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The Great Cleric Anime Reveals Additional Cast, Key Visual for New Arc
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website of The Great Cleric, the anime of Broccoli Lion's Seija Musō: Salaryman, Isekai de Ikiru Tame ni Ayumu Michi (The Great Cleric ~The Path a Salaryman Must Walk to Survive in a Fantasy World~) novels, revealed additional cast members and a new key visual for its "Meikyū Kōryaku-hen" (Labyrinth Conquest Arc) on Tuesday. The new arc will start in the anime's seventh episode, which will stream in advance on the ABEMA streaming service in Japan on August 24. The seventh episode will then start airing on the TBS channel on August 31.
The additional cast includes (character name romanizations are not final):
Masato Tamagawa (The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt) is directing the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab and Cloud Hearts. Keiichirō Ōchi (Peach Boy Riverside) is in charge of series composition. Guonian Wang (Prince of Stride: Alternative) is designing the characters. Nasuo☆ is performing the opening theme song "Bagu-chan" and Yuki Nakashima is performing the ending theme song "A New Day."
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the novels' manga adaptation, and it describes the story:
The manga based on the hit light novel series (Japanese title: Seija Musō), about an ordinary salaryman who cheats death and now must find his way in another world—as a great healer.
Broccoli Lion began serializing the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website in October 2015. Micro Magazine began publishing the novels in print with illustrations by sime in August 2016.
J-Novel Club is releasing the light novels in English. Hiiro Akikaze launched the ongoing manga in 2017.
