Sentenced to Be a Hero Adds Shun Horie and More to Cast

The previously announced anime adaptation of Sentenced to Be a Hero is welcoming three new cast members as Shun Horie, Shizuka Ishigami, and Shunichi Toki join the lineup. The trio will voice Dotta Luzulas, Patausche Kivia, and Venetim Leopool.

The main cast features Yohei Azakami and Mayu Iizuka who will be voicing Xylo Forbartz and Teoritta. Studio KAI is animating the adaptation, which is slated to premiere later this year.

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 Website
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