A prequel to popular anime franchise “My Hero Academia” is coming exclusively to Sony’s Crunchyroll streaming service outside of Asia next month. Japanese entertainment studio Toho Co. unveiled a new trailer,

New episodes of the My Hero Academia prequel series will stream the same day it airs in Japan. Though the main My Hero Academia anime series is set to end later this year, its gritty prequel is about to make its streaming debut on Crunchyroll.

Vigilantes is set to expand one of anime's greatest shonen titles this April, and all eyes are on the prequel ahead of its start. With heroes like All Might and Eraserhead on hand, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes promises to answer some long-awaited questions for fans of the original series.

A prequel to My Hero Academia will be released on Crunchyroll outside Asia on April 7. The series, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, follows Koichi Haimawari as he becomes a vigilante. The anime is produced by Bones Film and directed by Kenichi Suzuki.

The newest spin-off series for the popular anime ‘My Hero Academia’ is coming to streaming very soon — get the lowdown on it here! One of the reasons that “My Hero Academia” is so popular is that it takes the tropes of superhero genres and turns them on their head a little.

Vigilantes takes place years before the events of the main series, and follows a trio of underground heroes who illegally start fighting criminals to protect their town when the heroes don’t show up.

The new trailer is out, mixing new and familiar faces from My Hero Academia Vigilantes, the official prequel story of the main series.

My Heor Academia Vigilantes, a canon prequel to the main series, will be out soon. What is the first arc of the story about?