The official website for From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!, the television anime adaptation of Michiro Ueyama‘s Akuyaku Reijō Tensei Oji-san (The Middle-Aged Man that Reincarnated as a Villainess) manga, revealed two more cast members on Thursday.
The new cast members include:
Yuna Kamakura as Garnet, a half-elf and professor at the royal magic academy
Hōchū Ōtsuka as Headmaster, a powerful wizard and head of the royal magic academy
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The anime will premiere on MBS and TBS and its 28 affiliate channels in the Super Animeism TURBO programming block on January 9. HIDIVE will stream the series as it airs.
The anime will star:
Tetsuya Takeuchi (I couldn’t become a hero, so I reluctantly decided to get a job. chief animation director, director of Yuri Seijin Naoko-san) is directing the anime at Ajia-do. Shingo Irie (scriptwriter for Golden Kamuy first four seasons, all three seasons of Log Horizon) is overseeing the series scripts, Haruka Matsunae (Ascendance of a Bookworm) is designing the characters, and Yuki Miyamoto (key animation for Ascendance of a Bookworm) is the monster designer. Music composers include: Natsumi Tabuchi, Misaki Tsuchida, Tsugumi Tanaka, Reiko Abe, and Kaho Sawada.
Cider Girl is performing the opening theme song “Choose!!!”
The manga centers on Kenzaburō Tondabayashi, a 52-year-old public servant who one day gets into a traffic accident. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself reincarnated into a fantasy world’s academy, reborn now as the haughty Grace Auvergne, daughter of a duke.
Ueyama (Zoids, Tsumanuda Fight Town) launched the manga in Shonengahosha‘s Monthly Youngking Ours GH magazine in March 2020.
Source: From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! anime’s website via Ota-Suke
