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Kunon the Sorcerer Can See Anime Reveals More Cast, Staff, January 4 Debut
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The staff for the television anime adaptation of Umikaze Minamino's Kunon the Sorcerer Can See (Majutsu-shi Kunon wa Mieteiru) light novel series revealed on Friday the anime's key visual, additional cast and staff, and its January 4 debut on Tokyo MX at 10:00 p.m. JST, and on BS Asahi at 26:00 JST (effectively, January 5 at 2:00 a.m. JST). The anime will then air on WOWOW on January 6.
The newly announced cast are:
Rikako Yamaguchi as Jenie Kors
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Zeonly Finroll
The newly announced staff includes:
- Action Animation Director: Yasuhiro Saiki
- Prop Design: Tomokazu Sugimura
- Art Director: Haruka Miyata
- Color Design: Aiko Yamagami
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shigeki Asakawa
- Editing: Kashiko Kimura
- Sound Director: Hajime Takakuwa
- Music Production: Pony Canyon
- Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
Crunchyroll will stream the anime.
Hideaki Ōba (Love of Kill, I'm in Love with the Villainess, Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me) is directing the anime at Platinum Vision. Yuki Enatsu (Unlimited Fafnir, Tight-rope, Saint October) is both writing and supervising the series' scripts. Yōko Satō (Love of Kill, I'm in Love with the Villainess, Saiyuki Reload Blast) and Toshimitsu Kobayashi (Spice and Wolf II, Demon King Daimao, Futakoi Alternative) are designing the characters. Shunsuke Takizawa (TRYTONELABO) is composing the music. Isekaijoucho will perform the opening theme song "Rakenaria no Yume" (Dream of Rakenaria).
The anime stars:
- Saori Hayami as Kunon Gurion
- Maaya Uchida as Iko Round
- Akari Kitō as Mirika
Yen Press is releasing the novel series in English, and it describes the story:
Born blind, Kunon aims to be the first person to use water magic to create new eyes for himself. After five months of study, he has already surpassed his teacher, and continues to grow his talents. Not only can his magic help him sense color, but he can also use it to make handy items and even conjure a whole cat! Word of his skills and ingenuity soon reach the court and earn him a spot as disciple to the most powerful magician in the land. But is his ultimate goal even attainable?
Minamino launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in August 2021, and the story is ongoing. The series topped the general yearly ranking on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in August 2022.
Kadokawa began releasing compiled novel volumes for the series with illustrations by Laruha in March 2022, and will release the eighth volume on December 10.
La-na launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Comic Alive magazine in April 2022. Kadokawa released the sixth manga volume on May 22, and will release the seventh volume on December 23.
Source: Press release
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