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Crunchyroll to Stream Bofuri Season 2, Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion, A Galaxy Next Door, The Fire Hunter, My Clueless First Friend, More Anime (Updated)

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Also: Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Season 3

The Fire Hunter, and My Clueless First Friend anime in 2023.

The second season of the moved to January 2023.

The novels' story centers on Kaede Honjō, who is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.

Taro Masuda is returning to compose the music.

The first anime of Yuumikan's Itai no wa Iya nano de Bōgyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. novels premiered in Japan in January 2020. dub.

The television premiere in April 2023.

publishes the manhwa in English, and it describes the isekai fantasy romance story:

Eunha Park was just a regular girl desperate to get into college, but when she finally does, her elation is cut short as she's pushed off a roof—only to wake up as Raeliana McMillan, a character from a novel whose death serves as the catalyst for the story's events. But Raeliana refuses to die a second time and is determined to change her fate, no matter what!

Whale based the manhwa on Milcha's original novel. The service Kadokawa will publish the seventh compiled volume on December 5.

Lantis is producing the music.

The television Rokujūyon Okazawa's Chillin' in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King's Army (Kaiko Sareta Ankoku Heishi (30-Dai) no Slow na Second Life) series will premiere on January 7.

Akari Kitō is performing the anime's ending theme song "Dear Doze Days."

The story centers on Dariel, a soldier in the Dark Lord's army who cannot use magic. Instead, he wields his intellect and initiative as an assistant to one of the Dark Lord's most trusted captains. But when the captain is summarily replaced, Dariel also loses his privileged position and is fired. In disappointment, he retires in a village of humans, getting a new start in life by using his abilities to accept requests for help.

Okazawa began sage joh.

The television premiere in April 2023.

Kiyotaka Kawada is credited for sound effects.

hiatus after it ended its second part in October 2021.

The manga centers on a salaryman who has a reliable wife and a daughter in university who can sometimes act a bit rebellious, but has a happy life in his own way. Until one day he finds out his daughter has been beaten, and thus begins his journey into a dangerous world to protect his family.

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen -Chaos in Urbanrama- (debut in January 2023.

Shinnosuke is again composing the music.

licensed the novels and is releasing them digitally. The company describes the beginning of the story:

Orphen is a Sorcerer drop-out from the prestigious Tower of Fangs. His journey to save Azalie, a girl he looked up to like a sister, has brought him to the bustling city of Totokanta. Here they are reunited for the first time in five years. But what is the truth behind her monstrous transformation, and just what secrets lurk behind the Sword of Baldanders...?

The first season premiered in January 2020, and ended with 13 episodes. Funimation dub.

The television premiere in April 2023.

Yasuka Ōtaki is deg the characters.

Crunchyroll describes the story:

Ever since their father died, Ichirou Kuga has struggled to his two younger siblings on nothing but a small inheritance and his ion for drawing manga. A Galaxy Next Door, tells the story of what happens when Kuga's new mysterious assistant, Shiori Goshiki, declares them to be engaged to be married.

Amagakure Good! Afternoon magazine on April 7, 2020.

The television WOWOW. The channel will air the anime's first episode for free in Japan.

Blood: The Last Vampire, Vladlove) is overseeing and writing the scripts.

The novel series' story is set in a world in the chaotic aftermath of humanity's apocalyptic Last War. A great forest, infested with flameling creatures and other fallen beasts, covers the world, and pockets of humanity live in small protected communities. Due to a special weapon used in the Last War, human beings spontaneously burst into flame even when merely getting close to a small source of fire. The only safe energy source for humanity lies within the bodies of flamelings, and the duty to hunt them falls to the sickle-wielding firecatchers who brave the depths of the great forest. Among the firecatchers, they whisper tales of one who would be "Firecatcher Lord," an individual who will be able to harvest the fire of the thousand-year comet, the "Wandering Spark" that has flown in the sky since it was sent up before the Last War, but is now returning to earth.

The story begins with Tōko, a young girl from a paper-making town who finds herself in the forbidden forest, assailed by flamelings, when a flamecatcher rushes to protect her. In another place, a young capital-born boy named Kōshi shelters his younger sister after losing his mother to factory poison.

RahXephon character designer Akihiro Yamada. Hinata published the fourth book in the series on September 3, 2020, followed by a side-story volume on December 21, 2021.

The Jijou wo Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru.) manga will debut in 2023.

licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

One lonely, gloomy fifth-grade girl is the target of her classmates' relentless bullying and teasing—that is, until a new kid arrives on the scene. Friendly Takada is as clueless as he is well-meaning, but somehow he possesses the magic ability to start drawing "Grim Reaper" Nishimura out of her shell. As the elementary schoolers experience all the fun of a childhood summer together—from going to the pool to picking sunflowers to watching fireworks—an unusual friendship blossoms!

Naruto) is composing the music.

Kawamura launched the manga in Gangan Joker magazine in May 2018. Square Enix published the manga's first compiled book volume in October 2018, and it will publish the 13th volume on November 22. Square Enix Manga & Books will publish the first volume in English on March 7, and the second volume on June 6.

Update: Crunchyroll also announced it will stream the third season of the Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac CG anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East and CIS. The company did not give a release window.

Source: Press release



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