My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions

My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions (Japanese: 僕のヒーローアカデミア チームアップミッション, Hepburn: Boku no Hīrō Akademia: Chīmu Appu Misshon) is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Yōkō Akiyama. It is a spin-off to Kōhei Horikoshi's popular manga series My Hero Academia. It was serialized in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump in July 2019, with its chapters, which are released on a monthly basis, additionally collected into five tankōbon volumes as of June 2023.

My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions
First volume of My Hero Academia, released by Shueisha on March 4, 2020, in Japan
僕のヒーローアカデミア チームアップミッション
(Boku no Hīrō Akademia: Chīmu Appu Misshon)
GenreSuperhero[1]
Manga
Written byYōkō Akiyama
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics
Magazine
  • Jump GIGA (prologue)
  • Saikyō Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 4, 2019 – present
Volumes5

Premise
See also: My Hero Academia and List of My Hero Academia characters

My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions follows Izuku Midoriya and the rest of his classmates at U.A. High School as they are paired up with students from other hero schools and even Pro Heroes to participate in specially-requested missions as part of the "Team-Up Missions Program".[2]

Publication
Main article: List of My Hero Academia chapters § My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions

Written and illustrated by Yōkō Akiyama, My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions began serialization in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump on August 2, 2019, with a prologue chapter debuting in Jump GIGA on March 4, 2019.[3] Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on March 4, 2020.[4] As of June 2, 2023, five volumes have been released.[5] In July 2020, Viz Media announced that My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions would be licensed for the English-language release in North America.[6]

Reception

In a review of the first volume, Alex Lukas of Comic Book Resources stated that My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions "is a decent popcorn read, [but] fails to be a fresh take on the young heroes of U.A. High School", although he commented the premise has "undeniable" potential.[7]

References
  1. Gramuglia, Anthony (March 14, 2021). "My Hero Academia: Pairings We Want to See in Team-Up Missions Vol. 2". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  2. Edmundson, Carlyle (March 23, 2021). "My Hero Academia: Team Up Missions Adds Anime Characters to the Manga". Screen Rant. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  3. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (July 13, 2019). "My Hero Academia Gets New Spinoff Manga This Month". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  4. 僕のヒーローアカデミア チームアップミッション 1 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  5. 僕のヒーローアカデミア チームアップミッション 5 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
  6. Sherman, Jennifer (July 3, 2020). "Viz Media's Shonen Jump Adds My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Naruto: Shikamaru's Story—Mourning Clouds". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  7. Lukas, Alex (March 5, 2021). "My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions Vol. 1 Doesn't Take Advantage of its Colorful Cast". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
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