After the broadcast of the final episode of the second season of the anime adaptation of “The Eminence in Shadow (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!), the production of a film that will be titled “The Eminence in Shadow: Lost Echoes”which coincides with the title of Volume 5 of the light novels, confirming that it is a sequel.
Additionally, A special broadcast will be held on YouTube on December 28 to commemorate the conclusion of the second season, so a little more information could be revealed on that date.
For its part, Daisuke Aizawa and Touzai They began publishing the light novels through the publisher Kadokawa in November 2018, with a manga adaptation by Anri Sakano being published in the magazine Monthly Comp Ace since December 2018. The franchise has inspired two seasons of an anime adaptation, totaling thirty-two episodes to date.
Production team
- Kazuya Nakanishi (Darwin’s Game) was in charge of directing the second season at the studios nexus (Darwin’s Game, Granbelm).
- Makoto Iino (Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town, Demon Lord, Retry!) was in charge of character design in the second season.
- Kanichi Katou (Black Clover, Those Snow White Notes) was in charge of writing and supervising the scripts in the second season.
- Kenichiro Suehiro (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, Enen no Shouboutai, Goblin Slayer) was in charge of composing the soundtrack in the second season.
Synopsis of The Eminence in Shadow
For as long as he can remember, Minoru Kagenou has been obsessed with becoming as strong as possible, which has led him to undergo all kinds of rigorous training. However, this desire is not born from the desire to be recognized by others, but rather Minoru does his best to blend in with the crowd. So, while during the day he pretends to be an ordinary student, at night he arms himself with a crowbar and mercilessly beats up the local biker gangs. However, when Minoru suffers a truck accident, his ambitions seem to suddenly end. In his final moments, he laments his helplessness: no matter how hard he trained, there was nothing he could do to overcome his human limitations.
But instead of dying, Minoru awakens as Cid, the second son of the noble Kagenou family, in another world where magic is commonplace. With the power he so desired finally within his reach, he calls himself “Shadow” and founds Shadow Garden: a group whose sole purpose is to combat the enigmatic Cult of Devils, an organization born from Cid’s imagination. However, as Shadow Garden grows in both membership and influence, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Devil Cult is not as fictional as Cid intended.
Fountain: Oricon News
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