Kodoani.com – Official website of Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! (Nihon e Yōkoso Elf-san.), anime adapted from the light novel of the same name by Suzuki Makishimajust revealed important information on Thursday: the film will officially premiere on January 2025. In addition, the website also announced the new cast, official images and theme songs of the film.
New cast and theme song
Two new actors will join the anime including:
Yumi Uchiyama or Wridra
Rico Sasaki or May
Special, Rico Sasaki will also perform the opening song titled “Palette Days”. Besides, two famous VTubers belonging to Nijisanji are Kaede Higuchi and Kanye will be responsible for the ending theme song titled “Yummy Yummy”.
Broadcast time and release channels
Anime Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! will air on January 2025 on the program block “Animeism” of stations MBS, TBSand CBCas well as channels BS11 and AT-X.
Main cast
The anime will have the participation of prominent names:
Yūsuke Kobayashi in the role Kazuhiro Kitase / Kazuhiho
Kaede Hondo in the role Marie
Talented production team
Three Kitahatas (directed by Haganai NEXT, Hinako Note) will direct the film at studio Zero-G.
Aya Yoshinaga (screenwriter of Golden Kamuy, Durarara!!) not only wrote the script but also supervised the entire content.
Madoka Hirayama (character design by Love Live! Sunshine!!) will take on the role character designer and main animation director.
Main content of Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
J-Novel Cluba publisher of English-language novels and manga, described the content of Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! as follows:
Kazuhiro Kitase have a special hobby: Sleep. Since he was a child, he often plunged into dream worlds and participated in magical adventures. In a dream, he met an elf girl and they both adventured to strange lands. However, that dream suddenly stopped when they suffered breath of a dragon burn. When Kazuhiro woke up, he was surprised to discover the elf girl in his dream lying next to me! The story follows him on a new adventure with an elf girl, but this time in Japan.
The development of light novels and manga
Suzuki Makishima started posting stories on the website Shōsetsuka ni Narō enter February 2017and the story is still continuing. Hobby Japan published a light novel with illustrations by Yapping in digital form.
Shimo Aono adapted the story into a manga and launched it on the website Comic Fire belong to Hobby Japan enter December 2018.