Eminence in Shadow Anime reveals other cast artists and final songs
Daisuke Aizawa's light novel series The Eminence in Shadow (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!) Television anime staff revealed more cast members and artists of the anime's ending theme on Friday. The newly announced cast members play all of the Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy students:
Rina Hidaka as Claire Kagenou
I'm Aizawa like Sherry Barnett
Haruka shiraishi like Rosa Oriana
The seven voice actresses for the characters of the Seven Shades (Asami seto, Inori Minasi, Suzuko Mimori, Ai fairouz, Hisako kanemoto, Ayaka Asai, Queen Kondo) play the ending theme "Darling in the Night".
Yen Press has licensed both the light novels and the manga adaptation and describes the first volume:
Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather stay hidden as a minor character until it's the best time to reveal that he's a mind… or at least, do the next best thing: pretend he is! And now that he's reborn in another world, he's ready to create the perfect conditions to live his dreams of him to the fullest. Armed with his hyperactive imagination, Cid playfully recruits members of his organization and concocts an entire backstory about an evil cult they must defeat. Well, thankfully, these fictional opponents turn out to be the real deal and everyone knows the truth except him!
The anime is expected to premiere in October and includes:
Seiichiro Yamashita as Cid Kagenou / Shadow
Kana Hanazawa as Alexia Midgar
Yoko Hikasa as Iris Midgar
Asami Seto as Alpha
Inori Minase as Beta
Suzuko Mimori as Gamma
Ai Fairouz as Delta
Hisako Kanemoto as Epsilon
Ayaka Asai as Zeta
Reina Kondo as Eta
Kazuya Nakanishi (Chief Animation Director for Darwin's Game) will direct the anime at Nexus (Darwin's Game, Granbelm). Makoto Iino (Suppose a guy from the latest Boonies dungeon moved to an early city, Demon Lord, Retry!) Is adapting Tōzai's original character designs for animation. Kanichi Katou (Black Clover, Those Notes from Snow White) is overseeing the scripts for the series.
Aizawa began serializing the story on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” (Let's Become Novelists) website in May 2018 and Kadokawa began publishing the story in physical volumes with drawings by Tōzai, starting with the first volume in November 2018. Anri Sakano launched the manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Comp Ace magazine in December 2018. Seta U launched a manga spinoff titled Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Shadow Gaiden (The Eminence in Shadow - Shadow Side Story) in Comp Ace in July 2019.
