Hero Academy | |
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Genre | Superhero Action Comedy Drama Coming of age |
Based on | My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi |
Voices of | Sean Giambrone Fred Tatasciore Stephanie Sheh Johnny Yong Bosch Keiynan Lonsdale Max Mittelman |
Country of origin |
United States |
Original language(s) |
English |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Executive producer(s) |
Walter Newman Keith Crofford Brad Graeber Parker Simmons Jordan Blum |
Production company(s) |
Williams Street Powerhouse Animation Studios |
Distributors | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
Original network | Adult Swim (Toonami) |
Hero University is an upcoming American television series produced by Powerhouse Animation Studios and Williams Street. It is loosely based on the Japanese magna series My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi and is an adapation of its anime series that features heroes and villains with and without powers, which will use the term quirk from the anime and metahumans from DC Comics, Like the anime it will Adult Swim's Saturday night programming block Toonami.
Voice Cast
Production
An order for a western animated version was made by Adult Swim. It will be coproduction between Powerhouse Animation Studios and Williams Street with animation by Digital eMation and Mua Film, in this adapation it takes in Los Angeles, California, some of the characters will be given American names and retain their powers (or quirks) it also adds powerless heroes, villains as well as other types including Metahumans from DC Comics. Parker Simmons and Jordan Blum will showrun the series, Thomas Perkins and David Colman will serve as character designers, Horikoshi will be creative consultant, Haewon Lee as head writer. Cast will consist of Sean Giambrone, Fred Tatasciore, Stephanie Sheh, Johnny Yong Bosch, Keiynan Lonsdale and Max Mittelman recording will be held at Bang Zoom! with Michael Sinterniklaas as voice director and Eric P. Sherman as sound supervisor.