'Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!' Announces Voice Cast

by Vindstot
Dec 29, 2021 12:00 AM | 13 Comments

The official website of the television anime adapting Daisuke Aizawa's Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! (The Eminence in Shadow) light novel revealed three cast members and character visuals on Wednesday. The anime series is scheduled for a 2022 premiere.

Cid Kagenou (Shadow): Seiichirou Yamashita (Appare-Ranman!)

Alexia Midgar: Kana Hanazawa (Rewrite)

Iris Midgar: Youko Hikasa (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou)

Kazuya Nakanishi (Comic Girls assistant director) is helming the comedy fantasy series at animation studio Nexus (Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry). Kanichi Katou (Mashiro no Oto) is handling the series composition and Makoto Iino (Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen ga Joban no Machi de Kurasu Youna Monogatari) is designing the characters.

Aizawa launched the novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in May 2018. Kadokawa began printing the title under its Enterbrain label in November that year, featuring illustrations by Touzai. The fourth volume shipped on February 26. Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! has a cumulative 1.5 million copies of its volume in circulation.

Anri Sakano (Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou desu yo? Z) began a manga adaptation in Monthly Comp Ace in December 2018. The magazine also began serializing a spin-off by Seta U in July 2019. Kadokawa published the sixth and second volume of each manga on June 25 and February 26, respectively.

Yen Press licensed the light novel and manga adaptation in English in May 2019 and this January and published the second novel volume on April 27. The second manga volume shipped on December 7.

Source: Press Release

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I am so excited to watch this given what I learned in the previous thread lol

But also my waifu HanaKana is in this too <3

Jan 1, 2022 6:02 AM by Tokoya

Hanakana x hikasa again (i wonder kensho and yoko's husband knew their relation)

Jan 1, 2022 12:05 AM by reny1966nanin

HanaKana doing a rude tsundere, Youko surprisingly not doing a haremette, even being a hot girl in a harem show (at least to the point I read, her char does not join Cid Harem or think that way about him).

Okay, still wanna see Alpha, Beta and Rose seiyuus. And a longer PV, to get more tranquil about the production.

Dec 29, 2021 7:54 PM by Fabris

I think cid kagenou's character visual looks a little weird.

Nah this is better.

Dec 29, 2021 6:26 PM by HIRAONLY

God damn it, I was reading synopsis thinking premise sounds interesting enough to check it out, but it turns out it's another damn isekai. Are LN/manga authors so completely creatively bankrupt to blight every damn idea with isekai...

Dec 29, 2021 11:23 AM by Antanaru

Can't wait to see who will be the VA of Claire 😂

Dec 29, 2021 5:00 AM by Marcus5768

Nice to see big names like Kana Hanazawa & Youko Hikasa, hope Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma & Epsilon will also have good VA's
Just hope Studio Nexus will give this amazing LN justice

Dec 29, 2021 4:58 AM by Marcus5768

Hana Kana decided to buy a bigger TV? Why did she start appearing on every second show?

Dec 29, 2021 4:00 AM by RobertBobert

looks good .... maybee

Dec 29, 2021 3:19 AM by Azureii-

Damn Kana Hanazawa as Alexia, this will be fun lol

Dec 29, 2021 2:05 AM by EdgyLord666

Ah, of course, Kana Hanazawa's most notorious role is from Rewrite.

Dec 29, 2021 1:41 AM by Ronninn

Visuals look pretty good so far and very good VA`s for the girls but idk about Cid(VA) though, hope he does a good job for the VA.

Dec 29, 2021 1:03 AM by VulteDeus

More HanaKana and Youko Hikasa nice.