{"id":158188,"date":"2025-09-21T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158188\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:49:08","slug":"my-hero-academia-vigilantes-animes-2nd-season-debuts-in-january-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158188\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Anime&#8217;s 2nd Season Debuts in January 2026 &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New visual also revealed<\/p>\n<p>A stage presentation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=17786\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Hero Academia<\/a> franchise at the KyoMAF event on Sunday revealed that the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-06-30\/my-hero-academia-vigilantes-anime-gets-2nd-season-in-2026\/.226167\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">season<\/a> of the television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2024-12-21\/my-hero-academia-vigilantes-spinoff-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-april-2025\/.219385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anime<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=114838\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hideyuki Furuhashi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=63987\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Betten Court<\/a>&#8216;s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=20267\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals<\/a>) manga will debut in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The event also revealed a visual.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"600\" alt=\"vigilantes-s2\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.8\/229023\/vigilantes-s2.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vigilante_mha\/status\/1969581990149312911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime&#8217;s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 \u53e4\u6a4b\u79c0\u4e4b\u30fb\u5225\u5929\u8352\u4eba\u30fb\u5800\u8d8a\u8015\u5e73\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e\u30fb\u30f4\u30a3\u30b8\u30e9\u30f3\u30c6\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" alt=\"My Hero Academia: Vigilantes English key visual\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/222141\/vgl_kv_eng_fix-02.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image courtesy of TOHO Animation<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 \u53e4\u6a4b\u79c0\u4e4b\u30fb\u5225\u5929\u8352\u4eba\u30fb\u5800\u8d8a\u8015\u5e73\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e\u30fb\u30f4\u30a3\u30b8\u30e9\u30f3\u30c6\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>The first season premiered on April 7 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=13028\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo MX<\/a> and BS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=124\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NTV<\/a> channels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> streamed the series worldwide excluding Asia, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-04-07\/my-hero-academia-vigilantes-anime-reveals-same-day-english-dub-cast\/.223305\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed<\/a> an English dub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=20146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenichi Suzuki<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=20564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cells at Work!<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=14445\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JoJo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure<\/a>) directed the first season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=198\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BONES<\/a>&#8216; newly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2024-10-02\/studio-bones-spins-off-production-department-as-new-company-bones-film\/.216251\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">established<\/a> company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=26060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BONES FILM<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=1365\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Y\u014dsuke Kuroda<\/a> returned from the main My Hero Academia anime to write and oversee the series scripts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=10852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takahiko Yoshida<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=15004\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yowamushi Pedal<\/a>, Cells at Work!) designed the characters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=118529\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Hayashi<\/a> returned from the main anime to compose the music alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=237733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sh\u014dgo Yamashiro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=274844\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Y\u016bki Furuhashi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=80014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yukihiro Watanabe<\/a> was the art director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=44798\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haruko Nobori<\/a> was the color designer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=130074\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yingying Zhang<\/a> was the director of photography, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=221109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mizuki Sasaki<\/a> was the 3DCG director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=23405\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiyoshi Hirose<\/a> was the editor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=317\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masafumi Mima<\/a> was the sound director.<\/p>\n<p>The manga is a spinoff of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=101020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K\u014dhei Horikoshi<\/a>&#8216;s My Hero Academia manga. The spinoff takes place before the start of the main manga. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=4552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viz Media<\/a> describes the story of the first volume:\n<\/p>\n<p>\tKoichi Haimawari couldn&#8217;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&#8217;re doing, but they&#8217;ve got the courage\u2014or foolishness\u2014to try. But they soon discover fighting evil takes more than just being brave\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Furuhashi and Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2016-07-19\/my-hero-academia-gets-vigilante-spinoff-manga\/.104358\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> the manga in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=909\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shueisha<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=20223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shonen Jump GIGA<\/a> magazine in August 2016. The manga then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2016-12-08\/my-hero-academia-spinoff-manga-vigilante-relaunches-on-shonen-jump\/.109661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">relaunched<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=20219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shonen Jump+<\/a> in December 2016. Viz Media began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2017-07-21\/viz-media-to-release-my-hero-academia-vigilantes-spinoff-manga-digitally\/.119148\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">releasing<\/a> the manga digitally in English in August 2017, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2017-11-17\/viz-media-licenses-that-blue-sky-feeling-manga-for-summer-2018-release\/.124155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the manga in print. Shueisha&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=17930\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MANGA Plus<\/a> service also released the manga in English digitally. The manga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2022-05-13\/my-hero-academia-vigilantes-spinoff-manga-ends-in-next-chapter-on-may-28\/.185661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended<\/a> in May 2022, and had 15 compiled book volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: My Hero Academia stage presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/qo6y6GmZKoU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">livestream<\/a>, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime&#8217; X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vigilante_mha\/status\/1969581990149312911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New visual also revealed A stage presentation for the My Hero Academia franchise at the KyoMAF event on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-158188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}