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Hindi, Tamil, Telugu Dubs for Sentenced to Be a Hero Anime Stream on Crunchyroll
posted on by Adriana Hazra
It began streaming the English dub for the second season of the television anime of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Vigilante -Boku no Hero Academia ILLEGALS-) manga on Monday, and the English dub of SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, the television anime of writer Yūshi Ukai and artist Nekometal's Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (Shibō Yūgi de Meshi o Kuu) light novel series, on Wednesday.
Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 debuted on January 3 at 10:00 p.m. on Tokyo MX. The first episode was a 60-minute special, and the second episode will air on January 15, with subsequent episodes airing on Thursdays. The anime is airing on 28 channels across Japan. In Japan the series began streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting on January 3 at 10:00 p.m., and began streaming on other sites starting on January 6.
The anime was originally scheduled to premiere in October, but was delayed. Crunchyroll is streaming the series in India as it airs in Japan.
Hiroyuki Takashima (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation episode director, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 OVA assistant director) is directing the anime at Studio KAI. Yoshitake Nakakōji is the assistant director, and is also credited as creature designer. Kenta Ihara (Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy-, Ishura, Nukitashi the Animation) is writing and supervising the series' scripts. Takeshi Noda (DAN DA DAN sub-character designs) is designing the characters. Shunsuke Takizawa is composing the music. Nobutaka Ike is credited for worldbuilding. Kouta Sugawa is the prop designer.
SPYAIR performs the theme song "Kill the Noise."
Yen Press is releasing the novel series in English, and it describes the story:
Heroism—a punishment for only the worst criminals. Those sentenced to the fate of a hero are forced to fight at the front lines against the demon king's army—and if they die, they can expect to be revived and continue the battle. But when their leader, convicted of killing a goddess, meets another goddess himself, the contract they forge may be enough to change the world...
Shokai launched the light novel series on Kadokawa's Kakuyomu site in October 2020, and Kadokawa began publishing the series in print in September 2021 with illustrations by Mephisto. Kadokawa released the eighth volume on January 17.
Natsumi Inoue launched the novel's manga adaptation on Kadokawa's Dengeki Comic Regulus website in March 2022. Kadokawa published the manga's second compiled book volume in April 2024. BookWalker Global is releasing the manga digitally in English. Yen Press announced on December 12 it will release the manga in English starting in June 2026.
Source: Crunchyroll (link 2)
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