Ahead of a planned 2025 release, the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Rocket Shokai and MEPHISTO’s Sentenced to Be a Hero light novels today revealed three more cast members, adding to leads Yohei Azakami and Mayu Iizuka:
Patausche Kivia voiced by Shizuka Ishigami (Ikumi in Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma)
Dotta Luzulas voiced by Shun Horie (Kyotaro in The Dangers in My Heart)
Venetim Leopool voiced by Shunichi Toki (Setsu in Summoned to Another World for a Second Time)
All five voice actors will be present at the series’ AnimeJapan 2025 stage event on Sunday, March 23.
Patausche Kivia
Dotta Luzulas
Venetim Leopool
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. 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
