Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Shin Matsushige Join the Cast as Hyoro Gari (Left Pictured Below) and Jaga Imo (Right), Cid's friends at Midgar Royal Spellshord Academy.
The newly announced staff members are:
Artistic director: Beom Seon Lee
The anime will premiere October 5 on AT-X (at 22:30 pm or 9:30 am EDT), Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV and BS NTV, and October 6 on TV Aichi. AbemaTV and Anime Store will stream the anime in Japan from October 5th.
As previously announced, 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.
The previously announced cast includes:
Seiichiro Yamashita as Cid Kagenou / Shadow
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!
