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The Water Magician Anime Reveals July 3 Debut, More Cast, Crunchyroll Streaming

The official website for the television anime of Tadashi Kubō and Nokito's The Water Magician (Mizuzokusei no Mahōtsukai) light novel series began streaming a second promotional video on Friday that reveals the show's July 3 debut.

The website also revealed the show's theme song information and more cast. Meiyo Densetsu is performing the opening theme song "Blue Motion," and Misaki is performing the ending theme song "Tayutau Mamani" (Sway as You Please). The above video previews the opening theme.

The new cast includes (character name spellings are not confirmed):

• Genki Muro as Nils
• Naoya Miyase as Eto
• Kōhei Amasaki as Amon
• Kaori Ishihara as Lihya
• Sara Matsumoto as Rin
• Satoshi Mikami as Hugh McGrath
• Miku Itō as Nina
• Takehito Koyasu as Michael (alias)
• Hōchū Ōtsuka as Lewin

The anime will debut on TBS on July 3 late at night (effectively July 4 at 1:28 a.m.). The anime will also air on BS11, and will start streaming in Japan on d Anime Store and other services on July 4 at 2:00 a.m.

Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will stream the anime as it airs in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.

The anime stars:

• Ayumu Murase as Ryō
• Kazuki Ura as Abel
• Kaede Hondo as Sera

Hideyuki Satake (Delicious in Dungeon episode 1 &11 director, Deca-Dence episode 3 & 8 director) is directing the anime at Typhoon Graphics and Wonderland. Jun Kumagai (Aquarion Logos, Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju) is in charge of the series scripts. Yūka Kozutsumi is designing the characters. The anime specifically credits Bokutengō for creating a manga adaptation of the novel series.

J-Novel Club is releasing both the original novels and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

Ryo is delighted to be reincarnated into the fantastical world of Phi, where he thinks he'll get to live a quiet life learning to use his newfound water magic. Going with the flow here, however, means something very different. Ryo is immediately pitted against the wild lands he winds up in and the slew of deadly monsters that call the remote subcontinent home.

You'd think he'd forget about taking it easy when he's stuck fighting for his life, but lucky for Ryo, he's naturally optimistic, clever, and blessed with the hidden “Eternal Youth” trait. Twenty years pass in the blink of an eye, and each encounter along the way pushes him one step closer to the pinnacle of human magic. Little does he realize that's only the opening chapter of his tale. A fateful meeting soon thrusts Ryo to the forefront of history, forever changing the course of his life...

Thus begins the adventures of the strongest water magician the world has ever seen—who also likes to do things at his own pace!

Kubō began serializing the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in April 2020, and the series is ongoing. TO Books began publishing the story in print in March 2021, with illustrations by Nokito.

Bokutengō launched a manga adaptation of the novels in TO Books' Comic Corona manga website in September 2021. Taku also draws a separate manga adaptation of the story for children under TO Books' TO Junior Bunko label.

Sources: The Water Magician anime's website, Comic Natalie, Crunchyroll (Kyle Cardine)