Good news for fans of the light novel series The Faraway Paladin as it’s been slotted for an anime adaptation. With plans for an October 2021 debut, the first round of information, social media, and more has landed for it. The adaptation has Yuu Nobuta directing it based on the scripts overseen by Tatsuya Takahashi. Koji Haneda is handling the character designs with Children’s Playground Entertainment handling the production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Maki Kawase as Will
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Blood
- Yui Horie as Mary
- Nobuo Tobita as Gus
- Ayumu Murase as Menel
The light novel series comes from writer Kanata Yanagino and illustrator Kususaga Rin which began in 2016. A manga adaptation began as well with it handled by Mutsumi Okuhashi and both of them are released in English by J-Novel Club.
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Plot Concept: In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he’s being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: “Who am I?”
Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man’s land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin.
“I promised you. It’s gonna take a while, but I’ll tell you everything. This is the story of the deaths of many heroes. It’s the story of how we died, and it’s the reason you grew up here.”
[Source: ANN]