Sentenced to Be a Hero anime released a new trailer and revealed two additional cast members. Shoya Chiba and Yoko Hikasa as Jayce Partiract and Neely, respectively. The series was originally scheduled to air in October 2025 but was delayed to January 2026.
Sentenced to Be a Hero (Yusha-kei ni Shosu: Chobatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku) is a light novel series by Rocket Shokai, and it began in October 2020 on the self-publishing website kakuyomu.jp. By September 2021, it received an official release with illustrations by MEPHISTO in Kadokawa’s Dengeki no Shin Bungei Imprint.
Hiroyuki Takashima is directing the anime adaptation at Studio KAI. Yoshitake Nakakōji is credited as the assistant director and creature designer. Kenta Ihara writes the script, Takeshi Noda designs the characters, and Shunsuke Takizawa composes the music. The voice cast includes:
- Yohei Azakami as Xylo Forbartz
- Mayu Iizuka as Teoritta
- Shizuka Ishigami as Patausche Kivia
- Shun Horie as Dotta Luzulas
- Shunichi Toki as Venetim Leopool
- Yoji Ueda as Noragalle Senridge
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tatsuya
- Jun Fukushima as Tsav
Synopsis:
“Hero” is the worst punishment in the world.
For those convicted of heinous crimes, they are sentenced to become a “Hero” and forced to enter the mandatory military service in the war against the Demon Lords.
These convicts are not even allowed to die—if killed, they will be resurrected to fight another day.
Hero Xylo Forbartz, former head of the Order of the Holy Knights, leads a penal unit of deplorables fighting on the front lines. It’s in these direst of circumstances that he meets Teoritta, one of the world’s the strongest weapons.
“When every last enemy has been defeated, you are to shower me with praise and pat my head.”
In order to survive and to take revenge on those who wronged him, he makes a pact with the goddess and launches headfirst into a maelstrom of war and intrigue.
Source: Sentenced to Be a Hero Official Website
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