The anime adaptation of the light novel series Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! is almost here and Kadokawa has a fun new nearly four-minute long piece out for it. The video is designed to showcase the characters from the popularity poll that was run for it to help raise awareness both for the show itself and the light novel series. While it’s not subtitled, what people can get out of it is a good look at some of the character designs from the original work.
The winter 2016 scheduled show now has a firm premiere date of January 14th, 2016 and that comes alongside the release of the first full key visual for the show that you can see to the right.
The previously announced cast includes Jun Fukushima as Kazuma Satou, Sora Amamiya as Aqua, Rie Takahashi as Megumin, Ai Kayano as Raratina Dustiness Ford, Sayuri Hara as Luna, Tetsu Inada as Ruffian, Ayaka Suwa as Chris, Takuya Eguchi as Kyouya Mitsurugi, Hiroki Yasumoto as Beldia Dullahan and Yui Horie as Wiz.
The series is set to be animated at Studio DEEN with Takaomi Kansaki directing based on scripts by Makoto Uezeu and character designs by Kouichi Kikuta.
The series translates as Gifting the Wonderful World with Blessings! and comes from writer Akatsuki Natsume with illustrations by Mishima Kurone. The book began in the fall of 2013 and has eight volumes released so far. It also got the expected manga adaptation along the way with Masahito Watari illustrating that starting back in September 2014, which was one of the clues that this was likely going to get an anime adaptation.
Plot concept: Kazuma Satou is a shut-in who loves game, his life ended suddenly… Appearing before him is a beautiful girl claiming to be a goddess. Kazuma, who was transported to a different world, worked hard to earn a living! Kazuma wanted to live a stable life, but was burdened with problems caused by the goddess he brought along to the different world with him. He was even targeted by the demon king’s army?!
