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Animax Asia Airs Reborn to Master the Blade Anime on June 13
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Animax Asia announced on Tuesday that it will air the television anime of Hayaken's Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (Eiyū-Ō, Bu o Kiwameru Tame Tensei-Su: Soshite, Sekai Saikyō no Minarai Kishi) light novel series on June 13 at 8:00 p.m. The anime will air two new episodes every Monday and Tuesday.
Naoyuki Kuzuya (Saiyuki Gaiden, Wild Adapter, Jūza Engi Engetsu Sangokuden) directed the anime at Studio Comet. Mitsutaka Hirota (Rent-A-Girlfriend, Edens Zero, Anime-Gataris) was in charge of series scripts. Reiichirō Ōfuji (Fairy Ranmaru bank animation director) designed the characters, with Tomoko Miyakawa, Rion Matsuda, and Maki Fukui as sub-character designers. Ōfuji, Miyakawa, and Matsuda were also the chief animation directors, alongside Masayuki Nomoto. Kenta Higashiohji (Super Shiro, Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle) composed the music. Fumiyuki Go wasthe sound director, while Emi Takanashi was credited for sound effects.
J-Novel Club licensed the light novel series, and it describes the story:
Hero-King Inglis's last wish is to live again as a warrior. Though when he awakens, he realizes he's been reborn as a girl to a noble family! Even when rejected from the knighthood, she sets out to be the most extraordinary squire there ever was.
Hayaken began serializing the original novel story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) website in March 2019. Hobby Japan's HJ Bunko imprint is publishing the novels in print with illustrations by Nagu. Moto Kuromura has been serializing a manga adaptation on Hobby Japan's Comic Fire website.
The light novel series previously inspired two mini anime shorts in November 2020.
