A new My Hero Academia collaboration visual, featuring Koichi Haimawari and Izuku Midoriya, has been unveiled to celebrate the upcoming premiere of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes on April 7, 2025. The series will stream exclusively on Crunchyroll worldwide excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly, simultaneously with Japan.
An interview between the lead voice actors of both characters is also available to read on the Vigilantes‘ official website.
Kenichi Suzuki (Fairy Gone, Cells At Work!, Drifters) is directing My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, 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 handling the animation production.
Other 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.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Shuichiro Umeda as Koichi Haimawari/The Crawler
- • Ikumi Hasegawa as Pop Step
- • Yasuhiro Mamiya as Knuckle Duster
- • Sayaka Sembongi as Kuin Hachisuka
- • Kohsuke Toriumi as Soga Kugizaki
- • Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Naomasa Tsukauchi
The main My Hero Academia anime series will debut its final season sometime in Fall 2025. The first season premiered in 2016, with the recent seventh season beginning its broadcast in May 2024. Bones has handled the animation production for all seasons so far.
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 ended on May 28, 2022 with 15 total tankobon volumes released.
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…
