My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising

Bones produced the second My Hero Academia feature, and the first film's crew returned across the board: direction by Kenji Nagasaki, a script from Yosuke Kuroda, character designs by Yoshihiko Umakoshi, a score by Yuki Hayashi, and Kohei Horikoshi supervising while contributing designs of his own. Toho handled the 104-minute picture, which Weekly Shonen Jump announced in its seventeenth 2019 issue. Japanese screens got it that December 20, with North America and Britain following on February 26.

Planning began the very day Two Heroes opened, and Horikoshi involved himself far more heavily this time, shaping the outline and fussing over script details alongside Ryosuke Yoritomi, then editing the manga. The premise grew from a wish to see all of Class 1-A gang up on one overwhelming enemy, and it was Horikoshi who proposed the finale in which Izuku and Katsuki wield One For All together, a beat lifted from the ending he had once planned for the series. Wanting to outdo a first film he considered the franchise's peak, he pushed the antagonists past Wolfram's crew, designing Nine to linger after the credits and Chimera to break the habit of human-shaped villains.

Rather than slot into the anime's timeline, the story sits alongside the manga just past the Meta Liberation Army Arc, the moment Horikoshi judged right for the handoff given how One For All had evolved. That freedom let elements surface before the anime caught up, Hawks among them. Sumika performed the theme "Higher Ground", Makayla Phillips sang the insert "Might+U", and Japanese premiere audiences received Volume Rising, whose original Horikoshi chapter explains how Nine obtained his All For One Quirk.

A winter chase opens the film: pro heroes pursue a League of Villains truck hauling a life support tank, only for Endeavor's flames to melt the fleeing villains into sludge, exposing them as Twice's doubles, and for the tank to turn up empty. Its occupant, Nine, has already slipped into the woods to rejoin Chimera, Mummy, and Slice, telling them the experiment worked.

Class 1-A, meanwhile, runs Nabu Island as its own agency under the Hero Work Recommendation Project, fielding calls about dead tractor batteries and missing pets while Katsuki refuses to take any of them. Izuku befriends Katsuma Shimano, a boy who idolizes heroes despite a Quirk unsuited to fighting, and runs afoul of his protective sister Mahoro. Far away, Nine takes their father's Cell Activation Quirk and seizes up when it rejects him: it works only on type A blood and he is type B. Since Quirks run in bloodlines, he turns to the son.

The villains ram a ferry into the harbor and cut the island's communications. Nine's scan confirms Katsuma is compatible, and his stolen arsenal flattens Izuku and then Katsuki before his degenerating cells force a retreat. Katsuma heals both boys himself, working until he nearly collapses. Refusing to surrender him, the class moves every resident into a cave beneath Mount Shiroyama and plans to bleed Nine dry, since his illness caps how long he can hold his Quirks. Momo's cannons split the villains up, Fumikage's berserk Dark Shadow buries Slice, and Shoto freezes Chimera from the inside out, but Nine doses himself with his life support system and levels everything still standing.

Out of options, Izuku hands Katsuki One For All. The two tear the firestorm apart and finish Nine with Explosion combined with a full-power St. Louis Smash, dropping him into the ocean as the borrowed power gutters out. Toshinori later finds the embers still burning inside Izuku, the Quirk having refused to leave a boy willing to give it up for strangers. Tomura Shigaraki reaches the dying Nine first, promises to inherit the world he wanted, and decays him. Katsuki wakes with no memory of ever holding One For All.

Japan accounted for roughly $15.1 million and American and Canadian screens for $13.5 million, adding up to about $28.7 million worldwide; Box Office Mojo lists $29,187,012.

Its Japanese opening placed third on ¥422 million, some $3.86 million, over three days. It held third in week two, slid to fourth and then seventh, left the top ten in its fifth weekend, briefly resurfaced at ninth, and passed the first film's gross by its ninth.

Day one in America brought $2.47 million across 1,275 theaters, enough to top the chart. The opening weekend reached $5.1 million for a five-day tally of $8.5 million and fourth place. Among anime films sold in the United States, it sits fourteenth.