Dan-Katsu Anime Shares Teaser, Four More Cast Members and Theme Song Artists
STUDIO MASSKET is producing the television adaptation, which premieres in January 2027.
The Dan-Katsu anime revealed a teaser and four additional cast members on Wednesday. MindaRyn sings the opening theme, while LINKL PLANET performs the ending.
Staff for the television anime adaptation of Kaede Nishikigi’s light novels unveiled a teaser, additional cast members and theme song artists on Wednesday. The anime premieres in January 2027.
MindaRyn performs the opening song, “Play the Play,” which appears in the teaser. LINKL PLANET performs the ending song, “My Life Story.”
The four newly announced cast members are:
- Ayaka Nanase as Hanna, an alchemist’s daughter and Zephyrus’s childhood friend
- Kotone Izumi as Sierra, a cool beauty from a noble family
- Hikaru Iida as Lana, a princess
- Chihaya Asakura as Ester, Lana’s guardian knight
Yūto Uemura voices the protagonist, Zephyrus.
The anime adapts Reincarnation in the Game World Dan-Katsu: Game Addict Plays "Encouragement for Job Hunting in Dungeons" From a "New Game" (Game Sekai Tensei <Dan-Katsu> -Gamer wa [Dungeon Shūkatsu no Susume] o <Hajime kara> Play Suru-).
Nagisa Miyazaki directs at STUDIO MASSKET, and Yūji Kobayashi handles the scripts. Their credits include:
- Miyazaki: Negima!, Eternal Alice, Final Examination Kujira
- Kobayashi: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III, Kusunoki’s Garden of Gods
The story follows a gamer whose player name is Zephyrus. He has spent over 8,000 hours playing the legendary dungeon-crawling game Encouragement for Job Hunting in Dungeons (Dungeon Shūkatsu no Susume), abbreviated as Dan-katsu.
After suddenly losing all his save data, he dies from shock. He awakens reincarnated in Dan-katsu’s unconquered world, immediately acquires the classic strongest job, hero, and begins “a new game” there.
Nishikigi began publishing the story on Kakuyomu in January 2021. TO Books launched the novels with illustrations by Shuri in March 2022. Volume 16 shipped on August 15.
Hiroshi Asagi began the manga adaptation on TO Books’ Corona EX manga website in April 2022. TO Books released its first compiled volume in September 2022 and its fifth in October 2025.
Source: Reincarnation in the Game World Dan-Katsu anime's X/Twitter account
