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The official website for the television anime  of Makoto Morishita‘s The Fledgling Demon Lord’s Starter Shop (Sudachi no Maōjō) manga presented on Tuesday the anime’s second teaser promotional video, key visual, additional cast member, and January 2027 premiere on the Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11, and other channels.

The anime’s staff also presented a new character visual. The visual features two characters with previously announced cast members Reiji Kawashima as Murabito or Villager (center in image below) and Rumi Ōkubo as Mao (left). It also features Ash (right), the hero (voiced by Yōhei Azakami) who once defeated the demon lord and saved the world.

Kodansha‘s K MANGA service releases the manga in English and describes the story:

After the hero defeated the demon lord, the world is finally at peace… leaving the young Villager of Beginnerville in a bind! Without a demon lord to defeat, people have no need for potions and items…leaving Villager’s item shop, The Nest, empty and lifeless. At this rate, Villager might have to close The Nest…! But then suddenly a mysterious girl appears and everything changes…

Jun Taira is directing the anime at project No.9. Keiichirō Ōchi (Adachi and Shimamura, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Once Upon a Witch’s Death) is in charge of series scripts, and Katsuyuki Sato (Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!, Plus-Sized Elf, My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In for Me!) is designing the characters.

Additional staff members incluide:

Morishita launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Monthly Shonen Magazine in October 2021. Kodansha will ship the 14th compiled book volume on October 16.

Morishita launched the IM: The Great Priest Imhotep manga in Square Enix‘s Shonen Gangan magazine in January 2015 after first publishing a one-shot. Square Enix published the 11th and final volume in September 2018. Yen Press licensed the manga and released the 11th volume in English in February 2019.

Sources: The Fledgling Demon Lord’s Starter Shop anime’s website, Comic Natalie

Production company Slow Curve opened an official website for the Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival (The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival) anime project on Tuesday, revealing the main staff, lead cast, a teaser visual (pictured), special promo, and its television format. The anime series adapting Biyori Harunohi‘s adventure fantasy light novel is scheduled to premiere in July 2027.

Voice actress Fuuka Izumi (Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete, Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan) is starring as the protagonist Alia (Alicia Melrose).

Staff

Director: Noriyoshi Sasaki (Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes)

Series Composition: Touko Machida (Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsu suru)

Character Design: Hiroyuki Miseki (Tadaima, Ojamasaremasu! assistant chief animation director)

Music: Kohta Yamamoto (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season), Shun Narita (Noblesse), Yuki Furuhashi (Otome Kaijuu Caraméliser)

Studio: Studio Clutch, Seven

Harunohi began penning the series on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in March 2019. TO Books began publishing the novel in April 2021, featuring illustrations by Yuu Hitaki (Fuguushoku “Kanteishi” ga Jitsu wa Saikyou Datta). The eighth volume went on sale last June. The 11th volume went on sale on June 15. The light novel has a cumulative 900,000 copies of its volumes in circulation.

Comic Corona began serializing a manga adaptation by Kobato Wakasa in August 2021. TO Book published the eighth volume on January 15, with the ninth volume scheduled for release on October 15.

J-Novel Club licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in English for digital release in November 2023 and January 2024, respectively. The sixth novel volume went on sale on March 13, with the eighth manga volume scheduled to be released October 7.

Special PV

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Source: Press Release