It’s time for Hero-King Inglis to be reincarnated, but this time he continues his quest to master the blade as a lady squire to beat others in battle and become a blad master in the TV anime adaptation of the Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire light novel series written by Hayaken and illustrated by Nagu. The adaptation got a kingdom-load of announcements today, including revealing that the series will premiere in 2023, the staff and cast, the first key visual, the first trailer, and the character design setting for the two lead blade wielders.
The voice actors for Inglis and Lafilia return from the previous web short for the light novels:
Akari Kito (Nezuko in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) as Inglis
Ai Kakuma (Eris in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) as Lafilia
Naoyuki Kuzuya (Bus Gamer) directs the Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire TV anime at Studio Comet with Mitsutaka Hirota (Rent-a-Girlfriend) writing the series composition, Reiichiro Ofuji (Fairy Ranmaru) adapting the character designs for animation alongside Tomoko Miyakawa (Fairy Ranmaru), Rion Matsuda (Fairy Ranmaru), and Maki Fukui (Fairy Ranmaru) as sub-character designers, Kenta Higashiohji (Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle) as the music composer, Fumiyuki Go (Overlord) directing the sound design, and Emi Takanashi (Gatchaman Crowds) as the sound effects engineer. Ofuji, Miyakawa and Matsuda will also be performing the chief animation director duties with Masayuki Nomoto (Fairy Ranmaru).
The original Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire light novels are published in Japan by Hobby Japan under their HJ Bunko imprint, and an English language version of the series is also available from J-Novel Club, which describes the story as follows:
From his deathbed, Hero-King Inglis, the divine knight and master of all he surveys, gazes down on the empire he built with his mighty hand. Having devoted his life to statecraft and his subjects’ well-being, his one unfulfilled wish is to live again, for himself this time: a warrior’s life he’d devoted himself to before his rise to power. His patron goddess, Alistia, hears his plea and smiles upon him, flinging his soul into the far future. Goddesses work in mysterious ways—not only is Inglis now the daughter of a minor noble family, but at her first coming-of-age ceremony at 6, she’s found ineligible to begin her knighthood! However, for a lady of Inglis’s ambition, this is less a setback and more the challenge she was (re)born to overcome. “It’s not the blood that runs through your veins that makes a knight; it’s the blood you shed on the battlefield!” The curtain rises on the legend of an extraordinary lady squire reborn to master the blade!
The Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire TV anime is scheduled to premiere at some point in 2023.
Source: Comic Natalie
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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs the YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
