Two new character trailers have been revealed for the upcoming The Stories of Girls Who Couldt Be Magicians television anime, featuring Kurumi Mirai and Yuzu Ehderu. The anime (also known in Japan as Maho Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi) will begin airing in Japan on October 4, 2024.
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Takashi Watanabe (How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, director) is serving as the series' main director, with Masato Matsune (Reign of the Seven Spellblades) as director, Hiroko Kanasugi (Mewkledreamy) as series writer, Lily Hoshino (Penguindrum) as original character designer, Mai Matsuura (Pretty Rhythm's King of Prism, co-character designer Sirius the Jaeger) as character designer, and Yoko Shimomura (Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal, Kingdom Hearts series) as composer. JCSTAFF is in charge of animation production for the series.
Other staff members include Kentaro Izumi (A Some Scientific Railgun T) as background art director, Mika Funabashi (The Sacrificial Princess and The King of Beasts) as color designer, and Yurina Yagi (The Sacrificial Princess and The King of Beasts) as composition director.
Meanwhile, the anime's main voice cast includes:
• Hana Hishikawa as Kurumi • Misuzu Yamada as Yuzu • Yui Horie as Minami Suzuki • Ayumi Mano as Maki Kumil • Yukiya Hayashi as Asuka Kurumaru • Chiaki Kobayashi as Kyō Kurumaru • Hikaru Midorikawa as Northern Harris • Mikako Komatsu as Kai Mirai • Mako Morino as Magic Club President • Tatsumaru Tachibana as Magic Club Vice President • Saori Goto as Lemone Juicy • Yuka Nukui as Mikana Fruity • Sayumi Suzushiro as Sally Andol
The anime adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Yuzuki Akasaka, which was selected as the winner of Project ANIMA's Isekai/Fantasy category. It was serialized on the website Everystar from March 2018 to September 2019.
The ANIMA Project is a joint initiative by DeNA, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Sotsu, and MBS, focusing on the production of original television animation, based on submitted novels, scripts, comics, and proposals that will serve as the basis for the show. Other categories include Science Fiction/Robots and Children/Games.
The 2021 anime Sakugan won the Science Fiction/Robots category. The Game/Children's winner, Mobius Dust, is also inspiring an anime from Doga Kobo. Project ANIMA's submission and selection process ran from February 2018 to March 2019.
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Crunchyroll has licensed The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians and will stream the series as part of its Fall 2024 anime lineup. It describes the main synopsis as follows:
At Letran Magic Academy, two unlikely friends share the same dream: to become magicians. Kurumi is a normal girl with a bit of naivety, while Yuzu is the brilliant daughter of a noble magician family. They are required to attend a special magician training class, but they failed the entrance exam! All hope seems lost until the mysterious homeroom teacher Minami Suzuki arrives and their luck suddenly changes.
Source: Project Anima Anime Official Twitter
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