Toho Animation released a brand-new trailer for the upcoming TV Anime adaptation of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court’s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Illegals) on Monday, and it revealed the opening theme artist and title for the new tune, along with new characters that will be joining the new series.
Performing the Opening theme titled “Kekka Orai” (All’s Well in the End) will be Kocchi no Kento. Toho Animation also confirmed that the anime will stream on Crunchyroll worldwide excluding Asia starting on April 7. In addition to the new trailer, three new Character Visuals and cast members were confirmed, along with a new Key Visual.
Kuin Hachisuka– Sayaka Sembongi (BEASTARS, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Delicious in Dungeon)
Soga Kugizaki– Kohsuke Toriumi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Naruto, Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger)
Naomasa Tsukauchi– Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Rockman.exe Stream, My Hero Academia, Pokémon Horizons: The Series)
Kenichi Suzuki (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure chief director) is directing the anime adaptation at BONES FILM, with series composition by Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia), character designs by Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work!) and music by Yuki Hayashi, Shogo Yamashira and Yuki Furuhashi. Additional staff members include Yukihiro Watanabe as art director, Haruko Nobori as color designer, Eiei Cho as director of cinematography, Mizuki Sasaki as 3DCG director, Kiyoshi Hirose as editor and Masafumi Mima as sound director. The anime will premiere on April 7 on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels at 11:00 p.m. JST, then on Yomiuri TV at 25:59 JST (effectively, April 8 at 1:59 a.m. JST).
Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court’s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is not only a spin-off series but serves as a prequel to Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia series. It made its debut in Shueisha’s JUMP GIGA Magazine in August 2016 but was transferred to Shueisha’s online magazine, Shōnen Jump+, in October of the same year, where it would run until May 2022 with its chapters additionally collected in 15 tankōbon volumes. Viz Media announced a new licensing deal for English Audiences in November 2017. You can read the chapters of My Hero Academia Vigilantes now on Viz Media’s Shonen Jump app, and buy the manga volumes at your local bookstore and e-retailers.
Koichi Haimawari couldn’t make the cut to become an official hero, so he used 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 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: Anime News Network
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