During Jump Festa 2025, TOHO Animation announced that theMy Hero Academiaspin-off manga,My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, is finally getting an animated adaptation, and Bones (the same studio behind the main series) is in charge of animating it.
TOHO uploaded the first official trailer on its YouTube Channel, and it looks absolutely amazing, as it showcases the main characters of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (The Crawler, Pop Step and Knuckleduster) moving around with the high-quality animation we usually expect from Bones. The best part is that we won’t have to wait very long for this new series since it will begin airing on April 2025, in just 4 months.
This is an especially interesting release schedule forVigilantes,because TOHO and Bones also confirmed that the eight and final seasonofMy Hero Academiawill come out later in the same year, in Fall 2025. This IP been extremely successful for both companies, so while it’s no surprise that they clearly want to keep it aliveafter the conclusion of the original show, it’s interesting that they are already planning to release the spin-off a few months before that. Nevertheless, the plot ofVigilantesis quite extensive, so they will most likely need a few more seasons to adapt it in its entirety.
What is My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, exactly?
While fans of theMy Hero Academiamanga are already celebratingthe long-awaited announcement of this new anime, many others are wondering what exactlyVigilantesis. This was a spin-off manga that Hideyuki Furuhashi wrote, Betten Court illustrated, and Kohei Horikoshi himself (the author of the originalMHAmanga) supervised. It was published on Shonen Jump+ from 2017 to 2022, and it had 126 different chapters by the time it concluded.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantesfollows the story of Koichi Haimawari, a 19-year-old man who was never able to become a Pro Hero due to his seemingly weak and insignificant Quirk. However, after meeting characters like Pop Step and Knuckleduster, he learns about the titular Vigilantes, renegade heroes without official licenses who often have to ignore the law in order to help save people.
This spin-off fleshed out the world of this seriesin brilliant ways, not to mention that it’s actually a prequel that takes place a few years before the beginning of My Hero Academia and, as a result, it explains some important details that Horikoshi never revealed during the main manga. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes features a gripping storyline with memorable heroes & villains and epic fight scenes, so its upcoming animated adaptation has the potential to become something truly special.
