At Jump Festa 2025, held on December 22, 2024, it was revealed that the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime will premiere in April 2025 along with a new trailer & key visual.
While My Hero Academia anime is officially concluding in 2025 with the release of season 8, we are getting a anime adaptation of The My Hero Academia spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes airing in April 2025. The spin-off will be animated by Bones Film, a new subsidiary of Studio Bones, the team behind the original series.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Teaser Trailer
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Teaser Visual
The spin-off 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.
The biggest announcement from the stage was the reveal of the My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime adaptation, but it also confirmed that the main series’ eighth and final season will premiere in Fall 2025.
This was effectively the final Jump Festa stage for My Hero Academia while the anime is still ongoing.
The My Hero Academia: Vigilantes manga is drawn by Betten Court and written by Hideyuki Furuhashi. Viz Media describes the premise as:
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 fighting evil takes more than just being brave…
Source: @vigilante_mha