The official website for the television anime of Haka Tokura’s Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! light novel series unveiled a new promotional video for the anime on Saturday. The video reveals more cast for the anime. Crunchyroll revealed at its Anime Expo panel on Friday that it will stream the anime, and also revealed an English-subtitled version of the trailer.
The new cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official):
Akeno Watanabe as Camilla
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Masaaki Mizunaka as Chronos
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Wakana Kuramochi as Rita Heinkes
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Previously announce main cast members include:
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The anime will premiere in January, and will air on Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11, and 17 other channels, and will also stream on Netflix.
Hideki Okamoto (2.5 Dimensional Seduction, D.C. II: Da Capo II) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Takao Yoshioka (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, High School DxD, I’m Standing on 1,000,000 Lives.) is in charge of the series scripts. Yu Murakami is designing the characters based on the original novel illustrations by Eiri Shirai.
Yoshikazu Iwanami is directing the sound, and Yūki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia, Observation Records of My Fiancée), Luke Standridge (Observation Records of My Fiancée), and Asa Taylor (Observation Records of My Fiancée) are composing the music. Ryō Aizawa (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It) is producing the project.
Seven Seas licensed the light novel series and its manga adaptation, and it describes the story:
Granting casters like Wim Strauss play an important supporting role for their team when times get tough, but after his talents hurt the pride of his party’s leader, he’s kicked out of the group!
Yet he’s not down and out for long. Wim’s luck takes a turn when he receives an invitation from his longtime childhood friend (and stalker) Heidemarie to join Nachtlibelle, an elite guild considered one of the greatest in the land. His talents may not be the flashiest, but given the chance with his new quirky crew, this supporting act might just be able to prove center stage.
Tokura launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō web platform in November 2020. Arakawa debuted the manga adaptation of the series on the Manga ga Ugau app in September 2021. Futabasha published the 11th compiled book volume on April 30.
Sources: Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! anime’s website, Comic Natalie
