I am a manga reader I have been since middle school. I watched season 1 and 2 of My Hero Academia before I dove into the manga and followed the manga from that point on putting me much further on the story than all the anime watchers. While reading the manga I found out about Vigilantes a bit of a darker grittier story from the main series. So I decided to give it a read and let me say its better than the main series.
Vigilantes follows 3 people Koichi, Kazuho, and Iwao. Who take on the vigilante mantles of The Crawler, Pop ⚝ Step, and Knuckle Duster. Though Pop ⚝ Step isn't so much of a vigilante and more of a street performer. Koichi didn't start off as a vigilante either he just wore an All Might hoodie and a mask to clean up trash around his neighborhood and be the friendly neighborhood Nice Guy which was his name before The Crawler. He gets around with his quirk called Slide N Glide which lets him create friction-less fields he can use to slide long surfaces not just forward, backwards, and side to side but up and down walls too, but only as fast as a bike. Pop ⚝ Step's quirk is called Leap, she can super jump and land safely as long as she had a steady jump point. Finally Knuckle Duster, he is investigating into a drug problem in the area that has a side effect of turning people's tongues purple after using it. He is quirkless just a buff boxing brawler who uses brass knuckles as a weapon and he drags Koichi and Kazuho into his technically illegal hero work. As Japan has strict licensing laws on what heroes can use their quirks to fight villains and wear those costumes. As of right now the manga has been finished for a few years and the anime just got its season 2. So I am not going to say much here other than this series is something I am excited to see in action and to the people watching the anime and not wanting spoilers you have a great story to look forward to. This series is a prequel to MHA some fan favorite heroes make cameos through out the series but since this is prequel you know that they will be fine. I will say this series is going to be much shorter than MHA with Vigilantes only have 126 chapters so I can only see this series having 3ish seasons. But this story is much darker and much grittier with the story following a college kid and a very much adult man dealing with drugs and some implied sexual violence. Don't worry its all implied nothing shown or anything actually happens more of just threats. Nothing like Goblin Slayer. All I can say is buckle up anime watchers and get ready for a superhero ride that I only wish still existed in the American comics industry.
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