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KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world! 3 Anime Reveals 3 New Cast , Returning Cast, Staff in New Video
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A stage presentation at the KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!! anime, on Sunday. The video revealed the returning cast, staff, and three new cast for the anime's third season.
The event also revealed a Celebration Movie for the anime's 10th anniversary.
The anime's new cast are:
The anime's returning cast includes:
- Jun Fukushima as Kazuma Satō
- Sora Amamiya as Aqua
- Rie Takahashi as Megumin
- Ai Kayano as Darkness
- Sayuri Hara as Luna
- Tetsu Inada as Ruffian
- Ayaka Suwa as Chris
- Yui Horie as Wiz
- Masakazu Nishida as Vanir
- Aki Toyosaki as Yunyun
- Takuya Eguchi as Kyōya Mitsurugi
Previous anime director Koichi Kikuta is returning as character designer.
Other returning staff are:
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
- Recording: Takayuki Yamaguchi
- Sound Production: HALF H・P STUDIO
- Music: Masato Kōda
- Music Production: Nippon Columbia
The first main television anime season premiered in January 2016, and the second season premiered in January 2017. screened the film in the United States in November 2019.
The television Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! spinoff novel series premiered on April 5, and it aired for 12 episodes.
Writer Natsume Akatsuki and illustrator Kurone Mishima's Konosuba light novel series centers on Kazuma, a shut-in student who dies in a traffic accident, but meets the goddess Aqua after death. He is given the chance to reincarnate in a fantasy world and can keep one thing with him. When he decides to choose Aqua herself, they are both transported to their new lives. The pair go on quests to earn just enough to buy food, shelter, and clothing, and eventually hire the sorceress Megumin and swordswoman Darkness, who they quickly learn are just as useless as they are.
The main novel series ended with the 17th volume in May 2020. Akatsuki also wrote the spinoff novels, and Mishima served as illustrator for the spinoff. Akatsuki launched the spinoff novels in 2014, and the series includes three novels and two sequel series novels.
Kasumi Morino's manga adaptation in English.
The franchise also includes more manga and several video games.
Sources: Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko 35th Anniversary Festival livestream, KONOSUBA anime's Twitter , Press release
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