The Best Anime Like My Hero Academia to Watch Next

My Hero Academia is now in its seventh season, with the students of UA High going all out in the final battle against Shigaraki and the League of Villains. However, they're getting a little extra help from heroes from the other side of the world.

Although MHA is still going strong, you may be looking to watch some other anime just like it that takes place in a school setting, or something to that effect, filled with teenage characters that have superpowers or are nurturing them to become their own superheroes. Here are the anime we picked to help get your class in session. You can also check out our ranking of the best My Hero Academia characters below for our favorite Quirks from the series!

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

In Taishō era Japan, teenage swordsman Tanjiro Kamado comes home from his job selling charcoal to find his entire family massacred in a demon attack except for his younger sister Nezuko, who turned into a demon but still showed signs of human emotion and thought. To avenge his family’s death and turn his sister into a human again, Tanjiro is recruited by Giyū Tomioka to train with his retired master and join the Demon Slayer Corps to protect people from demons.

Demon Slayer is similar to My Hero Academia in that Tanjiro turns to an old swordsman to learn how to become a master Demon Slayer, even if it took him two years to master a particular fighting style and passed an exam by the skin of his teeth.

See our guide to anime like Demon Slayer for more like this.

Little Witch Academia

Akko enrolls at Luna Nova Academy, a prestigious witch school for girls, to train to become a witch just like her idol, Shiny Chariot. The problem is, because she doesn’t have any magical powers, she struggles to keep up with her classmates in learning witch skills, especially flying a broomstick. However, she manages to grasp some magical use thanks to the Shiny Rod left behind by Shiny Chariot.

Despite having the word “academia” in the title and a nearly identical art style to My Hero Academia, Little Witch Academia was produced by Studio Trigger, not Bones. Nevertheless, Akko and Deku would make the best of friends, as the latter didn’t have a Quirk before meeting his idol All Might and entering UA High School.

See our guide to the best magical girl anime for more like this.

One-Punch Man

Saitama is a superhero who, as the title suggests, can end any opponent with just a single punch. Despite training to perfect his power and becoming one of the greatest heroes in the world, his strength grew to the point where enemy confrontations bore him to death, so he sets out to find an opponent worthy of throwing more than a single punch at.

One-Punch Man is made by the creator of Mob Psycho 100 (One), and is pretty popular among My Hero Academia fans, even though the protagonist is an adult facing problems outside of crime fighting, like working mundane jobs to make ends meet.

Blue Exorcist

Rin Okumura, who was raised by a Catholic priest alongside his twin brother Yukio, discovers that he is the son of Satan, the ruler of the demon realm Gehenna, who sent Rin to the human realm of Assiah as a child in hopes that he could possess his body when he comes of age. After watching his adopted father die trying to save him from Satan, Rin enrolls into True Cross Academy to become an exorcist, ready to take down the Devil himself with the swing of his sword.

Unlike Deku, Rin was born with powers, but they were sealed away in the Kurikara until they were reawakened by an encounter with a demon. But like Deku, he enrolls into a prestigious school with good intentions.

Assassination Classroom

Assassination Classroom packs a very similar punch to MHA, but with a major twist. With Earth in jeopardy after an octopus-like creature destroys 70% of the moon, the misfit students of Class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Junior High School, who call the being Koro-sensei, are tasked with killing him by the end of the school year, or else he’ll destroy the world. Whoever among the students succeeds in killing the octopus teacher will be awarded ¥10 billion. 

Killing Koro-sensei proves difficult because he has a lot of tricks up his sleeve — er, tentacles — from accelerated regeneration to invincibility to moving around at Mach 20, and he actually helps the kids become better students. The teacher is the only one with superpowers, making his death a mind over matter mission for the students.

Haikyu!!

Shoyo Hinata is determined to become a great volleyball player at Karasuno High School after watching a game with a championship star nicknamed “The Little Giant” because he’s short in stature just like him. Despite his height, he’s very athletic and has a high vertical jump, so that doesn’t stop him from joining the school’s volleyball club, of which he is the only member until he convinces some other students to join so that he can practice and compete in a tournament.

Haikyu!! is considered one of the best sports anime of the past decade next to Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club. It serves the message that conviction, passion, and teamwork matter more than size.

Black Clover

Asta is a young orphan boy who dreams of becoming the Wizard King. Only one problem: he can’t use magic because he was born without any magical abilities. After becoming a Magic Knight despite that discrepancy, he manages to summon a grimoire with a rare five-leaf clover that gives him the ability to use elf swords and anti-magic, giving him the opportunity to challenge his best friend and fellow orphan Yuno in a fight to become the next Wizard King.

Although Black Clover doesn’t have anything resembling a high school in the Clover Kingdom, Asta is another poster child for the trope of being the only person born without special powers or other abilities until they gain them in some way once they get older. 

Hunter x Hunter

Twelve-year-old Gon aspires to follow his absent father’s footsteps to become a Hunter, an elite class with the license to go anywhere in the world. To make that dream happen, he undergoes the Hunter Examination and makes friends with three other candidates — Kurapika, Leorio, and Killua — to help him find his father, who abandoned him as a baby.

No one has superpowers in Hunter x Hunter exactly, but they still have a wide rainbow of personalities and some crazy superpower-like skills later on that prove vital for achieving their goals.

Jujutsu Kaisen

Yuji Itadori becomes host to a powerful Curse named Ryomen Sukuna after swallowing a finger talisman to protect his friends and a Sorcerer from the demon who held it. Due to the nature of the Curse, Sorcerers are required to exorcize it and the host, namely Itadori. To avoid death by exorcism, he enrolls at Jujutsu High to train under Satoru Gojo and locate the Curse’s other fingers so that he can exorcize himself.

Jujutsu Kaisen has more supernatural elements and darker themes than My Hero Academia, but the ultraviolence makes it stand out even more.

Angel Beats!

In Angel Beats!, after losing memories of his past life upon his death, a boy named Yuzuru Otonashi is enrolled in an afterlife high school and recruited to join an organization called the SSS, whose mission is to fight against God for their tragic circumstances in life. The God in question is student council president Kanade Tachibana (a.k.a. Angel), a girl with supernatural abilities who is believed to be God's associate, as she's tasked with supressing delinquency and help other students at the school overcome their regrets and move on.

Just as Deku is the only kid at UA without superpowers until All Might feeds him One For All, Kanade is the only student at the afterlife school with superpowers, which she creates via a computer program called the Angel Player, and has angel wings (hence her nickname), while everyone else is armed with various guns and weapons. The Angel Player grants Kanade unique abilities such as Hand Sonic, which is a blade that extends from one or both forearms in five forms; and Distortion, an invisible barrier that deflects bullets and other projectiles, among others.

Vampire Knight

Vampire Knight takes place at a prestigious high school called Cross Academy, which holds a day class for humans and a night class for vampires, unbeknownst to the former class. While attending this school, Yuki Cross, the headmaster's adopted daughter, is caught in a conflict regarding the coexistence between humans and vampires, and becomes concerned for her childhood friend Zero, who is slowly becoming a vampire despite his lifelong hatred towards the supernatural beings.

The 2004 shojou anime is an exercise in how My Hero Academia would've played out if non-superpowered people attended hero schools alongside those born with powers. It seems like a good idea on paper, but even then there's bound to be tensions between the two groups.

Looking for where to watch anime online? Check out our list of the best anime on Netflix for our top picks.