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Ani-One Asia Streams MHA: Vigilantes, Sword of the Demon Hunter, Anne Shirley, The Shiunji Family Children Anime
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The television anime of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals) manga will premiere in Japan on April 7.
he 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:
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…
The anime stars:
- Shūichirō Umeda as Kōichi Haimawari/The Crawler
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Kazuho Haneyama/Pop Step
- Yasuhiro Mamiya as Iwao Oguro/Knuckleduster
The returning cast from the original My Hero Academia series are:
- Kenta Miyake as Toshinori Yagi/All Might
- Junichi Suwabe as Shota Aizawa/Eraser Head
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Hizashi Yamada/Present Mic
- Akeno Watanabe as Nemuri Kayama/Midnight
- Masamichi Kitada as Tensei Iida/Ingenium
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 Shogo Yamashiro and Yuki 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 will perform the anime's opening theme song "Kekka Orai" (All's Well in the End). Four-member rock band yutori will perform the ending theme song "Speed."
Ani-One Asia will begin streaming the anime on March 31 at 8:30 p.m. GMT +8 for its one-hour premiere, with every subsequent episode thereafter streaming at 11:00 p.m. GMT +8 on Wednesdays. Ani-One Asia will stream the anime in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Island, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
The anime was delayed from its July 2024 premiere after a planned one-hour special in June that same year, due to production delays.
Ani-One Asia describes the anime:
Edo period, Japan. A young warrior, Jinta, has dedicated his life to the protection of a priestess in a remote mountain village. When demons appear and threaten the shrine, Jinta is tasked with entering the forest to hunt them down. But the mysteries he uncovers there change his fate forever and send him on a journey traversing space and time. Jinta's dark destiny will carry him through hundreds of years of history, as he struggles to answer a single question: why does he wield the sword?
The anime stars Taku Yashiro as Jinta, Reina Ueda as Suzune, and Saori Hayami as Shirayuki.
Kazuya Aiura (Assassins Pride, Hori-san to Miyamura-kun OAV) is directing the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Deko Akao (Assassins Pride, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Noragami) is overseeing the series scripts, Taro Ikegami (Lapis Re:LiGHTs) is designing the characters, and Ryuuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi from MONACA are composing the music.
Hilcrhyme are performing the ending theme song "Sen-ya Ichi-ya feat. Izumi Nakasone (HY)" (One Thousand and One Nights).
Ani-One Asia will begin streaming the anime on April 5 at 9:00 p.m. Ani-One Asia will stream the anime in Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Timor Leste, Thailand, and Vietnam,
Ani-One Asia describes the anime:
The orphan Anne Shirley is adopted and moves to Green Gables where she grows together with her new family and friends, finding greater friendship, love, and happiness through her experiences as a student and later as a teacher.
The anime will star:
Honoka Inoue as Anne Shirley
Aya Nakamura as Marilla Cuthbert
Yasunori Matsumoto as Matthew Cuthbert
Naoya Miyase as Gilbert Blythe
Yume Miyamoto as Diana Barry
Yūji Watanabe (Lupin the Third: Part 5 episodes 2 and 4) and Naoko Saitō (Lupin the Third: Part 5 episode 2) are the series' animation directors. Tadashi Kudo (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus film) is directing the art, and Shiho Kuriki (City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust, Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files films) is the color key artist. Shinji Saitō (City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust film) is the compositing director of photography. Kisuke Koizumi (Chainsaw Man, Kingdom third and fourth seasons) is directing the sound, and Michiru Ōshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, The Tatami Galaxy) is composing the music.
Ani-One Asia will begin streaming the anime on April 8 at 9:30 p.m. GMT +8. Ani-One Asia will stream the anime in Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Seychelles, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
Ani-One Asia describes the anime:
In the upscale Setagaya district of Tokyo stands the opulent Shiunji Residence, where seven siblings, famous for their talent and beauty, reside. Among them are five remarkable sisters, known for their intelligence and charm, often outshining their timid elder brother, Arata, leaving him hesitant around other women. Their world is upended when their father discloses a startling revelation: they are not blood-related siblings, shaking the foundation of their once-unbreakable family bonds.
The anime stars:
- Yūichirō Umehara as Arata Shiunji
- Chika Anzai as Banri Shiunji
- Marika Kōno as Seiha Shiunji
- Rie Takahashi as Ōka Shiunji
- Hana Hishikawa as Minami Shiunji
- Kana Ichinose as Kotono Shiunji
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Shion Shiunji
Ryouki Kamitsubo (Abnormal Physiology Seminar, Hidamari Sketch) is directing the anime at Doga Kobo. Noboru Kimura (Skate-Leading Stars, AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline) is in charge of series scripts, and Miki Mutō (chief animation director for My Senpai Is Annoying, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie) is designing the characters and serving as the chief animation director. Akki, Ginnojō Hoshi, and Shōta Horie (Directed by PHYZ) are composing the music.
The "Shiunji Family Children" (specifically, Banri as voiced by Chika Anzai, Seiha as voiced by Marika Kōno, Ōka as voiced by Rie Takahashi, Minami as voiced by Hana Hishikawa, and Kotono as voiced by Kana Ichinose) perform the ending theme song "LIKE YOU o(>< = ><)o LOVE YOU?."
