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Arifureta Anime Gets First Teaser Trailer


Earlier today, the official Arifureta – From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō) anime website updated with a new teaser trailer. The 96-second promo confirms the major voice cast and staff members, as it cuts between character shots and action sequences.

The Arifureta anime will hit Japanese TV in July 2019. The series was originally slated to air in April, but saw a delay due to “various circumstances” that was announced in January.

Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest Anime VisualKinji Yoshimoto (Plastic Little, I couldn’t become a hero, so I reluctantly decided to get a job.) was tapped to direct Arifureta at studios White Fox and asread, with Chika Kojima (Big Order) providing character designs.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Hajime Nagumo: Toshinari Fukamachi
  • Yue: Yūki Kuwahara
  • Shea: Minami Takahashi

Arifureta: From Commonplace To World’s Strongest is currently published by Overlap, Inc. The series first hit bookstores on June 25, 2015 and spans eight volumes, with the latest hitting retailers on March 25.

J-Novel Club currently holds the rights to the Arifureta light novels. They described the series as:

Seventeen year old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They’re treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku’s wet dream quickly turns into Hajime’s nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime’s job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith’s level of strength?

Source: Animate Times

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