New 'Poke no Academia' Art Imagines Anime's Best Crossover

My Hero Academia is one of the most popular anime series out there because of the wide variety of [...]

By Nick Valdez

My Hero Academia is one of the most popular anime series out there because of the wide variety of its characters, and that's also one of the most appealing elements of the Pokemon series. It was only a matter of time before fans combined the two.

Artist @Kimbolt_Prime on Twitter did just that with the special "Poke no Hero Academia" project imagining some of My Hero Academia's favorites as Pokemon.

@Kimbolt_Prime hilariously imagines such pairings as Bakugo as Quilava, Midoriya as Riolu, Todoroki as both versions of Vulpix, Aoyama as Roselia, Tsuyu as Froakie, Kaminari as Pichu, and many other hilarious takes on the popular characters. The cute designs almost seemed destined to cross, and it would put a more heroic edge to each Pokemon battle for sure.

It's hilarious to see how well each of these designs blend with one another, and fans would definitely dig a full version of this in the future. If you want to check out more of this line, you can find more at @Kimbolt_Prime's Tumblr at the following link.

If you haven't kept up with the current run of the Pokemon anime, Pokemon the Series: Sun & Moon is described as such, "What starts as a summer vacation in the tropical Alola region turns into the next exciting chapter in Ash Ketchum's quest to become a Pokémon Master! There's plenty for Ash and Pikachu to explore in this sunny new region, with exciting new Pokémon to discover and interesting people to learn from along the way—including the cool Professor Kukui and the fun-loving Samson Oak.

More new faces will help guide Ash's Alolan adventure, in the form of a group of skilled Trainers—Kiawe, Lana, Mallow, and Sophocles—and a mysterious research assistant called Lillie. Frequent foes Team Rocket have also made the trip to Alola, looking to swipe some high-powered new Pokémon. But they have some heavy competition on the villainy front: the ruffians of Team Skull, who delight in causing chaos and may have more sinister intentions..."

As for My Hero Academia, the series was created by Kohei Horikoshi and has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump since July 2014. The story follows Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a world where everyone has super powers, even though he was born without them. Dreaming to become a superhero anyway, he's eventually scouted by the world's best hero All Might and enrolls in a school for professional heroes. The series has been collected into 19 volumes so far, and has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release since 2015.

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