Danica Davidson
March 22, 2024 
A second promotional video for the upcoming anime The New Gate has dropped! Along with showing the anime’s action, it tells us more about the cast.
According to the video, Satoshi Mikami plays Girard Estaria, Tatsuhisa Suzuki plays Wolfgang Estaria, and Kana Hanazawa plays Cuore Estaria. It was previously revealed that Kenshō Ono plays Shin, Asami Seto plays Schnee Raizar, Kaede Hondo plays Tiera Lucent, Mika Okasaki plays Yuzuha, Shunya Hiruma plays Wilhelm Avis, Akiho Suzumoto plays Millie, Kaori Ishihara plays Rashia Luzel, Lynn plays Rionne Strail Bayreuth, and Yuki Hoshi plays Kagerou.
The anime is being made at Yokohama Animation Lab and Cloud Hearts, with Tamaki Nakatsu of Eyeshield 21: The Phantom Golden Bowl helming the project as director. The person handling the series scripts is Hiroki Uchida, whose credits include The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest. The music is being composed by a group of people: Tatsuhiko Saiki, Yuya Mori, Misaki Tsuchida, and Tsugumi Tanaka.
The franchise started out as a light novel series by Shinogi Kazanami, and also has a manga adaptation from Yoshiyuki Miwa. One Peace Books is publishing the manga version in America, and gave this description for the first volume:
THE NEW GATE—an online game transformed into a life-and-death struggle for its players. Thanks to the valiant efforts of Shin, the most powerful of them all, an end to the game and freedom for everyone seemed within reach. But just moments after Shin defeats the game’s final boss, he finds himself bathed in an unknown light and transported some 500 years into the future of the in-game world. Thrown from a simple game gone wrong into a strange new land, one young swordsman of unrivalled strength is about to embark on a legendary journey!
One Peace Books has published 12 volumes of the series, with the most recent coming out in February.
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.
