The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shin Araki’s Classroom for Heroes light novel series has posted two new promotional videos on the EMOTION Label Youtube channel. The video trailers also previewed the opening theme song for the anime, “Bravery? Naturally?” performed by Nijisanji 1st gen VTuber Kaede Higuchi! The anime is scheduled to premiere on July 9.
Cast newly introduced include Eri Yukimura as Claire, Haruka Shiraishi as Jessica, Aya Uchida as Iona, and Sarah Emi Bridcutt as Maria and her alter ego Rose. Of the 10 additional casts/characters revealed, Maria, Rose, and Iona can be seen alongside the four other characters in the new anime visual illustrated by character designer Kosuke Kawamura.
The anime of Classroom For Heroes is produced by Actus, and directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi, with series composition and script handled by Naoki Hayashi, and character design and chief animation directed by Kosuke Kawamura.
▍Classroom For Heroes Anime PVs
▍About Classroom For Heroes
Written by Shin Araki and illustrated by Haruyuki Morisawa, the series was novelized in twelve volumes from January 2015 under Shueisha’s Dash X Bunko imprint as a light novel. 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 illustrated by Koara Kishida was serialized via Square Enix’s Monthly Shōnen Gangan in September 2016. The series is ongoing and currently has 15 tankōbon volumes under its belt.
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, which she finds really irritating yet oddly captivating.
Soon, she discovers that the strange student was none other than the hero who fell the demon lord who plunged the world into darkness. With his powers waning from his time as the chosen one, Blade has but one wish after having saved the world… To live an ordinary life.
▍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
▍Classroom For Heroes Anime New Cast
■ Eri – CV: Eri Yukimura
■ Jessica – CV: Haruka Shiraishi
■ Maria/Moe – CV: Sarah Emi Bridcutt
■ Iona – CV: Aya Uchida
■ Clay – CV: Shūichi Uchida
■ Cassim – CV: Tomohiro Ōno
■ Leonard – CV: Tomohito Takatsuka
■ Eliza – CV: Konomi Kohara
■ King Gilgamesh – CV: Rikiya Koyama
■ Asmodeus – CV: Tetsu Inada