A promo video revealed at the Dengeki Bunko Winter Festival Online 2021 event announced new cast, staff, and release date information for the upcomingThe Devil is a Part-Timer!!anime.
The newseries will debutin July during the Summer 2022 anime season, though an episode count has not yet been revealed.
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A new key visual featuring the main cast was also featured alongside the promo video. Hina Kino will join the main cast as Alas Ramus, a strange young girl who was born from an apple. Kino has most notably voiced Confessional Daughter in theThus Spoke Kishibe RohanOVA series, as well asHanako Honda inAsobi Asobase.
Daisuke Tsukushi will serve as director forthe new series, with Studio 3Hz taking over from White Fox. Tsukushi has worked on a variety of anime projects over the years, having directed episodes ofFull Metal Panic! Invisible Victory,Higurashi: When They Cry,My Hero Academia, and most recentlyJujutsu Kaisen.
Studio 3Hz was founded in March 2013 and has produceda handful of anime series, OVAs, and films over the years. They’ve most notably worked on 2017sPrincess Principal, and 2018sSword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online. 3Hz has also done the opening animations for Nihon Falcom’sTokyo Xanadu,Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana,The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, andThe Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IVgames.
Satoshi Wagahara’sThe Devil Is a Part-Timer!light novel ran in ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko imprint from 2011-2020, spanning 27 collected volumes. Amanga adaptationwith illustrations by Akio Hiiragi currently runs in the Dengeki Daioh magazine, with 16 collected volumes printed so far.
Studio White Fox produced the first anime series, which aired during the Spring 2013 Season. The series was directed byFuture Diary, andJuni Taisen: Zodiac Wardirector Naoto Hosoda. Atsushi Itagaki served as the first season’s character designer but will be replaced by Yūdai Iino and Yoshihiro Takeda for the second season.
Yen Press publishes the light novel, manga adaptation, andThe Devil Is a Part-Timer! High School!spin-off manga in English. Funimation streamed the first season as it aired, and released the series for home video in 2014.
