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From Overshadowed to Overpowered Anime Reveals 3 New Cast Members

The staff for the anime of Kentarou's From Overshadowed to Overpowered (Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musō: Nidome no Tensei, S-Rank Cheat Majutsushi Bōkenroku ;or The Failed Sage's Academy Domination) manga revealed three new cast members for characters who will appear in the anime's seventh episode on Thursday. 

Shinichirō Kamio as Abe

Rina Kawaguchi as Maria

Hiroki Takahashi as Majin (Genie)

Comikey is releasing the manga in English, and it is also available through Square Enix's Manga UP! Global service. Comikey describes the manga's story:

Ephtal is reincarnated as a human, coming from modern Earth. In this new world where magic is real, he decides to devote the entirety of his life in the pursuit of magic. Despite his efforts, though, he discovers that he is absolutely talentless in magic, and breathed his last in anguish....But it isn't the end for him just yet! He reincarnates once again bearing the same name, Ephtal, 400 years later. Having retained his knowledge and power, he steels his resolve and once again sets his sights for the peak of magic!

The manga is itself based on Arata Shiraishi's Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musō: Nido Tensei Shita Saikyō Kenja, 400-nen-go no Sekai o Maken de Musō light novel series. The anime is adapting Kentarou's manga, and specifically uses the manga's slightly different title.

The anime stars:

• Shūichirō Umeda as Ephtal
• Reo Osanai as Anastasia
• Haruka Shiraishi as Marin
• Hiroki Tōchi as Ephtal (as a sage and old man)
• Ayaka Fukuhara as Ephtal (as a youth)
• Emiri Katō as Iria
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Fraser

Hisashi Ishii (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, I'm Quitting Heroing, The Unaware Atelier Master) is directing the anime at EMT Squared, with Deko Akao (Higehiro, Komi Can't Communicate, Flying Witch) supervising the series' scripts. Hideki Furukawa (WATAMOTE, Strike The Blood III onwards, Ayakashi Triangle) is designing the characters.

Rock band FLOW performs the opening theme song "+Encount," and the group TrySail is performing the anime's ending theme song "Dōkei" (Aspiration).

The anime premiered on the d Anime Store, ABEMA, and U-NEXT streaming services in Japan on June 25 at 24:00 (effectively, June 26 at midnight). It then started on the Tokyo MX channel on July 1 at 24:00 (effectively, July 2 at midnight), and also runs on ABC TV, BS Fuji, and WOWOW in Japan. Crunchyroll streams the anime simultaneously with the Japanese stream.

Kentarou launched the manga in Square Enix's Manga UP! website in September 2019. Square Enix published the manga's ninth compiled book volume on July 7.

Arata Shiraishi originally published the story in a web novel format, before Kadokawa published the first print volume in October 2019, with illustrations by uodenim. Kadokawa published the eighth novel volume in March 2022.

Source: From Overshadowed to Overpowered anime's X/Twitter account via Ota-suke