My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime announced for April 2025 at Jump Festa 2025

Modified Dec 22, 2024 17:02 GMT

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime announced for April 2025 (Image via Toho Animation)

The Jump Festa 2025 stage on December 22, 2024, announced that My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime is set to air in April 2025. Bones Film, a newly established subsidiary of the anime studio Bones, which also animated the original series, will be animating the spin-off. Toho released a super teaser as well as a key visual during the stage.

The Jump Festa stage also announced that My Hero Academia season 8 will be airing during the Fall 2025 anime season, confirming the previously leaked news. The Stage also announced several offline projects, along with the Blu-ray release date for the My Hero Academia: You’re Next movie.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime set to premiere ahead of the Final Season

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime will be animated by Studio Bones and directed by Kenichi Suzuki. The 58-second trailer includes a voiceover, but it's unclear whose voice it is. It features the characters Koichi Himawari, Kazuho Haneyama, and Knuckleduster. A key Visual was also released, which reiterates the release window of the anime as April 2025.

The spin-off written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court has been praised by fans ever since its serialization began. It focuses on illegal heroes who use their Quirks to help others, despite not having a Hero License, and follows Koichi Himawari’s journey, set five years before the start of the main series. Koichi recently appeared in the final few chapters of Horikoshi’s original manga, officially canonizing both the character and My Hero Academia: Vigilantes as a whole.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime staff list is as follows:

Director: Kenichi Suzuki
Animation Studio: BONES FILM
Script: Yosuke Kuroda
Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida
Music: Yuki Hayashi, Shogo Yamashiro, and Yuki Furuhashi
Art director: Yukihiro Watanabe
Color designer: Haruko Nobori
Photography: Yingying
3DCG director: Mizuki Sasaki
Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
Sound Editor: Masafumi Mima

My Hero Academia Jump Festa 2025 Stage

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While the news of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime adaptation was the biggest announcement of the Stage, it also confirmed the Fall 2025 premiere of the main anime’s eighth and final season. The stage announced an exhibition at the Tokyo Creative Museum from June 21 to August 31, 2025.

Of the new illustrations to be featured there, a sketch of Black Deku was shown during the Stage. My Hero Academia: You’re Next movie will get its Blu-ray and DVD release on February 19, 2025. New illustrations by the creators of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes as well as one by Horikoshi were shown.

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The Voice actors Daiki Yamashita (Izuku Midoriya), Nobuhiko Okamoto (Katsuki Bakugo), Yuki Kaji (Shoto Todoroki), and Kenta Miyake (All Might) attended the stage. They voice-acted their favorite scenes from the recently finished seventh season of the anime.

This was effectively the final Jump Festa stage for My Hero Academia while the anime is still ongoing. Mangaka Horikoshi mentioned the end of the manga in his message to the fans, read aloud by Yamashita, thanking them for their support and asking them to look forward to the anime’s final season.

Edited by Aratrika Baidya