My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 Officially Announced for 2026 and It Looks INSANE

Yo. Sound the alarm. Pull out the cosplay. Text your anime group chat because we’re back. After a jaw-breaking, pavement-cracking, vigilante-stomping finale, Toho Co., Ltd. just hit us with the drop we’ve been BEGGING for: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 is OFFICIALLY coming in 2026. And yes, they gave us a teaser trailer AND a teaser visual, and they both go absolutely feral.

This ain’t no basic prequel. This is street-level heroism. This is hands-only combat. This is what happens when the Hero Commission ain’t watching and you still choose justice.

And I’m telling you now: if you slept on Season 1, wake up and run the recap. Because Koichi Haimawari is not your average hero. He’s The Crawler. And he’s built differently.

THE TEASER TRAILER IS ACTUALLY ILLEGAL IN 47 COUNTRIES BECAUSE IT GOES TOO HARD

Okay okay okay this teaser??? Straight adrenaline. It’s only 15 seconds and I’m already crying in the dark like it’s episode 10 of Mob Psycho. Pop☆Step is staring down the city like she knows pain. Koichi’s new drip looks elevated. The mood is pure “this is not a game anymore.” It’s like they turned Season 2 into a gritty underground mixtape and dropped it with no label approval.

And the teaser visual? Baby. Red cityscape. The silhouette of our trio standing like they’re about to square up with every Quirked-out psycho in Japan. That’s not a teaser. That’s a declaration of war.

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON CRUNCHYROLL BECAUSE REAL HEROES GOTTA HAVE A PLATFORM

Yup. When it drops in 2026, Vigilantes Season 2 is landing exclusively on Crunchyroll, everywhere except Asia. So unless you’re tryna get spoiled on TikTok by an anime stan with a Nezuko hoodie and bad takes, I suggest you get that subscription and set those notifications now.

This season’s gonna make waves. And if you think this is filler content just because it’s a prequel? Sweetie. Please. Grow up.

WHY VIGILANTES HITS DIFFERENT THE REAL ONES KNOW

This ain’t about hero rankings or U.A. exam scores. Vigilantes is for the strugglers. The grinders. The Quirkless who still swing. It’s for the ones who didn’t get the gig, but showed up anyway. The heart of the My Hero world doesn’t lie in glory. It lies in alleys. And no one knows that better than Knuckleduster.

Let’s be real: that man is the definition of “washed but dangerous.” Every punch he throws has divorce energy. He’s like if Batman had CTE and a nicotine addiction. And he’s beautiful for it. Season 1 reminded us that sometimes the best heroes are the ones doing it off the books. And Koichi? This boy started as a nobody with a weak-ass Quirk now he’s running walls and hearts.

Pop☆Step, too. She’s chaos with charisma. She’s giving “I have a SoundCloud but also bombs in my bag” energy. And I love her for it.

SEASON 2 STAFF IS STACKED LIKE A FINAL ARC FIGHT

Let’s get into the nerdy anime credits for the culture:

• Director: Kenichi Suzuki (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Cells at Work!)
• Series Composition: Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia, Trigun)
• Animation Studio: BONES (Mob Psycho, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
• Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida (Cells at Work!)
• Art Direction: Yukihiro Watanabe (SSSS.Gridman)
• 3DCG Director: Mizuki Sasaki (My Hero Academia)
• Music: Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!)

The staff reads like an anime Avengers roster. There is no chance they fumble this.

CAST RETURNS LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE REAL ONES

We’re getting the same cast back, and honestly? This lineup is elite:

• Koichi Haimawari / The Crawler: Shuichiro Umeda (JP) / Jack Broadbent (EN)
• Kazuho Haneyama / Pop☆Step: Ikumi Hasegawa (JP) / Macy Anne Johnson (EN)
• Knuckleduster: Yasuhiro Mamiya (JP) / Jason Marnocha (EN)
• Captain Celebrity: Toshiyuki Morikawa (JP) / Sean Schemmel (EN)

I don’t know who made the decision to cast Sean “Goku” Schemmel as Captain Celebrity but it’s perfect. That man was born to play an annoying white American superhero with too many endorsements.

SEASON 2 PLOT BRACE YOURSELF FOR NUMBER 6, DARK KOICHI, AND PRO HERO DRAMA

If you read the manga, you know what’s coming. Number 6 is THAT villain. Think Joker energy but with a tragic backstory and Quirks that make your skin itch. We’re about to see Koichi face the deepest parts of his trauma. The man’s about to evolve into something else. Something scary. Something… necessary.

Expect more philosophical breakdowns of what makes a hero, more commentary on society’s obsession with perfection, and way more explosions in abandoned train stations.

If you thought Season 1 went hard? Baby. That was the warm-up.

OH AND MY HERO ACADEMIA FINAL SEASON DROPS THIS OCTOBER

Don’t forget: while Vigilantes is giving us street fights and emotional gut-punches, the main anime is also coming to a close. My Hero Academia Season 8 is the FINAL season, and it drops this October on Crunchyroll. UA’s about to face its last and greatest threat. And if you’re not caught up? Don’t even speak to me until you are.