The fantasy series will premiere in January, airing for half a year
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Bandai Namco Filmworks revealed the theme song artist on Saturday for the anime television adaptation of author Kōsuke Unagi and illustrator I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Old Students Reach the Dungeon Depths of Super Zombies! (Class A Party o Ridatsu Shita Ore wa, Moto Oshiego-tachi to Meikyū Shinbu o Mezasu.) light novel series. Kazuma Kawamura from J-pop group The Rampage from Exile Tribe will perform the theme song “Enter” under the solo stage name Rei. The song will mark Rei's debut as a solo artist. Yuki Tanaka will perform the ending theme song “Treasure Chest”.
The anime will premiere in January 2025 on 30 channels in the NTV network in Japan and will run for two consecutive seasons (quarters of the year).
Anime stars:
Katsumi Ono (Beast Saga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Girly Air Force) is directing the anime at BN Pictures, and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Do It Yourself!!, Dropkick on My Devil! Supervised and wrote the script for the film. Masakazu Yamazaki (Augmented Reality Girls Trinary, animation director for Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) is designing the characters and is also one of the main animation directors along with Akira Takahashi (Birdie Wing-Golf Girls'Story-) , Yumiko Hara (Lovely Earth Defense Club LOVE!), and Ippei Ichii (Don't mess with me, Miss Nagatoro's 2nd attack). Akira Kikuchi (Birdie Wing-Golf Girls'Story-, Brave Beats) is directing the action animation and Go Sakabe (Kizuna no Allele, Date A Live series) is composing the music.
Publisher Kodansha USA released Yūri's manga adaptation digitally and describes the story:
In terms of adventuring, supporting your party is a thankless job—even more so if you're just a low-level mage like Yuke Feldio. So when he gets fed up with his party full of A-listers, he ditches them for some old students—a trio of girls who just dropped out of his company. The problem is, to conquer the world's greatest dungeon and achieve his dreams, he'll have to teach these cuties a thing or two… and he just might know that inside he He (and they) have more potential than he ever knew.
Kodansha launched Unagi's original light novel series in June 2021. The publisher released the fourth volume on October 2.
Yūri's manga adaptation launched in June 2021 on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app. Kodansha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume on September 9.
Source: Press release
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