'A Wild Last Boss Appeared!' Anime Premieres October 4

The staff for the anime of Firehead and YahaKo's A Wild Last Boss Appeared! light novel series revealed on Friday the show's second promotional video, October 4 debut, ending theme artist, and game adaptation.

Yuka Nagase performs the ending theme song "Migi Hidari" ("Right and Left"). The above video previews the song.
The anime will debut on Tokyo MX on October 4 at 10:30 p.m., before airing on BS Asahi and Kansai TV on October 5.

The franchise's video game adaptation is titled A Wild Last Boss Appeared! ~Black-Winged Survivor~ (Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta! ~Kuro Tsubasa no Survivor~), and Sunsoft will launch the action game in Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Steam on October 5 (October 6 on Steam). The game's Steam page is available now.

The anime had its world premiere at this year's Anime Expo event. The anime stars:

• Ami Koshimizu as Lufas Maphaahl
• Yuri Usui as Dina
• Yukina Shutō as Aries
• Hisako Tōjō as Libra
• Naoya Uchida as Aigokeros
• Mika Kanai as Parthenos
• Kokoro Ōmori as Virgo
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Sword King Alioth
• Tomoaki Maeno as Wise King Megrez
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Sky King Merak
• Satomi Akesaka as Vampire Princess Benetnasch

Yūya Horiuchi (Nijiyon Animation, Nijiyon Animation 2) is directing the anime at studio Wao World, and WOWMAX is producing the anime. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Is the order a rabbit? franchise, Girls' Last Tour) is overseeing the series scripts, Maiko Ebisawa (key animator for Wonder Egg Priority, Sword Art Online: Alicization) is designing the characters for animation, and Takashi Kobayashi (Time Travel Girl, Magikano) and Shōta Ueno (Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles) are the sub-character designers.

Additional staff include:

• Color Design: Tomoko Kohioki
• Art Director: Yukari Yasuda
• Compositing Director of Photography: Norimasa Teramoto
• Editing: Rina Koguchi
• Sound Director: Sōichirō Kubo
• Sound Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
• Music: TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND

Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets will perform the opening theme song "Level wo Agete Butsuri de Naguru" ("Level Up and Hit with Physical Attacks").

J-Novel Club released the novel series digitally in English. The company describes the story:

The year is 2800 and Lufas Maphaahl – The Black-Winged Tyrant, Great Conqueror, and leader of the Twelve Heavenly Stars – has returned.
A man wakes up in the body of his MMO character 200 years after her defeat during an player-made event in the game, Exgate Online. Now, he's stuck in her body. But this isn't a game, it's real. With her reign long over, and her legacy one of fear, Lufas must journey through the world of Exgate, looking for answers, possible comrades, and all the monsters her “death” unleashed upon the world...

Source: Anime official website