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AntiMagic Academy "The 35th Test Platoon" TV Anime's Cast, October Premiere Revealed

The official website for the anime of Tōki Yanagimi's AntiMagic Academy "The 35th Test Platoon" (Tai-Madō Gakuen 35 Shiken Shōtai) light novel series revealed the main cast for the series on Friday. The website also revealed that the series will premiere in October.

The main cast is as follows:

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeru Kusanagi, the commander of the AntiMagic Academy's 35th Test Platoon, which is also often called the "small fry platoon." He is sword user even though swords are now considered old fashioned. His swordsmanship skills are second to none, but he has zero ability with guns and zero academic skills. Basically his skill with a sword is his only good point. He is softhearted and is considerate of his friends, but on the other hand he loses his temper when anyone makes fun of swordsmanship.

Reina Ueda as Ouka Ohtori, a young woman who was the youngest member of the Inquisitors of Heretics Office until she violated a certain order and lost her license. She then had to return to the AntiMagic Academy, and was assigned to the 35th Test Platoon under Takeru. She has a strong sense of justice, and so she is very stubborn and hates dishonesty. She has a violent hatred toward evil magic users.

Rumi Ookubo as Usagi Saionji, a member of the 35th Test Platoon who is in charge of sniping. Her sniping skills are extraordinary, but she has severe stage fright and often makes crucial mistakes because of it. She is a hard worker who always gives everything her very best, so out of all the members she is most unhappy at her platoon being called the "small fry platoon." She has a complex about her first name, so she blushes deeply and gets very angry whenever anyone calls her by her first name.

Ryōko Shiraishi as Ikaruga Suginami, the mood maker of the 35th Test Platoon. She is a genius with superhuman intellect, and is in charge of maintenance for the unit, but she only has an interest in weapons development and remodeling. She often gathers intelligence via hacking, illegally remodels the unit's weapons, and sexually harasses others, as well as other countless troublesome activities.

Tomoyuki Kawamura (Kamigami no Asobi) is directing the series at SILVER LINK (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow). Kento Shimoyama (Bleach, Servant X Service) is handling series composition, and Kōsuke Kawamura (Mayo Chiki!, OniAi) is designing the characters.

The school action fantasy is set in a world where people with magic powers are close to being wiped out. Just as the balance of power and military might had once shifted from swords to sorcery, it shifts once again to guns. Takeru Kusanagi goes to "AntiMagic Academy," a training facility for Inquisitors of Heretics who crack down on the dwindling threat posed by magic users.

However, Takeru cannot use guns at all and can only fight with a sword. As a result, he is relegated to the 35th Test Platoon, the motley "small fry platoon" for poor students. One day, Ōka Ōtori, the ultra-elite pistol master who already has her qualifications for witch-hunts, joins the platoon.

Yanagimi launched the light novel series with illustrations by Kippu (No-Rin) in 2012, and Fujimi Shobo's Fantasia Bunko imprint published the 10th volume on May 22. Sutarō Hanao adapted the story into a three-volume manga series that ran in Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine from 2012 to May 2014. Yōhei Yasumura launched a new manga in the February issue of Kadokawa's Comic Alive magazine.

Images © Tōki Yanagimi, Kippu / Kadokawa / AntiMagic Academy 35 Production Committee

Sources: Dengeki Magazine, MoCa News