Joseph Luster
December 23, 2024 
Over the course of the packed Jump Festa 2025 weekend, a couple major My Hero Academia news beats dropped. Chief among them was the official reveal of an anime adapting My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, the spinoff manga written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure chief director Kenichi Suzuki is directing the anime, with Yosuke Kuroda on series composition and Takahiko Yoshida handling character designs for the production, which has BONES continuing to produce alongside the main My Hero Academia anime as it enters its final season.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Teaser Trailer
The Vigilantes manga launched in August 2016 and wrapped up in May 2022 to the tune of 15 total volumes.
VIZ Media publishes the manga in English and describes it:
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Plot
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: Official Website
