#Vigilantes Spotlights 3 Lead Characters in Latest Character Promo Videos
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.
Some cast members from the main My Hero Academia anime series reprising their roles in Vigilantes include:
- • Kenta Miyake as Toshinori Yagi/All Might
- • Junichi Suwabe as Shota Aizawa/Eraser Head
- • Hiroyuki Yoshino as Hizashi Yamada/Present Mic
- • Akeno Watanabe as Nemuri Kayama/Midnight
- • Masamichi Kitada as Tensei Iida/Ingenium
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.
VIZ Media releases the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes manga in English, and describes the main synopsis as:
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…
Source: My Hero Academia Official Twitter, Official Anime Website
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