The production team for The Legendary Hero Is Dead! has announced that the upcoming fantasy television anime will premiere in 2023. They also shared a new key visual and PV teaser trailer for the show, along with information about the staff and voice cast.
Original manga creator Subaruichi shared a special illustration to commemorate news of the anime production.
スバルイチ先生よりお祝いイラスト＆コメントもいただきました！
— 勇者が死んだ！原作&TVアニメ公式 (@yuusyagasinda) April 27, 2022pic.twitter.com/oOzPyLcevH
The voice cast is headlined by Wataru Katou and Shunichi Toki as Touka, with the latter also voicing a character named Sion.
The anime series will be directed by Rion Kujou (Shin Ikki Tousen). Kayo Konishi and Yukio Kondo of the musical duo MOKA☆ are composing the musical score. Touhoku Shinsha is handling the anime’s sound production while Pony Canyon is helping with the overall music production. LIDENFILMS will be in charge of the animation production.
Subaruichi first published the manga in Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday webcomic magazine in December 2014 before concluding it in December 2020. Shogakukan published the 20th and final tankoubon volume for The Legendary Hero is Dead! in March 2021. A spinoff series will launch sometime this May.
Shogakukan Asia has licensed the manga for Southeast Asia and describes the series as:
Touka 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…!!
Source: The Legendary Hero is Dead! Official Japanese Twitter
