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Muse Asia Licenses I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World Anime Special
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Muse Asia announced on Monday that it has licensed I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too, the anime television special based on Miku and illustrator Rein Kuwashima's I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World (Isekai de Cheat Skill o Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai o mo Musōsuru) light novel series. Muse Asia will reveal distribution details at a later date.
The special will stream in Japan on March 29, and will then air on television on March 30.
Returning cast for the television special includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yūya Tenjō, Akari Kitō as Kaori Hōjō, and Kaori Maeda as Lexia von Arcelia. New cast members include Kenta Miyake as Gilbert Fister, Shigeru Chiba as Ōma, and Marina Inoue as an as-yet unannounced character.
The first I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World anime chief director Shin Itagaki is returning to direct the special at Millepensee. Hiromi Kimura also returns to design the characters, and UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS is again in charge of planning and production.The first anime premiered in April 2023 and aired for 13 episodes. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Yen Press is releasing the light novels and manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
A door to another world stretches out before a boy who's been brutally bullied all his life. This alternate reality grants him access to all sorts of things, like cheat skills and a portal that lets him travel between his old and new worlds! Can this class loser turn his life around back home...?
The book franchise has 4 million copies in circulation, including spinoffs.
The franchise has a browser game titled Isekai de Cheat Skill o Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai o mo Musōsuru - Level Up wa Jinsei o Kaeta: Parallel Universe. The MMORPG debuted worldwide in Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, and Korean on the G123 platform in July 2024. The game is free to play but has optional in-game purchases.
Source: Muse Asia's Facebook page
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