'Kikansha no Mahou wa Tokubetsu desu' Unveils Production Staff, Additional Cast, First Promo, Fall 2023 Premiere

by DatRandomDude
Jul 3, 2023 8:35 PM | 2 Comments

The Crunchyroll Industry panel at Anime Expo 2023 revealed on Monday the production staff, additional cast, opening theme, and first promo for the television anime adaptation of Yu So-nan and Uk-jakga's Kikansha no Mahou wa Tokubetsu desu (A Returner's Magic Should Be Special) manhwa. The anime is scheduled to premiere in October 2023.

Sayumi Suzushiro (Bocchi the Rock!) and Natsumi Fujiwara (Great Pretender) are joining the cast as Romantica Eru and Pram Schneider, respectively.

Staff
Director: Taishi Kawaguchi (Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu assistant director)
Series Composition, Script: Takamitsu Kouno (Absolute Duo)
Character Design: Hiromi Katou (Guilty Crown)
Art Director: Eiji Iwase (No Game No Life)
Art Assistant: Masahiro Kama (Shinobi no Ittoki background art)
Art Design: Kazushige Kanehira (Spy x Family), Akihiro Hirasawa (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei), Yasuhiro Okumura (Hyouken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu), Tomoyasu Fujise (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken)
Prop Design: Shoutarou Hashiguchi (Monster Musume no Oishasan chief animation director)
Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama (Gakusen Toshi Asterisk)
Director of Photography: Hideki Imaizumi (Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?)
Editing: Ryouko Kaneshige (Somali to Mori no Kamisama)
Music: Kenta Higashiooji (Princess Connect! Re:Dive)
Sound Director: Takatoshi Hamano (Platinum End)
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama (Dead Mount Death Play)
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
Studio: Arvo Animation

J-rock group FLOW (Naruto, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch) is performing the opening theme "GET BACK."

Yu and Uk-jakga began serializing the action fantasy manhwa on the KakaoPage website in September 2016. The eighth volume was released in November 2019.

Tappytoon is publishing the manhwa digitally on their website since June 2020. Yen Press licensed the manhwa for physical releases in English on October 2021. The second volume went on sale on April 18.

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Source: Press Release

2 Comments Recent Comments

Do I understand correctly that this is actually a story about how the protagonist is trying to save the world from the apocalypse using the power of knowledge of the future?

Jul 4, 2023 6:12 AM by RobertBobert

Very intrigue premise for me. Hope that they completely adapt the light novel.

Jul 4, 2023 12:31 AM by Memore