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Funimation, TOHO Host World Premiere of My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Film at Anime Expo

Anime Expo event. Funimation Films has also licensed the film from TOHO, with plans to release the film in the U.S. and Canada this fall.

The film will screen with English subtitles at Anime Expo on July 5 at 12:30 p.m. ission is free to all badge holders and will be on a first-come first-served basis. Voice actors ADR Director for the film) will host a talk after the film's screening.

Funimation describes the film:

The climactic finals are over, and U.A. is getting ready for the summer training camp. Deku and All Might receive an invitation from a certain person to go overseas to a giant artificial moving city called I-Island. This island, a kind of “science Hollywood” that gathers the knowledge of scientists from around the world, is holding an exhibition called I-Expo showcasing the results of Quirk and hero item research. In the midst of all this, Deku meets a Quirkless girl named Melissa and re his own Quirkless past. Out of the blue, the impregnable security system the island boasts is hacked by villains, and all the people on the island are taken as hostages! Now, a plan that could shake hero society has been put into motion! The man who holds the key to it all is the number one hero and Symbol of Peace, All Might.

The film will open in Japan on August 3.

The two new characters in the film are Melissa Shield and her father David. Melissa is a quirkless girl whom Deku meets on I-Island, and David was a friend of All Might in his younger days. David is a scientist who makes hero items, and Melissa works hard to follow in his footsteps.

Original manga creator Yuki Hayashi. TOHO is distributing the film.

The third television anime season based on the manga listed with 25 episodes.

Horikoshi launched the superhero manga series in publishing the manga digitally in its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and in print.