New details about the upcoming sequel film were announced today on the official X account of the anime adaptation of “The Eminence in Shadow” (Japanese: “Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!”). You can find a teaser below.
Premiere next year
The new evening filler is entitled “The Eminence in Shadow: Lost Echoes” (Japanese: “Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!: Zankyou-hen”) and, according to current plans, will celebrate its premiere in Japan over the course of next year.
The Nexus studio is once again responsible for producing the film, with Kazuya Nakanishi (“Comic Girls”) directing and Kanichi Katou writing the script. Makoto Iino contributes the character design.
The previous series ran for two seasons on Japanese television between October 2022 and December 2023. The publisher peppermint anime has already brought this onto the market with a German language version and the original sound on Blu-ray.
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Minoru Kageno secretly wants to become the ultimate power. After his death, he is reborn as Cid in another world and lives his dream as “Shadow”. He founds Shadow Garden and invents a cult as an enemy – but it’s real without Cid noticing, while his colleagues take everything deadly seriously.
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