Kodoani.com – A website opened on Tuesday to announce the light novel series Dekisokonai to Yobareta Moto Eiyū wa, Jikka Kara Tsuihōsareta node Suki Katte ni Ikiru Koto ni Shita (The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases) will get an anime adaptation. The website revealed an image, and Shōta Aoi voices the main character Allen.
The illustrator of the Chocoan novel series drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement.
Kazuomi Koga directed the anime at Studio DEEN and Marvy Jack. Rintarou Ikeda is in charge of the series scripts, and Yoshiki Ōkusa is writing the scripts. Saori Hosoda designed the characters.
Kouduki launched the light novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) website in January 2018. TO Books published the first volume of the novel series with illustrations by Chocoan in October 2018. The fifth volume Published in February 2020.
The story of the light novel series revolves around a world where powerful “blessings and gifts from the gods” are given to those who have reached adulthood, and the “gifts” one receives are decide his life. But Allen was unable to acquire any powers, so he was ridiculed and scorned, and eventually banished from his home. He decided to live a peaceful life in a faraway land. But what people don’t know is that Allen has the memory (and strength) of his past life as a hero.
Karasumaru launched a manga adaptation of the series on the Nico Nico Seiga website in 2019. The manga’s seventh compiled book volume was published on January 14.