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Gen Con 2025: My Hero Academia: Miniatures Game revealed by Catalyst Game Labs

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Catalyst Game Labs has partnered with Toho and Crunchyroll to bring My Hero Academia to the tabletop! Bring the show to life with dynamic miniatures and action-packed gameplay with the My Hero Academia: Miniatures Game!

Control three of your favorite students or villains and take on a mission against your opponents. Impress the Pro Heroes watching while battling unexpected villains, and fight amidst stunningly detailed terrain that has a direct effect on the battle!

Discover your Quirk and head to the My Hero Academia: Miniatures Game pre-launch page on Backerkit to find out more and sign up for the Kickstarter, coming soon.

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My Hero Academia: Miniatures Game

Alliance Entertainment’s Handmade by Robots Enters Anime Market with Launch of My Hero Academia Collectibles

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Alliance Entertainment has announced that its Handmade by Robots division has officially entered the anime category with the launch of its first licensed vinyl collectibles based on the hit franchise My Hero Academia. The debut figures – featuring fan-favorite heroes Izuku Midoriya and Shoto Todoroki – represent an expansion into the anime collectibles market.

The move by Alliance and Handmade by Robots is an attempt to tap into the growing demand for anime merchandise and loyal fanbase. Beyond anime, Handmade by Robots will also be releasing figures based on DC Comics, Harry Potter, Jurassic World, Peanuts, Disney, Sonic the Hedgehog, Hello Kitty, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Star Trek in the second half of 2025.

Handmade by Robots vinyl figures are known for their distinctive aesthetic – sculpted to mimic the look and texture of hand-knit plush toys, while made from high-quality, durable vinyl. The new My Hero Academia figures continue this signature approach, capturing the characters’ most recognizable features with detailed, stylized designs. With their textured finish and shelf-friendly form factor, Handmade by Robots figures offer fans a distinctive way to showcase the characters they love.

Attack on Titan, Star Trek, Tekken 8, and more come to the UniVersus Collectible Card Game in the second half of 2024

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UVS Games has announced its release schedule for the second half of 2024. It will include Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Star Trek Realms, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Tekken 8.

UVS Games makes UniVersus, the ONLY character-driven, multi-IP fighting card game. It’s the only CCG that allows you to play as your favorite character from your most-loved franchises.

Check out the new schedule below and see what’s coming!

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It’s new comic book day! What are you excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below. While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

The Beat – Fanfare/Ponent Mon requests fans not to order books directly from website due to access issues – Heads up.

Comicbook – Marvel Studios Agrees to Unionization Vote for VFX Artists Amid Claims of Poor Working Conditions – That’s good.

Reviews

Comicbook – Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #18
The Beat – Choujin X Vol. 3
The Guardian – A Guest in the House
CBR – My Hero Academia #396

Batman/Superman: World's Finest #18

My Hero Academia gets a live-action movie at Netflix

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Netflix is giving another anime/manga the live-action treatment as Legendary Entertainment‘s My Hero Academia is heading there.

Shinsuke Sato will direct the project in his English-language debut working off a screenplay from Joby Harold. My Hero Academia is based on the popular manga written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi. It boasts over 65 million copies in circulation.

The story follows superhero fanboy Izuku Midoriya who is born without a “quirk”. 80% of Earth’s population has manifested one that grants them special abilities. After meeting the greatest hero ever, Midoriya voes to work hard to become a symbol of peace for the world.

The series has been part of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump since 2014. As of October 2022, the series has been collected in 36 volumes. It has spawned spin-off series, stage plays, and a lot of merchandise.

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It’s new comic book day! What are you getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below! While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Book Riot – 8 Great Horror Manga to Creep You Out – What would you add to the list?

The Mary Sue – Kohei Horikoshi Says That the My Hero Academia Manga Could “Reach It’s Goal” in About a Year – Bets if this will happen?

Reviews

Geek Dad – Batman vs. Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham #4
Geek Dad – Justice League Incarnate #2
AIPT – Nightwing #87

Discover My Hero Academia with the VIZ My Hero Academia Sale

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If you want to discover the world of My Hero Academia, you can do so and save this weekend with the VIZ My Hero Academia sale. The digital comic sale is currently running on comiXology.

