After defeating the Demon Lord, the Hero established Rosewood Academy, a school for heroes-in-training who would defend the world from future threats.
While Rosewood Academy only accepts the best, Arnest Flaming, nicknamed the Empress of Flame, sits among the best of the best. However, one day she meets a laid-back new student named Blade who possesses not just powers that can match her own, but power like she has never seen before.
Arnest is chosen to help Blade settle in as a new student to the Academy where he quickly endears himself to his peers despite remaining mysteriously powerful.
Classroom for Heroes actually manages to escape complete mediocrity by being pretty light-hearted and fun instead of serious and average. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Classroom for Heroes, head on down below.
Anime Like Classroom for Heroes
For Fans of Ex-Heroes Going to School
The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule The World
Ray White is the first commoner to be admitted to the prestigious Arnold Academy of Sorcery. As such, he is also the immediate target of contempt by some of the nobles at the academy.
However, what they don’t know is that Ray’s real identity is the current Iceblade Sorcerer, one of only a few powerful magic wielders that once led their country to victory.
Despite being the current holder of such a legendary power, Ray just wants to live an ordinary school life that he hasn’t been able to experience until now.
Essentially, Classroom for Heroes and The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule The World have similar basic premises – a hero goes to school hoping for a happy school life!
However, what Classroom for Heroes often plays silly, The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule The World takes seriously. While both series have the hero building a harem through helping female students, The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule The World has serious intrigue blooming in his school, thus it isn’t quite as cheerful and comical as Classroom for Heroes often is.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy
After countless wars, Demon Lord Anos Voldigoad decided he would reincarnate into the future.
However, 2,000 years later, he has found that his descendants have become too used to peace and their magical powers weakened because of it. Reincarnated with his full strength, the sheer magical power of Anos makes him a misfit at the Demon King Academy charged with educating the next generation in waning magical prowess.
Both Classroom for Heroes and The Misfit of Demon King Academy feature wildly overpowered main characters going to school. However, Classroom for Heroes is about trying to enjoy school life whereas The Misfit of Demon King Academy is about investigating various intrigues going on in the changed world he was reborn in.
While The Misfit of Demon King Academy is more battle-focused, they both feature an OP main character gathering a harem and humbling all people who challenge them to a fight.
Akashic Record of Bastard Magic Instructor
Sistine is a dedicated student at the magical academy where she hones her skills. She eventually hopes to solve the great mystery of the Sky Castle, but when her teacher retires, the replacement, Glenn Radars, turns out to be a lazy bastard.
How is it that this incompetent man was hand-picked as the best magician in the academy?
You know how King Gilgamesh and pretty much every teacher in Classroom for Heroes is silly and gives the minimum amount of effort towards their job? Well, Akashic Record of Bastard Magic Instructor is like that too, but the silly teacher is the main character.
While portrayed as more of a lazy sleazebag than Blade, Glenn Radars is just as overpowered and mysterious as Blade. Both main characters are very strong, but due to their dark pasts, they don’t take life too seriously.
While Akashic Record of Bastard Magic Instructor is quite serious at times when it comes to the battles, at school it keeps things very light like Classroom for Heroes. Both series also share a passion for having a large cast that is mostly cute girls.
For Fans of Battle-Focused Schools
Chivalry of a Failed Knight
A certain selection of people, known as Blazers, are able to manifest their souls as weapons. To harness these powers, a number of schools have been established to teach these people how to use them.
Ikki Kurogane is an aspiring Mage-Knight, but unfortunately is also one of the lowest ranked Blazers around. However, there may be more to his powers than meets the eye.
Both Classroom for Heroes and Chivalry of a Failed Knight focus on battle schools that train students with combat abilities for a non-specified overall goal. While both series feature students that use a variety of weapons or diverse abilities, Chivalry of a Failed Knight ranks the students’ more magic-focused abilities based on strength.
Essentially, both series are split between fights and enjoying school life. However, Chivalry of a Failed Knight has less slice of life downtime than Classroom for Heroes and treats its fights more seriously.
Both series feature an OP main character, but Chivalry of a Failed Knight has a singular main romance between a pink-haired fiery tsundere similar to Arnest rather than the non-committal harem that Classroom for Heroes has.
The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest
When they are born, mages are each given a random and unchangeable crest that will effect their powers and potential. Gaius, a man widely known as the strongest sage, reached the limit of his potential, but decided to reincarnate far into the future to attain a different crest.
He is reborn as Mathias Hildesheimer thousands of years later and gets the crest he hoped to receive. However, in this future, his crest has been slandered as the worst crest due to demons that have now infiltrated humanity and pull the strings in order to limit humanity’s magical potential.
Both Classroom for Heroes and The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest take place in fantasy lands, but focus primarily on schools that train warriors for combat. However, while it is ultimately kind of unclear why the kids need to be trained in Classroom for Heroes when the Demon King is already defeated, The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest features more of your standard medieval fantasy world where it is just dangerous and people need to know how to defend themselves.
