The TV anime adaptation of Shin Araki’s Classroom for Heroes (Eiyū Kyōshitsu) released a bunch of new details including the animes trailer, a key visual, cast, and theme songs!
The cast of the anime includes Reiji Kawashima as the hero Blade, Misuzu Yamada as Arnest Flaming, Nao Tōyama as Sophie, and Hina Kino as Cu Chulainn. The anime also revealed that its ending theme song is being performed by Akane Kumada, and the opening theme song is by Nijisanji’s own virtual singer, Kaede Higuchi!
The Classroom For Heroes Anime series is set to premiere in July.
▍Classroom For Heroes Anime Trailer
▍Classroom For Heroes Anime Cast
■ Blade – CV: Reiji Kawashim
■ Arnest Flaming – CV: Misuzu Yamada
■ Sophie – CV: Nao Tōyama
■ Cú Chulainn – CV: Hina Kino
▍Classroom For Heroes Anime Staff and Production
Original Work: Shin Araki
Director: Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Series Composition: Naoki Hayashi
Character Design: Kosuke Kawamura
Chief Animation Director: Kosuke Kawamura
Assistant Director: Hideaki Nakano
Chief Animation Director: Eri Kojima
Main Prop Design: Noboru Jitsuhara
Monster & Mechanical Design: Yasuhiro Moriki, Miki Matsuda
Accessory Design: Ryou Akizuki
Color Key Artist: Sachiko Harada
Art Director: e-caesar
Art Supervision: Junichi Higashi
Art: Shinya Tanaka
Art Design: Ryota Fukai
Backgrounds: Studio Easter
3D Director: Makoto Endo
2D Works/CG Producer: Tsutomu Nagai
Director of Photography: Kōhei Tanada
Compositing Special Effects: Mika Narukawa
Photography: Graphinica
Editing: Gō Sadamatsu
Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi
Sound Effects: Yui Ando
Recording Engineer: Shiori Saitō
Sound Production: Jinnan Studio
Music: Kotaro Nakagawa
Music Production: Lantis
Animation Production: Actus
▍About Classroom For Heroes
Written by Shin Araki and illustrated by Haruyuki Morisawa, the light novel series was collected in twelve volumes from January 2015 under Shueisha’s Dash X Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Takashi Minakuchi titled Eiyū Kyōshitsu: Honoo no Empress was serialized in Shueisha’s Ultra Jump magazine between February and August 2015 and was collected in a single tankōbon volume. A second manga adaptation with art by Koara Kishida has been serialized via Square Enix’s Monthly Shōnen Gangan since September 2016. It has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.
Classroom for Heroes follows the story of Arnest Flaming, a girl with a high sense of duty and the top student at the academy, receiving the alias Empress of Flames. One day, she encounters the lively, carefree new transfer student Blade, a boy who seems to equal her in power, something that she finds really irritating. Follow the students’ struggles in their quest to become heroes!
