Sentenced to Be a Hero Anime Delayed to January 2026
The Sentenced to Be a Hero anime has been delayed to January 2026 from the originally scheduled October 2025 broadcast. The production committee issued a statement in which it explains that the delay decision was made to further improve the quality of the work and apologizing for the delay. It was also announced that the first episode will be a 60-minute-long special.
Studio KAI is animating the Sentenced to Be a Hero adaptation and the staff includes:
- Director: Hiroyuki Takashima
- Assistant Director and Creature Designer: Yoshiki Nakakoji
- Series Composition: Kenta Ihara
- Character Design: Takeru Noda
- Music: Shunsuke Takizawa
The anime previously revealed a key visual and trailer featuring the main cast: Yohei Azakami and Mayu Iizuka who will be voicing Xylo Forbartz and Teoritta. Shun Horie, Shizuka Ishigami, and Shunichi Toki are also a part of the cast as Dotta Luzulas, Patausche Kivia, and Venetim Leopool.
The anime will adapt the web novel turned light novel written by Rocket Shokai and illustrated by MEPHISTO. The novel is serialized under Dengeki Bunko's Dengeki no Shinbungei imprint. A manga adaptation by Natsumi Inoue is currently ongoing in Dengeki Comic Regulus. Yen Press licensed the novels in English.
Kadokawa describes the plot:
"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: Official Twitter/X
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