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Magical Buffs Anime's Trailer Unveils More Cast, LiSA's Opening Song, Early Netflix Streaming, January 4 TV Debut

Crunchyroll presented a new trailer and key visual for the television anime of Haka Tokura's Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! light novel serie at New York Comic Con on Thursday. The trailer announces that LiSA is singing the opening theme song "Ecstatic Buffer," for which TK (Ling Tosite Sigure) wrote the lyrics, composed the music, and arranged. It also announces more cast members, "early streaming" on Netflix, and the January 4 television premiere for the anime.

The newly announced cast members are:

Haruki Ishiya as Abel, a young man in Nachtlibelle's shield unit who admires Wim

Atsushi Ono as Mark, a veteran fighter also in Nachtlibelle's shield unit

Yui Ishikawa as Monica, a girl in Nachtlibelle's mage unit

The anime will premiere on television on January 4 on Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11, and "about 20" other channels throughout Japan. It will also have "early streaming" on Netflix, before streaming on other services.

Seven Seas licensed the light novel series and its manga adaptation, and it describes the story:

Granting casters like Wim Strauss play an important supporting role for their team when times get tough, but after his talents hurt the pride of his party's leader, he's kicked out of the group!

Yet he's not down and out for long. Wim's luck takes a turn when he receives an invitation from his longtime childhood friend (and stalker) Heidemarie to join Nachtlibelle, an elite guild considered one of the greatest in the land. His talents may not be the flashiest, but given the chance with his new quirky crew, this supporting act might just be able to prove center stage.

The cast includes:

• Reiji Kawashima as Wim Strauss
• Hana Hishikawa as Heidemarie
• Akeno Watanabe as Camilla
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Chronos
• Wakana Kuramochi as Rita Heinkes

Hideki Okamoto (2.5 Dimensional Seduction, D.C. II: Da Capo II) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Takao Yoshioka (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, High School DxD, I'm Standing on 1,000,000 Lives.) is in charge of the series scripts. Yu Murakami is designing the characters based on the original novel illustrations by Eiri Shirai.

Yoshikazu Iwanami is directing the sound, and Yūki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia, Observation Records of My Fiancée), Luke Standridge (Observation Records of My Fiancée), and Asa Taylor (Observation Records of My Fiancée) are composing the music. Ryō Aizawa (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It) is producing the project.

The anime will premiere in January, and will air on Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11, and 17 other channels, and will also stream on Netflix.

Tokura launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō web platform in November 2020. Arakawa debuted the manga adaptation of the series on the Manga ga Ugau app in September 2021. Futabasha published the 11th compiled book volume on April 30.

Sources: Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! anime's website, Comic Natalie, press release