakugoDIE!!! (affectionately) ❄️Half-Cold Half-HotTodoroki Shoto 👻League of VillainsDecay incarnate GO BEYOND → 01 My Hero Academia’s protagonist is a Quirkless boy in a Quirk-saturated world who dreams of becoming a hero. Bakugo derisively nicknames him “Deku” (a play on the kanji for “useless”) before he eventually reclaims it as a hero name. What’s his actual name? AIzuku Midoriya BEijiro Kirishima CTenya Iida DDenki Kaminari ✓ Correct! Izuku Midoriya. The series opens with him as a 14-year-old Quirkless middle schooler obsessively cataloguing pro heroes in his battered notebooks. The kanji for his nickname Deku (弟卜) reads as “useless” in Bakugo’s mocking context, but Uraraka points out it can also be read as “dekiru” (“you can do it”) — which is the framing he eventually adopts as his hero name. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Izuku Midoriya. Eijiro Kirishima is the red-haired Hardening Quirk user who’s Bakugo’s best friend. Tenya Iida is the engine-legged class president. Denki Kaminari is the Electrification Quirk user who short-circuits into “wheyyy” mode at his limit. Deku is Izuku Midoriya. NEXT → 02 In the show’s opening arc, All Might passes his unique stockpile-and-transfer Quirk to Deku, making him the ninth holder of a power that has been refined across generations. Each previous holder leaves behind their own ability inside it. Name the Quirk. AAll For One BOne For All CPlus Ultra DSymbol Quirk ✓ Correct! One For All — a Quirk created when the original Quirkless holder was given a power-stockpiling ability by his villainous brother, who would later become All For One. Each holder strengthens it before passing it on. By the time Deku inherits it, six previous wielders’ Quirks (Float, Blackwhip, Smokescreen, Fa Jin, Danger Sense and Gearshift) are also accessible from within. He’s the ninth and (initially) final user. ✗ Wrong. The answer is One For All. All For One is the antagonist Quirk — the one that steals and gives Quirks — and is also the name of the original villain who founded it. “Plus Ultra” is U.A.’s school motto. Deku’s inherited power is One For All. NEXT → 03 Class 1-A’s perpetually-exhausted homeroom teacher is also the underground hero Eraser Head, whose Quirk lets him cancel another person’s Quirk simply by looking at them. He sleeps in a yellow caterpillar-style sleeping bag, drinks jelly pouches and is fiercely protective of his students. What’s his name? AHizashi Yamada BShota Aizawa CToshinori Yagi DSekijiro Kan ✓ Correct! Shota Aizawa — hero name Eraser Head, civilian name perpetually-rumpled Class 1-A homeroom teacher. His capture-weapon scarf and Erasure Quirk make him one of U.A.’s most dangerous combatants in close quarters — though the Quirk only works while his eyes are open, which he uses dramatically to prep dramatic stares before unleashing. Voiced by Junichi Suwabe in Japanese and Christopher Sabat in English. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Shota Aizawa. Hizashi Yamada is Aizawa’s loud blonde best friend — the hero Present Mic. Toshinori Yagi is the civilian name of All Might. Sekijiro Kan is Class 1-B’s homeroom teacher Vlad King. Eraser Head is Aizawa. NEXT → 04 Deku’s childhood frenemy Katsuki Bakugo is one of the franchise’s most popular characters — explosive in temperament and in Quirk. His sweat is nitroglycerine-like, ignited at his palms to produce concussive blasts. Name his Quirk (which is also the official Quirk name). ADetonation BHellflame CExplosion DCombustion ✓ Correct! Explosion. Bakugo can secrete a nitroglycerine-like sweat from his palms and ignite it — the harder he’s sweating, the bigger the boom. His U.A. Sports Festival hero costume includes the iconic grenade-shaped gauntlets that store and release the sweat for his “Howitzer Impact” ultimate move. After much fan voting and his own multiple rejections of cute hero-name suggestions, his final hero name is Dynamight, the God of Explosive Destruction. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Explosion. Hellflame is Endeavor’s Quirk — the #1 hero post-All Might. “Detonation” and “Combustion” aren’t official Quirks. Bakugo’s sweat-into-nitroglycerine palm-ignition power is officially named Explosion. NEXT → 05 The League of Villains is led by an unstable, severed-hand-wearing young man with a Quirk called Decay — touch with all five fingers, and matter crumbles to dust. Trained by All For One as the heir to his throne, he eventually inherits the original villain’s Quirk-stealing power. Name him. ADabi BTomura Shigaraki CStain DKurogiri ✓ Correct! Tomura Shigaraki — born Tenko Shimura, grandson of the seventh One For All wielder Nana Shimura, raised after a tragedy by All For One himself. Decay is one of the franchise’s most terrifying Quirks (it spreads on contact and has no upper limit). After the Paranormal Liberation War arc he absorbs All For One’s power and becomes the series’ final-arc primary antagonist. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Tomura Shigaraki. Dabi is the League’s blue-flame user (and a Todoroki family secret). Stain is the “Hero Killer” ideologue who inspires the League. Kurogiri is the misty warp-gate butler. Shigaraki is the League’s leader, identifiable by the array of severed hands he wears as a self-soothing fashion choice. NEXT → 06 All Might is the world’s top hero and the eighth holder of One For All before passing it to Deku. In his weakened civilian form — the result of a brutal injury inflicted by All For One years before the series begins — he’s a hollow-cheeked, blood-coughing teacher at U.A. What’s All Might’s civilian name? AToshinori Yagi BEnji Todoroki CKeigo Takami DDaigoro Banjo ✓ Correct! Toshinori Yagi. The injury that left him with a perpetually-bleeding stomach wound came in his climactic fight against All For One five years before the series begins — the same fight that killed his predecessor and mentor Nana Shimura’s legacy. Toshinori’s gaunt civilian form vs. his bulked-out hero form is among anime’s most distinctive transformation gags. Voiced by Kenta Miyake in Japanese, Christopher Sabat in English. