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'Eiyū' Kaitai Fantasy Novel About Reintegrating Heroes Gets Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
"Eiyū" Kaitai ("Heroes" Dismissed) novel. The series has just finished serialization in Starchild and Kodansha Box's digital literary publication BOX-AiR, and it is the fourth anime under the BOX-AiR program.
The story centers on a boy named Uro Yamada, and a 17-year old girl named Karon. Both work as part of the "Hero Retirement and Return to Everyday Life Assistance Agency," which takes heroes from another world back to Earth and helps them reintegrate into everyday life. Karon, a former hero herself, works under Uro as they tackle cases, and also lives with him, with Uro constantly failing to rein in Karon's hero-like behavior even as he tries to ingrain the behavior of common people into her.
ZEXCS will be the animation studio for the production, and Koyama will work directly with the anime's production. The site did not specify whether the anime will adapt one of the novel's six chapters, or if it will be an original story.
The book won the "Kodansha BOX-AiR Newcomer of the Year Award" in 2014. Illustrator Kazeno draws the art for the serialized novels.
The Kodansha Box imprint and King Records' Anime Mirai 2013 lineup.
The shipped on March 9.
