With now less than a month to go before the premiere of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, the spinoff of the popular series, it’s time for a new trailer that reveals a bit more of the plot, shows off all the animation work and teases cameos from the original MHA show. Plus, there are posters now!
The show takes place several years prior to the beginning of My Hero Academia, and introduces us to Koichi Haimawari, a young man who dreams of being a hero, if only circumstances would allow it. In this case it’s not the lack of a quirk, but the fact that you need to attend a school like the one Deku goes to in order to be officially recognized as a hero, and Koichi can’t get in.
But Koichi’s got a power, he’s pretty good at it and it’s just going to waste here! He can glide quickly across any flat surface, like an ice skater. The latest trailer reveals he can do the Akira Slide without the need for a bike — he’s that good. But just when all seems lost, he meets Knuckleduster, a man who doesn’t let the lack of a license stop him from saving people.
Those who are not regulated superheroes yet go around superheroing anyway are called Vigilantes. Knuckleduster is one such Vigilante who agrees to start teaching Koichi the ways of underground, government-unapproved heroics. Also in training is his friend Kazuho Haneyema, the one with the pink hair.
They’ve got their work cut out for them. There’s an illegal street drug going around that boosts the power of quirks — but turns heroes into villains! Worse yet, it’s being spread by someone whose quirk is commanding an army of bees to stab people with little needles carrying the drug. Can this new illicut super-team stop whoever’s behind this while avoiding being affected themselves?
The Japanese cast of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes stars Shuichiro Umeda (Zom 100: Bucketlist of the Dead) as Koichi, Ikumi Hasegawa (Ubel in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End) as Kazuho, and Yasuhiro Mamiya (Hwang Dong-Suk in Solo Leveling) as Knuckleduster. The cast will be bigger than this, and may include cameos from characters in the main MHA series, but we’ll have to wait for more info there.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will begin running April 7, exclusively on Crunchyroll, and at the rate things are going, probably not on Toonami (prove me wrong, Demarco!) We’re still waiting on details of an English dub and who’d be playing who there. In the meantime, enjoy this new trailer, accompanied by eight character posters!
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