Earlier today, a new website opened to announce the anime adaptation of Izushiro and illustrator Ruria Miyuki’s The Greatest Magicmaster’s Retirement Plan (Saikyō Mahōshi no Inton Keikaku) light novel series. The website also revealed the anime’s teaser promotional video, teaser visual, cast, staff and the anime’s 2027 release date.
To celebrate the announcement, Miyuki and Karu Yoneshiro released new illustrations:
Yūto Uemura will star as the protagonist Alus Reigin. Yūsuke Suzuki, known for his work on This Monster Wants to Eat Me, is directing the anime at HOTLINE. Gigaemon Ichikawa is in charge of series scripts, Yūki Kitajima is handling the character design, and Takatoshi Hamano is the sound director.
Izushiro began publishing the novels on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2015. Hobby Japan published the 20th novel volume on December 27. To commemorate the novels’ anime adaptation, a prequel manga titled The Greatest Magicmaster’s Retirement Plan Zero -The Secret History of the Beginning- is set to launch this winter.
J-Novel Club is publishing the light novels in English and describes the story:
In a world where the Fiends run rampant… Magicmaster Alus Reigin, the young prodigy that has defeated more Fiends and reclaimed more of humanity’s lost territory than anyone else alive, requests retirement from military service at age 16. But due to the twists and turns of fate surrounding his status as the No. 1 Magicmaster in the nation—the top Magicmaster out of more than 100,000—he ends up as a student at a special magical institute, hiding his identity and training his successors – a pair of beautiful Magicmaster girls! Not to mention continuing to defeat Fiends in secret.
