My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (ヴィジランテ -僕のヒーローアカデミア ILLEGALS-, Vijirante: Boku no Hīrō Akademia Irīgarusu) is a 2025 anime series based on the manga series with the same name written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court. It was serialized and published in Shueisha's Jump Giga (August to October 2016) & Shōnen Jump+ (October 2016 to May 2022) magazines under their Jump Comics+ imprint from August 20, 2016 to May 28, 2022, with a total of 15 volumes. It is both a spin-off and a prequel to Kōhei Horikoshi's manga series My Hero Academia.
The anime series was announced at the Jump Festa '25 event on December 22, 2024.[1] It was animated Bones Films, directed by Kenichi Suzuki, series composition by , music composed by Yuki Hayashi, Shogo Yamashiro, & Yuki Furuhashi, and it premiered in Japan on April 6, 2025.
Crunchyroll licensed and announced an English Dub for the anime, which premiered on their streaming service as the same day as Japan's release and as a SimulDub on April 7, 2025.[2][3]
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Cast[]
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Kōichi Haimawari / The Crawler |
Shūichirō Umeda | Jack Broadbent |
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Kazuho Haneyama / Pop☆Step |
Ikumi Hasegawa | Macy Anne Johnson |
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Iwao Oguro / Knuckleduster |
Yasuhiro Mamiya | Jason Marnocha |
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Makoto Tsukauchi | Asami Seto | Molly Searcy |
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Soga Kugisaki | Kōsuke Toriumi | Joshua Waters |
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Rapt Tokage | Yūki Hoshi | Kamen Casey |
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Moyuru Tochi | Keiji Hirai | Mike Smith |
| Villain Factory | |||
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Kuin Hachisuka | Sayaka Senbongi | Morgan Lauré |
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No. 6 | TBA | Aaron Campbell |
| Police | |||
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Naomasa Tsukauchi | Tokuyoshi Kawashima | Alejandro Saab |
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Sansa Tamagawa | Kiyotaka Furushima | ¿Zach Bolton? |
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Eizō Tanuma | Hisao Egawa | Jason Douglas |
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Toshinori Yagi / All Might |
Kenta Miyake | Christopher Sabat |
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Shota Aizawa / Eraser Head |
Junichi Suwabe | Christopher Wehkamp |
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Hizashi Yamada / Present Mic |
Hiroyuki Yoshino | Dave Trosko |
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Nemuri Kayama / Midnight |
Akeno Watanabe | Elizabeth Maxwell |
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Tensei Iida / Ingenium |
Masamichi Kitada | Phil Parsons |
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Christopher Skyline / Captain Celebrity |
Toshiyuki Morikawa | Sean Schemmel |
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Jube Namimaru | Anri Katsu | Bryson Baugus |
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Ichimoku Samazu | Hiroaki Okuda | Tom Aglio |
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Shoko Haimawari | Megumi Okada | TBA |
| Narration | |||
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Narrator | Daiki Yamashita | Justin Briner |
Episodic Characters[]
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Hungry Villain | TBA | 1 | |
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Citizens | Akira Tokunaga | TBA | |
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Ayumu Kotomiya | TBA | ||
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Mahana Yamasaki | TBA | ||
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Sayoko Itō | TBA | ||
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Rin Mizuki | TBA | ||
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Mario Kugutsu | Takayuki Kondo | Dakota Farnsworth | 1-2 |
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Citizens | Masato Sugiyama | TBA | |
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Misaki Akiyama | TBA | ||
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Mother | Hinako Takahashi | TBA | 2 |
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Akira Iwako | Hiromichi Kogami | TBA | 2, 5 |
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Citizen | Kazumasa Akayama | TBA | 2, 9 |
 
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Teruo Unagisawa | Kōichi Kamiki | Kyle Igneczi | 3 |
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Fans | Toshiharu Yajima | TBA | |
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Ryōhei Kitsunai | Dylan Mobley | ||
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Kuin's Friends | Yuna Ogata | TBA | 3, 5, 10 |
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Hinako Takahashi | Katie Otten | ||
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Professor | Kazuho Nagasaki | TBA | 3, 7 |
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All For One (Mysterious Man) |
Akio Ōtsuka | John Swasey | 4 |
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Three Sturm und Drang Brothers | Satoru Itō | TBA | |
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Yoshimasa Kawata | TBA | ||
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Mitsuaki Kanuka | TBA | ||
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Chuma Yakumaru | Kengo Tsujii | Tom Laflin | |
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Batto Yobayakawa | Jun Miyamoto | Conner Allison | |
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Watchbird | Hinako Takahashi | Brianna Roberts | |
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Operators | Tatsuki Kobe | Nate Grizzly | |
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Kei Kawamura | Vanessa Benoit | ||
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Office Worker | Masaki Nakanishi | Brad Foster | |
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High School Girl | Rin Mizuki | TBA | |
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Imaginary Hero | Kazumasa Akayama | TBA | 5 |
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Detective | Masaya Fukunishi | TBA | |
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Senior | Tatsuki Kobe | Kolten Kirschke | |
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Students | Naoya Miyase | Jesse Pinnick | |
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Serika Hiromatsu | TBA | ||
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Yoh Mekata | TBA | ||
