The upcoming Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart TV anime series premieres on October 5th. It was announced alongside the updated second trailer with the dates. The series was first announced in 2023.
Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart is the upcoming second season of the 2016 Magical Girl Raising Project anime series. The series will be based on the Restart volumes of the original light novel series written by Asari Endo and illustrated by Maruino.
The light novel series started publishing in 2012 under the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko imprint and currently has a toal of 18 volumes as of August 2026. It also inspired a manga adaptation by Pochi Endoya.
Yen Press has licened and is publishing the series in English. The synopsis of the Restart volumes were describe as:
The hit social network game “The Magical Girl Raising Project” selects one out of every tens of thousands of players to become a real life magical girl. The lucky chosen girls gain magic powers as well as incredibly good fortune, and spend their days blissfully. But one day, an absolute announcement declares that the number of magical girls has risen too high and must be cut down to half. Sixteen young maidens are thrust into a merciless, deadly contest to survive…but how many will come out the other side?
Staff:
- • Director: Hiroyuki Hashimoto (reprising)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Takawo Yoshioka (reprising)
• Character designer: Masako Ito (Season 1 SD character designer)
• Animation production: SynergySP (replacing Lerche)
Cast:
- • Yoshino Nanjo as Pfle
• Reina Kondo as Shadow Gale
• Fairouz Ai as Masked Wonder
• Honoka Inoue as Pechka
• Jenya as Nonako Miyokata
• M.A.O as Rionetta
• Mariya Ise as Clantail
• Maaya Uchida as Magical Daisy
• Hime Sawada as Nokko-chan
• Akari Kito as @Meow-Meow
• Sayumi Suzushiro as Genopsyko Yumenoshima
• Ami Koshimizu as Akane
• Shiori Mikami as Melville
• Maria Naganawa as Cherna Mouse
• Miyu Tomita as Detec Bell
• Aoi Yuki as Lapis Lazuline
• Megumi Han as Keek
• Nao Toyama as Snow White
Source: official website, official X/Twitter
