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A Certain Dark Side's Item Adds Four Cast Members, Shares New Promo

The anime adapts Kazuma Kamachi’s spin-off light novels, which launched under Dengeki Bunko in March 2023.

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A Certain Dark Side's Item revealed four additional cast members and a promotional video on Saturday. The anime premiered October 9 at 10:30 p.m. on AT-X, followed by Tokyo MX and BS11.

The official website for A Certain Dark Side's Item (Toaru Anbu no Item) announced four additional cast members and released a promotional video on Saturday.

The television anime adapts Kazuma Kamachi’s light novels. It premiered October 9 at 10:30 p.m. on AT-X, followed by Tokyo MX and BS11.

The new cast members, also featured on the official X account, are:

  • Kaede Ibotanokikouji: Aya Yamane (I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day (Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai))
  • Kamitsu Hanayama: Yuuki Hirose (Kowloon Generic Romance)
  • Laspezia Inoue: Konomi Inagaki (Wash It All Away (Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka.))
  • Hiyoko Aiyose: Misaki Kuno (Mistress Kanan Is Devilishly Easy (Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi))

J.C.Staff produces the animation, with the following staff:

  • Tatsuyuki Nagai: Director (A Certain Scientific Railgun (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun))
  • Shougo Yasukawa: Series composition (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (Shokugeki no Souma))
  • Shigeki Kimoto: Character design (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka))
  • Maiko Iuchi: Music (Akudama Drive)
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Kamachi began writing the spin-off light novels under the Dengeki Bunko imprint in March 2023. Nilitsu (The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road)) illustrates the series. Kadokawa published its seventh volume on October 9.

Dengeki Daioh began serializing a manga adaptation by strelka (Hinowa ga CRUSH! (Hinowa ga Yuku!)) in October 2023. Kadokawa released the second volume in April 2025.

Sources: Comic Natalie via MyAnimeList

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