The ending theme for the upcoming TV anime My Hero Academia: Vigilantes has been revealed. The song, titled “speed” by yutori, was announced during a stage event at AnimeJapan 2025 on March 22. The highly anticipated spin-off anime is set to premiere on April 7 on Crunchyroll.
Additionally, in the 0th episode, which will be streamed at 11:00 PM on March 31st, Daiki Yamashita (voice of Izuku Midoriya) and Nobuhiko Okamoto (voice of Katsuki Bakugo) from My Hero Academia will make an appearance. The episode will be available on the TOHO animation YouTube channel.
yutori artist photo:
Key Visual:
MAIN CAST:
Shuichiro Umeda as Koichi Haimawari
Ikumi Hasegawa as Pop☆Step
Yasuhiro Mamiya as Knuckleduster
STAFF:
Director: Kenichi Suzuki
Scriptwriting and Supervision: Yōsuke Kuroda
Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida
Music Composition: Yuki Hayashi, Shōgo Yamashiro, Yuki Furuhashi.
Animation Studio: BONES FILM
The manga serves as a spinoff of Kōhei Horikoshi‘s My Hero Academia. Set prior to the events of the main series, the story of the first volume is summarized by VIZ Media:
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…
Sources: AnimeJapan 2025, Comic Natalie
© H. Furuhashi, BETTEN. C, K. Horikoshi/SHUEISHA, Vigilante Project
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