Sentenced to Be a Hero Reveals Key Visual, Trailer

Sentenced to Be a Hero anime revealed a trailer and key visual, alongside October 2025 premiere date at today's AnimeJapan 2025 stage. Studio KAI is animating.

The main cast features 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.

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