The Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills? TV anime has received a main trailer and an October 1 JST start date.
The show had its world premiere at Anime NYC 2025.
Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills? is based on the light novel series written by Shichio Kuzu and illustrated by Yumehito Ueda. One Peace Books describes the manga adaptation by Akio Nanae as:
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, utilizing wits and cunning to emerge as an all-new type of hero!
Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills? started as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel in 2017. The first volume of the light novels, which are published under the Earth Star Novel label, came out in 2018.
Ueda and Nanae are both credited as original character designers by the anime.
Staff
• Director: Kaoru Yabana (The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human Episodes 2, 7, 8, and 11)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Chabo Higurashi (AMAZING STRANGER Series composer and co-scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Takayuki Chiba
• Character designer: 徐学文
• Animation production: studio A-CAT
Cast
• Kensho Ono as Arel
• Saori Hayami as Reiner
• Sumire Uesaka as Lilia
• Rumi Okubo as Kufa
Source: Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills? anime website
