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Kenja no Mago TV Anime Reveals Main Staff, Visual, April 2019 Premiere
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The official website for the anime adaptation of Tsuyoshi Yoshioka's Kenja no Mago (The Wise Grandson or lit. The Sage's Grandson) novels revealed on Thursday that the anime will air on TV starting in April 2019. The site also revealed a teaser visual, main staff, and a cast member.
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. The staff are holding auditions for a "female virtual talent" to perform the show's ending theme song. Elements Garden is composing the song.
Yūsuke Kobayashi will star in the anime as Shin Wolford.
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 eighth volume on March 30. 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 manga's sixth compiled book volume on February 2.
Sources: Kenja no Mago anime's website, Comic Natalie
