The Jump Festa ’25 event on Sunday revealed that Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court’s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals) manga is set to receive a television anime adaptation, which will premiere in April 2025.
The anime will be directed by Kenichi Suzuki, known for his work on Cells at Work! and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The newly established BONES subsidiary, BONES FILM, will handle the animation for the series.
Yōsuke Kuroda, who has worked on the main My Hero Academia anime, is returning to write and oversee the series scripts. Takahiko Yoshida (Yowamushi Pedal, Cells at Work!) is responsible for character design, while Yuki Hayashi is also returning from the main anime to compose the music alongside Shōgo Yamashiro and Yūki Furuhashi.
Other key staff include Yukihiro Watanabe as art director, Haruko Nobori as color designer, Yingying Zhang as director of photography, Mizuki Sasaki as the 3DCG director, Kiyoshi Hirose as editor, and Masafumi Mima as sound director.
My Hero Academia Vigilantes
The manga is a spinoff of Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia series, taking place before the events of the main story. Viz Media provides this synopsis for the first volume:
“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 that fighting evil takes more than just being brave…”
Furuhashi and Court debuted the manga in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump GIGA magazine in August 2016 before relaunching it on Shonen Jump+ in December 2016.
Viz Media began releasing the manga digitally in English in August 2017 and also publishes it in print. Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service provides digital English releases as well. The series concluded in May 2022 with a total of 15 volumes.
