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The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan TV Anime Casts Eri Yukimura
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The staff for the television anime of writer Izushiro and illustrator Ruria Miyuki's The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan (Saikyō Mahōshi no Inton Keikaku) light novel series announced on Wednesday that the anime will air in the "Agaru Anime" programming block on CBC, TBS, and 26 other affiliated channels next year. The anime's staff also announced that Eri Yukimura is voicing Tesfia "Fia" Fable, an ice magic user and a first-year student at the magical institute Alus attends.
J-Novel Club is publishing the light novels in English and describes the story:
In a world where the Fiends run rampant... Magicmaster Alus Reigin, the young prodigy that has defeated more Fiends and reclaimed more of humanity's lost territory than anyone else alive, requests retirement from military service at age 16. But due to the twists and turns of fate surrounding his status as the No. 1 Magicmaster in the nation—the top Magicmaster out of more than 100,000—he ends up as a student at a special magical institute, hiding his identity and training his successors – a pair of beautiful Magicmaster girls! Not to mention continuing to defeat Fiends in secret.
The anime stars Yūto Uemura as protagonist Alus Reigin, and Yui Ogura as Loki Leevahl.
Yūsuke Suzuki (This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Duel Masters Win) is directing the anime at HOTLINE. Gigaemon Ichikawa (Himitsu no AiPri, A Galaxy Next Door) is in charge of series scripts, Yūki Kitajima (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, Kakegurui, One Piece episode key animator) is designing the characters, and Takatoshi Hamano (IDOLiSH7, Chainsmoker Cat, Ishura) is the sound director.
To commemorate the novels' anime adaptation, a prequel manga titled Saikyō Mahōshi no Inton Keikaku Zero -Hajimari no Hishi-roku- (The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan Zero -The Secret History of the Beginning-) is scheduled to launch this winter. Karu Yoneshiro is again drawing the manga. The manga will depict Alus' life before he enrolled in the magic academy, and will connect to the main story.
Izushiro started publishing the novels on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2015. Hobby Japan published the 20th novel volume in December 2025.
Yoneshiro's The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan - The Alternative - manga launched in Square Enix's Manga UP! app in 2020. The series ended with its 10th compiled book volume that shipped in January 2024. Comikey publishes the manga in English digitally.
Yoneshiro's manga is the second manga adaptation of the novels. Yū Uonuma's first manga adaptation serialized in Hobby Japan's website, and ran for two volumes.
Sources: The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan anime's website, Comic Natalie
