Ahead of an October 2024 broadcast, the official website and accounts for the Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi (The Story of the Girl Who Couldn’t Become a Wizard) anime today announced that Lily Hoshino (Penguindrum) is in charge of original character designs for the series, while also revealing a new visual (above), a full trailer and the main cast.
Hana Hishikawa (Yui in Delicious Party Precure) will star as Kurumi Mirai, an innocent girl who dreams of becoming a wizard, and Misuzu Yamada (Michela in Reign of the Seven Spellblades) will voice Yuzu Edel, the distinguished daughter of a proud wizarding family.
Kurumi Mirai
Yuzu Edel
Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi is the second TV anime series from Project ANIMA, an animation initiative launched in 2017 by DeNA, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Sotsu, and MBS. The anime is based on the novel by Yuzuki Akasaka, which was the winner of the project’s “Parallel World / Fantasy” category.
Project ANIMA is an open competition project to create original animation works that represent the 2020s, and SAKUGAN, the winner of its “Science Fiction and Robot Animation” category,” was made into a TV anime in 2021.
Studio J.C.STAFF is producing the animation with the following staff members:
Chief Director: Takashi Watanabe (Shakugan no Shana)
Director: Masato Matsune (Reign of the Seven Spellblades)
Series Composer: Hiroko Kanasugi (Drug Store in Another World)
Character Designer: Mai Matsuura
Music Composer: Yoko Shimomura (Legend of Manga -The Teardrop Crystal-)
Music Arrangers: Hayato Matsuo, Dai Haraguchi, Miku Yoshikawa
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Art Director: Kentaro Izumi
Color Designer: Mika Funabashi
Director of Photography: Yurina Yagi
Editor: Hitomi Sudo
Source: Comic Natalie
