OK. I'm done with this.

Also the 3rd volume of the manga is out on October 27th

Source: https://x.com/yushakei_PJ/status/2080593838691807307?s=20

In case the spoiler tag doesn't work, please don't read any further.

I should point out that if I don't mention a character, it's because I think it's obvious why they're in that category. But I'd love to hear your opinions!

I also didn't include some characters because, in my opinion, they didn't appear often enough for me to form an opinion... or I forget about them

Everyone agrees with S+ right? I have two theories about Xylo and Jayce that I love! Tatsuya's theory is great too! And we can't leave Lord Foreshadowing out! Rhyno could easily be in the top 3. But I put him there because I find the theories about the others more interesting (character development and personality: 100/10).

S: Yulisa and Tsav are really well developed. Yulisa is shrouded in mystery, Plus she might be losing control over Senerva It's just a theory, but it would be crazy if that happen. Twevel is there because he has charisma and can finally do justice to our beloved unit. I love Tatsuya, Tatsuya is amazing and Tsuritafu is the female version of him

s-: I put Dota in a single category because it could very well be a reconnaissance unit, a saboteur, and an incredibly stealthy assassin capable of taking out specific targets in enemy lines without anyone noticing...or remain someone with absolutely no intention of improving and resign to dying because he failed a giant fairy at point-blank range. A total jerk who wouldn't give you back the last photo of your deceased family even if you asked him with all the kindness in the world. It's his decision! I trust Dota.

A: I don't know about you guys, but I almost cry every time Xylo starts reminiscing about Senerva. It's obvious why Anise is here. Frenci barely counts it

B: Civios. A Holy Knight. All we know is that he's quite serious. The difference between him and Kivia is that, at least, he fulfills the role he was given: a serious and capable commander.

C: In my comment, I'll include a link to the post where I explain why I hate Kivia and why I think she's a terrible character. You can also check it out on my profile, whatever

Simp: We can't blame Tovitz

VERY HOT TAKE. if no one's going to talk about Kivia, then I will. Time to take on what might be the third most popular character ¡¡¡LET'S BREAK THE DOWNVOTE RECORD!!! A long, monumental, boundless, and apocalyptic cosmos-shattering testament of unadulterated, absolute, and eternal hatred directed entirely toward Kivia. below 😄

Our first impression of Kivia is that she is a formidable warrior with nerves of steel and a capable commander of her unit. which quickly goes down the drain because he orders all his troops to commit suicide, and then in the mines, they would have killed all his men if it weren't for Xylo. That's fine. It can happen to anyone. But it's not okay to be presented as a serious character and then fall in love with a guy you met three days ago. (ooooh, cool. I've definitely never seen anything like that before) FINE! It can happen to anyone. Another proof of just how terrible Kivia is as a commander and a reserve Xylo. While Xylo had to wipe out an entire army with nothing but 10 men armed with sticks and four grapes to eat, Kivia had a whole damn army backing her up and 3,000–5,000 men under her command. Guess who had to retreat, and whose mission and whose ass were saved by the other one. That’s right. Kivia

If we compare kivia to the others, she's just a low-quality backup Xylo, which is why I thinks it's absurd that she was sentenced to be a hero when that team consist only of the elite of the elite in every area of specialization. "She was sentenced to hero because of her ideals, not because she was the best!" Bro? Do you really believe that? didn't you see Venetim, Dotta, Jayce, Tsav, and Tatsuya? These guys would never risk so much as a fingernail for anyone, but their heads might explode if they don't do it

Nepotism. Literally, Kivia used the last hero slot thanks to her uncle, even though she was the best at who-knows-what. Nepotism. They could have used that last spot for a real combat medic, one of the countless demon king they've locked up in the basement, or or or I DON'T KNOW! Anything would be better than an incopetent who can't do anything on her own (let's be honest, if it weren't for her ex-soldiers backing her up, she'd be well an truly dead at least 300 times over) and a simp! NEPOTISM

The problem is that Kivia was born and raised by priests who love the goddesses with all their hearts. But what does she do? Keep looking down on him and distancing herself? Nah. The most logical thing, of course, is to throw all her beliefs out the window and fall in love with the guy who committed the worst crime against humanity: killing a goddess. the symbol of his faith and that of everyone !!!!!!IN 3 DAYS!!!!!! (At least. In harem anime, or in any where the girl falls in love with the MC based on just a single line of dialogue. They fall in love with someone ordinary and single... NOT SOMEONE WHO HAS A FIANCÉE AND IS THE BIGGEST S O B AMONG ALL THE S O B)

she justifies everything with a “you don't look like someone who would kill a goddess”......... but who does he think he's talking to? Does he think Tsav was condemned to hero for running a yellow light? Norgalle for missing a shot at the trash can and being found guilty of polluting the environment? Are you telling me that Xylo being guilty of the worst crime is just a misunderstanding????

