The UQ Holder! manga from Ken Akamatsu began back in 2013 and had an anime adaptation land in 2017, which Sentai Filmworks was involved with. The manga, published by Kodansha Comics in English, has been moving right along and has twenty-five volumes in Japan with twenty-one volumes published in English so far. Now, the latest installment of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine that it’s serialized in has revealed that it will end in nine chapters. With monthly serialization, that puts it potentially at February 2022 and with twenty-seven volumes when all is said and done.
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Yousuke Suzuki directed it based on the series composition by Ken Akatsu and Shogo Yasutagawa. Masahiro Fujii worked on the character designs while JC Staff handled the animation.
The Japanese cast includes Yuka Takakura as Touta Konoe, Yuki Matsuoka as Yukihime, Yūki Hirose as Kurōmaru Tokisaka, Rina Satou as Negi Springfield, Ai Kayano as Kirie Sakurame, Yui Ogura as Karin, Sayaka Harada as Shinobu Yūki, and Akari Kitō as Mizore Yukihiro.
Plot Concept: When you’re the grandson of a famous hero, you’d think that your life would be interesting, but Tota Konoe is stuck in the dullest place he can imagine! He can’t even leave his tiny village until he can defeat his teacher and foster parent Yukihime, and she seems to be impossibly powerful. Then everything changes when Yukihime is attacked and Tota learns that both she and Tota himself aren’t who or what Tota thought they were! Now Tota has a new, impossibly long life ahead of him and an amazing destiny that ties in with the fate of his grandfather, the legendary Negi Springfield! Get ready for vampires, demons and magic users galore as Tota discovers the perils of being a member of the world’s most exclusive organization as a UQ HOLDER!
[Source: ANN]
