My Hero Academia Vigilantes Reveals New Trailer

Summary

  • The anime My Hero Academia Vigilantes premieres on April 7, 2025, produced by Bones Film.

  • The 90-second trailer highlights the protagonist's admiration for All Might and introduces key characters.

  • The My Hero Academia Vigilantes manga, which takes place as a prequel and spin-off, has sold over 100,000 copies.

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    • My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Is A Prequel & Spin-off

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is one of the most anticipated anime releases of 2025. It is based on the spin-off of the same name. An anime adaptation of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes was announced at Jump Festa 2025. The spin-off is extremely popular, so fans were excited at the prospect of seeing their favorite series turned into an anime.

Ahead of its April premiere, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes decided to increase the hype by releasing a trailer. The 90-second trailer focuses on the protagonist and highlights his admiration for All Might, a symbol of peace. The trailer also introduces various characters that will feature prominently in the anime. The anime also released a trailer that focused on Koichi, Pop Step, and Knuckleduster.

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My Hero Academia: Vigilantes release date

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will be released on April 7, 2025. The anime is produced by Bones Film, a subsidiary of Bones, the same studio that produced each season of My Hero Academia. The cast for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes has also been confirmed. Kenichi Suzuki will direct it, Yosuke Kuroda will write the script. Takahiko Yoshida designs the characters and Yuki Hayashi, Shogo Yamashiro and Yuki Furuhashi compose the music.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes has also confirmed the voice cast for the anime and you can find it below:

  • Shuichiro Umeda as Koichi Haimawairi / The Crawler

  • Ikumi Hasegawa as Kazuho Haneyama/Pop Step

  • Yasuhiro Mamiya as Oguro Iwao / Knuckleduster

Additional cast members, if any, will be revealed before the premiere or during the anime airing.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Is A Prequel & Spin-off

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My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is commonly considered a spin-off to the more popular My Hero Academia, but it is actually also a prequel. It takes place five years before the events of the main series. The manga is written by Hideyuki Furuyashi and illustrated by Betten Court. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes began serialization in Shueisha's Jump Giga magazine in August 2016. It ran for nearly six years and ended in May 2022.

The manga has released 15 volumes so far. In terms of sales, it can be assumed that My Hero Academia: Vigilantes has sold over 100,000 copies. With an anime release on the horizon, sales numbers are bound to increase, and who knows, maybe even a reprint.

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Release date

April 3, 2016

Studio

Bones

Creator

Kōhei Horikoshi

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