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Chizome Akaguro / Stendhal |
Gō Inoue | Robert McCollum | 5-6 |
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Tetsu | Tooru Sakurai | TBA | 6 |
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Rojiya Yonenaga | Takeaki Masuyama | TBA | |
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Soji | Hiroya Egashira | TBA | |
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Haruhisa | Volcano Ōta | TBA | |
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Abegawa Tenchu Kai Yakuza Members |
Akira Tokunaga | TBA | |
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Masato Sugiyama | TBA | ||
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TBA | |||
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Nurse | Hinako Takahashi | TBA | |
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Kindergartner | Misaki Akiyama | TBA | |
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Emperor Yotsuura | Fumitake Ishiguro | Jordan Dash Cruz | 7 |
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Makoto's Classmates | Suika Asahi | TBA | |
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Yoh Mekata | TBA | ||
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Housewife | Naomi Maruyama | TBA | |
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Short-haired Man | Yūki Onodera | TBA | |
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Office Worker | Masaki Nakanishi | TBA | |
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Otaku | Yūki Hoshi | TBA | |
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Muscular Man | Fumitake Ishiguro | TBA | |
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Yankee | Kazumasa Akayama | TBA | |
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Narration | Maxwell Powers | TBA | 8 |
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Koichi's Father | Yasuhiro Kikuchi | TBA | |
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DJ | Wataru Komada | TBA | |
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Cheerleaders | Hina Natsume | TBA | |
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Ran Koba | TBA | ||
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Caster | Hinako Takahashi | TBA | |
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Dolphin Villain | Ryōhei Kitsunai | TBA | |
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Sumo Wrestler | Yoshikuni Kakita | John Archer II | |
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Driver | Roku Hasegawa | TBA | |
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Girl | Misaki Akiyama | Izzi Raine | |
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Operator | Kazuma Miki | TBA | |
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Citizens | Toshiharu Yajima | TBA | |
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Ryūichi Sawada | TBA | ||
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Bank Clerk | Roa Ezaki | TBA | |
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Touch Grab | Kengo Tsujii | TBA | 9 |
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Enigma | Azusa Aoi | TBA | |
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Monster Cat | Miki Natsutani | TBA | |
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Bus Driver | Takahiro Sumi | TBA | |
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Bus Guide | Hinako Takahashi | TBA | |
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Operators | Kei Kawamura | TBA | |
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Roku Hasegawa | TBA | ||
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Citizen | Taihi Kimura | TBA | |
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Nurse | Saki Endō | TBA | 10 |
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Doctor | TBA | ||
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Teachers | Kazumasa Akayama | TBA | |
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TBA | |||
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Announcer | TBA | ||
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Newscaster | Kentarō Takano | TBA | |
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Knuckleduster's Wife | Mimi Maihane | TBA | |
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Female Students | Ayaka Okamoto | TBA | |
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Sakura Akane | TBA |
Additional Voices[]
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Multimedia[]
Clips[]
Cast Reveal[]
Official Cast Reveal[]
Individual Cast Reveal[]
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Jason Marnocha (Knuckleduster) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (379 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Macy Anne Johnson (Pop Step) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (239 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Kamen Casey (Rapt Tokage) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (340 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Aaron Campbell (No. 6) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (204 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Bryson Baugus (Jube Namimaru) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (932 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Tom Aglio (Ichimoku Samazu) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (207 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Alejandro Saab (Naomasa Tsukauchi) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (83 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Morgan Lauré Garrett (Kuin Hachisuka) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (238 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Conner Allison (Batto Yobayakawa) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (159 KB)")
_(My_Hero_Academia_Vigilantes_Cast_Reveal).jpg "Molly Searcy (Makoto Tsukauchi) (My Hero Academia Vigilantes Cast Reveal).jpg (211 KB)")
Notes[]
- This is Nate Grizzly's debut anime role.
Transmission via Streaming[]
| Company | Date | Category | Format | Classification | Content | Country | ||
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April 7, 2025 - present |
Anime | Digital | 
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Season 1 | 13 Eps. | United States | 
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References[]
External Links[]
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes on the Internet Movie Database.
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (anime) on the Anime News Network’s encyclopedia.
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes on Behind The Voice Actors.
