“MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES” SEASON 2 SETS JANUARY 5 PREMIERE IN NEW TRAILER REVEALING THEME SONG ARTISTS, THREEE AND SHYTAUPE
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, the hit prequel to the beloved anime series My Hero Academia, is leaping back into action with an all-new key art, featuring new characters from the upcoming season, and a trailer announcing that Season 2 will premiere on January 5, 2026. As new episodes broadcast from Japan each week, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 will stream exclusively on Crunchyroll worldwide, excluding Asia except the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Additionally, the opening and closing theme song artists have been revealed. THREEE will perform “CATCH!!!” for the opening theme song, while shytaupe will be performing the ending theme song, “Miss you.”
Based on the manga of the same name created by Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten Court, and Kohei Horikoshi, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 is directed by Kenichi Suzuki (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders; Cells at Work!). The series composition and script is written by Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia; Trigun). The animation is produced by Bones Film (My Hero Academia; Gachiakuta).
Additional staff credits include character design by Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work!); art director Yukihiro Watanabe (SSSS.Gridman); color design by Haruko Nobori (The Faraway Paladin); director of photography Eiei Cho (The Case Study of Vanitas); 3DCG director Mizuki Sasaki (My Hero Academia); editing by Kiyoshi Hirose (Fire Force); music composed by Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia; Haikyu!!), Shogo Yamashiro, and Yuki Furuhashi; and sound director Masafumi Mima (My Hero Academia; Attack on Titan).
The My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 main characters and cast (English) include the following:
- Koichi Haimawari a.k.a. The Crawler voiced by Jack Broadbent
- Kazuho Haneyama a.k.a. Pop☆Step voiced by Macy Anne Johnson
- Knuckleduster voiced by Jason Marnocha
- Christopher Skyline a.k.a. Captain Celebrity voiced by Sean Schemmel
- Makoto Tsukauchi voiced by Molly Searcy
- Naomasa Tsukauchi voiced by Alejandro Saab
- Scarred Man voiced by Aaron Campbell
- Shota Aizawa aka Eraserhead voiced by Christopher Wehkamp
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Official Synopsis:
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!
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!
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?