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From a comfy little slice of life series...to Classroom of the Elite wannabe Chuunibyou heroes? What the...?

To speak of this series called Eiyuu Kyoushitsu a.k.a Classroom for Heroes, we need to go back into history just a teeny bit. Novelist Shin Araki is someone that most people would not recognise, though I did, and that's thanks to one of his works called GJ-bu a.k.a GJ Club, which started as a LN in 2010, then to Doga Kobo's Winter 2013 anime, which to this day, is still one of my low-key favourite anime of the 2010s that despite the dwindling numbers, had a lot of discussion ... back in the day. I loved and embraced GJ-bu for what it is, being primarily a school slice-of-life series with its etched comedy that wasn't forced on you, that despite so many unknown works done, GJ-bu would be Shin Araki's first series to capture sizable attention.

Fast forward a few years later, and we get his 2nd biggest attention-grabbing work: Eiyuu Kyoushitsu a.k.a Classroom for Heroes, with the LN released in 2015 and its subsequent manga counterpart the year after. And it's safe to say that whatever Shin Araki has got planned out for this, it's going to be in the same vein as GJ-bu, but being in an action, fantasy setting that while wasn't new at the time, it was a series that doesn't take itself seriously (though it has its serious moments). This is certainly true when the anime was announced back in 2021 around this time, and it hearkened back to the old days of school-type fantasy traits where if the audience can jibe with whatever works, then it's guaranteed a success.

So then, what's the story like for the series? In a nutshell, think of all of the "hero vs. demon lord" encounters of many series blemished within the past few years, then slot this one in for a countersolution to prepare for future conflicts. That's the resolution of the past hero who did this: the one simply called Blade, the Great Hero, who is capable of being objective, but lacks focus outside of that realm. He is summoned to help raise future heroes in this institution called Rosewood Academy, under the leadership of King Gilgamesh Soulmaker, though his clumsiness lands in straight on the trajectory of the top student of the academy: the Empress of Flames, Earnest Flaming. The conflict aside, Blade is in the academy for one sole purpose: to settle his daily life training heroes, as his title of the Great Hero is only known to the bare minimum of people.

For starters, nowadays, you can tell a work by its tropes and gimmicks, and Eiyuu Kyoushitsu has already felt dated by the time the anime premiered about 8.5 years since the start of the LN. And while that has old, veteran anime weebs like myself calling it a nostalgia throwback to a time where we don't know much ado about the anime climate of the late 2010s, people who are either: new to anime; have been watching anime for less than 3 years; or have not explored past classics will not get the intentionality of authors like Shin Araki to just go ham on whatever works that progress both the story and plot. Which, in account of the anime, despite it following the LN, the pacing (as per the manga adaptation which is almost 1-to-1 of the anime) is indeed quite slow, but that's a testament to the content and free real estate of how much they're willing to commit to the act. And while most people have no monkey brains of understanding capability, I found some fun to be had through this show and its weird idiosyncracies of the past.

Onto the characters: as aforementioned, Blade is the Great Hero of the past, but he's thw awful, dense type of character in the current day. And to the first girl that he faced, Earnest Flaming was no slouch for her "Empress of Flames" moniker, that she found herself evenly powered with Blade, though she quickly earns an affection for him...aside from getting friend-zoned most of the time. Sophie is next, and while she exhibits the standand kuudere type of character, she's effectively an android who simply can only follow commands, though she also gains a heart for Blade from being once programmed to eliminate the Great Hero, to one who becomes his most trusted ally. Soon, Blade earns other loli in the form of Cu Chulainn, formerly of the demon lord's daughter and a dragon that has nowhere else to go, but to reside together with the Great Hero to be taken care of like his own kin. The other classmates of Claire, Yessica (yes it's Jessica with a Y), Maria/Mao, Iona, Clay, Kassim, Leonard and Eliza, they're your typical bunch of wannabe hero classmates who can done goof, though with their various professions that help lend teamwork together as one. Also, despite this not being a romance series, Earnest and the girls all have affections for Blade, though he's just being dense, clueless and not even understanding common sense as a whack character. If you don't take this seriously, it's all fine and well, but character progression is not what you're here for in the first place.

The rather small studio of Actas has largely vanished and has been lost to time since their days with the very impressive Princess Principal (which was a collab with Studio 3Hz) back in Summer 2017. Even with the acquisition of the studio by (formerly Sunrise) Bandai Namco Filmworks back in September of that year making the studio a subsidiary, other than Princess Principal, there hasn't been anything new from the studio, that is until 6 years later with this show. Don't get me wrong, this show is decently produced and doesn't look the best, but Actas has always felt like the studio that does in-between assistance works that may get them credited, but it's not like a huge affair as well, considering that the show is also produced mainly by Bandai Namco Filmworks as its main in-house production powerhouse.

On the music side, VTuber Kaede Higuchi may had a decent start in AniManga with her debut song on Season 2 of 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru a.k.a I’m Standing on a Million Lives (though I didn't really like that song), but in this show, I'm sad that her 2nd OP song of "Bravery? Naturally?" didn't really catch on to the mainstream, because this song is really very good and captures the tone of the anime well, even though I gave it a fair bit of flack when it first debuted. which slowly turned to one of my favourite OP songs of the Summer season. Akane Kumada's ED song is decent, and there are no complaints there, but it felt bland.

