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To Your Eternity Season 3's 1st Video Reveals New, Returning Cast & Staff

The official website for the television anime of Yoshitoki Ōima's To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) manga debuted the third season's first promotional video on Thursday. The video announces the new and returning members of the cast and staff.

Reiji Kawashima and Kenjirō Tsuda return as Fushi and The Observer, respectively. Tomori Kusunoki, who voiced Hisame in the anime's second season, will return in the new season as Mizuha (second from right in image above), a popular second year middle school student popular for her academic excellence and athletic abilities. Megumi Han, who voiced Torta in the previous season returns as Yūki Aoki (rightmost in image above), a first year middle school student and vice president of the Occult Research Club. New cast Yumiri Hanamori will voice the mysterious boy named Satoru.

Sōta Yokote (Bye Bye, Earth assistant director, The Detective Is Already Dead, Insomniacs After School, Komi Can't Communicate episode director) is making his directorial debut with the new season at Drive and STUDIO MASSKET, Second season director Kiyoko Sayama is the new season's chief director. Returning from the anime's first two seasons are Shinzō Fujita to oversee the series scripts, Koji Yabuno to design the characters, Ryo Kawasaki to compose the music, and Takeshi Takadera to direct the sound.

The anime's third season was first announced in March 2023. The third season continues with the "This World" arc.

The anime's second season premiered on NHK Educational in October 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the second series worldwide except in Asia, and it is also streaming an English dub.

The anime's first series premiered on NHK Educational in April 2021. The anime was originally slated to premiere in October 2020, but it was delayed to April 2021 due to the anime's production schedule being heavily affected by COVID-19. Crunchyroll streamed the anime.

Ōima launched the manga in November 2016 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The manga's first arc ended in December 2019. The second arc launched in January 2020, and ended in October 2022. The manga's third arc launched in January 2023. The series is slated to end in this year's 27th issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine on June 4. The manga's 25th and final compiled book volume will release on August 12.

Kodansha USA Publishing is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space…
A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well… To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.

Crunchyroll released the manga in English digitally, simultaneously with its Japanese release, until the service removed it in January 2023 with other Kodansha USA Publishing manga titles.

The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award at the 43rd annual Kodansha Manga Awards in May 2019. The manga also ranked on the American Library Association's (ALA's) Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA) 2019 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

Sources: To Your Eternity anime's website, Comic Natalie