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The Irregular at Magic High School Season 3 Posts Character Video for Miyuki Shiba
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The official website of The irregular at magic high school anime's new sequel television series started streaming a character promotional video for Miyuki Shiba, voiced by Saori Hayami, on Sunday.
To commemorate the third season, the anime will hold a "Magic High School Entrance Exam" on a special website from March 1-15. The website will launch on February 12 at 6:00 p.m. JST (4:00 a.m. EST) with a practice exercise workbook for the exam. Also on that same day, the main Animate GAMERS branch in Tokyo and the Animate Osaka Nipponbashi store will hand out physical exercise workbooks. People who take the examination and share their results can enter a drawing for student identification cards.
Hayami is a returning cast member from the anime's previous seasons. Other returning cast members are:
- Yūichi Nakamura as Tatsuya Shiba
- Kiyono Yasuno as Minami Sakurai
- Yumi Uchiyama as Erika Chiba
- Takuma Terashima as Leonhart Saijo
- Satomi Satou as Mizuki Shibata
- Atsushi Tamaru as Mikihiko Yoshida
- Sora Amamiya as Honoka Mitsui
- Yuiko Tatsumi as Shizuku Kitayama
- Maaya Uchida as Ayako Kuroba
- Emiri Katō as Fumiya Kuroba
- Kana Hanazawa as Mayumi Saegusa
- Eri Kitamura as Kasumi Saegusa
- Aoi Yūki as Izumi Saegusa
- Kōji Yusa as Zhou Gongjin
The season's new cast members include Kikunosuke Toya as Minoru Kudou, Tatsumaru Tachibana as Takuma Shippou, and Houchu Ohtsuka will play the role of Retsu Kudō. He replaces Motomu Kiyokawa, who passed away in 2022.
The anime's new season will premiere in April on the Tokyo MX, BS11, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, MBS, and TV Aichi channels.
Jimmy Stone, an animation director and episode director on the previous anime projects in the franchise, is the director of the new series at returning studio 8-Bit. Taku Iwasaki (Black Butler, Bungo Stray Dogs, Gurren Lagann) is returning to compose the music. LiSA is performing the opening theme song "Shouted Serenade."
Additional staff includes:
- Script: Munemasa Nakamoto
- Character Designer/Chief Animation Director: Kana Ishida
- Sub-Character Designer: Asumi Hashimoto
- Mechanic/Prop Design: Kō Inaba
- Art Design: Yuuho Taniuchi
- Art Director: Kouki Nagayoshi
- Art: H・E・D WORKS
- Color Design: Sakura Komatsu
- Monitor Graphics Design: Yousuke Nanjou
- CG Director: Masaya Machida (Stimulus Image)
- Compositing Director of Photography: Takeshi Hirooka (Nexus)
- Editing: Kashiko Kimura (MAD BOX)
- Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
- Casting Manager: Kumiko Suzuki
- Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
Tsutomu Satou's The irregular at magic high school (Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei) light novel series launched in 2008, and ended with the 32nd volume in September 2020. Two sequels shipped in October 2020 and January 2021.
Yen Press publishes the original The irregular at magic high school light novel series and Yu Mori's The Honor Student at Magic High School spinoff manga.
The irregular at magic high school TV anime premiered in April 2014 and aired for 26 episodes. A second season, titled The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc, premiered in October 2020 and ran for 13 episodes. The anime franchise also includes the The irregular at magic high school The Movie: The Girl Who Summons the Stars film, which opened in Japan in June 2017.
The Honor Student at Magic High School manga inspired a 13-episode TV anime that premiered on July 3, 2021.
Sources: The irregular at magic high school anime's website, Comic Natalie
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