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I Parry Everything Anime Reveals More Cast & Staff, Theme Song Artists, July 4 Debut
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the television anime of Nabeshiki and Kawaguchi's I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet! (Ore wa Subete o "Parry" Suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyō wa Bōken-sha ni Naritai) light novel series revealed on Tuesday the anime's key visual, additional cast and staff members, theme songs and their artists, and July 4 premiere.
The newly announced cast members are Ayumu Murase as Rolo (left in image above), and Shunsuke Takeuchi as Gilbert (right in image above).
The media mix music project Utahime Dream is in charge of the anime's theme songs. Maika Sakuragi (voiced by Anna Suzuki) performs the opening theme song "AMBITION." The Utahime Dream All Stars with members Ibuki Yumesaki (voiced by Rena Yamasaki), Maika Sakuragi (voiced by Anna Suzuki), Kiyomi Masahiro (voiced by Arisa Sonohara), HiREN (voiced by Kaya), Hikari Mizutsuki (voiced by Carin Isobe), Rin Takagi (voiced by Tomomi Jiena Sumi), and Himawari Hagiwara (voiced by Reo Kurachi) perform the ending theme song "No Gifted."
The newly announced staff members includes:
- Sub-Character Designer: Toshiaki Ōhashi
- Prop Design: Haruna Hashimoto
- Monster Design: Hiroyasu Oda (studio Mogana)
- Main Animator: Satoshi Horisawa
- Art Director/Setting: Mikihiro Harabe
- Color Design: Nanako Okazaki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shingo Fukuyo (J.C. Staff)
- Editing: Gō Sadamatsu
- Sound Director: Ryō Tanaka
The anime will premiere on July 4 on the Tokyo MX and BS11 channels at 24:00 JST (effectively, July 5 at 12 midnight JST or July 4 at 11:00 a.m. EDT), and then on MBS at 26:30 JST (effectively, July 5 at 2:30 a.m. JST).
- Daiki Hamano as Noor
- Ryōko Maekawa as Lynneburg Clays
- Nanako Mori as Ines Harness
- Jin Yamanoi as King Clays
- Junta Terashima as Rein Clays
- Shinichirō Miki as Sig
- Kenta Miyake as Dandalg
- Megumi Toyoguchi as Mianne
- Toshihiko Seki as Carew
- Hidenari Ugaki as Oken
- Wataru Hatano as Sain
Dai Fukuyama (episode director on Beyblade franchise, Fate/Zero) serves as director, Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombie Land Saga, I'm Quitting Heroing) is in charge of the series scripts, Chikako Noma is designing the characters, and Tatsuhiko Saiki (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Girlfriend, Girlfriend) is composing the music. OLM is animating the series.
The Kingdom of Clays faces a conflict that will shape the face of the continent for centuries to come...but Noor doesn't have a clue about any of that! Having freshly arrived at the royal capital after over a decade of rigorous, isolated training at his mountain home, he's dead set on achieving his childhood dream of becoming an adventurer, even if the only skills he possesses are useless ones. Sure, he can [Parry] thousands of swords in the span of a single breath, but everybody knows you need more than that if you want to be an adventurer! Our hero's road to making his dream come true will be long(?) and arduous(?)—but if there's one thing Noor's not afraid of, it's some good ol' fashioned hard work!
Nabeshiki began serializing the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in October 2019, where it is still ongoing. Earth Star Entertainment released the first volume of the story's print edition in September 2020, with illustrations by Kawaguchi. The eighth novel volume will ship on Wednesday.
KRSG launched a manga adaptation of the novels on Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star website in September 2020. Earth Star Entertainment released the manga's third compiled book volume on November 10.
Sources: I Parry Everything anime's website, Comic Natalie
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