
Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don't fit, Akira is sure something is wrong. But digging into royal secrets is a dangerous game, and when Akira uncovers an evil scheme, he also makes a powerful enemy—the very king who brought him to this world...
The invisible student becomes the world's most dangerous glitch.
Akira Oda has perfected the art of invisibility — until his entire class gets isekai'd and his non-presence becomes a stat sheet anomaly. While his peers awaken as heroes and saints, Akira's "Assassin" class comes with suspiciously maxed parameters and a skill tree that reads like a developer's debug menu. He smells a rat the size of a kingdom, and the king who summoned them wears the crown. Sunrise leans into the power fantasy but salts it with paranoia: every convenient mechanic, every too-perfect NPC reaction, every royal decree feels like a trap sprung in slow motion. Akira doesn't charge in; he watches, waits, and documents, building a case against the very system that elevated him. The elf spirit medium Amelia becomes his unwilling accomplice, her own secrets mirroring the rot at the court's center. What could be a standard overpowered-protagonist romp instead unfolds as a procedural thriller in fantasy drag — Akira's strength lies not in damage numbers but in pattern recognition, connecting dots the world's designers hoped would stay scattered. The animation serves the subterfuge: clean action beats punctuate long stretches of tense information gathering. By the time the conspiracy's shape clarifies, the revenge isn't just personal — it's a correction. The show understands that in a rigged game, the most dangerous weapon isn't a blade but the player who refuses to follow the script.
An isekai action series where an overlooked student becomes an overpowered assassin and uncovers a royal conspiracy. Expect fantasy violence, political intrigue, and a revenge-driven plot with a morally gray protagonist.
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's has 12 episodes.
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's is currently finished airing.
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's was produced by Sunrise.
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's aired Oct 7, 2025 to Dec 23, 2025.
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's is based on a Light novel.
An isekai action series where an overlooked student becomes an overpowered assassin and uncovers a royal conspiracy. Expect fantasy violence, political intrigue, and a revenge-driven plot with a morally gray protagonist.
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Oda, Akira
Main
CV: Ootsuka, Takeo

Rosequartz, Amelia
Main
CV: Mizuno, Saku

Yoru
Main
CV: Kobayashi, Sanae

Abe, Mahiro
Supporting
CV: Uchiyama, Kouki

Asahina, Kyousuke
Supporting
CV: Mizunaka, Masaaki

Asti, Gilles
Supporting
CV: Shingaki, Tarusuke

Big-eared Girl
Supporting

Black Student
Supporting

Chamberlain
Supporting
CV: Abe, Souichi

Cluster, Gram
Supporting
CV: Mamiya, Yasuhiro

Crow
Supporting
CV: Kusao, Takeshi

Gladiolus, Liam
Supporting
CV: Chiba, Shouya

Hitman
Supporting

Hosoyama, Shiori
Supporting
CV: Hamasaki, Nana

Kerria
Supporting
CV: Asahina, Kanon

King of Igsam
Supporting
CV: Nakashima, Takuya

Lagoon, Lia
Supporting
CV: Tamura, Konomi

Latticenail
Supporting
CV: Morohoshi, Sumire

Mithray, Saran
Supporting
CV: Suwabe, Junichi

Mori
Supporting

Nanase, Rintarou
Supporting
CV: Kanze, Noriaki

Oda, Yui
Supporting
CV: Hayashi, Rika

Oda, Shiori
Supporting
CV: Hamasaki, Nana

Raul
Supporting
CV: Sugibayashi, Akito
12 episodes
2019 Summer
2019 Winter
2024 Fall
2021 Fall
2021 Winter
2024 Summer
2021 FallRanked higher than 64% of all anime on AniTome (out of 19,551)
More popular than 91% of all anime
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