The third season of As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World has a new arc, a new promo video and three new voice actors. The official site posted all of it on October 26, and the "Fujimiya Family Arc" begins with episode 6 on November 1.
The new cast is Toshiya Miyata as Rikuya Fujimiya, Mariya Ise as Maika Fujimiya and Takaki Ōtomari as Takao Fujimiya. They join two names announced earlier: Sumire Morohoshi as Musia Trick and Hinata Tadokoro as Zaht Brouzdo.
The returning lineup is the same core the series has carried since its first season. Natsumi Fujiwara voices Ars Louvent, Taito Ban is Ritsu Muses, Narumi Kaho plays Charlotte Wraith, Miho Okasaki is Rosell Kischa, Kana Hanazawa plays Lycia Plaid, Hitomi Nabatame is Mireille Grandion and Haruka Tomatsu voices Fahm.
The production changed studios
The third season is being made at GeyeG Pictures, a different studio from the one that handled the earlier seasons. Takao Kato, who directed To Love-Ru and Zoids, returns to direct. Daisuke Ōhigashi, an episode scriptwriter on the previous seasons, has taken over series composition from Yasuhiro Nakanishi. Yūko Yahiro is back on character design after Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and Kujira Yumemi returns to compose the music after In the Land of Leadale.
Rico Sasaki performs the opening theme, "Still Water." Akuruyo no Hitsuji handles the ending, "Hibi o Koete."
A studio change this deep into a series is worth flagging. It usually shows up in the animation first, and it sometimes shows up in the schedule. So far this season has held its slot.
Where and when to watch
The season premiered September 27 on CBC, TBS and 26 other stations, moved to BS NTV on September 29 and reached AT-X on October 1. Streaming in Japan began September 28 on U-NEXT, d Anime Store and Anime Hōdai, with other services following October 1. Crunchyroll streams the season as it airs, so episode 6 with the new arc lands there at the same time as the Japanese broadcast. It shares the fall season with Black Clover's return, which premiered on October 3.
What the show is
The source is Miraijin A's light novel series, which has passed 30 million online views in Japan. It started on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō site in October 2019, moved to print under Kodansha with illustrations by jimmy, and picked up a manga adaptation in Magazine Pocket in June 2020.
The premise is narrow and it works: Ars Louvent dies on his way home from work, is reborn as a weak noble in another world, and gets an Appraisal skill that lets him read other people's stats. He uses it to hire talent and rebuild his territory. No chosen-one sword, no demon king. It is a staffing problem in a fantasy setting, which is a strange thing to build a hit on and also the reason it stands out.
The first season aired in April 2024 as the debut show of CBC and TBS's "Agaru Anime" programming block. The second followed in September 2024, and Crunchyroll carried both.
Kodansha USA has licensed the manga and the novels, publishing the light novels under its Vertical imprint.
Why this one matters
The Fujimiya family arrives at the point in the story where the cast stops being Ars and the people he hired. In a territory-building series, new names are not decoration. They are the plot, and the six-episode mark is about where a season like this needs a second engine.
Episode 6 is where that starts, and the promo video is the best look yet at how GeyeG is handling the expanded cast.
Source: Anime News Network, citing the anime's official website and Comic Natalie
Source: Anime News Network, citing the anime’s official website and Comic Natalie
Featured image: Key visual for Season 3 of As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill, via the anime’s official website.
