The recently concluded Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! TV anime series is receiving a theatrically edited special, which is scheduled to release in Japan later in 2024.
Further details about the special were not revealed in the announcement, but a teaser visual was released instead.
Yoshiko Okuda (Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits) directed the anime, with Tomoko Konparu (Love All Play, Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte) as screenwriter, Takahiro Kishida (Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation) as character designer, and Tomoki Hasegawa as (Let’s Make a Mug Too) as music composer. Satelight was the animation production company for the series.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Chiaki Kobayashi as Kiyoshi Adachi
- • Ryota Suzuki as Yuuichi Kurosawa
- • Ami Koshimizu as Nozomi Fujisaki
- • Gen Sato as Minato Wataya
- • Makoto Furukawa as Masato Tsuge
- • Yuusuke Shirai as Yuuta Rokkaku
Yuu Toyota’s original BL manga series was first launched digitally on Square Enix’s Gangan Pixiv web magazine on September 1, 2018. Thirteen tankobon volumes have been released as of December 2023. Square Enix has released the manga in English for North America since 2020.
The manga has been adapted into a live-action TV drama that ran on TV Tokyo from October 9, 2020 to December 24, 2020. It also inspired a drama CD adaptation in 2019 and a Chinese radio drama in 2022.
A live-action film that serves as a sequel to the TV drama was released in Japanese theaters on April 8, 2022. Toyota donated a portion of the rights fee for the film’s adaptation to Marriage for All Japan — an organization advocating for same-sex marriage rights in Japan.
Crunchyroll is streaming Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, which describes the main story as:
Adachi’s 30th birthday as a virgin came with the oddest gift—the ability to read the mind of anyone he touches. Pondering what to do with this mysterious power, he gets a lead when he accidentally reads his colleague Kurosawa’s mind. Turns out the handsome hotshot of the sales team has got a thing for him! How will Adachi respond to overhearing these affectionate thoughts?
Source: Cherry Magic Official Anime Twitter, Cherry Magic Official Website
