My Hero Academia X Overwatch collaboration announces October 2024 release

Modified Sep 30, 2024 16:01 GMT

My Hero Academia X Overwatch collaboration announces October 2024 release (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Thursday, September 26, 2024, saw a My Hero Academia x Overwatch collaboration announced via the official X account for Blizzard’s franchise. The collaboration will see five new skins themed on mangaka Kohei Horikoshi’s series coming to the game.

These skins will be for some of the game’s most popular characters, such as Juno, Reinhardt, Kiriko, Reaper, and Tracer, with the lattermost adopting the look of series protagonist Izuku “Deku” Midoriya.

Per the official Blizzard website, My Hero Academia x Overwatch collaboration is set to start on Thursday, October 17 and will run until Wednesday, October 30, 2024. The collaboration is specifically for Overwatch 2 rather than the original game. The official Blizzard website claims the skins will be part of a “Mega Bundle,” which will grant all five legendary skins “along with additional cosmetics.” Players can also “play for free to earn five sprays and a mighty charm.”

My Hero Academia x Overwatch collaboration set to bring series’ most iconic characters into the game

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As mentioned above, the My Hero Academia x Overwatch collaboration will include five characters from the anime and manga series as skins, starting with Tracer as Deku. Reinhardt will receive an All Might skin, while Juno’s will be an Uravity skin, representing Ochako Uraraka’s character. For the villains, Kiriko’s skin will be Himiko Toga, while Reaper’s will be Tomura Shigaraki, leader of the League of Villains in-series.

Each of the skins will use the corresponding characters’ most recognizable hero or villain outfits, with only slight modifications to accommodate each video game characters’ design. For example, Reaper’s skin as Tomura Shigaraki will feature a mark on his chest that isn’t part of Shigaraki’s design. Tracer’s power core will similarly be present on the Deku skin despite no analog being present in the anime and manga protagonist’s original design.

As of this article’s writing, there’s no further information on what the additional My Hero Academia x Overwatch collaboration cosmetics beyond the skin will be. Likewise, currently available information suggests that the only way to acquire each of these skins is to purchase them in-game. While this could change later on, it seems that these outfits are at least being paywalled to start, if not permanently so.

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The free-to-play first-person shooter game Overwatch 2 launched in August 2023 as a sequel to the original 2016 game of the same name. One of its main original selling points was the addition of a player versus environment, or PvE, gamemode. However, in May 2023, it was announced that these plans were scrapped.

Horikoshi’s manga began serialization in July 2014 and ran for just over 10 years until its end in August 2024. The manga ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine for its entirety, spanning 430 chapters, which will be compiled into 42 volumes total once the final releases in December 2024.