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Toshinori Yagi. Enji Todoroki is Endeavor (Shoto’s father, the new #1 hero after All Might retires). Keigo Takami is the Wing Hero Hawks. Daigoro Banjo is the fifth wielder of One For All. All Might’s civilian self is Toshinori Yagi. NEXT → 07 My Hero Academia began serialisation in Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2014, ran for over 10 years and over 430 chapters before concluding in August 2024 — one of the defining shonen titles of the 2010s and 2020s. Name its mangaka, who has openly cited Naruto and Western superhero comics as primary influences. ATatsuki Fujimoto BGege Akutami CKohei Horikoshi DEiichiro Oda ✓ Correct! Kohei Horikoshi. He’d previously had two short-lived Jump series (Oumagadoki Doubutsuen, Barrage) before pitching MHA, with All Might consciously designed as an Americanised Superman/Bruce Timm pastiche. The series accumulated over 100 million copies in print and ran from July 2014 to August 2024. Horikoshi is also a fervent ghibli/Western-superhero fan; he’s done illustrated tributes to Spider-Man and Batman. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Kohei Horikoshi. Tatsuki Fujimoto created Chainsaw Man and Fire Punch. Gege Akutami created Jujutsu Kaisen. Eiichiro Oda created One Piece. Horikoshi is MHA’s mangaka and was one of Weekly Shonen Jump’s headline creators throughout the 2010s. NEXT → 08 The MHA anime adaptation has been a flagship of its production studio since the first season aired in 2016, with seven seasons, four films and a regular slot in the global streaming spotlight. The same studio is behind Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Mob Psycho 100 and Bungo Stray Dogs. Name it. AMAPPA BStudio Bones CWit Studio DMadhouse ✓ Correct! Studio Bones (officially BONES Inc.) — the Suginami-based studio founded by ex-Sunrise producers in 1998. Bones is one of the most respected action-anime houses, with credits including Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Soul Eater, Eureka Seven, Mob Psycho 100, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door and Bungo Stray Dogs. MHA has been their flagship contemporary IP since 2016. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Studio Bones. MAPPA does Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man and the final Attack on Titan seasons. Wit Studio did the early Attack on Titan seasons (1–3) before MAPPA took over, plus Vinland Saga and Spy x Family. Madhouse did One Punch Man season 1, Death Note and Hunter x Hunter (2011). MHA’s anime is Bones. REVEAL MY RATING → U.A. Provisional License · Final Score Your Hero Standing 🧡 / 8 Symbol of Peace — or still Quirkless? ⤴ PLUS ULTRA AGAIN The Walmart product listing adds some useful specifics that make the collection especially appealing. The four Blu-ray discs contain episodes 139 through 159, covering all 21 regular episodes of Season 7, while the package also includes four recap episodes and the “U.A. Heroes Battle” OVA. That makes the set substantially more complete than the episode count alone suggests. The Complete Set Includes More Than The Main Season Season 7 begins with My Hero Academia's heroes facing a conflict that has escalated far beyond ordinary villain attacks, pushing students, pros, and former rivals into battles with enormous consequences. Its story moves through the Star and Stripe conflict, the continuing war against All For One and Shigaraki, and the desperate struggle to protect Japan. For viewers who already own Season 7 Part 1 or Part 2, the Complete Season release may seem redundant, but its appeal is straightforward: everything is consolidated in one physical collection. The four-disc format also makes it easier for collectors to shelve the season as one unit instead of maintaining separate Part 1 and Part 2 cases. The inclusion of the four recap episodes and “U.A. Heroes Battle” gives longtime fans another reason to consider the package. The OVA is particularly notable because it offers a side story involving U.A. students outside the main television narrative, while the additional recap material provides a convenient refresher for anyone revisiting the final stretch of the franchise. My Hero Academia's Physical Release Era Is Still Going The timing makes the October 20 release especially notable. My Hero Academia concluded its television run with Season 8, but Season 7 is still a huge bridge between the series' sprawling middle chapters and its final anime chapter. For collectors, getting this season in a complete Blu-ray edition helps preserve that transition physically rather than leaving another gap on the shelf. The Walmart exclusivity also gives the release a different retail footprint from a standard Crunchyroll home-video launch. Crunchyroll's announcement specifically identifies the Complete Season 7 set as a Walmart exclusive, while Walmart's listing currently shows it for preorder at $34.96. The price may change, but the listing confirms that the release is positioned as a mass-retail collector option. Most importantly, this release gives My Hero Academia another physical milestone after years of Blu-ray and DVD editions split across multiple seasons and parts. With all 21 Season 7 episodes, four recap installments, and the “U.A. Heroes Battle” OVA gathered onto four discs, and available on Crunchyroll for streaming, October 20 delivers one of the franchise's most convenient physical collections yet.

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