Kadokawa’s KyoMAF event saw the reveal of a new trailer for the upcoming Magic Knight Rayearth anime, which will premiere on October 7. The new Magic Knight Rayearth anime will run for two cours, and the anime’s theme songs and additional new cast members were also revealed in the latest trailer. Toaka performs the opening theme song “Otome no Tsurugi (A Young Lady’s Sword)” and Yurina Kawaguchi performs the ending theme song “Hoshiakari (Starlight).”
The new cast members include:
- Mamiko Noto as Alcione
- Ayumu Murase as Ascot
- Hitomi Ueda as Caldina
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Lafarga
The previously announced cast and staff members include:
Cast
- Ayane Sakura as Hikaru Shidō
- Rumi Ōkubo as Umi Ryūzaki
- Rie Takahashi as Fū Hōōji
- Saori Hayami as Emeraude
- Yūki Ono as Zagato
- Mika Kikuchi as Mokona
- Yūki Kaji as Clef
- Emiri Katō as Presea
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Ferio
Staff
- Director: Yui Miura
- Producer: E&H production and UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS
- Series’ Scripts: Shigeru Murakoshi
- Character Designer: Satomi Watabe
- Composer: Yuki Kajiura, Takumi Ozawa, and Shiho Terada
CLAMP initially wrote the Magic Knight Rayearth manga in 1993 in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine. The series would continue until 1996, and six volumes were released. An anime adaptation would premiere in October 1994 and run until November 1995. A three-episode OVA was released in 1997.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the original anime series, via MyAnimeList:
Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji are strangers brought together by fate when they meet during a seemingly normal field trip to Tokyo Tower. Accompanied by a great flash of light, they hear a mysterious woman’s plea to save “Cephiro,” and the junior high heroines are suddenly swept away by a giant flying fish. Afterwards, they arrive in an unknown land, where they encounter a man called Master Mage Clef.
Clef informs the girls that they were summoned by Princess Emeraude to fulfill their destinies as Magic Knights, restoring peace and balance in Cephiro. The formerly lively and peaceful land has been in disarray ever since High Priest Zagato imprisoned the princess, who acted as Cephiro’s pillar of stability. The Magic Knights reluctantly accept Clef’s words as truth and embark on a journey to save Cephiro from the clutches of evil.
