My Hero Academia: Volume W, promotional volume for the third film

My Hero Academia

My Hero Academia's third animated film, My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission, will feature a promotional manga chapter created by the original manga's author, Kohei Horikoshi. The chapter will not be part of the manga's official tankobons, but will be collected in My Hero Academia: Volume W, or the special volume that will be delivered to the first million people who will go to the cinema in Japan.

My Hero Academia: Volume W, the details

The special volume will collect the manga chapter dedicated to the film, in fact, concept art, character design, question and answer session with Kohei Horikoshi and an interview with his editors.

The information just mentioned will be officially published in issue 28 of Weekly Shonen Jump, available in Japan and online stores for purchase from June 14 and previewed by @ Atsushi101 on Twitter. In addition, the magazine will unveil the cover of the special volume that we can watch below:

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission, release date, details and synopsis of the film

The animated film, whose production has officially begun and here we talk about it, will be released in Japanese cinemas on August 6, 2021.



My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission will tell a story completely original that arises chronologically with respect to the manga within the narrative arc of the internship as Heroes at the Endeavor Agency in the winter season (Volume 26 of the manga). Kohei Horikoshi-sensei is involved in the oversight of the story and in the making of the original character design and, in the latter regard, the first original character named Rody Soul has been revealed (here to get to the details).

Below is an extended synopsis of the film:

A mysterious group called 'Humanize' fervently believes in the theory in the Quirk legacy that uniqueness handed down from generation to generation would generate an ultimate power that could lead humanity to extinction. They are convinced that Quirks are diseases and aim to cleanse the world of everyone who owns one. The group has planted the 'Ideo Trigger Bombs' in various cities around the world which force the bearer of a Quirk to explode causing mass murder. In order to save everyone, Professional Heroes around the world have asked aspiring Heroes of Yuhei High School in training to assist them and create a worldwide team of select Heroes. The goal is to stop the bombs.

Deku, Bakugo and Todoroki, who are temporarily working at the Endeavor Agency, are called to head to a distant city named 'Oseon'. However, during the operation, Deku is embroiled in a catastrophic event that mistakenly nails him as one of the most wanted criminals in the world. In the chaos, the 'Humanize' group declares that they are behind this event and that the time limit is two hours. Now it's up to the Heroes to save the world and the future in what appears to be the most dangerous crisis in the history of My Hero Academia!

Regarding the staff, Kenji Nagasaki will again direct the film at Studio Bones. Yousuke Kuroda returns as screenwriter, Yoshihiko Umakoshi as character designer and Yuki Hayashi as composer. Kohei Horikoshi, remember, will play the aforementioned role.

My Hero Academia - manga and anime

My Hero Academia is made up of four seasons all available streaming for free on the VVVVID platform. The first four seasons and the OAVs were broadcast unencrypted by Mediaset networks, obviously dubbed in Italian, between 2018 and 2021. You can recover the series on home video thanks to Dynit which created 3 blu-ray boxes for the first two seasons , also with Italian audio, My Hero Academia Season 1, My Hero Academia Season 2 - Box 1 and My Hero Academia Season 2 - Box 2.

Season 5 is currently being simulcasted on Crunchyroll. Two films are also linked to the anime series: Two Heroes and HEROES RISING, both of which were also released for Dynit. A third animated film has also been announced, details in this article.

The anime is based on the manga of the same name written and drawn by Kohei Horikoshi, which is still being published. The manga is published in Italy by Edizioni Star Comics which has published 27 volumes so far (do not miss it here on Amazon).

For those unfamiliar with here is a brief synopsis of the series:

In a world in which being superheroes is the norm, being born without particular powers is equivalent to a real misfortune. Izuku Midoriya will have to go all out to get a superpower, and despite the feat it seems impossible that anyone will end up noticing his abilities.