The official website for the From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! TV anime series has announced the addition of two new cast members joining the film’s main cast. The series is scheduled to premiere in Japan on January 9, 2025.
The new cast members include Yuna Kamakura as Garnet, a half-elf professor at the royal magic academy, and Hochu Otsuka as Headmaster, a powerful wizard who is in charge of the royal magic academy.
Tetsuya Takeuchi (Yuri Seijin Naoko-san, Lycoris Recoil Episode 4 storyboard artist and director) is directing the anime, with Haruka Matsunae (Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 3 co-character designer) as character designer and Shingo Irie (Afterlost) as series screenwriter. Ajia-do Animation Works is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast stars:
- • Kazuhiko Inoue as Kenzaburo Tondabayashi
- • M.A.O as Grace Auvergne
- • Akira Sekine as Anna Doll
- • Kaito Ishikawa as Virgile Verge
- • Yuichiro Umehara as Richard Verseau
- • Ryota Suzuki as Auguste Lion
- • Takuma Nagatsuka as Pierre Gemieaux
- • Seiichiro Yamashita as Lambert Balance
- • Aoi Koga as Lucas Verge
- • Akio Otsuka as Leopold Auvergne
- • Yu Sasahara as Josette
- • Yuki Kuwahara as Francette Mercure
- • Tomoyo Kurosawa as Hinako Tondabayashi
- • Takako Honda as Mitsuko Tondabayashi
HIDIVE has licensed the From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! anime for streaming, as part of its Winter 2025 simulcast schedule.
The anime series is based on the isekai comedy manga by Michiro Ueyama, which began serialization in Shonengahosha’s Monthly Youngking Ours GH on March 16, 2020 and has released seven tankobon volumes as of August 2024.
From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! follows Kenzaburo Tondabayashi, a 52-year-old civil servant, reincarnating as the otome game villainess Grace Auvergne in another world.
Source: From Bureaucrat to Villainess Official Anime Twitter, Official Anime Website
