The official website for the Mushoku no Eiyuu: Betsu ni Skill Nanka Iranakattan da ga (無職の英雄 別にスキルなんか要らなかったんだが /Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?!) TV anime has confirmed that the anime will premiere in October 2025. The anime will air on Japanese TV, and it will also be streamed on the d Anime Store platform in Japan.
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Yabana Kaoru is directing the anime at Studio A-Cat, and the anime will star Ono Kenshou as Allele, Hayami Saori as Laina and Uesaka Sumire as Lilia.
The anime is based on the Mushoku no Eiyuu: Betsu ni Skill Nanka Iranakattan da ga light novel series by author Kuzu Shichio and the illustrator Ueda Yumehito. Kuzu started the story in November 2017 on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website, and Earth Star Entertainment published the first novel with illustrations by Ueda in July 2018. The fourth novel in the series was released in June 2019.
The novel series inspired a manga adaptation by Nanae Akio in Comic Earth Star in November 2018. Earth Star Entertainment published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in June 2019 and the ninth volume in March 2025.
The manga is published in English by One Peace Books under the name Hero Without a Class, and it will release the fourth volume on August 7th, 2025. It describes the manga story below:
“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, utilising wits and cunning to emerge as an all-new type of hero!”