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu a.k.a Classroom for Heroes, is a show that, as its title suggests, you should watch with the mindset of not wanting to take things seriously because like GJ-bu, it embraces goofiness and stupidity above all else other than the story and plot. If you can jive with that, then the show becomes more palatable to watch, at least to me. Otherwise, just find another show of your choice; there's always that.

Classroom of the Elite Chunibyos.

The human brain can hold up to 2.5 million gigabytes or 2.5 petabytes of memory. The brain is a marvel of engineering by nature cultivated through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution that has allowed mankind to grow, learn and hold onto the knowledge and memories of our ancestors so that we could become the dominant species of the planet that we are today. Yet with all these millions of gigabytes of memory I have in my noggin, I fail to remember a single thing about Classroom For Heroes.

The story begins with a horny frat boy getting blue-balled ... by a sexy vampire lady. She lures him into a nightclub inside a meat freezer. Whilst he unknowingly dances his final dance the nightclub set off sparklers which cover the clubgoers in blood, terrifying him. He tries to crawl away from the horde of hungry vampires who surround him but before he gets eaten, the entire club of three hundred (give or take) vampires are scared shitless as we’re introduced to Blade, a half-man half-vampire who hates vampires and loves killing them. Oh… wait a minute, sorry. That’s the introduction to the 2004 action-adventure movie Blade.
The real story is about a guy called Blade who used to be a hero before he defeated the demon lord and who may or may not have part of the demon lord's power or the demon lord living within him judging by his stupid hair. He attends a medieval European-ish fantasy light-novel school for training heroes for reasons, one of those reasons is he wants to make 100 friends like Komi-san, but unlike Komi-san who suffers from crippling social anxiety that prevents her from speaking, he's just… kinda a normal friendly dude, so there is no reason to believe he can’t make any friends or doesn’t have friends already. Also, this is based on a light novel so you can probably estimate that out of the 100 friends he plans to make 99 of them will be female and will want to bang him for reasons. He meets a tsundere, a loli-dragon, a girl who’s the result of eugenics (wait… what the fuck?) …err… and that’s it really… I stopped watching halfway through episode 4.

Honestly, I was looking forward to this as a connoisseur of ecchi trash, but all I got was another generic fantasy light novel story so bland you could mistake it for cardboard. I guess there were things I liked about it. I liked that it wasn’t an isekai so the plot could just get going instead of following the timid, indecisive footsteps of another victim of Truck-kun or Death-By-Overworking-dono. I did enjoy the second episode's plot about Blade trying to take the eugenic test-tube baby Sophie on a date, but they don’t know what to do or how to act so they jump around the town doing heroic shenanigans. The designs of the background characters are fun. They look right at home in a medieval version of My Hero Academia or Welcome To Demon School Iruma-kun. I wished we were following their story.
However, when every episode feels like a backstory dump or it has no tension because the MC is overpowered, and the directing, story and animation are so all over the place I can’t help but not care.

It’s male power fantasy trash. There's not much more left to say than that. It’s not as bad as some of the light novel shovelware garbage out there or airing this season, but like all things mind-numbing, once you set it, you will forget it.

4/10 Disappointment.

I am typically very much an enjoyer of very cliché, generic, isekai/fantasy trash animes.

This one in particular though just has nothing going for it - with the only standout of this entire anime being the designs of the MC's potential harem.

This anime tries to go the comedic and ecchi route (like most trash in this genre) for making itself stand-out, but the comedic moments are extremely childish slapstick kind of gags with the MC being a complete idiot 90% of the time and having 0 maturity throughout the series, despite him supposedly being the "Great Hero".
The ecchi moments are simply fanservice with specific ... camera angles, character poses and most of the characters getting their clothing shredded whenever the MC or an enemy launches a powerful attack. There's also - big shock - 2 or 3 kisses too - WOW! (/s).

They try to explain the MC having 0 social understanding by having a small flashback segment of him being an abandoned child who had to kill to survive, but it's very quickly handwaved away, as that would clearly be too dark (and interesting) a plot-thread for this anime to bother exploring.

Honestly, this anime could have been one of the "so bad it's good" types, akin to the likes of "Maou-Sama Retry!", or it could have gone super over-the-top comedic and ecchi, like "How not to summon a demon lord" - but no, it's just incredibly mediocre, which leaves it plainly and firmly in the "it's just bad" category for me.

It wasn't unwatchable by any means, but I certainly wouldn't recommend watching it over anything else - even the other mediocre trash anime of "Am I really the strongest!?" that aired this season.

Overall, I'm putting "Mixed Feelings", because maybe someone out there will be like me in their enjoyment of trash fantasy anime and have such low standards that this is enjoyable, but for me it's a 4/10 - It's just bad.

This anime is pretty much alright. It's not bad, but I feel It may very well be forgetful in the future.

