Toshiyuki Morikawa Joins Voice Cast of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

The official Twitter/X and website for the ongoing My Hero Academia: Vigilantes TV anime series has announced the casting of Toshiyuki Morikawa as Captain Celebrity. The series began broadcasting in Japan on April 7, 2025 and will run for 13 episodes. 

Captain Celebrity is a top-ranked hero from America who has come to Japan. He is set to appear in the anime’s eighth episode, “Major,” on May 26, 2025 and is highlighted in the short preview video below. 

Morikawa joins a main voice cast that stars: 

• • 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

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, 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, 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. 

The anime adaptation 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 first 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 being released.

A special one-shot chapter of the manga was recently released on Shonen Jump+ in April 2025. 

The main My Hero Academia anime series will debut its final season sometime in October 2025. The first season premiered in 2016, with the recent seventh season airing in May 2024. Bones has handled the animation production for all seasons so far. 

The 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!

Source: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network