The official website for the No-Clipping My Way to Supremacy! anime revealed seven new cast members and a batch of new staff on Thursday, filling out the supporting cast for the adaptation of Yui Hata’s manga.
The newly announced roles are Nao Ojika as Auroia, Kengo Tsujii as Don, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Guillermo, Anna Yamaki as Scarlet, Shun Horie as Latch, Ayasa Ito as Maris and Hinata Tadokoro as Volks. Character name romanizations are not yet confirmed.
Riko Aono plays Henri and Momoka Terasawa plays Elelet, the two leads announced earlier.
New staff
- 3DCG director: Yui Horiuchi
- Color design: Akemi Tejima
- Art director: Norifumi Nakamura
- Editing: Takahiro Adachi
- Sound production: Sonilude
- Sound director: Yuichi Imaizumi
- Music: Kyohei Matsuno
Haruki Kasugamori directs at Durandal and Tengu Kobou. His previous work, Dragon Goes House-Hunting and Tono to Inu, both leaned on comedy with a fantasy premise, which is not far from what this show needs.
Hiroshi Hosokawa is overseeing series scripts. Hiroshi Miyamoto and Sumakidori designed the characters and also serve as chief animation directors, with Sumakidori handling costume and prop design as well. Miyamoto’s credits include Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary and Eiga Precure Dream Stars!, so the character work should land somewhere between fantasy adventure and kids’ film polish.
The story
The premise is built on a joke that turns into a power fantasy. Henri needs money to care for his ailing sister. His party kicks him out because the only skill he has is “Evade,” which sounds worthless. Then he works out that he can use Evade to pass straight through the walls of monster-filled labyrinths, walk past the bosses entirely, and collect first-clear rewards on repeat.
The source is a web novel by Nikita Kitagawa, published on Shosetsuka ni Naro in February 2021. The light novel version launched in June 2022 with illustrations by Meto Sasame. Its second volume shipped in May 2024.
Hata’s manga adaptation began in Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine R in July 2022. That magazine ended publication in January 2023 and the series moved to the Magazine Pocket app that same month. Kodansha published the 12th compiled volume on July 9. K MANGA releases the manga in English. We covered another K MANGA launch from late October separately.
Why the casting is worth a second look
Tatsuhisa Suzuki is the name that stands out. He is a busy voice actor with a lot of range, and a show that gets him for a supporting role is usually planning to use him, not waste him.
Shun Horie and Ayasa Ito fill out a group that reads as a proper adventuring party rather than a set of one-note gags. For a series whose entire hook is skipping the dungeon, the party matters more than usual. They are the ones who have to fail at it, and the comedy only works if their failure looks real.
The manga is also well past the light novel in volume count, twelve against two. That usually means the adaptation has enough material to work with and no risk of catching up to the source mid-season.
No premiere date or streaming platform has been announced.
Source: Anime News Network
Featured image: the No-Clipping My Way to Supremacy! anime key visual, via the official anime website.
