My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Anime Casts Asami Seto
The official website for the television anime of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals) manga announced on Tuesday that Asami Seto is joining the series' cast as Makoto Tsukauchi, Koichi's senior in college who is doing research on the hero system. The character will appear in the anime's seventh episode on May 19.The anime stars: The returning cast from the original My Hero Academia series are: Kenichi Suzuki (Cells at Work!, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) is directing the anime. BONES' newly established company BONES FILM is animating the series. Yōsuke Kuroda is returning from the main My Hero Academia anime to write and oversee the series scripts. Takahiko Yoshida (Yowamushi Pedal, Cells at Work!) is designing the characters. Yuki Hayashi is returning from the main anime to compose the music alongside Shōgo Yamashiro and Yūki Furuhashi.Additionally, Yukihiro Watanabe is the art director, Haruko Nobori is the color designer, Yingying Zhang is the director of photography, Mizuki Sasaki is the 3DCG director, Kiyoshi Hirose is the editor, and Masafumi Mima is the sound director.Kocchi no Kento performs the anime's opening theme song "Kekka Orai" (All's Well in the End). Four-member rock band yutori perform the ending theme song "Speed."The manga is a spinoff of Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia manga. The spinoff takes place before the start of the main manga. Viz Media describes the story of the first volume: Furuhashi and Court launched the manga in Shueisha's Shonen Jump GIGA magazine in August 2016. The manga then relaunched on Shonen Jump+ in December 2016. Viz Media began releasing the manga digitally in English in August 2017, and also published the manga in print. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service also released the manga in English digitally. The manga ended in May 2022, and had 15 compiled book volumes.Sources: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes anime's website, Comic Natalie
