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Animax Asia Lists Simulcast for Isekai Cheat Magician Anime

Animax Asia is listing a simulcast airing of the television anime of Takeru Uchida's Isekai Cheat Magician (Fantasy World Cheat Magician) novel series, with a premiere on July 11 at 8:30 p.m. GMT +8, and an encore airing on Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. GMT +8.

The anime will premiere in Japan on AT-X on July 10 at 10:00 p.m. before airing later that evening on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, and Sun TV. The show will also air on TV Aichi and BS11.

Daisuke Tsukushi (episode director on Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth - The Animation, Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory, Girly Air Force) is making his series directorial debut with the anime, and Encourage Films is animating the series. Takayo Ikami (Penguindrum, Yuri Kuma Arashi, Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-) is in charge of the series scripts. Shuji Maruyama (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's) is designing the characters. Yoshiaki Fujisawa (The Eccentric Family, Love Live! School idol project, A Place Further Than the Universe) is composing the music. Takahashi will perform the ending theme song as her character Rin.

The story centers on Taichi Nishimura and his friend Rin Azuma, who both get transported into a fantasy world. While in their previous world, Taichi is a normal person who just has higher than average reflexes, both he and Rin gain high levels of physical and magical ability, and begin their new life as magicians.

Uchida debuted the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Be Novelists) website in 2012, and is still updating the story. Shufunotomo is publishing the story in physical volumes with illustrations by Nardack, beginning with the first volume in 2013. Karin Suzuragi launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Shōnen Ace in December 2012. Taku Kawamura also launched a spinoff manga titled Soreyuke! Isekai Cheat Magician (Go Forth! Fantasy World Cheat Magician) in Kadokawa's Shōnen Ace magazine in August 2018.

Source: Animax Asia via Anime Pilipinas