My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, the new spin-off to Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia series, premieres today alongside new wave of releases for the Spring 2025 anime lineup. Its prequel story, based on writer Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrator Betten Court's manga series, takes place five years before the events of Horikoshi's main series, following a new hero named Koichi Haimawari. Crunchyroll has confirmed that the English dub for the new series is getting a simultaneous release.
Crunchyroll also revealed the English dub and crew for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes. Below, you can check out the list of the cast and crew for Episode 1.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes English Dub Cast
Jack Broadbent as Koichi
Jason Marnocha as Knuckleduster
Macy Anne Johnson as Pop Step
Joshua Waters as Kugizaki
Justin Briner as Izuku "Deku" Midoriya
Christopher R. Sabat as All Might
Dave Trosko as Present Mic
Christopher Wehkamp as Aizawa
Aaron Campbell as No. 6
Kamen Casey as Tokage
Mike Smith as Tochi
Dakota Farnsworth as Kugutsu
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes English Dub Crew
Voice Director: Zach Bolton
Producer: Zach Bolton
Adaptation: Matthew Greenbaum
Engineer: Tina Son
Mixer: Nathanael Harrison
To commemorate the premiere of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Kohei Horikoshi shared a special art of The Crawler on his official X account:
Studio BONES is animating the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime, which is directed by Kenichi Suzuki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure chief director). Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia) is in charge of the series composition while Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work!) is handling the character designs. Yuki Hayashi, Shogo Yamashira and Yuki Furuhashi are composing the music for the anime.
Here's the main key visual for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes:
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Episode Release Schedule
Both the original Japanese version (with English subtitles) and the official English dub of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Episode 1 were released today, April 7, on Crunchyroll. The spin-off series is reportedly going to run for a total of 13 episodes throughout the Spring 2025 anime season, and a new episode is expected to premiere weekly. Here's the projected release schedule for the upcoming episodes:
Episode 2 - April 14, 2025
Episode 3 - April 21, 2025
Episode 4 - April 28, 2025
Episode 5 - May 5, 2025
Episode 6 - May 12, 2025
Episode 7 - May 19, 2025
Episode 8 - May 26, 2025
Episode 9 - June 2, 2025
Episode 10 - June 9, 2025
Episode 11 - June 16, 2025
Episode 12 - June 23, 2025
Episode 13 - June 30, 2025
What is My Hero Academia: Vigilantes about?
Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes manga series was first published in Jump GIGA in August 2016 before transferring to Shonen Jump+ later that year. The spin-off series has ended in May 2022 and its chapters have been collected in 15 volumes. The English version of the manga was published by VIZ Media.
Crunchyroll shared a story description for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes:
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!
For the latest information about My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, check out the official website of the anime.
