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Muse Malaysia, Indonesia License The World's Finest Assassin Anime

Muse Malaysia and Indonesia both announnced last Friday and Saturday that they have licensed the television anime of Rui Tsukiyo and Reia's The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in a Different World as an Aristocrat (Sekai Saikō no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei Suru) light novels. The companies will reveal their distribution method for the anime at a later date.

The anime will premiere on AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, and TV Aichi on October 6, and on BS NTV on October 7. The show will also stream first through Abema TV in Japan on October 6 before streaming on other services.

Masafumi Tamura (Wise Man's Grandchild, The Misfit of Demon King Academy, Two Car) is directing the anime at SILVER LINK and Studio Palette, and Katsuhiko Takayama (Two Car, Ange Vierge, The Future Diary) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Eri Nagata (Ensemble Stars!, Blade & Soul) is designing the characters. Yui Ninomiya will perform the opening theme song "Dark Seeks Light," and Aira Yūki will perform the ending theme song "A Promise."

Yen Press is releasing the novels in North America, and it describes the story:

When a great assassin is reborn in another world, he finds himself the heir to a long line of killers from the shadows. With both his modern-day knowledge and experience and the special magic and techniques of this new world, he could very well become the most unstoppable assassin in history…!

Tsukiyo began serializing the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website in July 2018. Kadokawa began publishing the story in print volumes with illustrations by Reia in February 2019.

Sources: Muse Malaysia's YouTube channel, Muse Indonesia's Facebook page