The official website for the new season of the anime The Irregular at Magic High School ( Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei ) released a promotional video for it this Thursday (04). The video features the opening theme song “Shouted Serenade”, performed by LiSA and reveals the cast and technical team. Confirming its debut for the season in April this year.
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Additionally, the site also revealed a poster for the new season:
New cast members include Kikunosuke Toya as Minoru Kudou, Tatsumaru Tachibana as Takuma Shippou, and Houchu Ohtsuka will play the role of Retsu Kudou, replacing Motomu Kiyokawa, who passed away in 2022.
New voice actors
- Yumi Uchiyama as Erika Chiba
- Takuma Terashima as Leonhart Saijo
- Satomi Satou as Mizuki Shibata
- Atsushi Tamaru as Mikihiko Yoshida
- Sora Amamiya as Honoka Mitsui
- Yuiko Tatsumi as Shizuku Kitayama
- Maaya Uchida as Ayako Kuroba
- Emiri Katō as Fumiya Kuroba
- Kana Hanazawa as Mayumi Saegusa
- Eri Kitamura as Kasumi Saegusa
- Aoi Yūki as Izumi Saegusa
- Koji Yusa as Zhou Gongjin
Previously announced returning cast members include:
- Saori Hayami as Miyuki Shiba
- Yūichi Nakamura as Tatsuya Shiba
- Kiyono Yasuno as Minami Sakurai
Therefore Jimmy Stone, animation director and episode director on previous anime projects in the franchise, is the director of the new series at studio 8-Bit. Taku Iwasaki (Black Butler, Bungo Stray Dogs, Gurren Lagann) returns to compose the soundtrack.
The newly announced team includes:
- Screenplay: Munemasa Nakamoto
- Character Designer/Chief Animation Director: Kana Ishida
- Deputy Character Designer: Asumi Hashimoto
- Mechanical Design/Requirements: Kō Inaba
- Art Design: Yuuho Taniuchi
- Art Director: Kouki Nagayoshi
- Art: H・E・D WORKS
- Color Design: Sakura Komatsu
- Monitor Graphics Design: Yousuke Nanjou
- CG Director: Masaya Machida (Stimulus Image)
- Director of Photography: Takeshi Hirooka (Nexus)
- Editing: Kashiko Kimura (MAD BOX)
- Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
- Casting Manager: Kumiko Suzuki
- Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
Finally, Tsutomu Satou's light novel series, The Irregular at Magic High School (Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei), was launched in 2008 and ended with volume 32 in September 2020.
Source: official Twitter
