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BookWalker Global Exclusively Releases 'Why Does Nobody Remember Me in this World?,' Sentenced to Be a Hero Manga (Updated)
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Update: The article previously listed a 2025 release date for the anime, but Kadokawa reached out to ANN, saying that the anime is not yet confirmed for a 2025 release. The previous article is shown below.
Kadokawa's BookWalker Global online manga and light novel service announced on Monday that it will exclusively release digitally in English Arikan's Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? (Naze Boku no Sekai o Dare mo Oboeteinai no ka?), and Natsumi Inoue's Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 (Yūsha-kei ni Shosu: Chōbatsu Yūsha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku) manga adaptations, three months ahead of other stores.
Kadokawa's BookWalker describes the manga:
"Why am I forgotten from the whole world?" Manga version of the fantasy blockbuster you can't stop reading! Coming out in Anime in 2024. 10 volumes released so far in Japan.
War between the five races on earth - the humans, the "Demonic Race", the "Wild God Race", the "Spirit Race" and the "Phantom Beast Race"- has ended in the victory of humans.
It is said that "Prophet Sid" had sealed the other four races in the black pyramid now called "Crypts".
Kai's job is to watch the crypts and make sure that there is no change. He is also training to save humans when the other races break the seal and come back to this world.
The crypts looked quiet today...but after Kai felt the world bending in front of his eye...everything changed.
"World Rebirth" was activated...!!
Now Kai is in a totally different world where no one knows him. But he remembers everyone!
Kadokawa published the first volume of Sazane's (Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World) original light novel series with illustration by neco in July 2017, and the ninth final volume in August 2020.
The light novels will get a television anime adaptation, which will premiere in 2024.
Kadokawa's BookWalker describes the manga:
Sinned heroes will save this world.. .A Dark Fantasy with an anime adaptation in the works. 1 volume released so far in Japan.
Being sentenced to Heroship was the most severe punishment one could be given.
Heroes would be sent to the frontline of a never-ending battle against the demon lords.
Not even death could relieve them on their duty.
There was no end to prison sentence. Even if they fought for a hundred years, they would still not be released.
Only by killing every last demon lord would they be pardoned for their crimes.
And...that was no more than a pipe dream.
However, things might be different for XYRO, Penal Hero Unit 9004.
He accidentally meets a goddess...and she asks him to be her knight!
Shokai launched the light novel series on Kadokawa's Kakuyomu site in October 2020, and Kadokawa began publishing the series in print in September 2021. Kadokawa published the fifth volume on August 17. Yen Press licensed the novel series, and will publish the second volume on December 12.
The novel series has a television anime adaptation in the works.
To celebrate the manga series' release, BookWalker Global is holding the "Kadokawa Fantasy Chapter Fair," which offers initial chapters of select fantasy manga series, including vertical scroll TATESC titles, for free. Succeeding chapters are available at 50% off.
Correction: Book Walker's description of Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 corrected as per Kadokawa's revised press release.
Source: Press release
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