A trailer has been released for the upcoming Classroom of the Elite Season 3 anime. Theme song details were also announced.
The opening song is “Minor Piece” by ZAQ, while the ending song is “Konse Ootsuzumi” by Yui Ninomiya. The trailer previews the former.
Classroom of the Elite Season 3 will premiere on January 3. Crunchyroll is streaming the show. The anime is based on the MF Bunko J light novels written by Shougo Kinugasa and illustrated by Shunsaku Tomose, which Seven Seas Entertainment describes as:
Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?
Season 1 of the anime premiered in 2017, while Season 2 began in July 2022. Season 3, which was originally meant to premiere this year, will complete the adaptation of the light novels’ first-year arc. That arc began in 2015 and ended in 2019 after 11 main volumes and three short story anthologies.
The light novels have a sequel series titled Classroom of the Elite: Year 2, which began publication in 2020 and has 10 main volumes as of October 2023.
Staff (reprising their roles from the second season unless stated otherwise)
• Chief director: Seiji Kishi
• Chief director: Hiroyuki Hashimoto
• Director: Yoshihito Nishouji
• Series composer: Hayato Kazano
• Series composer: Kou Shigenobu (Classroom of the Elite II Episode 3, 5 et al. scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Kazuaki Morita
• Music composer: Masaru Yokoyama
• Music composer: Kana Hashiguchi (A3! Season Autumn & Winter co-composer)
• Animation production: Lerche
Cast
• Shouya Chiba as Kiyotaka Ayanokoji
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Kakeru Ryuen
• Akari Kitou as Suzune Horikita
• Yurika Kubo as Kikyo Kushida
• Ayana Taketatsu as Kei Karuizawa
• Yurika Kubo as Kikyo Kushida
• Ryouta Oosaka as Yosuke Hirata
• Rina Hidaka as Arisu Sakayanagi
• Nao Touyama as Honami Ichinose
Source: @youkosozitsu
