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Home » Konosuba Anime Announces New Trailer, New Cast, and April 2023 Debut

Konosuba Anime Announces New Trailer, New Cast, and April 2023 Debut

By Janiene LerioDecember 5, 2022

Kadokawa has begun streaming the second promotional video for Natsume Akatsuki and Kurone Mishima’s Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!, a television anime. On Sunday, a spinoff novel series will be released. The teaser reveals more cast and team members, as well as the anime’s launch date of April 2023.

The New Cast includes:

  • Maria Naganawa (the voice of Kanna from Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid) as Komekko
  • Kaori Nazuka (the voice of Uta Sohma from One Piece) as Arue
  • Miyu Tomita (the voice of Miko Iino from Love is War) as Funifura
  • Sayumi Suzushiro (the voice of Kei Shirogane from Love is War) as Dodonko
  • Shizuka Ishigami (the voice of Ikumi Mito from Food Wars) as Nerimaki

Watch the New Trailer Here

Rie Takahashi will play Megumin, and Aki Toyosaki will play Yunuyun in the spinoff. Megumin and her Crimson Magic Clan are the focus of the spinoff novels.

Takaomi Kanasaki, a prior anime director, will be the anime’s chief director at Drive (Studio DEEN animated the previous two seasons, and J.C. Staff animated the film). The series is directed by Yujiro Abe (Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Great Pretender episode director). Makoto Uezu is back in charge of the series writing, and character designer Koichi Kikuta is back. Masato Koda returns to compose the music.

The same team will also work on the main KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this glorious planet!! third television anime season!! anime.

The Konosuba light book series by Natsume Akatsuki and Kurone Mishima is about Kazuma, a shut-in student who dies in a traffic accident but meets the goddess Aqua after death. He is offered the opportunity to reincarnate in a fantasy world and is allowed to bring one item with him. When he chooses Aqua for himself, they are both transported to their new lives. They go on missions to earn just enough money to buy food, shelter, and clothing, and eventually, hire the sorceress Megumin and swordswoman Darkness, both of whom they rapidly discover is just as useless as they are.

The main novel series concluded in May 2020 with the 17th volume. Akatsuki also wrote spinoff novels, which were illustrated by Mishima.

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A Romance and Slice-of-Life Anime enthusiast who's currently hyper-fixated on One Piece may not be ideal in a perfect world, but it's the best description that describes me! I have been writing for as long as I can remember and being able to combine writing with another one of my hobbies is such a joy.

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