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Muse Asia Licenses The World's Strongest Rearguard Anime

Muse Asia announced on Saturday that it has licensed the television anime of Tōwa's The World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (Sekai Saikyō no Kōei: Meikyūkoku no Shinjin Tansakusha) light novel series.

Muse Asia is already streaming the first episode, which debuted on July 5 on Netflix, bilibili, iQIYI, Crunchyroll, Danet, TrueID, meWATCH, CatchPlay, korea aniplus, Filmbridge, and the Muse Asia YouTube Channel. The series is available for users in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The anime will star:

• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Arihito
• Aoi Koga as Theresia
• Sakura Nakamura as Kyōka
• Yui Ishikawa as Elitia
• Saori Hayami as Suzuna
• Kaede Hondo as Misaki
• Kanon Takao as Madoka
• Yuka Aisaka as Melissa

Yūji Yanase (Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra, I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, By the Grace of the Gods two seasons) is directing the anime at Maho Film. Deko Akao (Arakawa Under the Bridge two seasons, The Detective Is Already Dead, Ragna Crimson) is in charge of series scripts, and Eriko Yanagimoto (Betrothed to My Sister's Ex, Quality Assurance in Another World episode animation director) is the main character designer.

Yen Press publishes the light novels in English and describes the story:

Corporate slave Arihito Atobe's death in a freak bus accident marks the beginning of his new life as a kind of adventurer called a Seeker. Reborn into a fantasy world, he settles into a previously unknown job class called “rearguard,” capable of providing his (all-female) party with critical attack, defense, and recovery support. And it comes with an added bonus: Simply being at the back of the party line increases his companions' fondness for him! Freed from the shackles of corporate life, Arihito is eager to start fresh as a newly minted Seeker!