Brawl Stars launches its first anime collab with My Hero Academia

Supercell's Brawl Stars has launched a collaboration with My Hero Academia, its first crossover with an anime franchise. Five new skins went live today, April 28, 2026, and players have until May 7 to earn one of them for free through a limited-time challenge.

The event marks a notable step for Brawl Stars, which has run animated IP collabs before — SpongeBob SquarePants being the most prominent — but never pulled from the anime space. 

My Hero Academia is also a timely pick. The anime ended its 10-year run on December 13, 2025, wrapping with Episode 170, which means the franchise is still fresh in global pop culture while entering the kind of nostalgic afterglow that tends to drive merchandise and collab interest.

Skins and the free challenge

The five crossover skins map My Hero Academia's most iconic characters to existing Brawl Stars fighters. All Might slots into El Primo as a Legendary-rarity skin at 299 Gems. Both characters rely on raw power and close-range pressure, making the pairing one of the more natural fits in the lineup. Bakugo lands on Edgar as a Mythic at 199 Gems, Deku takes Fang as an Epic at 149 Gems, and Tomura Shigaraki gets Gus as a Mythic at 199 Gems.

The fifth skin, Uravity: Janet, is an Epic at 149 Gems in the shop, though players can unlock it for free through the skin challenge. Getting it without paying requires nine wins split evenly across three game modes: Knockout, Brawl Ball, and Gem Grab, three wins in each. Players start each stage with four lives, and losing all four before finishing forces a Gem spend to continue. Completing the full challenge also hands out four Random Star Drops, two Chaos Drops, two Uravity Janet-themed Sprays, and a Pin.

Supercell dropped an official animated trailer alongside the launch, with a Japanese dub version also available.

Context and timing

Brawl Stars sits at 104 brawlers as of April 2026 and posted $48.6 million in revenue in March, a 46.8% rise from February. The game has been on an upswing after a turbulent 2025, helped by Chaos Drops, Buffies, and Brawl Pass 3.0. Dropping a high-profile anime collab during that momentum window is a deliberate push to sustain it.

The My Hero Academia event also falls directly ahead of the Starr Patrol season, which launches May 7 with a superhero and anime theme. Supercell has structured the end of the current Dragons and Faeries season around two back-to-back hooks, today's MHA collab and a Golden Week event on April 29, before the season transition hits.

My Hero Academia was created by Kohei Horikoshi and ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from July 2014 to August 2024. The anime, which premiered in April 2016 from studio Bones, became one of the most-watched shonen series of its era across more than 170 countries. Brawl Stars is available as a free download on the App Store and Google Play.