The official website for the upcoming My Hero Academia: Vigilantes TV anime series has released three new character promo videos, spotlighting the series’ three lead characters. The anime is scheduled to begin airing in Japan on April 7, 2025.
The new short promo videos, which were also posted on the anime’s official Twitter/X account, feature Koichi Haimawari’s vigilante alter ego The Crawler, Kazuho Haneyama’s Pop Step, and Iwao Oguro’s Knuckleduster.
Kenichi Suzuki (Fairy Gone, Cells At Work!, Drifters) is directing the anime, 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.
The anime’s main voice cast is headlined by Shuichiro Umeda as Koichi Haimawari/The Crawler, Ikumi Hasegawa as Pop Step, and Yasuhiro Mamiya as Knuckle Duster. The anime 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 and moved to Shonen Jump+ in October 2016. The series ended on May 28, 2022 with 15 total tankobon volumes released.
Synopsis:
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.
