The Eminence in Shadow TV Anime Reveals Its Reincarnated Main Cast

 

While we may have already seen the isekai'd characters of The Eminence in Shadow TV anime in action in the first teaser trailer, the main cast for the adaptation of the Daisuke Aizawa-written and Tozai-illustrated light novel was announced today, giving us a name to the voices to the characters we'll be meeting in 2022.

 

Seiichiro Yamashita (Raiden Shuga in 86 EIGHTY-SIX) is voicing Cid Kageno

 

 

Kana Hanazawa (Nadeko Sengoku in Monogatari) is voicing Alexia Midgar

 

Yoko Hikasa (Mio Akiyama in K-ON!) is voicing Iris Midgar

 

Kazuya Nakanishi (chief animation director on Darwin's Game) will be directing The Eminence in Shadow at anime studio Nexus, with Kanichi Kato (Black Clover series composer from episode 153 to170) providing the scripts, and Makoto Iino (Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town?) adapting the light novel character designs for animation.

 

The original The Eminence in Shadow light novel is written by Daisuke Aizawa and illustrated by Tozai, with four volumes currently released in Japanese. Yen Press releases the series in English, with three volumes currently available. Yen Press describes the first volume as such:

 

Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down. Well, as luck would have it, these imaginary adversaries turn out to be the real deal-and everyone knows the truth but him!

 

The Eminence in Shadow TV anime is scheduled to start sometime in 2022.

 

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. 

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