The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Rocket Shokai’s Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 light novel series confirmed that season 2 is in the works. In addition to Sentenced to Be a Hero Season 2, Kadokawa and VIC GAME STUDIOS have unveiled Sentenced to Be a Hero -Game of the GODDESS-, the anime’s first game adaptation. An international release outside Japan was seemingly confirmed by the game’s newly opened X (formerly Twitter) account.
The Sentenced to Be a Hero anime is streaming on Crunchyroll.
SPYAIR performs the theme song “Kill the Noise.”
The Japanese cast and staff for the anime include:
Japanese Cast
- Yōhei Azakami as Xylo Forbartz
- Mayu Iizuka as Teoritta
- Shizuka Ishigami as Patausche Kivia
- Shun Horie as Dotta Luzulas
- Shunichi Toki as Venetim Leopool
- Yōji Ueda as Noragalle Senridge
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tatsuya
- Jun Fukushima as Tsav
- Shōya Chiba as Jayce
- Yōko Hikasa as Neely
- Yūichi Nakamura as Rhyno
- Saori Ōnishi as Frenci Mastibolt
Staff
- Director: Hiroyuki Takashima
- Studio: Studio KAI
- Assistant Director: Yoshitake Nakakōji
- Scriptwriter: Kenta Ihara
- Character Designer: Takeshi Noda
- Music Composer: Shunsuke Takizawa
- Worldbuilding: Nobutaka Ike
- Prop Designer: Kouta Sugawa
Rocket Shokai’s hit novel series debuted in October 2020 on Kadokawa’s Kakuyomu site. Since then, Kadokawa publishes the series with illustrations by Mephisto.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the novel series, via publisher Yen Press:
Heroism—a punishment for only the worst criminals. Those sentenced to the fate of a hero are forced to fight at the front lines against the demon king’s army—and if they die, they can expect to be revived and continue the battle. But when their leader, convicted of killing a goddess, meets another goddess himself, the contract they forge may be enough to change the world…
