My Hero Academia in Concert

Where it started

My Hero Academia began as Kohei Horikoshi's manga and reached television in April 2016, built around Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without a superpower in a world where nearly everyone has one, and his path to U.A. High School under the retired hero All Might. The manga went on to sell more than 100 million volumes worldwide, and the anime and its spin-off films pushed the franchise's box office past $130 million, numbers that made a global concert tour commercially plausible in a way it would not have been for most anime properties.

The score behind all of it was written by Yuki Hayashi, whose recurring themes for All Might's entrances and the U.A. students' set-piece fights became as recognisable to the fandom as any needle-drop theme song. It is that instrumental catalogue, rather than the show's opening and ending songs, that the touring concert is built around.

A franchise closing its main story

The anime's eighth and final season ran for eleven episodes from 4 October to 13 December 2025 in Japan, closing out the television adaptation. A single bonus episode, titled "More" and adapting chapter 431 of the manga, followed on 2 May 2026, bundled with the series' final collected volume and set eight years after Midoriya and his classmates graduate U.A. That sequencing put the tenth anniversary of the anime and the end of its story in the same twelve months, which is the window the concert was built to fill.

The Japan premiere and what changes for the tour

The concert had its first performance on 30 May 2026 at Pacifico Yokohama, with matinee and evening shows. In Yokohama, Hayashi conducted a purpose-formed ensemble billed as THE HEROES, with arrangements by Sachiko Miyano, and the bill went further than a standard screen concert: voice actors Daiki Yamashita (Midoriya), Nobuhiko Okamoto (Bakugo) and Yuki Kaji (Todoroki) appeared for a talk segment and a live dubbing demonstration alongside the music.

The international touring version, produced jointly by Toho, the Dutch live-entertainment company GEA Live and the US promoter RoadCo Entertainment, is a leaner format built for repeat nights in different cities: a fifteen-piece band playing Hayashi's score live and in sync with a large screen showing footage drawn from all eight seasons, without the voice cast segment that framed the Yokohama premiere. GEA Live's producer and managing director, Floris Douwes, described the intent behind taking the score on the road: performed live, he said, the music gives the story a dimension audiences feel more deeply than they do watching it at home.

Where the tour stands now

A ten-city, eleven-date European leg was confirmed for autumn 2026, covering London, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Paris, Antwerp, Frankfurt, Lyon, Basel, Vienna and Berlin. The US leg was announced in April 2026 and opened on 12 September 2026 at the Farmington Civic Center in New Mexico, running through 25 October across roughly three dozen dates that include the Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake City (13 September), Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa (15 September), the Wiltern in Los Angeles (16 September), the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco (17 September), the Hult Center in Eugene (18 September), the Moore Theatre in Seattle (19 September) and the Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham (20 September), before continuing on to Chicago, Denver, Dallas and Brooklyn among other stops. Because the US and European legs only opened this month, no independent reviews of the touring show had been published at the time of writing; venues and the tour's own materials remain the only account of what audiences are seeing.

The show itself

According to the tour's own listings, a performance runs approximately two hours including an intermission, built around the fifteen-piece band playing Hayashi's score live while a large-scale screen carries synchronised footage spanning the anime's full eight-season run, without a supporting act. Venue-exclusive merchandise on sale at the shows includes tote bags, hoodies, acrylic magnets, water bottles and posters, varying by stop. Tickets across the North American dates were on general sale as of the shows' announcement, with venues directing fans to the tour's own site for remaining availability.