Anime

November 6, 2025

New Cast Members Unveiled in The Banished Court Magician Animes Second Promo

The team behind the upcoming television adaptation of “The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest” has unveiled a new key visual and the main promotional video, along with three additional cast members. This exciting news was shared on Thursday.

The newly announced cast includes:

Yōko Hikasa as Olivia

Kishō Taniyama as Gloria

Shōgo Sakata as Melea Dial

The series premiered on October 4 at 11:30 p.m. on TV Asahi’s “IMAnimation” programming block. Additionally, it airs on BS Asahi and AT-X, and streams in Japan on ABEMA, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai.

Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs and also offers an English dub.

Previously announced cast members include Ken Takahashi, who is directing the anime at Gekkō with Masamune Hirata as the assistant director. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu is in charge of the series scripts, and Yōko Satō is designing the characters with Nobuhide Hayashi as the sub-character designer. Both Satō and Hayashi are also credited as the chief animation directors. Diosta Inc. and High Speed Boy Inc. are composing the music.

Other staff members include Yoshiki Kuga and Recommendation as the monster designers, Kōh Kawarajima as the monster animation director, Yoshihiro Ujiie and Yuzuki Sekine as the prop, weapon, and accessory designers, Manabu Otsuzuki as the art director, Kusanagi for the art backgrounds, Shingo Kanai for the art boards, Ryōta Katsuta and Maki Yamamoto as the color key artists, Hisashi Akimoto as the 3D director, Shigeki Asakawa as the compositing director of photography, Nobuyuki Abe as the sound director, and On-Lead for sound production.

Kiroro Akiyama performs the opening theme song “Quest,” and aruma performs the ending theme song “Kakera” (Fragment).

The story revolves around Alec Ygret, a magician who once supported the crown prince in clearing dungeons. After being dismissed by the prince for his limited magical abilities, Alec is contacted by an old friend, Yorha, who seeks his help to venture back into the dungeons.

Alto began serializing the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in October 2020, and the series continues to be ongoing. Kodansha published the first volume of the print version of the story with illustrations by Yuunagi in August 2021, and the fifth volume in August 2024.

Yuki Monji launched the manga adaptation of the story one month earlier than the first volume of the print novel in July 2021 in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket app. Kodansha published the manga’s 15th compiled book volume on April 9. Kodansha’s K MANGA app is releasing the manga in English.