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Aniplus Asia Airs Simulcast of The Witch and the Beast, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 2nd Stage Anime
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Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki (Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun) light novel series.
Aniplus-Asia is streaming an English-subtitled trailer for The Witch and the Beast.
releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Guideau: a feral girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast. Ashaf: a soft-spoken man with delicate features and a coffin strapped to his back. This ominous pair appears one day in a town that's in thrall to a witch, who has convinced the townsfolk she's their hero. But Ashaf and Guideau know better. They have scores to settle, and they won't hesitate to remove anyone in their way…
Previously announced cast include:
- Yō Taichi as Guideau
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ashaf
- Yōko Hikasa as Ione
- Noriko Shibasaki as Mary
- Junko Minagawa as Kiera Haines
- Hidenobu Kiuchi as Reuben Cole
- Atsushi Kousaka as Shulk
- Takuma Terashima as Loran
- Saori Hayami as Phanora Kristoffel
- Ryota Ohsaka as Johan
- Hozumi Gōda as Jeff Enker
- Nozomu Sasaki as Necromancer
- Miyu Tomita as Helga Velvet
- Rintarō Nishi as the magic sword Ashugan
- Akira Ishida as Matt Cougar
- Kazuhiro Yamaji as the executioner
- Kousei Hirota as Farmas
- Yū Kobayashi as Lowell
Yoshino Nanjō will perform the ending theme song "Hikari no Trill" (Trill of Light).
The anime's second season features a returning staff and cast. DIALOGUE+ performs the anime's opening theme song "Easy? Hard? Shikashite Susume!" (Easy? Hard? But Let's Move On!), as well as the ending theme song "Dareka Janai Kara" (Because It's Not Someone). DIALOGUE+ also performed the first season's theme songs.
The first anime aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan.
releasing the novel series in English in North America, and it describes the story:
Tomozaki is one of the best gamers in Japan, and in his opinion, the game of real life is one of the worst. No clear-cut rules for success, horribly balanced, and nothing makes sense. But then he meets a gamer who's just as good as him, and she offers to teach him a few exploits…
The anime also received two aired the first OVA episode in July 2021.
