Voice actor Taku Yashiro has been cast for the ongoing My Hero Academia: Vigilantes TV anime series, where he is voicing the mysterious Scarred Man, who appeared at the end of the show’s 12th episode. The anime first began airing in Japan on April 7, 2025 and is running for 13 total episodes, which will air as the finale next week on June 30, 2025.
A new character visual of the Scarred Man was also released.
In addition, a 2-minute video of Pop Step and the FeatherHATS group (consisting of the underground idol duo FeatherS, rock band Mad Hatters, and the East Naruhata High Dance Squad) was released, showcasing their performance of the “Marukane Department Store Song REMIX” as part of Naru Fes. The song is currently streaming on several music streaming platforms.
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, and Eiei Cho (T・P BON) as compositing director. BONES FILM is in charge of 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, and 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
- • Asami Seto as Makoto Tsukauchi
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 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 published. VIZ Media releases the manga series in English.
A special one-shot chapter of the manga was released on Shonen Jump+ in April 2025.
The main My Hero Academia anime will premiere its final season in October 2025. The first season premiered in 2016, with the recent seventh season airing in May 2024. Bones has been in charge of the series’ animation production for all seasons so far.
The spinoff anime series 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 My Hero Academia: Vigilantes 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!
Sources: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network
