Mech Cadet Yu

Mech Cadet Yu is an American comic book limited series written by Greg Pak and drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa. It was published by Boom! Studios between 2017 and 2018.

Mech Cadet Yu
Publication information
Publisher	Boom! Studios
Format	Limited series
Publication date	August 2017 – September 2018
No. of issues	12
Creative team
Written by	Greg Pak
Artist(s)	Takeshi Miyazawa
Colorist(s)	Triona Farrell

Premise

Cadets from the Sky Corps Academy team up with giant robots from outer space to protect the planet from aliens from the Sharg race.^[1]

Issues

Issue #	Publication date	Critic rating and reviews	Sales
1	2 August 2017[2]	9.1/10 based on 16 reviews[2]	8,407[3]
2	13 September 2017[4]	8.7/10 based on 9 reviews[4]	4,775[5]
3	11 October 2017[6]	8.8/10 based on 8 reviews[6]	—
4	15 November 2017[7]	8.4/10 based on 7 reviews[7]
5	10 January 2018[8]	8.4/10 based on 10 reviews[8]	3,679[9]
6	7 February 2018[10]	8.4/10 based on 8 reviews[10]	3,267[11]
7	7 March 2018[12]	8.6/10 based on 9 reviews[12]	3,085[13]
8	4 April 2018[14]	8.4/10 based on 8 reviews[14]	2,940[15]
9	13 June 2018[16]	7.7/10 based on 5 reviews[16]	2,606[17]
10	11 July 2018[18]	8.1/10 based on 6 reviews[18]	2,392[19]
11	8 August 2018[20]	8/10 based on 1 review[20]	2,353[21]
12	12 September 2018[22]	9.2/10 based on 6 reviews[22]	2,272[23]

Reception

On Comic Book Roundup, the series has a score of 8.5 out of 10 based on 93 reviews.^[24] Steve Morris of Comic Book Resources called the debut issue "entertaining".^[25] Chase Magnett of ComicBook.com gave the first volume a "B" and felt that its main problem was "building the world necessary for the characters and the main idea to fall into place".^[26] C.K. Stewart of Newsarama gave the debut issue a 10 out of 10 and called it "a fun comic for readers of all ages".^[27] Joshua Davison of Bleeding Cool, reviewing issue eight, praised the artists.^[28]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result
2018	Ringo Awards	Mike Wieringo Spirit Award	Won	[29]

In other media

An animated series based on the comic series, entitled Mech Cadets, was released in August 2023.^{[30][31][32][33]}