Kadokawa streamed the first main promotional video and first key visual for the second television anime season based on Rui Tsukiyo and Reia‘s The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in a Different World as an Aristocrat (Sekai Saikō no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei Suru) light novel series on Friday. The video announces more cast members, and also announces the anime’s January premiere.
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The new cast members include:
Sumire Uesaka as Epona Rhiannon, the hero and eldest son of the Rhiannon baronial house
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Yūsuke Tonozaki as Neusche Gephis, a student at the Royal Knight Academy who is already an S-class student upon entry
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The anime’s returning cast members are:
- Kenji Akabane as Lugh
- Reina Ueda as Dia
- Yūki Takada as Tart
- Shino Shimoji as Maha
Masafumi Tamura (Wise Man’s Grandchild, The Misfit of Demon King Academy, Two Car) returns to direct the second season at SILVER LINK., Katsuhiko Takayama (Two Car, Ange Vierge, The Future Diary) is again in charge of overseeing the series scripts, Eri Nagata (Ensemble Stars!, Blade & Soul) is again designing the characters, and Kenichi Kuroda is again composing the music at Lantis.
The anime’s first season premiered in October 2021.
Yen Press is releasing the novels in English, and it describes the story:
When a great assassin is reborn in another world, he finds himself the heir to a long line of killers from the shadows. With both his modern-day knowledge and experience and the special magic and techniques of this new world, he could very well become the most unstoppable assassin in history…!
Tsukiyo began serializing the story on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” (Let’s Become Novelists) website in July 2018. Kadokawa began publishing the story in print volumes with illustrations by Reia in February 2019.
Hamao Sumeragi launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa‘s Young Ace Up manga website in January 2019. Yen Press is also releasing the manga in English.
Source: Press release
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