Ahead of an April 6 broadcast and subsequent simulcast on Crunchyroll, the official accounts for To Be Hero X today released a “character story video” for fifth-ranked heroes Little Johnny and Big Johnny. The video previews their episode theme song, “growL”, which is composed by Misaki Umase (Kaina and the Great Snow Sea) and performed by J.Rio.
Individual character story videos for each of the core heroes are currently being released daily.
To Be Hero X The Johnnies Character Story Video
The main cast of To Be Hero X is as follows:
Nice voiced by Natsuki Hanae
E-Soul voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki
Ahu voiced by Koichi Yamadera
Lucky Cyan voiced by Inori MInase
Loli voiced by Ayane Sakura
Little Johnny voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Ghostblade voiced by Yuichi Nakamura
Dragon Boy voiced by Koki Uchiyama
Queen voiced by Kana Hanazawa
X voiced by Mamoru Miyano
To Be Hero X features animation produced by BeDream and direction by Li Haolin (Link Click), with music by Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan), KOHTA YAMAMOTO, Hidefumi Kenmochi, DAIKI (AWSM.), Shuhei Mutsuki, Hideyuki Fukasawa, Misaki Umase and Ryuichi Takada (MONACA).
Crunchyroll currently streams the previous two series in the franchise, TO BE HERO and To Be Heroine. The upcoming To Be Hero X is described like so:
This is a world where heroes are created by people’s trust, and the hero who gains the most trust is known as X. In this world, people’s trust can be quantified through data, and these values are reflected on everyone’s wrist. As long as one gains enough trust points, an ordinary person can possess superpowers and become a superhero who saves the world. However, the constantly changing trust values make the path of a hero full of uncertainties…
Source: Official X (formerly Twitter)
