Joseph Luster
October 17, 2024 
More details are here for the Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! anime, including a release window, additional cast members, theme song info and a new visual. The series adapting Suzuki Makishima’s light novels is officially set to begin in January 2025, and you can see all the latest updates below.
The opening song will have Rico Sasaki—also a new member of the cast—performing “Palette Days,” with VTubers Kaede Higuchi and Kanae on ending song “Yummy Yummy.” The new cast, pictured below, includes:
Yumi Uchiyama as Wridra:
Rico Sasaki as Mewi:
Here’s the new visual:
Yusuke Kobayashi is in the lead alongside Kaede Hondo as Kazuhiro Kitase and Marie, respectively. The anime is being directed by Toro Kitahata (Haganai NEXT), with Aya Yoshinaga (Golden Kamuy) on scripts and Madoka Hirayama (Love Live! Sunshine!!) handling character designs and chief animation direction at production house Zero-G.
J-Novel Club publishes the novels and the manga adaptation and sums up the story like so:
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! Plot
Kazuhiro Kitase’s only hobby is sleeping. Ever since he was young, he would enter a wondrous world within his dreams and go on thrilling adventures. One day, he goes on an adventure with an elf girl he became friends with in his dream world, but it’s put to an abrupt halt when they both get scorched with a dragon’s breath! As he wakes up from his dream, he notices a familiar figure sleeping next to him…the elf girl from his dreams?! Join Kazuhiro on his new adventures through Japan with Ms. Elf!
Source: Anime News Network