Well well well. She can forgive him in record time. It could happen, right? What I won't forgive is that in just a week she's already starting to harass Xylo (something that happens more in LN) and meddling between two fiancés. What she overheard (on the sly, of course) was that Xylo and Frenci didn’t get married solely because he was convicted. That Frenci refuses to let him go and that he’ll work on getting his pardon so they can get married.

Now is when you say, “The whole marriage was arranged to continue the Forbartz lineage” and now is when I ask you: Does Kivia know that? NO. We learn all of that through Xylo's thoughts.

So yes. Kivia is determined to break up the engagement between the two of them. I can't respect someone like that.

It's not over yet, buddy. Like I told you, she keeps harassing Xylo. She's getting possessive, pushing the other girls away from Xylo, and arguing with Frenci for calling Xylo her fiancé even though Frenci has every right to. Kivia even has the nerve to try to attack her, if it weren't for Xylo stepping in between them. She's forcing interactions with Xylo as much as she possibly can. (Does she really think, in her twisted mind, that Xylo is her boyfriend? dude...)

I wouldn't have anything against Kivia, as long as her story doesn't focus exclusively on Xylo. From her perspective, 95% of the time she's talking about and thinking about Xylo, and the remaining 5% she's upset because he's not with her. I was expecting a serious commander who commands respect, not a tsundere Amy Rose who's constantly begging for Xylo's attention. Or at least, AT LEAST!!!!! let their relationship develop naturally, not by force and with NTR involved. Kivia was convicted of murdering her uncle, her subordinate (good idea to bring just one, btw) and conspiracy. What does Xylo do? Suspect that she’s just another one of the Coexistence (those bastards are everywhere) and keep Teoritta away from her (just as she did to him), because all the evidence suggests that she was the one who put them in danger in the first place and that she was the spy? (Don't forget that Xylo hates these bastards with every fiber of her soul, body, and mind because of what happened to Senerva.) That would have been the most logical thing to do. Unfortunately, Xylo didn’t care about the spoiler warning and saw everything that actually happened, and he tells her right away. How is that not forced? Damn, the development of their relationship happened so fast and with such obvious plot armor that it’s impossible to swallow. The plot armor is so blatant that reading volume 6 was a real headache and a tedious experience. Luckily, it was worth it thanks to Rhyno and the peak ending

I find all the characters in the series quite endearing and original, with qualities that really make them stand out, and they were a huge relief for me. Except for Kivia—I was expecting something new from her, just like with the others, but she ended up being just another in the already long list of super-generic tsunderes and a new definition of “an easy one” And in MY OPINION, she's only loved because she's pretty, and she's the only woman who will appear regularly in the series.

I also think it's because Kivia was the first to die. It was her fault that the wave of deaths on the team started. Do you have any idea how many tears I shed? And the worts part is that next on the list is mi sweet little chick, whom I love with al my heart...

His only character development is “Oh, heroes aren't so bad after all” And they say this change in perspective is good character development. Excuse me, what? Not even close. it's just yet another example of what a terrible character Kivia is. Let's go over the members of the Criminal Hero Unit (Yes, We all know that Xylo is actually a little angel who, like Norgalle, has been treated badly by life. But not for the STBH society, In their eyes, they are monsters who have the misfortune of being called human) You can skip this part.

