My Hero Academia: Vigilantes streaming plans revealed along with new trailer
If you prefer your superheroes off the books, you’ve likely been keeping your eyes on the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime. The anime adaptation of the spinoff was previously lined up for an April 7 premiere, and now Crunchyroll has confirmed plans for a simulcast. There’s no exact time as of this writing, but Crunchyroll lists the following territories for streaming: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS. In the meantime, a new Japanese trailer debuted along with the announcement that Kocchi no Kento will perform the opening theme song, “Kekka Orai.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84F2-8QExiY There’s also a new key visual: Image via Crunchyroll The My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime was first announced during Jump Festa 2025 in December. Kenichi Suzuki (chief director of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) directs, with Yosuke Kuroda of My Hero Academia writing series composition and Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work) on character designs for the Bones production. The story follows down-and-out college student Koichi Haimawairi, who has all but given up on his dream of being a superhero. Despite the fact that 80 percent of the population has powers known as Quirks, few are actually chosen to go down the path of the pro hero. Things change when Koichi and a young hero named Pop☆Step run into the vigilante Knuckleduster, who soon puts them both to work. Shuichiro Umeda leads the voice cast as Koichi Haimawairi/The Crawler alongside Ikumi Hasegawa as Kazuho Haneyama/Pop☆Step and Yasuhiro Mamiya as Oguro Iwao/Knuckleduster. Writer Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrator Betten Court launched the manga as a spinoff of Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia back in August 2016. The anime adaptation comes just ahead of the eighth and final season of MHA proper, which drops this fall. The post My Hero Academia: Vigilantes streaming plans revealed along with new trailer appeared first on Destructoid.
If you prefer your superheroes off the books, you’ve likely been keeping your eyes on the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime. The anime adaptation of the spinoff was previously lined up for an April 7 premiere, and now Crunchyroll has confirmed plans for a simulcast.
There’s no exact time as of this writing, but Crunchyroll lists the following territories for streaming: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS. In the meantime, a new Japanese trailer debuted along with the announcement that Kocchi no Kento will perform the opening theme song, “Kekka Orai.”
There’s also a new key visual:
The My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime was first announced during Jump Festa 2025 in December. Kenichi Suzuki (chief director of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) directs, with Yosuke Kuroda of My Hero Academia writing series composition and Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work) on character designs for the Bones production.
The story follows down-and-out college student Koichi Haimawairi, who has all but given up on his dream of being a superhero. Despite the fact that 80 percent of the population has powers known as Quirks, few are actually chosen to go down the path of the pro hero. Things change when Koichi and a young hero named Pop☆Step run into the vigilante Knuckleduster, who soon puts them both to work.
Shuichiro Umeda leads the voice cast as Koichi Haimawairi/The Crawler alongside Ikumi Hasegawa as Kazuho Haneyama/Pop☆Step and Yasuhiro Mamiya as Oguro Iwao/Knuckleduster.
Writer Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrator Betten Court launched the manga as a spinoff of Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia back in August 2016. The anime adaptation comes just ahead of the eighth and final season of MHA proper, which drops this fall.
The post My Hero Academia: Vigilantes streaming plans revealed along with new trailer appeared first on Destructoid.