While Classroom for Heroes has a wide array of combat styles, The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest focuses on a four specific classifications based on what crest the characters have.
Both series have their OP main character and a harem that gather around them, but The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest treats it school life plot more seriously.
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
Decades ago, Samon Syndrome began to manifest in young teens, giving them the ability to travel to other worlds. Many of them remained in those other worlds, but some did eventually return with their fantasy powers still intact.
Akatsuki Ousawa is one such individual who forwent a peaceful life after saving his fantasy world and returned to Earth. While he has his powers intact, he also brought back Miu, the daughter of the demon lord he defeated.
Passing her off as his sister, the pair join Babel, a special school designed to contain, study, and train those who returned from other worlds.
Both Classroom for Heroes and Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero take place at schools for those to hone their battle abilities as heroes.
However, while the school in Classroom for Heroes does seem to be legitimately trying to hone their battle abilities, the school in Aestethica of a Rogue Hero seems more like a place to shut in returned isekai heroes with magnificent abilities so they don’t run wild in the otherwise normal world.
While both series are “hero” schools with an OP main character who has a harem, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero does differ in a key way – ecchi. Now, Classroom for Heroes does have ecchi, but Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero is significantly more ecchi at all times. While both main characters are overpowered and know it, Akatsuki in Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero is cocky in everything he does.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades
In the spring, Kimberly Magic Academy, a prestigious – and famously dangerous – magic school welcomed its incoming freshman. Among these new students is the mysterious Oliver Horn who hides his dark past and an even darker purpose for his enrollment.
When a troll runs wild at the opening ceremony, Oliver unites a group of new students, including a battle-hardened samurai and veteran of war named Nanao. After taking down the troll, Oliver quickly bonds with the six students and they are determined to hone their magic as well as survive the dangerous trials – and dangerous fellow mages – present in the school.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades is innately different from Classroom for Heroes since it is set in a more European-style magic school. However, both series feature a main character so overpowered that he doesn’t actually need to go to school to hone his power anymore. While Classroom for Heroes has Blade enjoying his time, Reign of the Seven Spellblades has a darker intrigue that the main character is following.
Both series feature a harem for the main character, and show him with an above average-sized friend group of characters that are explored for a short arcs before moving on.
While they both focus on school life, often happily, Reign of the Seven Spellblades is set in a dangerous school and thus adapts a much more serious tone outside of classroom hours.
For Fans of Happy Fantasy School Lives
Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun
Iruma Suzuki has had a tough life. His parents are irresponsible, so he must work to earn money to take care of himself. One day, he discovers that his parents have sold him to the demon, Sullivan.
Afraid at first, he relaxes when he discovers that the demon merely wants a grandchild. As Sullivan is the headmaster of the demon school Babyls, he enrolls Iruma.
However, Iruma soon discovers that as the grandchild of Sullivan, he is now expected to take the throne of Demon King.
While the schools have different focuses, both Classroom for Heroes and Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun are school anime focusing on a large cast of unique individuals. While Classroom for Heroes has everything from demons to cyborgs, Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun focuses more on just supernatural beings.
What these two series most have in common is the tone. They have action and a large cast of characters, but mostly they are still light-hearted and often just silly. They never take things too seriously.
While Blade is OP, Iruma is actually quite weak and often just gets lucky in a way that makes it seem like he is OP to others.
The Familiar of Zero
Louise is a self-absorbed mage at the prestigious Tristain Academy. Unfortunately, she can’t cast magic right and her classmates call her Louise the Zero.
One day during a summoning ritual, Louise messes it up again and summons a boy named Saito.
At first she treats him as a slave until she discovers a powerful brand on him, the sign of a legendary familiar known as Gandalfr.
Although The Familiar of Zero is an isekai, it is a school-based isekai and often shares the same light-hearted tone that Classroom for Heroes has.
Both series focus on new male students who endear themselves to a number of women by being both strong and nice. However, while Classroom for Heroes is a harem, The Familiar of Zero, though it has the hints of harem, is more of a straight-forward romance with its main girl being a violent, fiery tsundere.
If you enjoy the same light school life vibe that Classroom for Heroes has, but don’t mind a longer series with more frequent action, longer arcs, and actual romance, then The Familiar of Zero is a great option.
Rosario + Vampire
Due to his bad grades, Tsukune Aono was unable to get into any good high schools. However, at the last minute, he was accepted to Youkai Academy.
Unfortunately for him, it is a high school for werewolves, vampires, and other monsters.
With the help of a vampire and some other new girl friends that take a liking to him, Tsukune tries to hide his human status from his classmates.
While Classroom for Heroes is pretty standard fantasy, Rosario + Vampire is dedicated to supernatural fantasy. Aside from the setting, both series are focused on the new exciting school life of a new student.
Unlike Blade and his overpowered abilities, Tsukune in Rosario + Vampire is as weak as an average human in a supernatural school can be. However, through their abilities and being just generally nice guys, both main characters attract a growing harem of girls after solving the personal problems that they were struggling with.
While both series enjoy moments of action, overall both series keep things pretty light. They are often more comical that serious.
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