A teaser trailer and visual for the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime adaptation have been released, previewing the anime forms of the characters Pop Step and Knuckle Duster as well as revealing an April 7 JST premiere date.
Cast details for the My Hero Academia spin-off were also revealed. Shuichiro Umeda is voicing main protagonist Koichi Haimawari, while Ikumi Hasegawa and Yasuhiro Mamiya are voicing Pop Step and Knuckle Duster, respectively. Additionally, there are visuals for the three characters.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is based on the Shueisha-published manga drawn by Betten Court and written by Hideyuki Furuhashi. Viz Media describes the premise as:
Koichi Haimawari couldn’t make the cut to become an official hero, so he uses his modest Quirk to do good deeds in his spare time. Then one day a fateful encounter with some local thugs leads him to team up with two other unlikely heroes. None of them really know what they’re doing, but they’ve got the courage—or foolishness—to try. But they soon discover fighting evil takes more than just being brave…
The manga debuted in 2016 and concluded in 2022. It has been collected into 15 tankoubon volumes.
Staff
• Director: Kenichi Suzuki (Fairy Gone, Cells At Work!, Drifters)
• Series composer: Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia)
• Character designer: Takahiko Yoshida (Cells At Work!, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen [2020])
• Color designer: Haruko Nobori (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!)
• Background art director: Yukihiro Watanabe (Fuuto PI)
• Compositing director: Eiei Cho (T・P BON)
• Animation production: BONES FILM
Source: @vigilante_mha
