News

My Isekai Life Anime's English Dub Streams on August 22

HIDIVE announced on Friday that it will begin streaming the English dub of the television anime of Shinkoshoto's My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! (Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life: Daini no Shokugyō o Ete, Sekai Saikyō ni Narimashita) light novel series on August 22. The English dub cast includes:

• Scott Gibbs as Yuji
• John Gremillion as Proud Wolf
• Christina Kelly as Slime
• Rob Mungle as Eyepatch Slime
• Blake Shepard as Brow Slime
• Taylor Fono as Leaf Slime
• Mark X Laskowski as Stache Slime
• Andrew Love as Gale
• Margaret McDonald as Lily
• Joe Daniels as Aegis
• Adam Gibbs as Rezin

Courtland Johnson, Cyurs Rodas, John Hallmark, Heath Morrow, John Swasey, Joe Daniels, Adam Gibbs, Annie Wild, Brandon Hernsberger, and Margaret McDonald provide additional voices.

John Swasey is the ADR Director. Joel McCray wrote the scripts. Brent Marshall is in charge of the English mix and Patrick Marrero is the audio engineer.

The anime premiered on the AT-X channel on July 4 at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. EDT) with a one-hour special airing of the first two episodes. The anime is also running on the Tokyo MX, BS NTV, and BS Fuji channels, as well as on ABEMA and other streaming services in Japan. HIDIVE is exclusively streaming the anime as part of the summer simulcast season.

The story centers around Yūji Sano who works at a company that is harsh on its employees. After bringing some overtime work back home, he gets a message on his computer: "You have been summoned to an alternate world!" It is a game-like world, complete with status bars and skills. Yūji tames a slime monster and thus becomes a tamer. Then, he suddenly attains a second profession — sage — and awakens magical powers within himself. Yūji's alternate world adventure begins when he follows a slime, that seemingly weakest of all monsters.

Keisuke Kojima (I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Babylon) is directing the anime and designing the characters at REVOROOT. Kiyotaka Suzuki (FLCL Alternative) is the assistant director. Naohiro Fukushima (I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level) is handling the series scripts. Norihito Saitama is the chief animation director and additional character designer.

Keisuke Goto (Fate/Grand Order: First Order) is also a chief animation director. Satoshi Takezawa (Digimon Adventure) is in charge of color design. Aiko Taira (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) is the art director at Studio Naya. Shunsuke Kobayashi is the director of photography at SANZIGEN. Ryō Tanaka (Cells at Work! Code Black) is serving as sound director. Gin (Pop Team Epic) is composing the music at Busted Rose. Pony Canyon is producing the music.

Three-member rock band Non Stop Rabbit perform the opening theme song "Mujikaku no Tensai" (Obliviously Talented). Surachanzu△, a voice actor unit composed of the six cast members who play the slimes in the show, perform the ending theme song "Gohan da yo! Dadadadan!!" The members include Hikaru Tohno (Sura), Mai Kanno (Surapacchi), Haruna Mikawa (Mayusawa), Erisa Kuon (Saruhappa), Nichika Omori (Higesura), and Miharu Hanai (Pekesura).

SB Creative's GA Novel imprint began publishing the story with illustrations by Huuka Kazabana in 2018. PONJEA launched the manga adaptation in 2018. Square Enix Manga & Books licensed the manga adaptation with the title My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World!.

Source: HIDIVE