A special new character trailer has been released for the upcoming My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s TV anime series, spotlighting the black cat Yoru. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan starting in October 2025.
The new trailer of Yoru was unveiled in commemoration of Black Cat Appreciation Day on August 17, 2025.
Nobuyoshi Habara (Amaim Warrior at the Borderline, Fafner in the Azure) is directing the anime series, Kunihiko Okada (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Hirona Okada (Gundam Build Metaverse co-character designer) and Kaori Saito as character designers, Rihiro Yamane (Magic Knight Rayearth) as monster designer, Mitsuru Ishihara (RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne character designer, The Faraway Paladin: the Lord of the Rust Mountains co-main animator) as main animator, and TOKYO LOGIC’s Satoshi Igarashi (Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!) as music composer. Sunrise is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast stars:
- • Takeo Otsuka as Akira Oda
- • Saku Mizuno as Amelia Rose Quartz
- • Sanae Kobayashi as Yoru
- • Konomi Tamura as Lia Lagoon
- • Junichi Suwabe as Saran Mithray
The anime is based on the isekai fantasy light novel series, written by Matsuri Akai and illustrated by Tozai. It was first published by Overlap’s Overlap Bunko imprint on November 25, 2017 and has released four volumes as of February 2021, with a fifth volume set to be published in Japan on September 25, 2025.
The series started as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel in January 2017. It also inspired a manga adaptation by Hiroyuki Aigamo in July 2018. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both the light novels and manga for release in English.
Crunchyroll will stream My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s worldwide, outside of Asia, and describes the main synopsis as:
Akira Oda and his high school classmates are summoned to another world! While the other students are granted cheat abilities through the summoning, Akira merely gains the abilities of a mediocre “assassin.” However, his status soon surpasses “hero,” the strongest profession. After Akira becomes suspicious of the King behind the summoning, he is falsely framed for a crime and forced to flee.
Sources: My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Official Twitter, Anime News Network
