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My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions, Vol. 1

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Thank you to NetGalley, VIZ Media, Yoko Akiyama, and Kohei Horikoshi for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Being a solid My Hero Academia manga and anime fan, of course, I had to try this one out. It is very evident from the title that this book is a collection of short stories titled "Team-Up Missions" that revolve around various team-ups. Most take place after the heroes get their provisional licenses, though there was one story that was just a basic recap of the UA Class 1-A, which was the least interesting. There were two that tied into the first feature film featuring Melissa as one of the characters. My favorite was a team-up with Fat Gum, Suneater, Ida, and Yaoyorozu. A little girl was rescued by a handsome prince and she enlists the heroes to help her find this hero. I loved the twist on this one and it was all-around fun to see this team-up look fo her prince.

While these stories, didn't add much to the characterization or main story, they were mostly fun to read and felt very much within the world of MHA. This is a fun spin-off with varied adventures featuring MHA fan-favorite characters.

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Absolutely adored this one! This follows a bunch of MHA characters through a variety of hero missions. We see more of the pro heroes which is always a plus, but the most surprising thing to me was the story following Hatsume & Melissa (the girl from the first MHA movie). It was really adorable and I didn't even think about that kind of team-up before so that was a great surprise. All the characters felt in-character and it's a nice expansion to the MHA universe.

The Bakugo family comics were hysterical. I don't know how they function in society at all. I love it!

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Everyone loves My Hero Academia and I am no exception. I will devour everything that this series puts out.

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I loved the vignettes in this new series. It's perfect for any My Hero Academia fans. I'll definitely recommend this to my students to read during quiet reading time.

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Everything about this volume is perfect. Characters we love with interesting vignettes and team-ups. Definitely a worthy addition to the My Hero Academia universe, and I really hope there are more volumes forthcoming.

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I simple collections of vignettes. This will certainly please My Hero fans. Always nice to get small glimpses into their world (and we get to see David's quirk (which is delightfully random).

For Libraries: While nothing about this is super wow-worthy, if you have fans (like I do), you will want this in your collection.

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I was please to see this new «series» in the Hero Academia world. I was as fun and as entertaining as the original series and certainly a series I will continue reading!

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This was so fun and I'm so glad I was given an opportunity to read it. As a fan of the main series when I saw that this was available on NetGalley I had to check it out. I personally have not yet had the chance to try out any of the content from the My Hero universe aside from the main manga series, of which I am up to volume 24 at time of reading/writing. This was the perfect opportunity to broaden my horizons, and let me tell you it was great fun. It would also have been significantly more fun if I had seen the movie it kept making reference to, so if you've seen the movies you'll like this even more than I did.

With this book consisting mostly of one-off "Team-Up" missions, if the title hadn't yet made that point clear, I feel like I should describe to you a bit of what each of these missions entailed. They were all for the most part self-contained and felt like the lives of our heroes outside of the major life or death crises they seem to face in the main series.

We actually start this book off with All Might and he is a lot of fun, I wish we got to see more of him overall. Now onto the first team-up. We have Deku, Uraraka, and Bakugo. This can only go well, I say sarcastically. And they get to work with Mirko, you know the buff rabbit lady. She is definitely a hero we have seen little out of so it was good to work with her and see how the characters played off of one another. The villain of this story is an interesting one and there is a very satisfying conclusion to be found here.

Our next team-up also shows no flaws or is in any way concerning, I say <b>super</b> sarcastically. Deku, Bakugo, and Hawks. I will leave you to imagine all the possible ways that could play out and tell you no more. This was my favorite story in the book though.

The next story and the last one feature some characters from the movies. Having not seen the movies I feel underqualified to speak on the nature of these chapters in full. But do note that they were enjoyable and provided enough information to make sense and didn't make me feel too far outside of the loop.

The next team up mission provides us with a fun cast of characters. We are given Ida and Momo sent to work alongside Tamaki and Fat Gum. They all actually end up having the most fun and silly mission in the book. They have to help a little girl find the hero who saved her during a recent minor villain attack, only she doesn't know anything about him. This then leads them on a romp around the area visiting a bunch of other heroes and students mixed up in interesting pairings.

The last story I have left to tell you about was ok. It has a setup that if taken at face value is frankly ridiculous. A kid has his soccer ball stolen by some older kids and then accidentally recruits what appears to be like half of class 1-A and All Might to get it back. It was a bit campy as far as stories go but it was still good.

Fans of the series should definitely give this a go in order to experience some more fun and down to earth stories with the characters we have grown to love within the universe of My Hero.

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