Danica Davidson
June 30, 2025 
The first season of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes just wrapped, but if you’re wanting more episodes, then there is good news for you! TOHO Animation has already confirmed that a second season is on the way, and is scheduled to debut sometime next year. This short teaser trailer was also shared.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 Trailer
This visual was additionally dropped.
Crunchyroll is set to stream the series throughout the world, with the exception of Asia.
The show is being made at BONES FILM, with Kenichi Suzuki of Cells at Work! and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure helming the project as director. The person handling the series scripts is Yosuke Kuroda, who also worked on the original My Hero Academia. Credit for character design goes to Takahiko Yoshida, known for working on Yowamushi Pedal and Cells at Work!
As for the Japanese actors, Shuichiro Umeda plays Koichi Haimawari/The Crawler, Ikumi Hasegawa plays Kazuho Haneyama/Pop Step, Yasuhiro Mamiya plays Iwao Oguro/Knuckleduster, Asami Seto plays Makoto Tsukauchi, Kenta Miyake plays Toshinori Yagi/All Might, Junichi Suwabe plays Shota Aizawa/Eraser Head, Hiroyuki Yoshino plays Hizashi Yamada/Present Mic, Akeno Watanabe plays Nemuri Kayama/Midnight, and Masamichi Kitada plays Tensei Iida/Ingenium.
The anime is adapted from a manga by Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court, which in turn is a spinoff of Kohei Horikoshi’s very popular manga My Hero Academia. VIZ Media publishes both series in English, and gave this description for Vigilantes:
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: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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