The staff for the ongoing I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! TV anime series announced the official casting of Maria Sashide as Nene. The series first aired in Japan on January 12, 2025 and is expected to broadcast for 24 episodes.
Sashide’s character will appear in the anime’s sixth episode this weekend, after making a brief cameo towards the end of last week’s fifth episode. A character PV trailer was also released, showcasing her new role in the party and overall personality in the upcoming episode.
She joins a main voice cast that stars:
- • Hiromu Mineta as Yuke
- • Hana Inami as Marina
- • Natsumi Kawaida as Silk
- • Nene Hieda as Rain
Katsumi Ono (Hypnosimic –Division Rap Battle– Rhyme Anima, Symphogear) is directing the anime series, with Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Shangri-la Frontier) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Masakazu Yamazaki (Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story- co-sub character designer) as character designer and co-chief animation director, and Akira Kikuchi (Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story-) as action animation director. BN Pictures is handling the animation production.
The anime is based on the light novel series written by Kosuke Unagi and illustrated by Super Zombie. It was first published by Kodansha under its K Ranobe Books label on June 2, 2021 and has released four volumes as of October 2024.
The series began as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel from October 2, 2020 to August 26, 2023. A manga adaptation by Yuri was launched in June 2021. Kodansha USA releases the manga in English digitally for North America.
Crunchyroll is streaming I Left my A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths!, describing the main synopsis as:
Yuke, a red mage, angrily declares that he’s leaving Thunder Pike, the A-rank party he’s been with for five years, because he’s fed up with being insulted and ridiculed by the other members.
While searching for a new party, he runs into his former students Marina, Silk, and Rain, and decides to join their party, Clover. Encouraged by their admiration of him as their teacher, Yuke leads them in completing several quests that show off his own extraordinary magic and skills while bringing out the girls’ abilities to their fullest.
Then, through an “adventure broadcast” by an artifact known as Camelot, Clover becomes well-known throughout society. The party’s dream is to conquer Achromatic Darkness, the most challenging dungeon of all, but as they take on other dungeons in hopes of eventually achieving that goal, they gradually become entangled in chaos that threatens the whole world…
Source: I Left My A-Rank Party Official Twitter, Comic Natalie
