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Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will begin streaming the English dub of FUNA’s I Shall Survive Use Potions! (Potion-danomi de Ikinobimasu!) light novel series on Saturday.
The British cast includes:
Shawn Gann directs the English dub. Colleen Clinkenbeard is producing. Audrey Drake Rigg is writing the script. Rickey Watkins is the ADR mixer. Tina Son and Katie Saltkill are ADR engineers.
The anime premiered on October 7 in the “Animazing!!!” programming block on ABC and TV Asahi’s 24-affiliate network. Anime Expo premiered the world premiere of the first episode on July 3. Crunchyroll was streaming the anime as it aired.
J-Novel Club licensed the novel and describes the story:
One day, the supervisor in charge of looking after the Earth was dealing with a distortion when they made a mistake that caused Kaoru Nagase to lose her physical body. Not only that, reincarnating her into another, less cultured world was the only thing they could offer to do for her. Not one to sit down for the sake of sitting down, Kaoru makes a request: the power to create a potion any time she wants, with whatever effect she wants it to have—and it doesn’t stop there, either. . She requests a Magic Item Box, the ability to understand and speak all languages, and the same body she had as a fifteen-year-old girl. Using her newfound powers, Kaoru must try to make a stable life for herself in a whole new world!
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Nobuaki Nakanishi (Koihime Musō, Shin Koihime Musō, Kasimasi-Girl Meets Girl) will direct the anime at studio Jumondo. Chisato Kikunaga (Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer!) is adapting Sukima’s original character designs into animation. Takayo Ikami (Penguindrum, Magical Girl Site, Yuri Kuma Arashi) is supervising the series’ scripts and Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Dr. Stone all three seasons, Jujutsu Kaisen) is composing the music at Pony Canyon.
katagiri performed the opening theme song “Wind in the same direction.” Actors Haruki Iwata and Moeka Koizumi performed the ending theme song “Love is a potion” under the group name harmoe.
FUNA published the story on the Shōsetsu-ka ni Narou (“Let’s Be Novelists”) website in 2015. Kodansha began publishing the novel in print with illustrations by Sukima in June 2017.
Hibiki Kokonoe launched a manga adaptation of the novel in Kodansha’s Suiyōbi no Sirius online manga section on the Nico Nico Seiga website in June 2017. J-Novel Club also published the manga in English.
Sukima launched a spinoff manga titled Potion-danomi de Ikinobimasu! Hanano to Lotte no Futari Tabi (I will survive with poison! Hanano and Lotte’s journey) on Kodansha’s online manga section Suiyōbi no Sirius on the Nico Nico Seiga website in January.
Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)
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