TOHO has unveiled a third new key visual, trailer, more cast, and opening theme song for the upcoming My Hero Academia: Vigilantes TV anime series. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan on April 7, 2025.
The new trailer highlights the opening theme song “Kekka Orai,” performed by Japanese singer-songwriter Kocchi no Kento.
It also confirms the addition of three new cast members, which include Sayaka Sembongi as Kuin Hachisuka, Kohsuke Toriumi as Soga Kugizaki, and Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Naomasa Tsukauchi.
They join a main cast headlined by Shuichiro Umeda as Koichi Haimawari/The Crawler, Ikumi Hasegawa as Pop Step, and Yasuhiro Mamiya as Knuckle Duster.
Kenichi Suzuki (Fairy Gone, Cells At Work!, Drifters) is directing the anime series, with Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia) as series screenwriter, Takahiko Yoshida (Cells At Work!, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen [2020]) as character designer, Haruko Nobori (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!) as color designer, Yukihiro Watanabe (Fuuto PI) as background art director, Eiei Cho (T・P BON) as compositing director. BONES FILM is in charge of the animation production.
Additional staff include Yingying Zhang as director of photography (The Case Study of Vanitas), Mizuki Sasaki (My Hero Academia season 5-7) as 3DCG director, Kiyoshi Hirose (Fire Force) as editor, Masafumi Mima (My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan) as sound director. Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!), Shogo Yamashiro, and Yuki Furuhashi are serving as music composers.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is based on the superhero manga series written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court. The manga is a spinoff prequel to Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia series, taking place five years before the main story. It was first serialized in Shueisha’s Jump Giga magazine on August 20, 2016, before transferring to Shonen Jump+ in October 2016. The series concluded on May 28, 2022 with 15 total tankobon volumes released.
The anime will stream exclusively on Crunchyroll worldwide excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly, simultaneously with Japan.
VIZ Media releases the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes manga in English, and describes the main synopsis 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…
Source: press release
