The 2024 anime adaptation of the light novel series Shinmai Ossan Bōkensha, Saikyō Party ni Shinu Hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru, which localizes as The Rookie Middle-Aged Adventurer Was Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party to Become Invincible, has gotten a lot of details.
The series saw a July 1st, 2024 premiere date and Crunchyroll is putting together some clips from it now. The latest is from the tenth episode where now he can let loose!
The series has Shin Katagi as the director with Kasumi Tsuchida handling the series composition. Mari Eguchi is working on the character designs with Yumeta Company handling the production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Takuya Satō as Rick Gladiator
- Saori Ōnishi as Reanette Elfelt
- Kenta Miyake as Broughston Ashorc
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Mizett Eldwarf
- Misaki Kuno as Alicerette Draqul
- Shino Shimoji as Angelica Diarmuit
- Ryohei Kimura as Raster Diarmuit
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Freed Diarmuit
- Ryuuho Nagaoka as Linx Laulot
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kelvin Urwolf
- Yuta Suminaga as Geese Resurrect
- Kazuya Ichijō as Snape Resurrect
The opening theme song is “Arano ni Sake yo Bōkensha-tachi” as performed by Akira Kushida while Chiai Fujikawa performs the ending theme song “Sagashimono.”
The light novel series from Kiraku Kishima began in 2018 and has twelve volumes out so far. A manga adaptation from Ken Ogino began in 2019 and has eight volumes out as of September 2023.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The “shōnen story aimed at middle-aged readers” follows Rick Gladiator, a guild clerk who strives to become an adventurer. Common sense says that it is best to start the path of an adventurer at a young age, as it takes training to gain magical powers. However, Rick is starting after he turned 30. Thanks to working with Orichalcum Fist, a legendary party of the most powerful adventurers in the land, he already lived an unimaginable life with top-ranking fighting abilities. With skills honed by literal “Monster-class” masters from dragons to vampires, Rick takes on one elite adventurer after another.
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