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A new anime adaptation was in the works with the December 2022 announcement that the light novel series My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered is coming. Set with a January 2024 debut as part of the winter season, HIDIVE announced their pickup of it for simulcast and that they premiered the show at Anime NYC on November 17th, 2023.
The series saw a January 4th, 2024, premiere, and HIDIVE handled the simulcast for it. I had missed that MVM Entertainment had picked up the property if they announced it recently, but it’s now scheduled for a Blu-ray release on August 10th, 2026. Priced at £39.99, it’ll be a two-disc release that’s listed as Japanese with English subtitles only, but it’s likely just not filled out fully and should be a bilingual release. No extras are currently detailed for it either.
The show saw John Swasey is the ADR director for it with a cast that includes:
- David Matranga as Yogiri Takato
- Monica Rial as Tomochika Dannoura
- Adam Gibbs as Haruto Otori
- Greg Cote as Daimon Hanakawa
- Joanne Bonasso as Mokomoko Dannoura
- Karlii Hoch as Lain Tendo
- Kristen McGuire as Sion
- Scott Gibbs as Taku Yazaki
- Shelley Calene-Black as Asaka Takato
- Shannon Emerick as Yogiri Takato (young)
The series has Masakazu Hishida directing it from the scripts overseen by Jou Aoba. Sayuri Sakamoto is on board for the character designs while Okuro to Noboru is handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Kouki Uchiyama as Yogiri Takatou
- Miyu Tomita as Tomochika Dannoura
- Tomoko Kaneda as Mokomoko Dannoura
- Yui Horie as Sion the Sage
- Rina Sato as Lain
- Hiro Shimono as Daimon Hanakawa
- Yoshiki Murakami as Yuuki Tachibana
- Lynn as Asaka Takatou
- Mark Ishii as Rick
- Sho Nogami as Lynel
- Akira Sekine as Theodisia
- Sayaka Kikuchi as Sōra Akino
- Kiyono Yasuno as Ryōko Ninomiya
- Anna Suzuki as Carol S. Lane
- Shōhei Komatsu as Haruto Ōtori
- Shōgo Sakata as Taku Yazaki
The series features the opening song “Killer Bars” as performed by Hilcrhyme.
Based on the series known originally as Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyōsugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga marude Aite ni Naranain Desu ga. by Tsuyoshi Fujitaka, it began in 2016 and is being released in English through J-Novel Club.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Awaking to absolute chaos and carnage while on a school trip, Yogiri Takatou discovers that everyone in his class has been transported to another world! He had somehow managed to sleep through the entire ordeal himself, missing out on the Gift — powers bestowed upon the others by a mysterious Sage who appeared to transport them. Even worse, he and another classmate were ruthlessly abandoned by their friends, left as bait to distract a nearby dragon. Although not terribly bothered by the thought of dying, he reluctantly decides to protect his lone companion. After all, a lowly Level 1000 monster doesn’t stand a chance against his secret power to invoke Instant Death with a single thought! If he can stay awake long enough to bother using it, that is…
Previous promos and visuals:
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© 藤孝剛志 / アース・スター エンターテイメント / 即死チート製作委員会
Chris Beveridge
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Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.
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