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Crunchyroll Streams Classroom for Heroes Anime, Psycho-Pass 3 Anime in India

Crunchyroll began streaming the television anime of Shin Araki's Eiyū Kyōshitsu (Classroom For Heroes) light novel series in India on Sunday. It added both the Psycho-Pass 3 anime series and the Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector anime film on Tuesday.

The company also added Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the second anime film in the Dragon Ball Super franchise, on Tuesday. The English dub and Hindi dub of the film are also streaming on the service.

Classroom For Heroes premiered on Sunday on the TOKYO MX channel.

Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Sket Dance, Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU, Shadowverse) is directing the anime at Actas. Naoki Hayashi (Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU, Citrus, Black Fox) is writing and supervising the scripts. Kōsuke Kawamura (OniAi, ISLAND, Remake Our Life!) is the character designer and chief animation director. Akane Kumada is performing the anime's ending theme song "Another Self."

The academy fantasy novel series is set in Rosewood Academy, a school that trains future heroes destined to protect mankind. The school accepts only those with the most potential. Arnest Flaming, a girl who boasts the top record in the academy, is assigned to guide a mysterious but cheerful new student named Blade who rivals her own power.

Araki (GJ Club) published the first volume under Shueisha's Dash X Bunko light novel label in January 2015, with illustrations by Haruyuki Morisawa (The Princess and the Pilot, The Pilot's Love Song, Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne).

Koara Kishida launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in February 2015.

The Psycho-Pass 3 anime premiered in October 2019, with each of the anime's eight episodes having hour-long runtimes. The anime streamed inside and outside of Japan only on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime Video had previously streamed the series in India.

Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll will release the Psycho-Pass Providence film in theaters in India.

Saru Hoshino also drew a manga adaptation of the main anime series, which launched on Shonen Jump+ in October 2019, and ended in August 2021. Shueisha published the manga's fourth and final volume in October 2021.

The Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector film opened in Japan in March 2020, and also debuted exclusively on Amazon Prime Video outside of Japan later that month. Ren Kanan also penned a novelization of the film that shipped in September 2021. Hoshino launched the manga adaptation of the film in October 2021, and ended in August 2022.

Source: Crunchyroll