The official Twitter account for the anime adaptation of Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) manga announced on Sunday that the anime will premiere on the MBS/TBS channel network in the Sunday at 5 p.m. — or "Nichigo" — timeslot. The anime will premiere in April.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is currently airing in the Nichigo timeslot.

The anime stars Daiki Yamashita as Izuku Midoriya, Kenta Miyake as All Might, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Katsuki Bakugō, Ayane Sakura as Ochako Uraraka, and Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida.

Kenji Nagasaki (Gundam Build Fighters, Classroom Crisis, No. 6) is directing the anime at the studio BONES (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Concrete Revolutio, Fullmetal Alchemist). Yousuke Kuroda (Gundam Build Fighters, Honey and Clover, Trigun) is overseeing the series' scripts. Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Air Master, Heartcatch Precure!, Berserk) is designing the characters for animation.

[Via Otakomu]