The official website for Shigeru Sagazaki's From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru: Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan Datta noni, Taisei Shita Deshitachi ga Ore o Hōttekurenai Ken) television anime was revealed on Thursday. Six that Hinaki Yano will voice Ficelle Harbeller in the movie. The site also revealed a promotional video for the character.
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The anime will feature:
Image via From Old Country Bumpkin to the Master Swordsman anime website
© 佐賀崎しげる・鍋島テツヒロ/SQUARE ENIX・ 「片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になる」製作委員会
Akio Kazumi (Loner Life in Another) World, Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis) is directing the anime at Passione and Hayabusa Film. Kunihiko Okada (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, By the Grace of the Gods season 2) is in charge of the series script, Satsuki Hayasaka (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki) is designing the characters and is also the animation director and Yasuharu Takanashi (Baki Hanma vs. Kengan Ashura, Fairy Tail) is composing the music.
The anime will air in April 2025 on the IMAnimation programming block of 24 TV Asahi affiliate channels and on BS Asahi.
Sagazaki launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2020. Square Enix published the novel's first volume with illustrations by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima in April 2021 and the eighth volume on August 6.
J-Novel Club licensed the novel and describes the story:
Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man” teaches swordsmanship at his dojo in a remote rural village. As a young man, he dreamed of becoming a master swordsman, but those days were long behind him. Unexpectedly, he is visited by a famous former student who brings him world-shattering news—he has been appointed as a special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order! With her life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of her former students: elite knights, an excellent sorcerer, and even an adventurer who has attained the rank of Highest possible guild rank. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he was concerned, they clearly didn't need him anymore.
Can Beryl cope with her new position? And can he have a moment of peace away from his beloved students?!
Kazuki Satō launched a manga adaptation of the novel in Akita Shoten's Dokodemo Young Champion magazine in August 2021. Akita Shoten published the manga's first compiled book volume in February 2022 and the second compiled book volume. six released on August 6. Yen Press released the manga in English.
The original novel and manga have a total of 5.5 million copies in circulation.
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Source: From Old Country Bumpkin to the Master Swordsman anime website, Natalie Comics