A clip from The Irregular at Magic High School: Yotsuba Succession Arc film, which started screening in Japan on May 8, has been released on YouTube. The footage sees Kotona and Kanata Tsutsumi, the Guardians of the Yotsuba Family successor candidate Katsushige Shibata, taking on overpowered protagonist Tatsuya Shiba and finding themselves outmatched.
The clash was heavily previewed in the movie’s second teaser trailer (describes as the main trailer for the English-subtitled version).
The Irregular at Magic High School: Yotsuba Succession Arc sees Miyuki Shiba getting summoned to a gathering that will decide the next Yotsuba Clan head. It is the second theatrical film in the The Irregular at Magic High School anime series, which began in 2014 with a Madhouse-produced TV anime and is based on the Dengeki Bunko light novel series written by Tsutomu Sato and illustrated by Kana Ishida.
Yen Press describes the first volume of the light novels as such:
The year is 2095. Magic has been tamed as another form of technology, and the practice of magic is now a rigorous discipline. Brother and sister Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba are just about to start their first year at the renowned First Magic High School of Japan. But the school’s ironclad rules mean that the brilliant Miyuki enters the prestigious Course 1, while her older brother, Tatsuya, is relegated to Course 2–and that’s just the beginning of their troubles!
After the first season, Eight Bit became the animation production studio for the mainline anime entries and produced The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie: The Girl Who Calls the Stars (2017), The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor’s Arc (2020), The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc (2021), and The Irregular at Magic High School Season 3. The anime adaptation of The Irregular at Magic High School, one of the franchise’s spin-off titles, was produced by Connect.
The original light novel series began in March 2011 and concluded with 32 volumes in September 2020. A sequel series began in October 2020. The Irregular at Magic High School was originally a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel that debuted in 2008.
Production credits
• Director: Jimmy Stone (The Irregular at Magic High School Season 3 and The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor’s Arc, The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc assistant director)
• Character designer: Kana Ishida (The Irregular at Magic High School series)
• Music composer: Taku Iwasaki (The Irregular at Magic High School series)
• Animation production: Eight Bit
Cast
• Yuichi Nakamura as Tatsuya Shiba
• Saori Hayami as Miyuki Shiba
• Chiwa Saito as Maya Yotsuba
• Emiri Kato as Fumiya Kuroba
• Daisuke Ono as Katsushige Shibata
• Ai Kayano as Yuka Tsukuba
Source: Aniplex Channel