The sale features 15 volumes from My Hero Academia: Smash!!, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, and My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions. You can save 29% on each volume.

The sale ends Sunday, April 11.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Vol. 9

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McFarlane Releases Exclusive Collectibles During Walmart’s Colelctor Con October Event

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McFarlane Toys has launched several exclusive collectible action figures offered only on Walmart.com as part of the retailer’s Collector Con that started today, Oct 1st and are available at now. 

Following on the success of Walmart’s Summer Collector Con, McFarlane Toys and Walmart have teamed up to bring collectors and fans exclusive offerings and first available pre-orders of collectible action figures based McFarlane Toys’ licensing partnerships with the best global and fan-favorite brands.

Here’s a list of McFarlane Toys’ exclusive 7-inch action figures available:

DC Multiverse – McFarlane Gold Label Collection: Batman Designed by Todd McFarlane 
McFarlane Gold Label Collection: Todd McFarlane’s Mandarin Spawn (Blue)
DC Multiverse – Batman: Arkham Asylum Bronze
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – McFarlane Gold Label Collection: Geralt of Rivia
DOOM Eternal – Marauder Bronze
Warhammer 40,000 – Necron Warrior Artist Proof
Mortal Kombat – Kitana: Battle Kahnum Skin

Also, available for the first time on pre-order are 7-inch collectible figures:

Mortal Kombat – Sub-Zero Winter Purple Skin
My Hero Academia – Shota Aizawa
Warhammer 40,000 – Adepta Sororitas Battle Sister

Visit Walmart’s Collector Con shop now! Quantities are limited, so don’t miss your chance to bring home the hottest collectibles! Prices range from $19.99 to $39.99.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Advance Tickets are Now Available

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Funimation Films has opened advanced ticketing for the North American theatrical release of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising from Toho Co Ltd. The film will be released on February 26 in more than 1,000 theaters across the U.S., Canada, and U.K. as a limited theatrical engagement in both Japanese (English subtitles) and English dub. Tickets are now open for pre-sale on the film’s official website.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising serves as a standalone film that will continue bringing superhero action and adventure to a wide range of audiences to enjoy.

The number one hero anime is back in theaters for a battle beyond anything fans have ever seen!

Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it’s more like a vacation … until they’re attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens’ lives on the line, there’s no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they’re the island’s only hope.

MY HERO ACADEMIA HEROES RISING poster

McFarlane Toys’ My Hero Academia Katsuki Bakugo Nominated for Toy of the Year

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My Hero Academia Katsuki Bakugo

McFarlane Toys has been named a finalist for the prestigious 2020 Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award, the industry’s highest achievement and one of its most revered accolades. 

Selected as a finalist in the Action Figure of the Year category, McFarlane Toys’ My Hero Academia Katsuki Bakugo is one of a collection of licensed figures produced in partnership with Sony Pictures Television subsidiary Funimation and based on the global hit anime series “My Hero Academia” that chronicles a group of high school students training to be future superheroes. Katsuki Bakugo, not only the fan-favorite, arrogant, explosive character in the “My Hero Academia,” is also now a detailed, fully articulated figure.  With McFarlane Toys’ signature detail, revitalized articulation, and iconic character accuracy, it is no wonder the My Hero Academia Katsuki Bakugo figure is in the running for number one.

Now it’s YOUR chance to vote for McFarlane Toys’ My Hero Academia Katsuki Bakugo figure for Action Figure of the Year, along with the consumer-chosen People’s Choice Award. Each voter will be entered for a chance to win the TOTY Action Figure of The Year toy prize package. Between now and January 5, 2020,  McFarlane Toys and “My Hero Academia” fans can vote at  www.ToyAwards.org 

Established by The Toy Association, the TOTY Awards are known as the “Oscars” of the toy industry. The program is also a vital fundraiser for The Toy Foundation, which annually delivers toys to millions of children in need.

Winners in each category, as well as the coveted overall Toy of the Year winner and the People’s Choice winner (based solely on consumer votes), will be announced at the TOTY Awards gala on Friday, February 21, 2020, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City. The celebration will kick off Toy Fair New York and include the induction of three trailblazers into the esteemed Toy Industry Hall of Fame.

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