© SQUARE ENIX / SQUARE ENIX Corporation “Silver” to other brands
Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will stream the English dub of the television anime adaptation of Yū Toyota's Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Turn You into a Witch?! (30-sai Dōtei da to Mahō Tsukai ni Nareru Rashii) manga. All 12 dubbed episodes will begin streaming on Wednesday. The English cast includes:
Additional voices include Bev Mageto, Rissa Mazzuca, Kalyn McCabe, Monet Lerner, John Gerhardt and Jack Reeder.
Jason Lord is directing the voice cast and Susie Nixon is producing. Macy Anne Johnson is adapting the script. Gino Palencia, Rickey Watkins and Neal Malley are mixing the sound. Victor Acosta is the engineer.
The anime premiered on January 10 on TV Tokyo and BS TV Tokyo. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
Chiaki Kobayashi plays 30-year-old salaryman Kiyoshi Adachi and Ryōta Suzuki plays his handsome, elite co-worker Yūichi Kurosawa. Other cast members include Makoto Furukawa as Masato Tsuge, Gen Sato as Minato Wataya, Yusuke Shirai as Yuta Rokkaku, and Ami Koshimizu as Nozomi Fujisaki.
Yoshiko Okuda (Kakuriyo-Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-) is directing the anime series at Satelight. Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!, Haikyu!!, Puella Magi Madoka Magica) is designing the characters and Tomoko Konparu (Kakuriyo-Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-, Uta no Prince-sama-Maji Love 1000%, Nodame Cantabile) is supervising the series scripts. Tomoki Hasegawa is composing the music.
Koe ni Naranai yo performs the opening theme song “Hajimete wa Zenbu-kun ga Ii” and stars Chiaki Kobayashi and Ryōta Suzuki perform the ending theme song “Magical Love”.
A specially edited anime will be released in theaters in 2024.
Square Enix Manga & Books has licensed the manga and describes the story:
Adachi, a thirty-year-old virgin, has developed the ability to read people's minds by touching them. After encountering her very handsome co-worker, Adachi realizes that he has strong feelings for none other than Adachi himself!
The manga began serialization on pixiv's Gangan pixiv service in 2018.
The manga inspired a Japanese live-action television series that premiered on TV Tokyo in October 2020. Crunchyroll began streaming the series outside Japan in December 2020. The television series itself inspired a two-episode web television series that premiered on the Tsutaya Premium streaming service in December 2020. The series received a live-action film sequel that premiered in Japan in April 2022.
The manga also inspired a Thai live-action film.
Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)
