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Yuna Kamakura, Hōchū Ōtsuka Join Cast of From Bureaucrat to Villainess Anime

The official website for From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!, the television anime adaptation of Michiro Ueyama's Akuyaku Reijō Tensei Oji-san (The Middle-Aged Man that Reincarnated as a Villainess) manga, revealed two more cast members on Thursday.

The new cast members include:

The anime will star:

• Kazuhiko Inoue as Kenzaburō Tondabayashi
• M.A.O as Grace Auvergne
• Akira Sekine as Anna Doll
• Kaito Ishikawa as Virgile Vierge
• Yūichirō Umehara as Richard Verseau
• Ryōta Suzuki as Auguste Lion
• Takuma Nagatsuka as Pierre Gemeaux
• Seiichirō Yamashita as Lambert Balance
• Aoi Koga as Lucas Vierge
• Akio Ōtsuka as Leopold Auvergne
• Yū Sasahara as Josette
• Yūki Kuwahara as Francette Mercure
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Hinako Tondabayashi
• Takako Honda and Mitsuko Tondabayashi

Tetsuya Takeuchi (I couldn't become a hero, so I reluctantly decided to get a job. chief animation director, director of Yuri Seijin Naoko-san) is directing the anime at Ajia-do. Shingo Irie (scriptwriter for Golden Kamuy first four seasons, all three seasons of Log Horizon) is overseeing the series scripts, Haruka Matsunae (Ascendance of a Bookworm) is designing the characters, and Yuki Miyamoto (key animation for Ascendance of a Bookworm) is the monster designer. Music composers include: Natsumi Tabuchi, Misaki Tsuchida, Tsugumi Tanaka, Reiko Abe, and Kaho Sawada.

Cider Girl is performing the opening theme song "Choose!!!"

The manga centers on Kenzaburō Tondabayashi, a 52-year-old public servant who one day gets into a traffic accident. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself reincarnated into a fantasy world's academy, reborn now as the haughty Grace Auvergne, daughter of a duke.

Ueyama (Zoids, Tsumanuda Fight Town) launched the manga in Shōnengahōsha's Monthly Youngking Ours GH magazine in March 2020.

Source: From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! anime's website via Ota-Suke