Kadokawa released a new trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation of Yatsuki Wakatsu and illustrator Kikka Ohashi’s The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai) light novel. The trailer confirmed the anime’s January 2026 premiere along with staff and cast announcements.
Check out the trailer below:
The cast and staff of The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter anime include:
- Kent Itō as Seiichirō Kondō
- Tomoaki Maeno as Aresh Indrak
- Seiichirō Yamashita as Norbert
- Hiroki Tōchi as Kamil
Shinji Ishihara directs the anime at Studio DEEN, with Yoshiko Nakamura overseeing the series composition. The duo have previously worked together before in such BL anime as Sasaki and Miyano, Super Lovers, and Tadaima, Okaeri. Akira Yamada serves as assistant director, while Maki Fujii is handling the character design. Megumi Ōhashi is composing the music, and Nippon Columbia is producing the music.
Yatsuki launched the light novel series in February 2019. The third volume shipped in September 2021.
Yen Press releases the manga and light novel in English and describes it as follows:
One day, twenty-nine-year-old accountant Seiichirou Kondou is accidentally transported to another world. As compensation, the Romany Kingdom promises to take care of all his living expenses, but the workaholic Seiichirou still asks for a job.
Once he’s placed in the Royal Accounting Department, he starts whipping his lackadaisical colleagues into shape. But when he gets in over his head and nearly dies from overwork, the handsome Commander Aresh steps in to save him, and the two develop a unique physical relationship…as a form of medical treatment?!
