The isekai fantasy will be available to stream on Crunchyroll starting October 2025.
The upcoming anime My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero has released a new trailer featuring Yoru (played by Sanae Kobayashi), a “black cat” monster who accompanies Akira and his companions after they meet in a dungeon. The video was released to mark Black Cat Appreciation Day in Japan.
Anime Team :
Staff Personal :
- Œuvre originale : Matsuri Akai
- Illustration des light novels : Tozai
- Adaptation en manga : Hiroyuki Aigamo
- Réalisation : Nobuyoshi Habara
- Studio d’animation : Sunrise
- Composition scénaristique : Kunihiko Okada
- Character designs : Hirona Okada & Kaoru Saito
- Musique : Satoshi Igarashi
- Conception des monstres : Rihiro Yamane
- Animation principale : Mitsuru Ishihara
Casting Vocal
- Takeo Otsuka as Akira Oda
(Jinshi in The Apothecary’s NotebooksOpens in a new tab)Saku Mizuno as Amelia Rosequartz
(Ryo Yamada in BOCCHI THE ROCK!Opens in a new tab)Sanae Kobayashi as Yoru
(Allen Walker in D.Gray-manOpens in a new tab)Konomi Tamura as Lia Lagoon
(Isaki Magari in Insomniacs after school)Jun’ichi Suwabe as Saran Mithray
(Yami in Black CloverOpens in a new tab)
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Originally written by Matsuri Akai on the self-publishing website Shôsetsuka ni NarôOpens in a new tab in January 2017, the work Asashin de Aru no Sutêtasu ga Yûsha Yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi Nodaga was acquired by Overlap, which published it in paperback format as light novels, with illustrations by Tozai, under their Overlap BunkoOpens in a new tab imprint starting in November 2017. The manga adaptation, illustrated by Hiroyuki Aigama, has been pre-published since July 2018 on the same publisher’s Comic GardoOpens in a new tab website.
The light novels have four volumes, and the manga will release its sixth volume on February 25, 2025, with over 1.5 million copies in circulation across all formats.
In France, the light novels remain unpublished, but the manga was released under the name I Am an Assassin (and I Surpass the Hero), with five volumes available from Doki-DokiOpens in a new tab.
Synopsis (manga)
Sent to another world with his classmates, Akira Oda is given the characteristics of an ordinary assassin due to his stealth. But his skills will prove far greater than those of a hero.
Very quickly, Akira begins to have doubts about the king who brought them to this other world, and he will have to put his assassin skills into practice to solve the mystery… and uncover the conspiracy that is brewing!