My Hero Academia Vigilantes Season 2 Arrives January 2026

A stage presentation for the My Hero Academia franchise at the KyoMAF event on Sunday confirmed that the second season of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes will arrive in January 2026. The reveal came with a fresh key visual for the show.

The first season premiered on April 7 on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels, with Crunchyroll streaming it worldwide outside Asia and offering an English dub as well. It was directed by Kenichi Suzuki, known for Cells at Work and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, at BONES FILM, a newly created studio under BONES.

Much of the creative team carried over from the main franchise. Yosuke Kuroda returned to write and oversee the scripts, Yuki Hayashi came back to compose the music alongside Shogo Yamashiro and Yuki Furuhashi, and Takahiko Yoshida handled the character designs.

The series is a spinoff of Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia by Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court, set before the main story begins. It follows Koichi Haimawari, who fails to make it as an official hero but quietly uses his modest Quirk to help people, until a run in with local thugs pushes him to team up with two other amateurs.

Furuhashi and Court launched the manga in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump GIGA in August 2016 before it moved to Shonen Jump+ that December. Viz Media has released it in English in both digital and print form since August 2017. The manga finished in May 2022 across 15 volumes.

My take: Vigilantes has always felt like the grounded, street level side of this world, and that is exactly why I love it. A January return is good news for anyone who wants hero stories with smaller stakes and bigger heart.