To start our MC was an OP hero who lost his "powers" or should say severely weaken I guess as he's still stronger than all of his classmates. So far it's just been him and his adventures in school, helping out students and building relationships within the school. I feel like they may go deeper into the story maybe, but that's about all it's been about. Now I may have dumb it down a lot, but there are some some cool scenes and funny ... scenes that are enjoyable to watch. Like seeing the animation movement of some characters during comedic scenes, like the main girl whenever she gets insulted or jealous, and whenever she went demon mode was cool. It has potential, but I feel there's nothing that was a big hook at the beginning, so it seems kinda bland at the moment. But has good animation.

Ultimately might go somewhere, but 5 episodes in it's seems more fantasy slice of life with character development which might be the best way to describe it maybe? 6/10

To me, it's alright. You know that feeling of-- you think it's cringey but you still watch it? Yeah, that's what I felt. To me, it was a little rushed and so fast phased, don't get me wrong I am the type of person who doesn't like a story that's way too dragged out and is just mainly story telling no battling, basically I like it to be fast phased but this one was different, it didn't have like an introduction to the next episode, like how others did where they'll show a clip of it on this episode and then that would be the ... next episode. So I was usually confused as to what was happening hehe, it's kinda like those shows where it ends with a certain lesson and then the next episode is another different story, but nevertheless I was still entertained.

Classroom for Heroes is one of those anime that make a revelation, and after watching them, you can better understand the anime.

Let me explain:

Anime, like other artistic expressions, has genres. One of the main ones is comedy.

However, after watching Classroom for Heroes, I realized that anime actually has two types of comedy. The first is the classic, which can be compared to the same comedy from TV series or movies. Examples? Ranma 1/2, Spy x Family, or One Punch Man.

However, there is another branch of humor in anime. I’ll call it “Crazy Japanese Humor.” What kind of comedy is this? This comedy is characterized by ... being crazy, illogical, and irreverent. To help the reader understand, I will give two examples that take the genre to the limit: Excel Saga or Dotto! Koni-chan.

In these anime, logic loses its meaning. The important thing is to be crazy, and there are no considerations to take it to the extreme. Other newer examples would be KonoSuba or Akiba’s Trip. I invite the reader to compare the humor of any of these anime with Spy x Family, and you will realize that it is not enough to be funny here. You have to be crazy!

Classroom for Heroes is an example of this “Crazy Japanese Humor” genre, although obviously, it does not take the genre to the limit, definitely, its value lies not in telling a great story, but rather, in being crazy, irreverent, and making people laugh.

I make this introduction, dear reader, so that you know what we are talking about with this anime. There are no great mysteries, no great plot, but the value of this anime is not in that. The author neither tries nor seeks it. The important thing is to laugh, and guys, you will laugh a lot here.

Because this anime touches on a niche genre, it is not for everyone, but without a doubt, if you enjoy anime like Excel Saga or KonoSuba, you will find in Classroom for Heroes a good anime that will make your afternoons pleasant.

THE GOOD. You can forget about logic and just focus on laughing.

THE BAD. You laugh, but not that much. It’s an average anime, far from masterpieces of the genre.

THE HIGHLIGHT. This anime has many characters, and I would say that all of them develop well. At first, I thought the author would not achieve it, but in character development, he definitely got a 10.

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu is a lighthearted comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously. Short on plot and character development, the series relies on hooking viewers with its comedy, in which it mostly succeeds. Although a few jokes become repetitive as the series progresses, the introduction of new characters injects freshness into the narrative. Many of these characters embody various humorous archetypes, ensuring that the anime remains entertaining. There is an attempt to add heartfelt moments, with several episodes that are more dramatic, but the lack of stakes doesn't leave them with a lasting impact. Overall, Eiyuu Kyoushitsu is an above-average comedic fantasy series that is enjoyable ... to watch but ultimately forgettable.

i love this anime and the characters are all very charming but does this need to have this much fan service, like i understand you're trying to appeal to the audience but i actually can't stand it anymore they are childrennnnnnnn stop making them naked every episode please I just want to watch in peace without seeing child booty and boobs! but besides that I really like the plot and blade is such a funny mc, i'd say the story is a bit generic in terms of this genre of anime but besides that i'd say its a good show.

Right off the bat,this a very standard and average fantasy anime,no overly heavy story,a lot of fanservice and very straightforward.

Have you ever heard or seen an anime where the seemingly OP MC goes into school being the most overpowered being in there ? Yeah,this is exactly the same.MC is an ex-hero who already killed the demon king and save everyone,having completed his mission, seemingly "lost his power",he plans to start over again,as a "normal" human,making friends, enjoying his life after losing his hero power despite the fact that he can pretty much one shot every single students there.


What i like is the fact that most ... of the characters in this anime are more friendly than most "op mc goes to school" anime, despite the fact that our MC act like a kid and going around asking everyone to be his friend,people around him are actually nice and kind to him.

Important to be noted,romance exist in this anime and the MC doesn't act like someone who doesn't know what love is.

The characters are also very decent,having many do gooders is always better than having many evil doers,also like how they not just instantly throw away the first 5 friends our MC made and actually make them more and more relevant each episode.


Overall a good fantasy side anime with good fanservices