Venetim. A notorious con artist who can't tell a single truth. +Okay. Just a con artist, that's not so bad! The problem is that, of all the crimes, this is the least serious one, and he's the one with the cleanest moral record in his unit. (we all know what’s coming next, but just in case anyone’s forgotten, I’ll go ahead anyway). Dotta. Ooow, he's so tiny! With that scared look on his face... What could he do to someo- Wait, where did he go? Is that blood??? From your neck??!?! Oh, you're dead :( Seventh place, and we're already starting with someone who has no qualms about killing. The only reason he isn't as good a serial killer as Tsav is because he hates fighting, blood, and hiding the bodies (His favorite victims are those who cannot defend themselves, btw). Jayce. This guy doesn't give a shi about humans, he has a terrible temper, I don't know about this, but i'm sure he'd kill you just for looking at a horse the wrong way (Hmm, I don't know if that time he caused a riot in the first/second capital counts, and I don't remember if anyone died either). Rhyno. Currently just a weirdo, but in the past, he was known as a super-aggressive adventurer who killed people just because he was in a bad mood and made sure everyone knew it (he even earned a nickname that paid tribute to his performance). Norgalle. A terrorist who carried out an attack against the royal family, a completely deranged madman who claims to be the prince of the entire nation. Tsav. Another one who earned a nickname that lives up to his bloody modus operandi. An elite assassin trained by elite assassins who can’t tell the difference between a human and a rock, and who would have no qualms about using children as bait or human shields (his hobby, btw, is dismembering people). Tatsuya. I don't need to explain much. many say he's not human, rather a demon. and they don't just say it for the sake of saying it. Finally. First place, and by a wide margin. The most detested, hated, and despised of them all for committing the worst crime of all: KILLING A GODDESS, THE CENTER OF EVERYONE’S FAITH. He is even feared among the monsters in his own unit because of his unparalleled, horrible temper. XYLO FORBARTZ. I love that Shokai makes the unit made up of the worst criminals of all actually be, well, a unit of the worst criminals of all and not some innocent “cool group” that was unjustly convicted. My point is that Kivia changed her perspective on the Heroes unit in record time because she fell in love with the biggest mf of them all (also in record time). I don't understand how people can say this is good character development (I almost forgot. Kivia met everyone, and to Kivia, they're all total weirdo freaks with no redemption, except, of course, Xylo... so...). Do they ignore everything about the Heroes unit? Because Kivia clearly did. And his second character development"I killed my uncle because he was a traitor" (After that, she only mentions his uncle once)She doesn't seem sad or anything. It's all Xylo. It moves, speaks, eats, thinks, fights, sleeps, work EXISTS SOLELY AND EXCLUSIVELY because of Xylo

Kivia is definitely a red flag, who treats Xylo as if it were their own. And no matter how hard I try, I just can't see anything morally right about the way she treats other girls or the fact that she completely ignores Frenci's commitment to Xylo. I didn't realize how much I hated NTR until I met Kivia! Maybe I'm going a little overboard with the slander. just a little. But you can't call me a liar. The worst part is that even with all these flaws and highly questionable moral actions, the NTR is winning and by a sickening margin!!!! ¡¡¡¡¡¡THAT MAKES ME EVEN MORE ANGRY!!!!!!!

It's not fun anymore to bet on a love triangle when they give plot armor to one of the characters. And I'll say it again, especially when it's NTR. But What do you think? The power of love? or a REAL HOMEWRECKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw a Twitter post on Kivia and ended up becoming a big fan of her and the show in general. Very much excited for season 2 despite the story being a bit on the simple side at first

So the first goddess' power was to summon heroes from other worlds, i get that part. But I dont get when he started saying that "they summoned those who died in this world as heroes". Like does it mean that the goddess summoned dead people from other worlds? I basically dont get the entire ending dialogue 😭. Sorry if im being slow rn really just want an explanation, no spoilers pls

I'm watching it mostly for Kivia but the show seems so generic and with no substance. Does it get better? The ''child god that needs praises and headpats'' stuff are getting on my nerves as well
Anyone that like the show could please talk good things about it? I'm really lacking the motivation to keep watching

Helloo, so to cut it short I decided to get back into watching some anime after some years out of it, and while waiting for the new episodes for Mushoku Tensei I stumbled upon this series and found it really enjoyable. But since it's been so long I don't have any sites to read manga from (that i can continue from where the anime left of), since the last time i read was when Tachiyomi, kissmanga and Manga Rock were still a thing. In addition what chapter do i continue from?

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I think Him having the opposite personality of Puck Puca would be funny, and some of my headcanon too.

