The official web site for the tv anime adaptation of Daisuke Aizawa‘s The Eminence in Shadow (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!) gentle novel collection revealed the present’s three foremost forged members on Wednesday.

Seiichirō Yamashita as Cid Kagenou / Shadow

Kana Hanazawa as Alexia Midgar

Yōko Hikasa as Iris Midgar

The anime will premiere in 2022.

Kazuya Nakanishi (chief animation director for Darwin’s Recreation) is directing the anime at Nexus (Darwin’s Recreation, Granbelm). Makoto Iino (Suppose a Child From the Final Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter City, Demon Lord, Retry!) is adapting Tōzai‘s authentic character designs for animation. Kanichi Katou (Black Clover, These Snow White Notes) is overseeing the collection scripts.

Yen Press licensed each the sunshine novels and the manga adaptation, and it describes the primary quantity:

Even in his previous life, Cid’s dream wasn’t to turn into a protagonist or a ultimate boss. He’d fairly lie low as a minor character till it is prime time to disclose he is a mastermind…or not less than, do the subsequent greatest thing-pretend to be one! And now that he is been reborn into one other world, he is able to set the right situations to reside out his desires to the fullest. Armed together with his overactive creativeness, Cid jokingly recruits members to his group and makes up an entire backstory about an evil cult that they should take down. Nicely, as luck would have it, these imaginary adversaries change into the true deal-and everybody is aware of the reality however him!

Aizawa started serializing the story on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” (Let’s Change into Novelists) web site in Could 2018, and Kadokawa started publishing the story in bodily volumes with artwork by Tōzai, starting with the primary quantity in November 2018. Anri Sakano launched the manga adaptation in Kadokawa‘s Comp Ace journal in December 2018. Seta U launched a by-product manga titled Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Shadow Gaiden (The Eminence in Shadow – Shadow Aspect Story) in Comp Ace in July 2019.

Sources: The Eminence in Shadow anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie