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Kenja no Mago Anime Reveals More Cast, April 10 Debut, New Visual

posted on by Egan Loo

The official website for the television anime of Tsuyoshi Yoshioka's Kenja no Mago (The Wise Grandson or lit. The Sage's Grandson) novels revealed additional cast members, the April 10 premiere, and a new key visual on Monday.

The newly announced cast members are:

Miyu Kubota as Alice Corner

Arisa Shida as Toll von Flegel

Megumi Yamaguchi as Lynn Hughes

Juri Nagatsuma as Yuri Carlton

Chiaki Kobayashi as Tony Freyd

Keisuke Kōmoto as Julius von Littenheim

Shōta Hayama as Mark Bean

Saya Satō as Olivia Stone

The previously announced cast includes:

Yūsuke Kobayashi as Shin Wolford


Shōhei Komatsu as August von Earlshide


Rina Hon'izumi as Sicily von Claude


Yūki Wakai as Maria von Messina


Yūsaku Yara as Merlin Walford


Gara Takashima as Melinda Bowen


Toshiyuki Morikawa as Oliver Schtrom


The series will premiere on April 10 at 11:30 p.m. on the AT-X channel. It will also play on the ABC TV, Tokyo MX, and BS11 channels, and also stream via the dAnime Store. An "unconventional preview screening" of the first four episodes will feature Yūsuke Kobayashi, Hon'izumi, and Konmatsu in Tokyo on March 2.

Masafumi Tamura (Two Car, Ange Vierge) is directing the anime at SILVER LINK, and Tatsuya Takahashi (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, Beatless, Eromanga Sensei) is overseeing the series scripts. Yuki Sawairi (Masamune-kun's Revenge, Two Car) is designing the characters.

i☆Ris will perform the opening theme song. Virtual singer "Nanami Yoshi" won an audition to perform the ending theme song for the anime. Elements Garden is composing the song.

The original story begins when a powerful wizard and sage, who has saved his world from calamity many times, comes upon a baby whom he adopts and names Shin. The baby is actually a man from our world reincarnated into the sage's world. The sage raises Shin, separated from the rest of society, and teaches him in the ways of magic. It is only when Shin turns 15 years old and sets out on his own journey that the sage remembers that he forgot to teach Shin the common sense and ways of this particular world. And so, Shin goes the capital of the Alsheid Kingdom to enroll in the capital's magic academy.

Yoshioka began posting the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Be Novelists) website in January 2015, and continues to publish chapters for the story there. Kadokawa began publishing the story in light novel volumes with the first volume in July 2015. Kadokawa published the ninth volume on December 29. The company published an "Extra Story" volume in November 2017. Seiji Kikuchi (Mayo Chiki! light novel illustrations) draws the illustrations for the novels.

Shunsuke Ogata launched a manga adaptation on Kadokawa's Young Ace Up website in March 2016. Kadokawa published the ninth volume on December 29.

Sources: Kenja no Mago anime's website, Comic Natalie


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