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Hell Mode Reveals 3 New Cast Members
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The official website for the television anime of writer Hamuo and illustrator Mo's Hell Mode - The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing (Hell Mode - Yarikomi Suki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musō Suru) light novel series revealed three new cast members on Thursday.
The new cast includes (name romanization is not confirmed):
Tomokazu Sugita as Butler Von Granvelle, the head of the Granvelle family that rules over Allen's hometown and the surrounding areas.
Shōya Chiba as Mikhail Granvelle, the Granvelle family's eldest son.
Marie Miyake as Thomas Granvelle, the Granvelle family's second son.
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS NTV in January 2026.
The anime stars (character name romanizations are not official):
- Mutsumi Tamura as Allen
- Mayu Iizuka as Krena
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Dogora
- Sayaka Senbongi as Cecil
- Hideo Ishikawa as Rodin
- Sayaka Ōhara as Theresia
- Makoto Koichi as Matthew
Masato Tamagawa (Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō, The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt, The Great Cleric) is directing the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Daishiro Tanimura (Magical Destroyers) is in charge of the series scripts. Kei Tsushima (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These) is designing the characters. Misaki Tsuchida, Moyu Kanazaki, Junko Nakajima, Kanade Sakuma, Reiko Abe, Kaho Sawada, BeauDamian, and Tsugumi Tanaka are all composing the music.
The band Atarayo performs the opening theme song "Haku," and singer Kaya performs the ending theme song "Sanctuary."
J-Novel Club releases both the light novels and Enji Tetta's manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
"'Level up even while offline'?! That's not a game on 'easy mode'—that's just an AFK game!" The online game Yamada Kenichi had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend thousands of hours on it—just isn't around anymore."What's this? 'You are invited to a game that will never end.'"
Kenichi stumbles upon an untitled game, one promising incomparable challenge with unprecedented potential. Without hesitation, he selects the "Hell Mode" difficulty. Lo and behold, he finds himself reincarnated in another world as a serf!Now called Allen, he sets out to unlock the secrets his mystery-laden Summoner class; without the convenience of walkthroughs, game guides, or online forums, he must grope his way to the top of his new world!
Hamuo launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2019, and the story is ongoing. Earth Star Entertainment began publishing the series in print in July 2020.
Tetta launched the manga on Comic Earth Star in October 2020 and the manga is ongoing.
Sources: Hell Mode anime's website, Comic Natalie
