To Be Heroine

Name: To Be Heroine
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2018-04-14

凸变英雄 LEAF (Tu Bian Yingxiong Leaf)

7.0(10,248)

MAL Score

Ranked #5030

Popularity #3878

Comedy
Super Power

Episodes: 12
Duration: 21 min per ep
Aired: Apr 14, 2018 to Jul 6, 2018
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Following the gag-driven action style of the first season, *To Be Heroine* shifts to an original storyline with a fresh cast. As You is about to head out, she’s abruptly pulled into a bizarre new world where logic seems optional and danger arrives without warning.

Right in front of her appears an almost-naked eight-year-old boy, and before she can make sense of him—or where he came from—mafia assassins close in, apparently hunting the child. While You scrambles to survive the pursuit, she loses a shoe, only for it to transform through a strange magic into a warrior capable of shielding her from the attackers, raising even more questions about the rules of this place and the mysterious children at its center.

Otaku Consensus

To Be Heroine is a polarizing sequel because its best qualities come from refusing to behave like a conventional follow-up: the creative direction favors tonal whiplash, strange-world logic, and a compact 12-episode sprint over clean franchise continuity. Admirers point to its daring narrative pivot and unexpectedly serious emotional register, while the most consistent complaints target uneven animation, grating voice work, and the sense that the Comedy label undersells what is often experienced as drama.

Why You Should Watch

Watch To Be Heroine if you want a short, unruly super-power anime that treats genre labels as loose suggestions rather than rules. It scratches the same itch as FLCL or Punch Line in the sense that it throws you into absurd escalation first and asks you to accept the emotional logic later, but it is rougher, stranger, and less polished than either. The appeal is not slick action or franchise comfort; it is the pleasure of watching a sequel detach from expectations and gamble on a new cast, a weirder tone, and a more dramatic core than its Comedy tag suggests. If you enjoy anime that inspire arguments about whether the mess is failure or personality, this is exactly the kind of 12-episode oddity worth sampling.

Key Characters

Y
Yuye Hua(VA: Moa Tsukino)
Yuye Hua is positioned as one of the fresh central faces that separate To Be Heroine from a simple continuation of To Be Hero.
C
Chao Liang(VA: Omi Minami)
Chao Liang stands out in the main trio as part of the sequel’s deliberate cast reset, a choice that fans often cite when discussing how loosely it connects to the prior season.
P
Prince
Prince is one of the listed main characters, notable because the available database credits leave the role’s voice actor unspecified.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
LAN Studio produced To Be Heroine as a 12-episode 2018 series, giving it the shape of a compact experimental follow-up rather than a long-running franchise installment.
2
The series uses an original storyline with a fresh cast instead of closely replaying To Be Hero, which is why reactions often frame it less as a direct sequel and more as a strange companion piece.
3
Its reception is unusually split on production quality: web review summaries include both harsh complaints about sloppy animation and praise calling the animation fantastic, making the visual style one of its most debated elements.
4
The official genre listing emphasizes Comedy and the Super Power theme, but user criticism specifically objects that the show plays more like drama, creating a tonal mismatch that defines much of the discussion around it.
5
Commentary on the sequel connection notes that it links back to only a small number of characters, which lowers the barrier for new viewers while frustrating viewers who wanted a tighter continuation of To Be Hero.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: To Be Heroine aired from April 14, 2018 to July 6, 2018 and finished with 12 episodes.
Fun fact 2: On MyAnimeList, it holds a 6.97 score from 10,235 votes, with a rank of #5031 and popularity placement of #3876.
Fun fact 3: The anime is also listed under the title Tu Bian Yingxiong Leaf, reflecting its connection to the broader To Be Hero naming line.
Fun fact 4: The credited main Japanese voice cast in the available data includes Moa Tsukino as Yuye Hua and Omi Minami as Chao Liang, while Prince has no listed voice actor.
Fun fact 5: One recorded user review scored it 4/10 and explicitly warned viewers that it is not a good sequel to To Be Hero, illustrating how strongly the sequel expectations shaped negative reception.