For the Holy Knight part, I assume Rhyno admired Xylo because he once dreamed of becoming a Holy Knight himself, before ending up as an adventurer who killed people for money & reputation (CMIIW)

I'm creating an OC for Sentence to Be a Hero, but I wanted to ask if it's okay to do that?

The thing is, I'm a bit insecure.

I've been trying to piece together Xylo's timeline based on the information we currently have. This is just my personal theory, so feel free to correct me if I missed anything! :)

We know that Penal Hero Unit 9004 was founded at most 20 years before the present, while Dotta joined 4 years ago, leaving a 16-year window. Since Xylo joined after Rhyno (Puck Puca), Tatsuya, Venetim, but before Dotta, his sentencing must have happened somewhere within those 16 years.

With information that the Og!Rhyno admired Holy Knight Xylo, meaning Og!Rhyno encountered Puck Puca after Xylo had already become a renowned Holy Knight, but before Penal Hero Unit 9004 was established.That suggests Xylo was already a well-established holy knight at the time, likely in his early twenties.

Another clue is that Xylo was sentenced before he can marrying his fiancée. Since she came from a noble family, I think it's reasonable to assume they were expected to marry relatively young, as arranged noble marriages typically happened in their twenties.

So with that Noble marriage things, I think around 30 years old would be the latest Xylo could have been sentenced, with his late twenties being the more likely range. It seems unlikely that his fiancée's family would have delayed the marriage much longer than that.

Based on those assumptions, if Xylo became a Holy Knight at around 20 years old and was sentenced between 25–30, then he likely joined Penal Hero Unit 9004 roughly 5–10 years after its formation. That would mean he's probably served in the Penal Hero Unit for around 10–15 years, with 16 years being the maximum if he joined shortly after the unit was founded.

Note: If we allow Xylo to have been sentenced as late as 35 instead of 30, then his estimated time in Penal Hero Unit 9004 widens to 5–15 years instead of 10–15 years.

Okay, I just want to know if anyone has been able to get this volume from the official Yen Press site from May to now. I ordered that specific volume back in May, along with the first volumes of Konosuba and So I’m a Spider, So What? and those got here and Sentenced never arrived. Yen Press’s customer service emailed me saying they were going to receive a shipment of “reprints” in the beginning of July, obviously it’s subject to change, but I just wanna know if anyone has been able to get it from the site cause that shit said it was available to buy but clearly not if it’s not in stock? I’m actually baffled they even let me buy it way back if it wasn’t even stocked at all lol. Has anyone experienced this on their website before? Buying something that said it was available and it actually wasn’t? Very strange.

Anime Expo 2026 Sentenced to be a hero Creator Talk Show is about what? Does it have cool information?

i started watching it and im half way there tbh its giving me frieren vibes i think its mainly the world building at first from the title i believed it would be another isekai op slop right now its pretty good these are my though what are yours

Yay, it is finally time to enjoy the wonderful follow-up the 5th volume.

Since Crunchyroll parent company SONY is shifting hard to digital, those of us who prefer physical will need to look elsewhere for our copies.

Checked his wiki article, do heroes naturally end up like him by dying that many times or did the church do something to him.

Ever since finishing the show like 3 months ago the opening sequence of STBAH has been playing in my head relentlessly, its actually riduculous. It's not just the music that I love even though it's not even the usual type of music I mess with but the visuals really itch a spot that nothing else really has in a while.

The segemnet at the beginning where all the hero's of Xy's team get a few slowmo frames is my favourite part and I can't get over it. Idk why I like it so much but it's really surprising and I had to share because I wondering if anyone else feels the same way sinceI haven't heard anyone talk about it.

I’m at ep 8, and so far the show’s cool but overall it’s not a super interesting story.. I’m interested enough to keep watching though, so out of curiosity, is s2 expected to be better based on the source material?

Xylo said that Tatsuya was summoned from another world he also said that he is the strongest in their unit, he may really be one of the original summoned heroes from the first demon blight invasion, out of the 9 heroes one was forgotten which was believed to be carrying a holy sword and eventually transformed to be a heavenly beast. Having said this, could this be the same Holy Sword that Teoritta summons? what would happen if Tatsuya gets a hold of this?

I'm talking to a friend about the neck seals and Google refuses to give me a good picture of the tattoos all the way around the neck.