The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World adds five voices for season 2
Five more cast members have joined the second season of The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World. Announced on Tuesday, they will appear in the fifth episode on Thursday.
Yūki Wakai will voice Cathy Alferius, with Toshiyuki Morikawa playing Abel Alferius, among the additions to the television adaptation of Nana Mikoshiba's light novel series The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World (Hyōken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu - Sekai Saikyō no Majutsushi de Aru Shōnen wa, Majutsu Gakuin ga Nyūgaku Suru).
The five newly announced performers are listed in their left-to-right order in the announcement image. The romanized spellings of their characters' names have not been confirmed:
- Yūki Wakai as Cathy Alferius
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Abel Alferius
- Tetsu Inada as Cyril Alferius
- Daiki Hamano as Lard Alferius
- Riona Imaizumi as Mia
Returning cast members include:
- Junya Enoki as Ray White
- Iori Saeki as Amelia Ros
- Akira Sekine as Ariane Olgren
- Azumi Waki as Rebecca Bradley
- Kaede Hondo as Clarisse Cleveland
- Yūichirō Umehara as Evi Armstrong
- Kōhei Amasaki as Albert Allium
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Stella White
- Sōichirō Hoshi as Lucas Forst
- Haruka Shiraishi as Lizelotte Eden
Other newcomers announced earlier are:
- Hana Hishikawa as Olivia Arnold
- Ryōhei Kimura as Julius Orphe
- Aoi Koga as Bianca Miller
- Konomi Kohara as Emma Clarke
- Shiki Aoki as Maria Bradley
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Marius Basset
Miyu Kubota voices Elisa Griffith, taking over from Nana Harumura, who retired from voice acting in January because of health issues.
Masahiro Takata returns as director, scriptwriter, series script supervisor and sound director for the second season. Zero-G is handling animation production, following Cloud Hearts' work on the first season. The writing team also includes returning first-season scriptwriter Tomoko Shinozuka and Takahito Ōnishi, whose credits include Whisper Me a Love Song and My Happy Marriage. Mariko Kawamoto (Magica Wars) replaces Makoto Shimojima as character designer.
Sizuk performs the opening song, "Diamond Dust," while Maaya Uchida performs the ending song, "Compression :[."
The second season debuted on TBS on October 8 at 1:23 a.m. Its BS11 run began on October 9 at 11:00 p.m. Crunchyroll streams the series as it airs.
Kodansha USA Publishing licenses the manga. Its story description introduces the elite Arnold Academy of Magic and Ray White, a seemingly ordinary, clumsy student with little apparent magical ability. Rumors suggest that the Iceblade Sorcerer, one of the great magicians, has enrolled with the new class, raising the question of whether Ray has a connection to the mysterious newcomer.
The television anime's first season premiered in January 2023. Crunchyroll streamed it during its Japanese broadcast and also released an English dub.
Mikoshiba began publishing the original story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in October 2019. The light novel edition, illustrated by Riko Korie, launched in July 2020. Kodansha publishes the print novels in Japan.
Norihito Sasaki's manga adaptation ran on Magazine Pocket from June 2020 to January 2024. Its 16th and final collected volume shipped in April 2024.
The sequel manga Hyōken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu II: Sekai Saikyō no Majutsushi de Aru Shōnen wa, Majutsu Gakuin ga Nyūgaku Suru launched on May 27. Nao Kagami draws the series, and Ishiya Ōgane handles composition. Niconico Manga publishes it under Kodansha's "Suiyōbi no Sirius" label.
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