Voice actress Asami Seto is joining the voice cast of the ongoing My Hero Academia: Vigilantes TV anime as Makoto Tsukauchi. The series is scheduled to premiere in Japan on April 7, 2025 and run for 13 total episodes.
Seto joins a main voice cast that 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
Makoto Tsukauchi’s appearance was also teased in a preview video for the anime’s seventh episode, broadcasting on May 19, 2025.
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 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.
The anime is based on the superhero manga series written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court. The manga is a spinoff prequel of 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 a total of 15 tankobon volumes released.
A special one-shot chapter of the manga was recently released on Shonen Jump+ in April 2025.
The main My Hero Academia anime series will release its final season sometime in October 2025. The first season premiered in 2016, with the recent seventh season airing in May 2024. Bones has handled the animation production for all seasons so far.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is streaming on Crunchyroll worldwide excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly, simultaneously with Japan. Netflix, Ani-One Asia ULTRA, and Bilibili are also streaming the series overseas.
Crunchyroll describes the main synopsis of the series as:
Koichi Haimawari is a dull college student who aspires to be a hero but has given up on his dream. Although 80% of the world’s population has superhuman powers called Quirks, few are chosen to become heroes and protect people. Everything changes for Koichi when he and Pop☆Step are saved by the vigilante Knuckleduster and get recruited to become vigilantes themselves!
Source: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network
