Kadokawa announced on Wednesday the television anime adaptation of Kazuki Kaburagi’s light novel series, Magic Maker ~Isekai Mahō no Tsukurikata~ (How to Perform Alternate World Magic). Along with the announcement, a teaser visual, teaser trailer, main cast, staff, and a 2025 premiere date were revealed.
The anime will star Megumi Han as Shion and Ai Kakuma as Marie.
Kazuomi Koga (The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases, Caressing My Hibernating Bear) is directing the anime at Studio DEEN. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Demon Girl Next Door, Go, Go, Loser Ranger!) is overseeing the series scripts.
Takayuki Noguchi (Cinderella Nine, The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy) is the character designer. Kei Yoshikawa (In Another World With My Smartphone, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE) and Kana Hashiguchi (Classroom of the Elite, The Tale of Outcasts) are composing the music, with TOY’S FACTORY handling music production.
Magicless Reincarnation” Novel Explores New World’s Mysteries in Manga Adaptation
The novel’s story centers on a man who dies in the modern world while harboring a longing for magic and is reincarnated in another world as a baby named Shion. Hoping that magic exists in this new world, Shion is disappointed to find out it does not.
One day, while visiting a lake with his sister Marie, Shion witnesses a mysterious phenomenon that resembles magic. Determined to be a pioneer of magic in another world, Shion begins his research.
Kaburagi launched the light novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2017, and it is ongoing. Kadokawa published the first volume with illustrations by Ten in May 2020, followed by the second volume in December 2020.
Tomozō Nishioka launched the manga adaptation on the Manga Doa app in June 2021. Mag Garden published the manga’s first compiled volume in December 2021, and the third volume in February 2023.
