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To Be Hero X

★ 8.5 12K votes 2025–2025 1 season · 24 episodes Returning Series bilibili
ExperimentalFormally adventurous television that breaks the rules.This show: 8/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 8/10Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 8/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 8/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 7/10Deep worldbuildingDense lore that rewards immersion.This show: 7/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 7/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Ai IshikawaYûki ItôTakuma HiraoMike SmithHiromi KawakamiYu Haruichi
Written by
Haoling Li
Starring
Ai IshikawaYûki ItôTakuma HiraoMike SmithHiromi KawakamiYu Haruichi
Written by
Haoling Li
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"belief as currency, heroism as performance anxiety"

In a world where public trust and belief literally generate power, a reluctant hero named Nice finds his abilities rising and falling with how much the crowd believes in him. The story turns celebrity worship, social media validation, and mob sentiment into a literal power system, then asks what happens to a person who has to perform heroism to survive. Tone swings from stylish action to melancholy character drama, and the show constantly changes its animation style scene to scene, mirroring its themes of shifting perception and fractured identity.

Watch it for

the wildly shifting animation styles that visually embody the show's ideas about perception and belief.

Maybe skip if

you find tonal whiplash or heavy media-commentary allegory more exhausting than compelling.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12025
8.866K249h 16m
In a world full of brilliant heroes, it’s the trust of fans that turns heroes into superheroes. If a hero loses the people’s trust, they lose their special abilities. Trust value is collected, quantified, and used to determine a hero’s ranking, displayed on their wrist. Every two years, the top heroes go to a tournament to fight, determine new trust values, and earn their rankings.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Nice8.8
4K23 min
▶2Moon8.8
3K23 min
▶3The Ever-Standing Hero8.2
3K23 min
▶4The Commoner9.5
4K23 min
▶5One Actor8.8
3K23 min
▶6Two E-Souls8.7
3K23 min
▶7Three Seats9.4
3K23 min
▶8The Cyan Girl8.3
2K23 min
▶9Loss and Gain7.9
2K23 min
▶10The Truth Behind Luck8.5
2K23 min
▶11Road to the Crown8.5
2K23 min
▶12Fall of the Star9.2
3K24 min
▶13Episode #1.137.2
2K24 min
▶14Impromptu Counterattack7.3
2K24 min
▶15Affective Disorder9.1
3K24 min
▶16The Cure8.7
2K23 min
▶17Whisper Flower8.2
2K23 min
▶18Died-Out Flame8.0
2K23 min
▶19Breaking the Balance9.2
3K23 min
▶20The Ruins Incident9.7
4K23 min
▶21Nurturing God8.9
2K23 min
▶22The Last Smile9.6
3K23 min
▶23Lie8.8
3K23 min
▶24X9.7
5K23 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ai Ishikawa Ken, Boy, Village Children
Yûki Itô Alexander, Announcer, Reporter
Takuma Hirao Announcer, Oliver, Captain
Mike Smith Rock, Additional Voices
Hiromi Kawakami Boy, Nice (Young), Nice Fan
Yu Haruichi Researcher, MG Manager Representative, Customer
Reimi Yaneshita Boy, Konden (young), Announcer
John Burgmeier Shand
Aoi Koga Wang Nono
Alexis Tipton Wang Nuonuo

Crew

Haoling Li

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