The upcoming TV anime adaptation of Rocket Shokai and MEPHISTO’s Sentenced to Be a Hero light novels today revealed an epic teaser visual, a 2025 release date and two main cast members.
Studio KAI (Skeleton Knight in Another World) is producing the series’ animation. Key staff members, including the director, are yet to be confirmed at the time of reporting.
Sentenced to Be a Hero Teaser Visual
The Sentenced to Be a Hero anime’s confirmed cast is as follows:
Xylo Fobartz voiced by Yohei Azakami (Ron in Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions)
Teoritta voiced by Mayu Iizuka (Airi in CUE!)
Xylo Forbartz
Teoritta
Yen Press publishes an official English version of the original light novels and describes the story:
Heroism—a punishment for only the worst criminals. Those sentenced to the fate of a hero are forced to fight on the front lines against deadly centers of contagion that rot the land and turn its creatures into roving armies of violent beasts. And if a hero dies, their only reward is being brought back to life so they can continue the never-ending battle. But when Xylo Forbartz, a member of Penal Hero Unit 9004 and a convicted goddess killer, comes face-to-face with a new goddess, the pact they forge might just be enough to change the world…
Source: Press release
