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My Hero Academia: One's Justice Game Adds Himiko Toga, Dabi as Playable Characters
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
This year's 27th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that the villain characters himiko Toga and Dabi will be playable characters in Bandai Namco Entertainment's My Hero Academia: One's Justice game.
The game will ship for the Switch and PlayStation 4 in Japan on August 23.
Bandai Namco Entertainment will release the game for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC this year in Europe and the Americas. The game will also get a PS4 and PC release in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia this year. The game's title for the English release is My Hero One's Justice.
Other confirmed characters include: Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugō, All Might, Tomura Shigaraki, Ochaco Uraraka, Tenya Iida, Shōto Todoroki, Momo Yaoyorozu, Denki Kaminari, Tsuyu Asui, Stain, Shōta Aizawa, Fumikage Tokoyami, Kyōka Jirō, and Eijirō Kirishima.
Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga previously inspired the My Hero Academia: Battle for All Nintendo 3DS game in May 2016, and the My Hero Academia: Gekitotsu! Heroes Battle arcade card game with accompanying smartphone game, which launched in April 2016.
More recently, the manga inspired the My Hero Academia: Smash Tap smartphone game, which launched last year.
First image from My Hero Academia anime episode 37
Source: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 27
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