Kodoani.com – Official website for the third anime season, based on the light novel series Arifureta – From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō) by Ryo Shirakome, announced on Sunday that the 16-episode third season will premiere on October 14. It will air on AT-X at 11:00 p.m. JST, on Tokyo MX at 12:00 p.m. (actually on October 15 at 12:00 a.m. JST), and on BS11 at 12:30 p.m. (actually on October 15 at 12:30 a.m. JST). The anime's staff also revealed visuals of new characters including:
Hajime Nagumo
Yue
Shea
Tio Klarus
Kaori Shirasaki
Shizuku Yaegashi
Returning cast includes:
Toshinari Fukamachi voices Hajime Nagumo Yūki Kuwahara voices Yue Minami Takahashi voices Shea Yoko Hikasa voices Tio Klarus Saori Ōnishi voices Kaori Shirasaki Yumiri Hanamori voices Shizuku Yaegashi Noriko Shibasaki voices Liliana SB Heilig
Akira Iwanaga (Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, The Morose Mononokean) will return to direct the third season at asread (the studio that collaborated with WHITE FOX on the first season). Shoichi Sato will continue to supervise and write the series scripts. Chika Kojima will return as character designer and chief animation director. Ryō Takahashi will also return to compose the music. Void_Chords will collaborate with MindaRyn to perform the new opening theme song “Unending Wish.”
The first season of the anime premiered in July 2019. The second season premiered in January 2022, and is also streamed by Funimation.
Funimation describes the story as follows:
“Hajime Nagumo and his high school classmates are suddenly summoned to a fantasy world to become heroes. However, while most of his classmates possess outstanding stats and abilities, Hajime is nothing special. Unappreciated and unprepared, he falls into the depths of a dungeon filled with monsters, where survival can only be achieved through greed and sacrifice. To survive in this cruel world, Hajime must face the abyss and overcome the harshest of challenges.”
J-Novel Club is publishing Shirakome's Arifureta Zero spinoff light novel series. Seven Seas has released an English translation of the manga adaptation of the main series, and has also licensed the spinoff manga Arifureta – From Commonplace to World's Strongest: Zero and Arifureta: I Love Isekai (Arifureta Nichijou de Sekaisaikyou).
Shirakome launched the novel series in Japan in June 2015 under the OVERLAP Bunko label, with illustrations by Takayaki, after initially publishing it on the Shōsetsu ni Narō website, a site for freelance authors.
