So, I guess you won’t have to worry about missing that Clash of Clans fix?
Earlier today, the official In Another World With My Smartphone (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomoni) anime website updated with a new promotional video. The 105-second teaser introduces the show’s major cast members, as a narrator explains the core concept behind the series.
The confirmed cast includes:
- Touya Mochizuki: Katsumi Fukuhara
- Elze Silhoueska: Maaya Uchida
- Linze Silhoueska: Yui Fukuo
- Yae Kokonoe: Chinatsu Akasaki
- Yumina Urnea Belfast: Marika Kōno
- Sushie Urnea Ortlinde: Nanami Yamashita
- Leen: Sumire Uesaka
- Kohaku: Yuki Kaida
In Another World With My Smartphone will hit Japanese TV starting July 11. The full broadcast schedule is as follows:
- AT-X: 7/11/2017 at 20:30 (7/11/2017 at 8:30PM)
- BS11: 7/12/2017 at 25:00 (7/13/2017 at 1:00AM)
- Tokyo MX: 7/13/2017 at 22:00 (7/13/2017 at 10:00PM)
The show is based on Patora Fuyuhara and illustrator Eiji Usatsuka’s light novels of the same name. Yuji Yanase (Himegoto, Onsen Yōsei Hakone-chan) will direct the series at Production Reed, with the team of Toshihide Masutate (Elf Princess Rane, Papillon Rose), Masahiro Sekuguchi, and Miyako Nishida (Rainbow Days) providing character designs. Natsuko Takahashi (My Love Story!!, Long Riders!) is in charge of series composition.
Opening theme song Another World will be performed by AOP. Closing theme Junjou Emotional (Pure Heart Emotional) will be handled by lead actresses Maaya Uchida, Yui Fukuo, Chinatsu Akasaki, Marika Kōno, Nanami Yamashita, and Sumire Uesaka.
The In Another World With My Smartphone light novels are currently published by Hobby Japan under their HJ Novels imprint. Eight books have been published to date, with the most recent hitting stores on March 23.
J-Novel Club currently holds the rights to the original novel series. They describe the series as:
After a freak accident involving some lightning winds up zapping him dead, 15-year-old Mochizuki Touya wakes up to find himself face-to-face with God. “I am afraid to say that I have made a bit of a blunder…” laments the old coot. But all is not lost! God says that he can reincarnate Touya into a world of fantasy, and as a bonus, he gets to bring his smartphone along with! So begins Touya’s adventure in a new, anachronistic pseudo-medieval world. Friends! Laughs! Tears! Inexplicable Deus ex Machina! He sets off on a journey full of wonder as he absentmindedly travels from place to place, following whatever goal catches his fancy. The curtains lift on an epic tale of swords, sorcery, and smartphone apps!
Several character visuals were previously released to promote the series, which you can check out below:
Source: MoCa News
Update 5/24/2017: We made a change to the character names to use J-Novel Club’s name spellings. The publisher confirmed that their character name spellings are the official English ones, despite the way the names are presented in the promotional video.