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Main Staff, First Promo of 'Yuusha-kei ni Shosu' Unveiled for Fall 2025
The Yuusha-kei ni Shosu: Choubatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku (Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004) special stage at the Kadokawa Live Station at AnimeJapan 2025 revealed the main staff, the first key visual (pictured), and the first promotional video on Sunday. Produced by Studio Kai, the anime series adapting Shoukai Rocket's action fantasy light novel will air in October 2025.
Staff
Director: Hiroyuki Takashima (The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: U149 assistant director)
Series Composition, Script: Kenta Ihara (Isekai Ojisan)
Assistant Director, Creature Design: Yoshitake Nakakouji (Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV action director)
Character Design: Takeru Noda (Dandadan sub-character design)
World Setting: Nobutaka Ike (Princess Principal art director)
Prop Design: Kouta Sugawa (Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple main animator)
Music: Shunsuke Takizawa (Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo)
Rocket originally began penning the novel on Kakuyomu website in October 2020. Kadokawa began publishing the title under its Dengeki no Shinbungei label with illustrations by Mephisto in September 2021 and released the seventh volume on January 17.
Natsumi Inoue began serializing a manga adaptation in Dengeki Comic Regulus in March 2022. Kadokawa published the second volume in April 2024.
Yen Press licensed the light novel in English this February and published the third volume on August 20. The fourth volume is planned to be released on May 20. Kadokawa publishes the manga adaptation in English on the BookWalker Global website.
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Source: Press Release
Staff
Director: Hiroyuki Takashima (The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: U149 assistant director)
Series Composition, Script: Kenta Ihara (Isekai Ojisan)
Assistant Director, Creature Design: Yoshitake Nakakouji (Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV action director)
Character Design: Takeru Noda (Dandadan sub-character design)
World Setting: Nobutaka Ike (Princess Principal art director)
Prop Design: Kouta Sugawa (Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple main animator)
Music: Shunsuke Takizawa (Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo)
Rocket originally began penning the novel on Kakuyomu website in October 2020. Kadokawa began publishing the title under its Dengeki no Shinbungei label with illustrations by Mephisto in September 2021 and released the seventh volume on January 17.
Natsumi Inoue began serializing a manga adaptation in Dengeki Comic Regulus in March 2022. Kadokawa published the second volume in April 2024.
Yen Press licensed the light novel in English this February and published the third volume on August 20. The fourth volume is planned to be released on May 20. Kadokawa publishes the manga adaptation in English on the BookWalker Global website.
PV
Source: Press Release