So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? Anime Reveals More Cast, Character Visuals
The staff for the television anime of writer Nazuna Miki and artist Tsukasa Araki's So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? (Tensei Goblin dakedo Shitsumon Aru?) manga unveiled 14 new cast members along with character visuals on Sunday.
Junko Takeuchi plays Sandaime Hanzо̄ (Hanzо̄ III).
Mariya Ise plays Nanadaime Hanzо̄ (Hanzо̄ VII).
Rin Mizuki plays Rokudaime Masamune (Masamune VI).
Momoko Seto plays Hachidaime Echigoya (Echigoya VIII).
Additional cast members include:
- Yūko Sanpei as Shodai Hanzо̄ (Hanzо̄ I)
- Anna Nagase as Rokudaime Hanzо̄ (Hanzо̄ VI)
- Yukina Shutо̄ as Shodai Kinokuniya (Kinokuniya I)
- Kentarō Tone as Yondaime Echigoya (Echigoya IV)
- Yumiri Hanamori as Rokudaime Echigoya (Echigoya VI)
- Yume Miyamoto as Nanadaime Echigoya (Echigoya VII)
- Natsumi Hioka as Yondaime Masamune (Masamune IV)
- Minami Takahashi as Godaime Masamune (Masamune V)
- Hikaru Tōno as Shodai Hokusai (Hokusai I)
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Sandaime Hokusai (Hokusai III)
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX channel on October 5 at 10:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EDT), and then on BS11 at 24:00 JST (effectively October 6 at 12 midnight), and on Sun TV at 24:30 (12:30 a.m.). The anime will also run on AT-X from October 7. The anime will stream on the ABEMA and Prime Video streaming services in Japan. The first episode will stream simultaneously with its broadcast at 10:00 p.m. JST, and the remaining episodes will stream one week ahead of its broadcast.
Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs.
The anime stars:
- Kikunosuke Toya as Akira
- Yōko Hikasa as Karen
- Azusa Tachibana as Chloe
- Banjō Ginga as Simon
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Eirene
- M.A.O as Dike
- Wakana Kuramochi as Eunomia
- Natsuki Hanae as Albert
- Hiro Shimono as Isis
- Yukari Tamura as Tenchi Kaibyaku (literally, Creation of Heaven and Earth)
Ryūta Kawahara (The Summer Hikaru Died, Orange, 86, Blend S episode director) is directing the anime at BAKKKA. Yūichirō Momose (So I'm a Spider, So What?, Africa Salaryman) is in charge of the series scripts, Hiroyuki Saita (Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez, Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress, Revue Starlight) is designing the characters, Hiroto Morishita (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, Wistoria: Wand and Sword two seasons) is the sound director, and Takenoko Boy (The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess ending song arrangement, composition, and lyrics) is composing the music at INCS Toenter.
Sou performs the opening theme song "Hello," and musical artist AHUB performs the ending theme song "Chiisana Bokura" (Little Us).
Yen Press publishes the manga in English and describes the story:
Office worker Akira Yagami's altruistic nature usually gets him the short end of the stick. When he dies after saving a kid from oncoming traffic...he reincarnates in another world as a goblin?! Normally, goblins only live for seven days, but Akira's newfound powers let him defy the species' normal life span...and are the key to his path to becoming the strongest goblin ever!
The manga launched on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website in 2020. Shueisha published the manga's 15th volume on September 17. Yen Press published the 10th volume in English on May 26.
Source: Press release
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