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Warning: Spoilers for My Hero Academia: You're Next aheadMy Hero Academia: You're Next is an epic outing for the characters of My Hero Academia, but as it turns out, the film might actually be a love letter to a different franchise entirely. Fans across the web have been pointing out that the movie has more than a few similarities to another anime series by Bones: Fullmetal Alchemist.

My Hero Academia: You're Next focuses its tale on an attack by the villainous Dark Might, leader of a European crime family, and his seven closest minions. Dark Might closely resembles the real All Might, a figure for good within My Hero Academia's universe who is adamantly against his doppelganger's evil antics. The story sees Deku team up with Giulio, a butler with a prosthetic arm and leg which can be used as weapons, who acts as a secondary protagonist for the film.

Major anime distributor Toho International has revealed the latest trailer for My Hero Academia: You're Next. The movie, set to be released in North America this October, represents the final film to be produced during the original manga's serialization.

Via a press release, the new trailer for the upcoming My Hero Academia: You're Next movie has been revealed, marking the fourth feature film in the franchise to date. Toho International will distribute the film in the United States and Canada on Oct. 11, 2024 -- one of the quickest theatrical titles to arrive stateside following its Japanese release two months prior on Aug. 2, 2024. Readers can check out the latest My Hero Academia: You're Next trailer below.

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The official website of of the fourth anime film of My Hero Academia, titled My Hero Academia The Movie: You’re Next, revealed a brand new trailer on July 23, 2024.

Titled Who’S Next, the trailer begins with All Might’s words, “It’s your turn next!,” and previews the theme song Homunculus by Vaundy.

My Hero Academia The Movie: You’re Next is scheduled to hit the Japanese theatres on Aug 2, 2024.

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Tensai Okamura will serve as the director for the anime film.

Other staff includes:

Scriptwriter: Yosuke Kuroda Character Designer: Yoshihiko Umakoshi Music Composer: Yuki Hayashi Animation Advisor: Kenji Nagasaki Animation Studio: bones

The movie will be based on an original story by author Kohei Horikoshi, who will also be handling the character designs and be in charge of general supervision of the movie. The...

An all-new trailer for the upcoming My Hero Academia: You're Next anime movie has been released. The fourth film of the franchise features a mysterious evil figure who takes on the appearance of All Might.

The new My Hero Academia movie trailer was released on the official Toho Animation YouTube channel. New scenes of the film's original characters, including Dark Might, Giulio Gandini and Anna Scervino were revealed. Among the superhero students of Class 1-a, Izuku "Deku" Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki are given the biggest focus in the new footage.

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My Hero Academia: You're Next Has Already Showcased Plenty of Action

During the impressive action sequence montage, the film's theme song "Homunculus" by Japanese music artist Vaundy was previewed.

The Japanese premiere of My Hero Academia The Movie: You're Next is coming in hot on August 2, 2024, and ahead of that we now know who will be providing the theme song. Vaundy will perform "Homunculus" for the new My Hero Academia anime film, and you can hear a sample along with more footage in the new trailer below. My Hero Academia The Movie: You're Next Trailer Related: My Hero Academia The Movie: You're Next Points the Way in New Key Visual As with previous  My Hero Academia movies , series creator Horikoshi joins as general supervisor and provides original character designs. Tensai Okamura will direct the movie at studio Bones. Yosuke Kuroda will provide the script, with character designs by Yoshihiko Umakoshi and music by Yuki Hayashi. Source: Comic Natalie...

Inspired by the annual “Manga We Want To See Animated” ranking in Japan, a Twitter user conducted a similar poll to find the most desired manga adaptations among Western audiences.

The poll, conducted over a two-week period in February, invited fans to cast their votes for manga series yet to receive an animated adaptation.

Notably, titles already slated for anime production or those with existing adaptations were excluded from consideration.

Here are top 25 manga western fans are most eager to see animated:

25. Kaoru Hana Wa Rin To Saku by Saka Mikami 24. Gokurakugai by Yuto Sano 23. I Am A Hero by Kengo Hanazawa 22. Chi No Wadachi by Shuzo Oshimi 21. Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint by Sing Shong, Umi, and Sleepy-C 20. Ruri Dragon by Masaoki Shindo 19. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes by Hideyuki Furuhashi 18. I Sold My Life For Ten Thousand Yen Per Year by Shoichi Taguchi 17. Jagaaan by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Kensuke Nishida...

When we recently compiled our list of science fiction movies based on true stories, one film that didn’t make the list was Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer. After all, the technology behind the nuclear bomb can no longer be said to be undiscovered, sadly. Nonetheless, Oppenheimer remains the archetypal science fiction story—one about a mad scientist who devises a new machine that changes the world through terrible unforeseen consequences. He is an an American Prometheus, yes, but also a regular Yankee Frankenstein. More than that though, by ushering in the nuclear age, Oppenheimer may have lit the fuse on the genre of cinematic science fiction.

It is hardly a new observation, but walk into any cinema in the 1950s and you will find no shortage of creatures, monsters, or occasionally people grown to giant size by the mysterious power of radiation. You don’t need to look too closely...

Fullmetal Alchemist was easily one of the most popular shonen anime of the early 2000s, with many associating it as the foremost example of steampunk anime. This popularity also allowed it to get an early jump on a recent trend. Beginnings with the remake of Fruits Basket, several franchises have received new anime adaptations that more accurately adapt their manga source material. Such was the case with Fullmetal Alchemist, with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood being the more accurate of the two anime shows.

Given its nature as a better take on the manga, many fans debate which anime series to watch, and in what order. After all, both are roughly the same length and follow somewhat similar storylines, making it potentially repetitive to watch them both.

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Best known as the creator of the Japanese Ju-on series and The Grudge franchise, Takashi Shimizu is back with a brand new movie, titled Homunculus and now streaming on Netflix. The live-action film adapts the cult classic manga by Hideo Yamamoto (Ichi the Killer). In Homunculus, “Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with […]...

Although in terms of series, Netflix is doing a nice enough job regarding its Japanese content, the same does not apply with the movies, and particularly the anime/manga adaptations, with titles like “Bleach” and “Full Metal Alchemist” being mediocre, to say the least. Unfortunately, the same applies to the adaptation of Hideo Yamamoto’s homonymous manga, which seems to suffer both from terms of writing and direction.

The story revolves around Susumu Nokoshi, a 34-year-old man who once worked for a top foreign company, but now finds himself hopeless, hanging around a park in Shinjuku with others who share the same fate. One fateful night, he meets medical student Manabu Ito, who is eventually revealed to be the owner’s son, who also happens to be looking for volunteers to undergo a surgical procedure known as trepanation, essentially having a hole drilled in their skull that can potentially unleash the brain’s restricted potential.