Another new character story video has been released for the upcoming To Be Hero X donghua animated series, which once again highlights the fifth-ranked hero team The Johnnies that consist of Little Johnny and Big Johnny. The series will begin airing in Japan on April 6, 2025.
The character video also features the heroes’ main theme song “growL” by series co-music composer Misaki Umase. The song is written by cAnON and composed and arranged by Umase. Singer J.Rio provides the song’s vocals.
Li Haolin (LINK CLICK; To Be Hero; To Be Heroine) is credited with the original work and is directing the Chinese animated series, in collaboration with bilibili and Aniplex. Hiroyuki Sawano is composing the series’ main theme song “Jeopardy.” Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, Hidefumi Kenmochi, DAIKI (AWSM.), Shuhei Mutsuki, Hideyuki Fukasawa, Umase, and Ryuichi Takada (MONACA) are all credited as music composers in the series. BeDream is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the Japanese dub voice cast for To Be Hero X includes:
- • Mamoru Miyano as X
- • Kana Hanazawa as Queen
- • Natsuki Hanae as Nice
- • Nobunaga Shimazaki as E-Soul
- • Koichi Yamadera as Ahu
- • Inori Minase as Lucky Cyan
- • Ayane Sakura as Loli
- • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Little Johnny
- • Yuichi Nakamura as Ghostblade
- • Koki Uchiyama as Dragon Boy
To Be Hero X serves as a 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 as the animation production company. 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 streamed both series on its platform.
Crunchyroll will stream To Be Hero X worldwide, outside of Asia, and describes the main synopsis as:
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”…
