The first character PV trailer has been revealed for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone, spotlighting the main character Beryl Gardinant. The anime will begin broadcasting in April 2025.
The trailer also confirmed that voice actor Hiroaki Hirata will voice Beryl Gardinant.
Akio Kazumi (Fist of the Blue Sky Re: Genesis) is directing the series, with Kunihiko Okada (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy) as series screenwriter, and Satsuki Hayasaka (The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy co-character designer) as character designer and chief animation director. Passione and Hayabusa Film are handling the animation production together.
The light novel series is written by Shigeru Sagazaki and illustrated by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima, and was first published by Square Enix’s SQUEX Novel label on April 7, 2021. Eight volumes have been released as of August 2024. The series originally began as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel on November 17, 2020.
The series has also inspired a manga adaptation by Kazuki Sato on August 24, 2021. Yen Press releases the manga in English for North America.
J-Novel Club releases the From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman light novels in English, and describes the main story as:
Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days are long behind him. Out of the blue, he receives a visit from a famous former pupil who brings him world-shattering news—he’s been appointed as a special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order!
With his life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of his former students: elite knights, an ace wizard, and even an adventurer who’s attained the highest guild rank possible. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he’s concerned, they clearly don’t need him anymore. Can Beryl live up to his new position? And will he ever get a moment’s peace away from his adoring students?!
Source: From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Official Anime Twitter
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