Black Summoner Isekai Novel to Get TV Anime

Overlap has announced that Doufu Mayoi and Kurogin‘s Black Summoner (Kuro no Shōkanshi) light novel series is inspiring a television anime series that will premiere this year.

Staff

The staff for the anime are:

• Yoshimasa Hiraike (Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, Sketchbook ~full color’S~, AKB0048), directing at Satelight and overseeing series scripts
• Miwa Oshima (Ao-chan Can’t Study!, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!), designing the characters for animation

Main Cast Members

Main cast for the anime has also been revealed:

• Koki Uchiyama (Jujutsu Kaisen, Kingdom Hearts) as Kelvin
• Manaka Iwami (Fruits Basket reboot anime, Magia Record) as Efil
• Reina Ueda (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, SSSS.Gridman) as Melfina

About the Story

Black Summoner is a popular Isekai light novel series and it follows a young man named Kelvin as he wakes up in another world and discovers that he agreed to exchange memories of his previous life for high-level skills in summoning and magic. Determined to fight the strongest of enemies in his new life as an adventurer, he sets out dressed in black in search of his next battle.

J Novel club licenses both the novels and manga adaptations and it describes the series as such:

Waking up in a strange new place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns that he’s bartered away those very memories in exchange for powerful new abilities during his recent transmigration. Heading out into a whole new world as a Summoner — with his first Follower being the very goddess who brought him over! — Kelvin begins his new life as an adventurer, and it isn’t long before he discovers his hidden disposition as a battle junkie. From the Black Knight of the Ancient Castle of Evil Spirits to the demon within the Hidden Cave of the Sage, he revels in the fight against one formidable foe after another. Join this OP adventurer in an exhilarating and epic saga as he and his allies carve their way into the annals of history!

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