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Kunon the Sorcerer Can See Through Light Novels Get TV Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Kadokawa announced on Friday that Umikaze Minamino's Kunon the Sorcerer Can See Through (Majutsu-shi Kunon wa Mieteiru) light novel series is getting a television anime adaptation.
The anime's official X/Twitter account has posted celebration illustrations from the light novel illustrator Laruha (pictured first below) and manga adaptation illustrator La-na (second picture below).
「魔術師クノンは見えている」TVアニメ化決定❤
— TVアニメ「魔術師クノンは見えている」公式 (@animekunon) January 24, 2025
📢「小説家になろう」年間ランキング[総合] 1位（2022年8月31日時点）‼盲目の天才少年の魔術探求ファンタジー、遂にTVアニメ化決定‼
続いて原作イラスト #Laruha 先生よりイラスト到着🥰
皆さん、お楽しみに👀#アニメクノン pic.twitter.com/y8U9ful78J
「魔術師クノンは見えている」TVアニメ化決定❤
— TVアニメ「魔術師クノンは見えている」公式 (@animekunon) January 24, 2025
📢「小説家になろう」年間ランキング[総合] 1位（2022年8月31日時点）‼
盲目の天才少年の魔術探求ファンタジー、遂にTVアニメ化決定‼
続いてコミカライズ La-na 先生からもイラスト到着🥰
皆さん、お楽しみに👀#Lana#アニメクノン pic.twitter.com/KTNQV0zAHS
Yen Press is releasing the novel series in English, and it describes the story:
Born blind, Kunon aims to be the first person to use water magic to create new eyes for himself. After five months of study, he has already surpassed his teacher, and continues to grow his talents. Not only can his magic help him sense color, but he can also use it to make handy items and even conjure a whole cat! Word of his skills and ingenuity soon reach the court and earn him a spot as disciple to the most powerful magician in the land. But is his ultimate goal even attainable?
Minamino launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in August 2021, and the story is ongoing. The series topped the general yearly ranking on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in August 2022.
Kadokawa began releasing compiled novel volumes for the series with illustrations by Laruha in March 2022, and released the sixth volume on August 9.
La-na launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Comic Alive magazine in April 2022. Kadokawa released the fifth manga volume on November 22.
Sources: Kunon the Sorcerer Can See Through anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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