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My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1 Anime Reveals 1st Key Visual, New Characters

The official website for the television anime of Nazuna Miki and Subachi's My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1 (Level 1 dakedo Unique Skill de Saikyō desu) light novel series revealed on Tuesday the anime's first key visual and additional characters.

The anime's additional characters are Eve Callusleader (image below, left), and Erza Monsoon (image below, right). The website did not reveal the voice actors for the characters.

The anime will premiere in July. Previously announced cast includes Kaito Ishikawa as Ryota Sato, and Rin Kusumi as Emily Brown.

Yūji Yanase (By the Grace of the Gods) is directing the series at MAHO FILM. Yuka Yamada (Tokyo Mew Mew New) is in charge of the series composition. Miyako Nishida (In Another World With My Smartphone), Eri Kojima (In the Land of Leadale), Kaho Deguchi (If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord), and Yūko Ōba (I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss) are the main character designers. Endō. is composing the music.

Miki debuted the series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) website in February 2017. Miki and Subachi launched the light novel series in September 2017. The seventh book volume shipped in Japan in December 2019. Mawata's manga adaptation debuted on Kodansha's "Suiyōbi no Sirius" website in May 2018. Kodansha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on October 7, and will publish the 11th volume on March 9.

Kodansha USA Publishing licensed both the light novel series and the manga adaptation. The company describes the series:

Ryota Sato gets the surprise of his life when he's suddenly transported into another world and nearly clobbered at the hands of the young, pretty adventurer Emily Brown. This new world revolves around defeating monsters and profiting on whatever they drop—food, money, items, etc. Unfortunately for Ryota, he has no skills to speak of...until he learns he has the ability to get rare drops! Suddenly his luck turns around...or does it?

The series has exceeded a cumulative total of 1.1 million copies in circulation.

Sources: My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1 anime's website, Comic Natalie