A Tale of the Secret Saint Sets October 3 Premiere, Adds Kikunosuke Toya
ABEMA and Amazon Prime Video will launch with two episodes, then stream later installments a week before Japanese TV.
A Tale of the Secret Saint will premiere on October 3 after moving from April. Kikunosuke Toya joins the cast as Curtis Bannister, captain of the 13th Knight Brigade.
The official anime website announced an October 3 premiere and another cast member on Monday through the show's main promotional video. The series adapts storywriter Touya and illustrator chibi's A Tale of the Secret Saint (Tensei Shita Daiseijo wa, Seijo de Aru Koto wo Hitakakusu) light novels.
Kikunosuke Toya will voice Curtis Bannister, captain of the 13th Knight Brigade.
The broadcast and streaming schedule is:
- Tokyo MX and BS11: October 3 at 10:00 p.m.
- Sun TV: October 3 at 10:30 p.m.
- AT-X: October 5.
- ABEMA and Amazon Prime Video: The first two episodes arrive October 3 at 10:00 p.m. Subsequent episodes will stream one week before their Japanese TV broadcasts.
The premiere moved from April to October so the team could make the series more enjoyable for viewers.
The previously announced cast includes the following. Some character names have unofficial romanizations.
- Shion Wakayama as Fia Ruud
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Zavilia
- Yūichirō Umehara as Saviz Nav
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Cyril Sutherland
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Desmond Ronan
- Daiki Hamano as Zackary Townsend
- Tomokazu Sugita as Quentin Agutter
- Yukari Tamura as Clarissa Abanecy
- Shunichi Toki as Enoch
- Daiki Yamashita as Fabian Winer
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Charlotte
Felix Film is producing the animation. The staff includes:
- Director: Tomoe Makino, whose credits include both seasons of Aharen-san wa Hakarenai and Woodpecker Detective's Office.
- Assistant director: Naoki Murata, an episode director on Planet With, Teasing Master Takagi-san, and Sasaki and Miyano.
- Series scripts supervisor: Deko Akao, whose credits include Higehiro, Komi Can't Communicate, and Flying Witch.
- Character designer: Satomi Kurita, whose credits include Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start With Magical Tools and Princess Connect! Re:Dive.
- Composer: Kenichiro Suehiro, whose credits include the Golden Kamuy and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- franchises.
- Sound director: Ryōsuke Naya, whose credits include Spy Classroom and Summer Pockets.
Kaya sings the opening theme, “Flare of Soul.” SUPA LOVE's Hiroaki Suzuki wrote its lyrics, composed the music, and handled the arrangement.
Utahime Dream All Stars sing the ending theme, “Stellar.” KEYTONE's Kyōichi Miyazaki and RUCCA wrote the lyrics. Miyazaki also composed the song, while KEYTONE's Hiroto Kikuchi arranged it.
Seven Seas publishes the light novels and main manga adaptation in English. Its synopsis follows Fia, an aspiring knight from a family of knights. Despite having the least talent in her family, she holds onto her dream and trains with everything she has.
Tasked with killing a small demon to prove herself, Fia instead encounters a dragon. A fatal injury sends her life flashing before her eyes. She recalls being a powerful Saint in an earlier era who defeated the Demon King.
Her identity as a Saint brought that life to a painful end, leaving her afraid to become one again. With her former magic reawakened, she could surpass her dreams as a knight—provided she survives.
Touya launched the ongoing original story on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) in January 2019. Earth Star Entertainment started publishing print editions with chibi's illustrations in June 2019.
The novels placed second in the Tankōbon and Novel rankings of Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) guidebook. They held that position in both the 2025 edition, released in November 2024, and the 2024 edition, released in November 2023.
Mahito Aobe began the main manga adaptation in Comic Earth Star in November 2019.
Seven Seas also publishes the prequel light novels, A Tale of the Secret Saint ZERO (Tensei Shita Daiseijo wa, Seijo de Aru Koto wo Hitakakusu: ZERO), in English. Earth Star Entertainment launched the prequel novels in July 2022.
Shiina started adapting the prequels into manga on Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star manga website in October 2023.
The book franchise has over 3.5 million copies in circulation.
Sources: A Tale of the Secret Saint anime's website via ANN
