#Anime Adaptation of My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Coming October 2025

A TV anime adaptation of the My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s light novel series has been announced with an October 2025 premiere window, a trailer, and a teaser visual.

The lead cast members are Takeo Otsuka as Akira Oda and Saku Mizuno as Amelia Rose Quartz. The main staff credits include: 

• Director: Nobuyoshi Habara (Amaim Warrior at the Borderline, Fafner in the Azure)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Kunihiko Okada (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy)
• Character designer: Hirona Okada (Gundam Build Metaverse co-character designer)
• Character designer: Kaori Saito
• Monster Designer: Rihiro Yamane (Magic Knight Rayearth)
• Main Animator: Mitsuru Ishihara (RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne character designer, The Faraway Paladin: the Lord of the Rust Mountains co=main animator)
Music composer: TOKYO LOGIC’s Satoshi Igarashi (Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!)
• Animation production: Sunrise

My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s (Assassin de Aru Ore no Sutetasu ga Yuusha Yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi nodaga) is a Overlap Bunko series written by Matsuri Akai and illustrated by Tozai. The first volume was released in November 2017, and there are four volumes as of February 2021. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the premise as:

Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don’t fit, Akira is sure something is wrong. But digging into royal secrets is a dangerous game, and when Akira uncovers an evil scheme, he also makes a powerful enemy—the very king who brought him to this world! With the help of the elven spirit medium Amelia, can he find the power to set things right, and get his revenge?

The story started as a Shousetsuka ni Narou web novel in January 2017. The light novels have inspired a manga adaptation.

Source: @sutetsuyo_an