A new character story concept video has been unveiled for the upcoming To Be Hero X donghua animated series, highlighting the seemingly noble tenth-ranked superhero Nice. The series is scheduled to premiere in Japan in April 2025.
The video also spotlights the character’s episode theme song “PARAGON” by series co-composer Hiroyuki Sawano and performed by Benjamin Anderson and mpi.
Li Haolin (LINK CLICK; To Be Hero; To Be Heroine) is credited with the original work and is directing the donghua series, in collaboration with bilibili and Aniplex. Hiroyuki Sawano is composing the series’ main theme song “Jeopardy.” Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, Kenmochi Hidefumi, DAIKI (AWSM.), Shuhei Mutsuki, Hideyuki Fukasawa, Misaki Umase, and Ryuichi Takada (MONACA) are all credited as music composers in the series. BeDream is in charge of the animation production.
To Be Hero X serves as the follow-up to To Be Hero and To Be Heroine. The first To Be Hero series aired in Japan for 12 episodes from October to December 2016, with Studio LAN handling the animation production. Crunchyroll also streamed the series as it aired in Japan, with each episode running for 11 minutes.
The sequel series, To Be Heroine, aired in May 2018, with Studio LAN and Haoliners Animation League in charge of the animation production. Haolin previously directed both of these series. Crunchyroll also simulcast both series on its platform.
Synopsis:
A world where outstanding heroes are applauded. Here, “trust” creates superheroes. If people believe “he can fly,” he will gain the ability to fly. Conversely, even if a hero has special powers, if he loses trust, he will also lose his powers. Trust is collected as data, and the ranking of heroes changes depending on the value. Once every two years, the top heroes gather to compete in a hero tournament. Their performance there updates their “trust value,” and the ranking is reconstructed. The absolute hero who stands at the top of the rankings, people call him “X”.
