My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Anime Announced!
The spin-off to the successful superhero manga, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, has finally gotten the anime treatment.
Jump Festa continues to bring in more good news for the anime community.
Three years after it concluded its manga run, the long-awaited “My Hero Academia” prequel will finally be adapted into an anime and will premiere on April 2025.
The key visual shows the protagonist Koichi Haimawari, notable for his All Might costume, standing on a building ledge in the night with the announcement date.
Alongside the key visual, we get a Super Teaser, showing Koichi and Kazuho Haneyama/Pop☆Step taking on the role of Vigilantes, who are “illegal heroes” in contrast to the Pro-Heroes legalized by the system.
Koichi shows off his Quirk, Slide and Glide, that allows him to project an attractive or repulsive force on his hands and feet to slide or cling through surfaces.
At the end of the teaser, we meet Knuckleduster, who approaches Koichi and Kazuho.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will be produced by Studio Bones, the same studio as the original story, particularly under the Bones Film branch, a new company founded on October 2024.
The prequel will run simultaneously with the Final Season of My Hero Academia, which has also announced its release for Fall 2025.
Staff List
Director: Kenichi Suzuki
Animation Production: Bones Film
Series Composition & Script: Yosuke Kuroda
Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida
Art Director: Yukihiro Watanabe
Color Design: Nobori Haruko
Director of Photography: Ying Zhang
3DCG Director: Mizuki Sasaki
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
Music: Yuki Hayashi, Shogo Yamashiro, Yuki Furuhashi
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Kenichi Suzuki is the director of David Productions’ adaptation of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, from Phantom Blood to Stardust Crusaders, and returned for the most recent part, Stone Ocean.
Notably, Suzuki is the director of the My Hero Academia Season 6 Opening “Hitamuki” by Super Beaver.
Art director Yukihiro Watanabe is the art director for SSSS.Gridman and has worked on Cells at Work, Tokyo Ghoul: Root A and Made in Abyss.
Color designer Nobori Haruko is a veteran of the industry who did color coordination for the 1999 adaptation of Hunter x Hunter and color setting for Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie.
The character designer, Takahiko Yoshida also designed the characters for the Cells at Work anime, which is also where the editor, Kiyoshi Hirose, worked on.
Hirose has also done editing for Dandadan, Fire Force, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Mob Psycho 100.
Only three are the returning staff from the original anime: My Hero Academia’s scriptwriter Yosuke Kuroda, 3DCG director Mizuki Sasaki (My Hero Academia Season 5 onwards) and Sound Director Masafumi Mima (who also worked on all seasons of Attack on Titan).
Yuki Hayashi will compose the score for the spin-off as he has done for the main series but with the inclusion of Shogo Yamashiro and Yuki Furuhashi, both of whom were involved in the Ringing Fate donghua.
About My Hero Academia: Vigilantes
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is a manga written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated Betten Court from August 20, 2016 to May 28, 2022, serving as both a spin-off and a prequel of the My Hero Academia manga by Kohei Horikoshi that recently concluded on August 5, 2024.
Originally released for Jump GIGA in August 20, 2016, the manga would move to the Shonen Jump Plus App after Jump GIGA ceased publication on October of the same year.
The manga managed to reach 15 volumes and a total of 126 chapters throughout its run.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes takes place 4 years before the start of the main story, where
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