The staff of the A Wild Last Boss Appeared! TV anime confirmed that the show will premiere in October 2025. In addition, the main staff and first cast members of the anime were revealed alongside a new teaser trailer and key visual.
Ami Koshimizu plays the role of Lufas Maphaahl, while Yuri Usui plays Dina. Yūya Horiuchi directs A Wild Last Boss Appeared! anime series at studio Wao World, and WOWMAX is producing it. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu oversees the series scripts, Maiko Ebisawa is the character designer, and Takashi Kobayashi and Shōta Ueno are the sub-character designers.
Firehead and YahaKo launched the A Wild Last Boss Appeared! light novel series on the Let’s Be Novelists website in 2015, and it ran until 2017. The 9th and final volume released in print in April 2019. Tsubasa Hazuki launched a manga adaptation on the Comic Earth Star manga in 2017, and it’s still ongoing. The manga’s 10th volume will release on February 12, and the manga is being published in English by J-Novel Club.
Here’s an overview of the light novel series, via J-Novel Club:
The year is 2800 and Lufas Maphaahl – The Black-Winged Tyrant, Great Conqueror, and leader of the Twelve Heavenly Stars – has returned. A man wakes up in the body of his MMO character 200 years after her defeat during an player-made event in the game, Exgate Online. Now, he’s stuck in her body. But this isn’t a game, it’s real. With her reign long over, and her legacy one of fear, Lufas must journey through the world of Exgate, looking for answers, possible comrades, and all the monsters her “death” unleashed upon the world…
