A fantasy anime where a magician using water abilities isn’t anything special, but a newly announced isekai might be exploring more on that element specifically.
Anime News Network confirmed that The Water Magician light novel series written by Tadashi Kubō and illustrated by Nokito is getting a television anime adaptation. It will premiere this year in July.
The first preview of the isekai anime can be watched through TBS anime’s YouTube channel.
A visual was also uploaded on the anime’s main X account showing the main protagonist using his water magic.
Voice actors announced for the upcoming anime includes Ayumu Murase (Haikyuu!!) as Ryō, Kazuki Ura (Blue Lock) as Abel, and Kaede Hondo (A Sign of Affection) as Sera.
Delicious in Dungeon assistant director, Hideyuki Satake, will be directing the anime at Typhoon Graphics and Wonderland. The series composition will be handled by Jun Kumagai (Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū) with Yūka Kozutsumi (Doukyusei in-between animator) in charge of character designs.
The original novels and manga version of The Water Magician is released by J-Novel Club in English. The publishing company describes the story as such:
Ryo is delighted to be reincarnated into the fantastical world of Phi, where he thinks he’ll get to live a quiet life learning to use his newfound water magic. Going with the flow here, however, means something very different. Ryo is immediately pitted against the wild lands he winds up in and the slew of deadly monsters that call the remote subcontinent home. You’d think he’d forget about taking it easy when he’s stuck fighting for his life, but lucky for Ryo, he’s naturally optimistic, clever, and blessed with the hidden “Eternal Youth” trait. Twenty years pass in the blink of an eye, and each encounter along the way pushes him one step closer to the pinnacle of human magic. Little does he realize that’s only the opening chapter of his tale. A fateful meeting soon thrusts Ryo to the forefront of history, forever changing the course of his life… Thus begins the adventures of the strongest water magician the world has ever seen—who also likes to do things at his own pace!
Before the first volume was published by TO Books in March 2021, the story was serialized in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website from April to June 2020. Nokito illustrated the first and second volumes of the light novel. Later on, the title was passed on to Mebaru who illustrated the third until the sixth volume. Hana Amano is now the current artist for the light novel starting from the seventh volume. The 12th and latest volume will be published on January 15.
A manga adaptation illustrated by Bokutengō launched in September 2021.
