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A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Anime's 1st Promo Video Reveals Opening Theme

The staff for the television anime of Firehead and YahaKo's A Wild Last Boss Appeared! light novel series revealed at the "Earth Star Novels 10th Anniversary Summer Festival" event on Saturday the show's first promotional video. The video reveals and previews Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets' opening theme song "Level wo Agete Butsuri de Naguru" (Level Up and Beat the Laws of Nature).

The anime stars:

• Ami Koshimizu as Lufas Maphaahl
• Yuri Usui as Dina
• Yukina Shutō as Aries
• Hisako Tōjō as Libra
• Naoya Uchida as Aigokeros
• Mika Kanai as Parthenos
• Kokoro Ōmori as Virgo
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Sword King Alioth
• Tomoaki Maeno as Wise King Megrez
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Sky King Merak
• Satomi Akesaka as Vampire Princess Benetnasch

Yūya Horiuchi (Nijiyon Animation, Nijiyon Animation 2) is directing the anime at studio Wao World, and WOWMAX is producing the anime. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Is the order a rabbit? franchise, Girls' Last Tour) is overseeing the series scripts, Maiko Ebisawa (key animator for Wonder Egg Priority, Sword Art Online: Alicization) is designing the characters for animation, and Takashi Kobayashi (Time Travel Girl, Magikano) and Shōta Ueno (Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles) are the sub-character designers.

Additional staff include:

• Color Design: Tomoko Kohioki
• Art Director: Yukari Yasuda
• Compositing Director of Photography: Norimasa Teramoto
• Editing: Rina Koguchi
• Sound Director: Sōichirō Kubo
• Sound Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
• Music: TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND

J-Novel Club released the novel series digitally in English. The company describes the story:

The year is 2800 and Lufas Maphaahl – The Black-Winged Tyrant, Great Conqueror, and leader of the Twelve Heavenly Stars – has returned.

A man wakes up in the body of his MMO character 200 years after her defeat during an player-made event in the game, Exgate Online. Now, he's stuck in her body. But this isn't a game, it's real. With her reign long over, and her legacy one of fear, Lufas must journey through the world of Exgate, looking for answers, possible comrades, and all the monsters her “death” unleashed upon the world...

Firehead and YahaKo launched the A Wild Last Boss Appeared! (Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta!) story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) website in 2015, and the series ended in 2017. Earth Star Entertainment published the ninth and final light novel volume in print in April 2019.

Manga artist Tsubasa Hazuki launched a manga adaptation on the Comic Earth Star manga website in 2017. J-Novel Club is also publishing the manga in English. The book franchise has 1.4 million copies in circulation.

Sources: A Wild Last Boss Appeared! anime's website, Earth Star Novels 10th Anniversary Summer Festival livestream