A lot of anime like to exploremagical fantasy settings. These allow the writers to create truly surreal and captivating world settings. Mixing in both heroes and an academy setting makes this a triple threat of an Anime with plenty of material to draw from. You will experience common tropes and some original ideas taking place in tandem.
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This series involves the reincarnation of a legendary hero enlisting in an Academy where students learn everything they need to be mighty warriors andpowerful wielders of spells. However, he is already extremely powerful and is more focused on making friends and hiding his true identity.
10Blade Dance Of The Elementalers
This anime takes place in an academy setting, much like Classroom For Heroes. This institution is known as Areishia Spirit Academy. The hero of the story crosses paths with a shrine maiden who has just completed a purification ceremony.
He would later acquire the powers of a spirit – which is what the shrine maiden was attempting to acquire herself. This is unprecedented, as only shrine maidens should be candidates for such spirits. This results in her declaring he must make a contract with her instead.
9Aesthetica Of A Rogue Hero
30 years have passed since the phenomena dubbed “Samon Syndrom” started to appear in this world setting. This results in many individuals being whisked away to other worlds. Those that return keep whatever special powers they may have acquired in these other worlds.
The hero of this story is one such returnee, along with the daughter of the fallen demon lord of the world he was in. He must protect this girl by passing her off as his younger sister. Both of them are enrolled in an academy together.
8Chivalry Of A Failed Knight
Taking place in Hagun Academy, students come from all over in the hopes of becoming Mage Knights. These Mage Knights learn the art of transforming their souls into mighty weapons known as Blazers.
The hero of this story is the only student to have an F-Ranked Blazer, and this leads him to be treated as the worst student. He later finds himself in a dual with a princess, who is an A-Rank student at the academy. This sets into motion many of the events for the series.
7Akashic Records Of Bastard Magic Instructor
Home to many prominent magic users is the magnificent Alzano Empire. It is in this Empire that you will find one of the greatest institutions for the study of magic, the Alzano Imperial Magic Academy.
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This series sets itself apart from the rest by having such a major focus on a teacher, as well as students. This new teacher is replacing one of the most beloved teaching figures in the school, which has led to his style of teaching being in question by the students.
6Reign Of The Seven Spellblades
One of the most recent anime on this list is Reign of the Seven Spellblades. This one attempts to be less silly while still having its fair share of comedic and light-hearted elements from time to time. In this story, there exist some of the most powerful and fearsome magical; these are known as Spellblades.
This series packs plenty of monsters, intrigue, and mystery to captivate its viewers and goes the extra mile to keep them invested in the plot, and it features a balanced cast of personalities.
5The Asterisk War
Airing back in 2015, this anime was both extremely popular and underrated at the same time. This led to it having a large fan base on the internet but a short-lived anime production. The story follows students of an academy who must master powerful weapons, but unlike most modern-day anime, the hero is not dramatically overpowered.
This means they must really push themselves to improve and progress as a student, which can cause a lot of tension and suspense throughout the story.
4Mashle: Magic And Muscles
The best way to describeMashleis to imagine ifHarry Potterwere an anime, with Saitama fromOne Punch Mancast in the role of Harry. The story is riddled withHarry Potter references, from a magical being sorting students into different houses all the way to the shape of the protagonist’s facial mark.
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Mash is a student at a school for magic but has no magic aptitude of any kind. Instead, he solves all of his problems using god-tier levels of strength, which he passes off as “Muscle Magic.”
3The Irregular At Magic High School
This story takes place in a world where magic is thought of as something of a myth, but the truth is far from it. Magic is indeed real, but it is justified as a form of science that is to be researched and manipulated using technology. Students are enrolled in First High School, where they are separated into two groups. Blooms, which show great promise and potential with high test scores.
The other group members are considered Weeds and belittled by the students who became Blooms. The hero of the story is dubbed; however, he possesses capabilities that would rival even the most elite of Blooms.
2The Misfit Of Demon King Academy
A mighty demon lord is feared across the lands, his power knowing no equal. That is, until a human warrior is finally able to both rival him. Having grown tired of all the fighting, the demon lord lets the humans achieve victory so that he may reincarnate himself and live a more peaceful life.
The world he reincarnates into has some dark secrets and unjust prejudices, but these are of little threat to the massive powers the demon lord wields. He enrolls himself in an academy as the starting point to regaining his rightful place among this world’s inhabitants. The English title of this anime is significantly shorter than its 17-word Japanese counterpart.
1The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule The World
Fans of Classroom For Heroes will find this list entry the most similar in feel and tone. This story features a student in a school for learning magic who is now passing themselves off as someone they are not.
They are secretly one of the most powerful magic users in the world and have a variety of pleasant supporting characters to befriend and interact with. There are very few serious moments and no sinister undertones, allowing for a very easygoing viewing experience.
