Joseph Luster
February 19, 2025 
After being lined up for a 2025 premiere last month, the Sentenced to Be a Hero anime is back in the news with some cast additions. The series adapts the light novel series of the same name by Rocket Shokai—known in Japan as Yuusha-kei ni Shosu: Chobatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku—and you can see who’s voicing who in the latest additions along with their respective designs below.
Shizuka Ishigami voices Patausche Kivia:
Shun Horie voices Dotta Luzulas:
Shunichi Toki voices Venetim Leopool:
Sentenced to Be a Hero began its run online in 2020. In English, it’s published by Yen Press, which describes it like this:
Sentenced to Be a Hero Plot
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
