Staff for the Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes/ ヴィジランテ -僕のヒーローアカデミア ILLEGALS-) TV anime have revealed the main trailer and visual for the anime’s second season. Furthermore, it’s been confirmed that the show will premiere on January 5th, 2026, on the Tokyo MX channel at 10:00 p.m., and it will air on the BS NTV and YTV channels later that evening.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXZUamoOhxM]
The anime’s official website states that the anime’s second season will also be available on various streaming platforms in Japan, from January 5th, 2026, at 10:30 p.m. JST. Some of the platforms mentioned include Amazon Prime Video, d Anime Store, ABEMA, Disney+, Netflix and U-NEXT.
The anime’s first season premiered in April 2025, and all 13 episodes can be streamed on the Crunchyroll website. Suzuki Kenichi (Hataraku Saibou, JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken) directed the anime’s first season at BONES FILM studio. The anime starred Umeda Shuuichirou as Kouichi Haimawari, Hasegawa Ikumi as Pop Step, and Mamiya Yasuhiro as Knuckleduster.
Crunchyroll describes the anime’s story below:
“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!”
The anime is based on the Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals manga by Furuhashi Hideyuki and Betten Court. Furahasi and Betten started the 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.
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 volume in November 2014; the final volume, number 42, was published in Japan in December 2024.
The eighth and final season of the Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) anime adaptation premiered on October 4th, 2025, and the anime’s final episode is scheduled to air on December 13th, 2025.
Viz Media released the spinoff manga in English under the name My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, and the original manga under the name My Hero Academia. It describes the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes manga story 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…”
