'Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei 3rd Season' Reveals Additional Cast, Staff, Opening Theme, Promo for Spring 2024

by DatRandomDude
Jan 4, 3:22 PM | 17 Comments

The official website of the third anime season adapting Tsutomu Satou's Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei (The Irregular at Magic High School) light novel revealed additional cast, staff, opening theme, a key visual (pictured), and promotional video on Thursday. The anime is scheduled to premiere on Tokyo MX, BS11, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, MBS, and TV Aichi in April 2024.

Kikunosuke Toya (Chainsaw Man) and Tatsumaru Tachibana (The God of High School) are joining the cast as Minoru Kudou and Takuma Shippou, respectively. Houchuu Ootsuka (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken) is replacing Motomu Kiyokawa as Retsu Kudou.

Staff
Script: Muneo Nakamoto (Light Works) (Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu)
Sub-character Design: Asumi Hashimoto (Blue Lock animation director)
Mechanical Design, Prop Design: Kou Inaba (Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo)
Art Design: Yuuho Taniuchi (Tokyo Revengers)
Art Director: Kouki Nagayoshi (Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou)
Art: Hed Works
Color Design: Sakura Komatsu (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Raihousha-hen)
Monitor Graphics Design: Yousuke Nanjou
CG Director: Masaya Machida (Stimulus Image) (Overtake!)
Director of Photography: Gaku Hirooka (Nexus) (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!)
Editing: Kashiku Kimura (MAD BOX) (Vinland Saga)
Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama (Mashle)
Casting Manager: Kumiko Suzuki
Sound Effects: Yuuji Furuya (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu)

Anisong artist LiSA (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is returning to perform the opening theme "Shouted Serenade," which is previewed in the promotional video below.

Jimmy Stone (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Tsuioku-hen assistant director) is directing the anime at 8bit. Kana Ishida (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei) is designing the characters and is the chief animation director. Taku Iwasaki (Qualidea Code) is composing the music.

Satou originally published the novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in 2008. Kadokawa began releasing the title under its Dengeki Bunko label with illustrations by Kana Ishida in July 2011 and published the 32nd and final volume in September 2020. Satou launched the Magian Company sequel light novel the following month. Kadokawa shipped the seventh volume on December 8.

Yen Press licensed the light novel in English in 2015 and published the 20th volume on October 18. The 21st volume is scheduled to go on sale on January 23.

Main PV

Source: Comic Natalie

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17 Comments Recent Comments

Just next season, soo looking forward to it.

Feb 11, 12:45 PM by MegamiRem

Is this a direct sequel to the movie "Hoshi wo Yobu Shoujo"? I haven't read the light novel so I don't know

Jan 5, 5:16 PM by Iamillness

hmm I literally forgot what happened in the Ancient City Insurrection arc. Maybe I'll re-read that one.

Jan 5, 1:59 PM by misohyk

@DatRandomDude Ah, I see. Simply due to the fact that there was a fairly long time gap between the first and second seasons, LN has moved quite far away from the anime in comparison.

Jan 5, 12:09 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Oh I'm not knowledgeable at all, I'm just mentioning what the staff is saying lol.

Jan 5, 12:05 PM by DatRandomDude

@DatRandomDude Are you knowledgeable about Mahouka? After the announcement of the new season, I discussed several times with a friend how quickly they could get to volume 16, given that after it the plot sharply changes the emphasis in the story.

Jan 5, 11:56 AM by RobertBobert

@Asturaetus 100% will do Insurrection, the staff already confirmed that they are adapting all 3 arcs you mentioned.

Jan 5, 11:17 AM by DatRandomDude

@misohyk Nope, currently it looks like it'll definitely be Double Seven + Steeplechase. Maybe they'll do Ancient City Insurrection too. Which would put them right before the Yotsuba Succession Arc and the Master Clans Conference for a potential season 4.

Jan 5, 10:45 AM by Asturaetus

I've been waiting til they get past the part where I stopped in the LN, which was the end of the master conference arc, are they there yet?

Jan 5, 7:06 AM by misohyk

But, will it be less boring this time?

Jan 5, 5:37 AM by Softhenic03

I hope this season is better, season 1 and season 2 were underwhelming, especially season 2. I love the tropes the show has to offer, magic school, OP protagonist, a little bit of harem, but the way this is written is just boring, and the characters around Onii-sama like Erika, Shizuku, Honoka, Mizuki are not great characters and they can be very annoying at times.

Jan 5, 2:41 AM by ToG25thBaam

Even after 10 years I still love this Anime.
Glad I watched it 😁

Jan 4, 10:28 PM by Ricky16

Am so ready for the third season, I've been waiting for a while and at some point I lost hope. Hopefully season 3 will have 24 or 26 episodes

Jan 4, 9:13 PM by Mayuta127

LiSA's is the best, I love her voice.

Jan 4, 9:00 PM by Omarumba

Time to play the ones Sama drinking fame again let's GOOOO

Jan 4, 3:58 PM by GrimAtrament

Denji's VA has played more diverse roles in the last couple of years than some VAs do in half a career. Just yesterday he was voicing a typical horny loser teenager, but now he will have to voice a genetically ideal man.

Jan 4, 3:57 PM by RobertBobert

The second season was a massive downgrade & dissappointment (in terms of story etc , not animation quality) for me compared to the first season. I really hope this season will be better.

Jan 4, 3:32 PM by Yubisoft