Danica Davidson
October 2, 2024 
The creditless opening movie for the new anime Let This Grieving Soul Retire! is now available online. In it you can hear the opening theme song “Katto Tomorrow” (translated as “Conflict Tomorrow”) being performed by Lezel.
Opening Movie
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! is being made at Zero-G, with Masahiro Takata of High-Rise Invasion and The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch helming the project as director. The person handling series scripts is Hideki Shirane, whose credits include Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and Aria the Scarlet Ammo. Credit for character design goes to Yūsuke Isouchi of Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It as well as Shingo Fujisaki, who has many examples of being an animation director.
Looking toward the main cast, Kensho Ono plays Krai Andrey and Miyu Kubota plays Tino Shade.
The ending theme song is called “Scream” and performed by Pmarusama.
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! (or Nageki no Bōrei wa Intai Shitai: Saijaku Hunter ni Yoru Saikyo Party Ikusei-jutsu in Japanese) started out as a light novel series by Tsukikage and Chyko. It’s published in America by J-Novel Club, which gave this description for its plot:
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Plot
It’s the golden age for treasure hunters—adventurers hungry for wealth, fame, power, and glory, who risk their lives in treasure vaults throughout the world.
“Let’s become treasure hunters.”
Krai and his childhood friends swore to become the greatest of them all, but that dream should have died the day Krai realized he wasn’t cut out for the job! Yet expectations continue to mount, right along with Krai’s fear for his life. While his childhood friends climb closer toward their dream, this grieving soul has one simple wish: to pack it all in and retire!
There is also a manga adaptation for the franchise, and that’s published in America by Yen Press.
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
