A new climax PV trailer has been released for the ongoing Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World TV anime series, which highlights Shion’s efforts to save his elder sister, Marie. The anime first premiered in Japan on January 8, 2025 and is expected to broadcast for 12 episodes.
Kazuomi Koga (Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 1 and 2, The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases) is directing the anime, with Keiichiro Ochi (The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) as series screenwriter, Takayuchi Noguchi (The Angel Next Door) as character designer, and Kei Yoshikawa (Love of Kill) and Kana Hashiguchi (Classroom of the Elite Season 2 and 3 co-composer) as music composers. Studio Deen is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Megumi Han as Shion
- • Ai Kakuma as Marie
- • Sora Amamiya as Rose
- • Yu Serizawa as Raphina
- • Aoi Koga as Bridget
- • Naoya Miyase as Cole
- • Mitsuru Miyamoto as Gawain
- • Megumi Toyoguchi as Ema
- • Masayuki Akasaka as Grast
The anime is based on the fantasy light novels, written by Kazuki Kaburagi and illustrated by Kururi. It was first published under Kadokawa’s MF Books label on May 25, 2020 and has released three volumes as of December 2024.
The series began as a web novel on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website that was first published on June 9, 2017. It was later released on Kakuyomu in 2018. A manga adaptation by Tomozo Nishioka ran in Mag Garden’s Manga Doa magazine from June 19, 2021 to February 4, 2023. Three total tankobon volumes were released. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga for release in English.
Crunchyroll is streaming Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World worldwide, outside Japan, and describes the main synopsis as:
On the night of his 30th birthday, one man’s dreams of wielding magic come true after he unexpectedly passes away. He wakes as Sion, a young child in another world. He and his elder sister, Marie, are the children of a lower-class noble family who govern their region. After receiving conflicting messages from their father, Sion and Marie set out on an adventure to uncover the magic.
