My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, the hit prequel to the global smash 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, 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.”
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!
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 designer Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work!); art director Yukihiro Watanabe (SSSS.Gridman); color designer Haruko Nobori (The Faraway Paladin); director of photography Eiei Cho (The Case Study of Vanitas); 3D CG director Mizuki Sasaki (My Hero Academia); editor Kiyoshi Hirose (Fire Force); music composers 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 (Japanese and English) include:
- Koichi Haimawari a.k.a. The Crawler voiced by Shuichiro Umeda / Jack Broadbent
- Kazuho Haneyama a.k.a. Pop☆Step voiced by Ikumi Hasegawa / Macy Anne Johnson
- Knuckleduster voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya / Jason Marnocha
- Christopher Skyline a.k.a. Captain Celebrity voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa / Sean Schemmel
- Makoto Tsukauchi voiced by Asami Seto / Molly Searcy
- Naomasa Tsukauchi voiced by Tokuyoshi Kawashima / Alejandro Saab
- Monika Kaniyashiki a.k.a. Kaniko voiced by Kana Ueda
- Taishiro Toyomitsu a.k.a. Fatgum voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu
- Tsunagu Hakamada a.k.a. Best Jeanist voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa
- Shinya Kamihara a.k.a. Edgeshot voiced by Kenta Kamakari
- Toshinori Yagi a.k.a. All Might voiced by Kenta Miyake
- Scarred Man voiced by Taku Yashiro / Aaron Campbell
- Shota Aizawa aka Eraserhead voiced by Junichi Suwabe / Christopher Wehkamp
- Oboro Shirakumo a.k.a. Loud Cloud voiced by Kensho Ono
- Hizashi Yamada voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino
