Subaruichi’s The Legendary Hero is Dead! manga is getting an anime adaptation in 2023. A new teaser visual and video were revealed in coincidence with the announcement.
Rion Kujo is directing the anime at Liden Films. Kana Konishi and Yukio Kondо̄ of MOKA☆ are composing the music. Tohokushinsha is handling sound production, and Pony Canyon is in charge of the music production. WOWMAX is producing the anime.
As for the cast, Wataru Katō and Shunichi Toki will both voice the main character Touka Scott. The dead hero Sion Bladan will also be voiced by Shunichi Toki.
Subaruichi also shared an illustration to commemorate the anime’s announcement, depicting the main character holding huge daikon with “ANIME CONFIRMED” written on it.
▍About The Legendary Hero is Dead!
The Legendary Hero is Dead! is a manga written and illustrated by Subaruichi, who
launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday web comic magazine in December 2014, and it ended in December 2020. Shogakukan published the manga’s 20th and final compiled book volume in Japan in March 2021. A spin-off titled Yūsha ga Shinda! Kami no Kun-hen will launch in May of this year.
The story is about Touka, who is just your average (slightly perverted) farmer in the village of Cheza. While he daydreams about being a hero and getting the girl, the real hero, Sion, is out battling demons that threaten to invade the world!
But one day, Touka accidentally kills the hero…?! With the Legendary Hero dead, who’s going to save the world now?! Touka quickly buries Sion’s body to hide the evidence, but wakes up the next day to discover he is no longer in his own body…?
