The staff for the upcoming anime adaptation of Kentarou’s From Overshadowed to Overpowered manga has revealed the main promotional video and a key visual. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song “+Encount” by FLOW and confirms the anime’s June 25 premiere date.
The anime’s cast members include:
- Shūichirō Umeda as Ephtal
- Reo Osanai as Anastasia
- Haruka Shiraishi as Marin
- Hiroki Tōchi as Ephtal (as a sage and old man)
- Ayaka Fukuhara as young Ephtal
- Emiri Katō as Iria
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Fraser
Hisashi Ishii is directing the From Overshadowed to Overpowered anime at EMT Squared, with Deko Akao handling the series’ scripts. Hideki Furukawa will be in charge of character design. TrySail will perform the anime’s ending theme song, “Dōkei (Aspiration).”
Kentarou first launched the manga in Square Enix’s Manga UP! website in September 2019. Square Enix published the manga’s eighth compiled book volume in June 2025.
Lastly, here’s an overview of From Overshadowed to Overpowered via Comickey, who releases the manga in English:
Ephtal is reincarnated as a human, coming from modern Earth. In this new world where magic is real, he decides to devote the entirety of his lifein the pursuit of magic. Despite his efforts, though, he discovers that he isabsolutely talentless in magic, and breathed his last in anguish….But it isn’t the end for him just yet! He reincarnates once again bearing the same name, Ephtal, 400 years later. Having retained his knowledge and power, he steels his resolve and once again sets his sights for the peak of magic!
