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I'm Quitting Heroing Fantasy Novels About Hero Joining Enemy Demon Army Get Anime in April 2022
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Kadokawa announced on Wednesday that Quantum and Hana Amano's I'm Quitting Heroing: Next Gig Is at the Demon Queen's Castle (Yūsha, Yamemasu: Tsugi no Shokuba wa Maōjō) fantasy light novel series is inspiring a television anime that will premiere in April 2022.
The cast includes:
- Kenshō Ono as Leo Demonheart
- Kaede Hondo as Echidna
- Shizuka Itou as Steiner
- Hitomi Ohwada as Lily
- Yumi Uchiyama as Mernes
- Tetsu Inada as Edvard
Yuu Nobuta (High School Fleet, Maesetsu! Opening Act, The Faraway Paladin) is credited as chief director, while Hisashi Ishii (Rainy Cocoa side G, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear) is directing the series at EMT Squared. Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombie Land Saga, to the abandoned Sacred Beasts, The Gymnastics Samurai) is in charge of the series scripts. Yūki Nakano (A Destructive God Sits Next to Me, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear) is designing the characters.
The story centers on Leo, a hero who once saved the world from a demon army's invasion. However, he was feared and ostracized by people afterward, and ended up with no job. Feeling that his skills would be better appreciated elsewhere, he joins the demon lord's army that he once fought. Now in a new work environment, Leo strives to use his skills and revive the demon army which is on the brink of collapse.
Kuontamu began serializing the story in the Kakuyomu story website in January 2017. Kadokawa is publishing the story in print with illustrations by Amano, and it released the first volume in December 2017. The fourth volume shipped in August 2020.
Nori Kazato launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Kadokawa's Young Ace Up web manga site in May 2018. Kadokawa published the manga's fifth volume on May 10.
Update: English names added. Thanks, DokoMadeMo.
Sources: "Yūsha, Yamemasu" anime's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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