The official website for the Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes) TV anime confirmed that the show will premiere on April 7th, 2025, on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels. It also released a new teaser trailer and visual for the anime.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7Hp24b9ak]
Suzuki Kenichi (Hataraku Saibou, JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken) is directing the anime at BONES FILM studio. The anime will star Umeda Shuuichirou as Kouichi Haimawari, Hasegawa Ikumi as Pop Step, and Mamiya Yasuhiro as Knuckleduster.
The anime is based on the Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes) manga by Furuhashi Hideyuki and Betten Court.
Furahasi and Betten started the spinoff Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals manga in August 2016 in Shueisha’s Shounen Jump GIGA magazine. It was then relaunched in December 2016 on Shueisha’s Shounen Jump+ platform until it ended in May 2022. Shueisha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in April 2017 and released the 15th and final volume in July 2022. Viz Media releases the manga in English both digitally and in print, and Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service also releases it digitally in English. The manga’s story is described below:
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 know what they’re doing, but they have the courage—or foolishness—to try. But they soon discover fighting evil takes more than just being brave…
The Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals manga is a spinoff of Horikoshi Kouhei’s Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) manga series. Horikoshi (Oumagadoki Zoo and Sensei no Baruji) started the Boku no Hero Academia manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump in July 2014 and ended it in August 2024. Shueisha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in November 2014; the final volume, number 42, was published in Japan on December 4th, 2024.
The Boku no Hero Academia manga was adapted into a TV anime series in 2016. All seven seasons can be streamed on Crunchyroll, and its been confirmed that the anime will end with its eighth season in 2025.
