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Hero Without a Class Anime Casts Saori Hayami, Sumire Uesaka

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Series starring Kenshō Ono will debut this year

The official website for the television anime of author Shichio Kuzu and illustrator Yumehito Ueda's Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?! (Mushoku no Eiyū: Betsu ni Skill Nanka Iranakattan da ga) novel series revealed two more cast members on Friday.

Saori Hayami as Laina
Cast picture and headshot
Image via Hero Without a Class anime's website
Sumire Uesaka as Lilia
Cast picture and headshot
Image via Hero Without a Class anime's website

Hero Without a Class key visual
Image via Hero Without a Class anime's website
The anime will premiere this year. Kenshō Ono will voice protagonist Allele.

Kaoru Yabana (episode director for The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human, I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills) is directing the anime at Studio A-Cat. Chabo Higurashi (Memories Off 3.5, AMAZING STRANGER) is supervising and writing the series' scripts. Hiroto Morishita is the sound director, and Kento Asahina is composing the music.

One Peace Books is releasing the novels' manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

In a world where everyone receives a Class and Skills at the age of ten, and where such revelations have a huge impact on one's life, Arel, the son of Sword Princess Farah and Archmage Leon, learns that he has… no class at all!

With no class, and no skills, all that's left for Arel is hard work. And so, he takes to training, utilizing wits and cunning to emerge as an all-new type of hero!

The novel series debuted on the Shōsetsu-ka ni Narou ("Let's Be Novelists") website in November 2017. Earth Star Entertainment began publishing novels in July 2018. It released the fourth volume in June 2019.

Akio Nanae launched a manga adaptation in Comic Earth Star in November 2018. The manga's ninth compiled book volume shipped on March 12. One Peace Books began releasing the manga in October 2024.

Sources: Hero Without a Class anime's website, Comic Natalie


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