Anime Like Sentenced to Be A Hero

To be named a Hero is one of the worst punishments that can befall you in this world. For truly heinous crimes, the offenders are branded Heroes and enter a mandatory military service where they fight against Demon Lords. They are not even allowed the release of death, for it they fall, they are resurrected to fight another day at the cost of some of their memories.

For Hero Xylo Forbartz, he was once the head of the Order of the Holy Knights, now sentenced to lead a penal unit on the front lines. Circumstances lead him to meet Teoritta, a Goddess, one of several, used as one of the most powerful weapons in the world to stand against the Demon Lords.

Though the honor of wielding a Goddess is not for Heroes, Teoritta declares that Xylo is her knight and refused to be removed from him.

For years, the Republic of San Magnolia has been at war with the Giadian Empire. They were constantly plagued by their hordes of unmanned drones until the government created an unmanned solution of their own, finally able to wage their war without casualties.

However, that is not quite the truth. The “unmanned” combat weapons are actually used by those of the 86^th sector of the Republic, but they are not considered even human.

This is the tale of both Shin, an 86er and battle commander, and Lena, their sympathetic handler who remotely commands the detachment from inside the city.

Betrayed by his ninja clan and sentenced to death for the many lives he took while working for them, Gabimaru the Hollow accepts his fate. However, every attempt at execution has failed, leading them to call in Sagiri, a member of the Yamada Asaemon Clan of imperial executioners.

While Sagiri can carry out the task, she instead offers Gabimaru a chance to receive a full pardon for his crimes. He, along with other criminals sentenced to death, will be sent to the dangerous island of Shinsekyo to obtain the elixir of life for the shogun. However, with all previous expedition teams never being heard from again, this mysterious island is a death sentence in and of itself.

Once one of Japan’s most shrewd salarymen, after being pushed in front of a train to his death by a scorned ex-employee, a man is reborn as an adorable orphan girl after pissing off a mysterious being that calls himself God.

While the female form and affinity for magic are not a punishment, being born in a world in the midst of a brutal World War is. Now, Tanya uses her calculating mind from her past life and magnificent magical abilities to spread terror on the front lines of the war, becoming one of the most dangerous people in the imperial army.

This is all in effort to earn a promotion that will see her safely back to a life of comfort on the back lines, showing up the God that put her in this world for humbling.

While forming the rear guard for his uncle’s escape, Toyohisa Shimazu manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically wounded himself in the process.

While trying to limp back home, he finds himself transported from the field to a hallway lined with doors. There, a mysterious man sends him spiraling into another world.

Dragged into the forest by two young elves, Toyohisa is patched up by two others from the Land of the Rising Sun that turn out to be Yoichi Suketaka Nasu and Oda Nobunaga.

From there, Toyohisa and his fellow historical figures, named “drifters” must save (or conquer) their new world.

It has been five hundred years since humanity went extinct at the hands of the mysterious beasts that roam the land. Now the surviving races have retreated to floating islands in the sky out of reach of most of the beasts. However, there are ones nimble enough to put these people in danger.

A small group of young girls, a race called the Leprechauns, are now raised as the only ones that can wield ancient weapons to fend off invasion by the beasts, but it often requires them to sacrifice themselves and they don’t often live to see adulthood.

Enter Willem, the last surviving human woken from his slumber and sent to watch over these girls, still feeling the sting from the final battle where he lost everything five hundred years ago.

According to legend, the revival of the Demon God will cause the Goddess to appoint six heroes, called Braves, to prevent the world from becoming a living hell. Adlet Mayer, the self-proclaimed strongest man in the world, travels to Piena in hopes of becoming a Brave.

After being briefly jailed for causing trouble, he is indeed called and he sets off on a journey with the princess, another Brave, to defeat the Demon God. However, when all six Braves assemble, there are seven in total and the others soon suspect Adlet is a fraud.

Surrounded by the forbidden territories of powerful dark beasts, humanity has carved out five kingdoms for itself, but constantly crave to push the boundaries of their world. When the king of the Hiden nation armed thirteen heroes with Regalia that only a Hiden royal can forge, they set out to defeat one of the four legendary beasts, Clevatess—and fail.

After a brutal defeat, Clevatess destroys the Kingdom of Hiden, but gets talked into absconding with the newborn prince and heir to the throne. After reviving Alicia Glenfall, one of the fallen heroes, to help keep it alive, the dark beast decides to use this child to shape the human world through his rule in the shadows.

Humans live in constant fear of dragon attack, the species that really rules the world with overwhelming power. To keep human populations safe, a number of hunters track and kill dragons as their job. Ragna was one such dragon hunter, though as weak as he is, he is often carried by the prodigal talent of his companion, Leonica.

One day, Ragna gains an influx of power that came from his fallen future self. He learns that after Leonica’s brutal death in the future, Ragna’s future self labored for years hunting dragons in revenge, losing comrade after comrade and building his strength ever higher.

While his new body struggles to hold all the power he gained, his future self tells him that the key to finally killing all dragons, including the Dragon God, lies in him finding Crimson, a Dragon Lord who also seeks to end their entire species.

Tatsumi is a naive boy from a rural village that makes the trip to the city in order to join the military and help his hometown.

However, after he is rejected, he ends up joining Night Raid, a group of assassins part of a revolutionary movement to overthrow the government.

From there, he must fight a brutal and increasingly bloody shadow war.