The production team for The Legendary Hero is Dead! has revealed that the anime series will premiere in April 2023. A new key visual and additional voice cast members have also been released. More information about the anime will be revealed in a special program on December 16, 2022. 

The release of the new visual also commemorates the Japanese holiday “Good Knee-High Socks Day” on November 28, 2022. 

The additional voice cast consists of Ayana Taketatsu as Anri, Hibiku Yamamura as Yuna, and Yurika Kubo as Marguerite. They join Wataru Katou as Touka Scott and Shunichi Toki as Sion Badan and another version of Touka Scott. 

The Legendary Hero is Dead! 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 is handling the animation production for the series.  

Subaruichi’s original manga series was first launched in Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday webcomic magazine on December 16, 2014 before concluding in December 14, 2020. The 20th and final tankoubon volume was released on March 18, 2021. A spinoff series was first published on May 9, 2022.

Shogakukan Asia has licensed the manga for Southeast Asia and describes the story 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 Twitter