Hazure Skill anime confirms January 2025 premiere and more in teaser PV

Modified Oct 27, 2024 17:12 GMT

Hazure Skill anime confirms January 2025 premiere and more in teaser PV (Image via Asahi Production)

Friday, October 18, 2024, saw the official website for the upcoming Hazure Skill anime series reveal a new teaser video, the anime’s January 2025 release window, and more. No additional broadcast information beyond the general release window was revealed, but fans can expect additional availability details in the coming weeks and months.

The Hazure Skill anime also revealed its main cast and staff, as well as a new key visual featuring the series’ five starring characters. The roughly 80-second-long promotional video focused primarily on protagonist Light and also introduced the rest of the characters revealed earlier today.

Hazure Skill anime previews story, characters, and more in new teaser trailer

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The Hazure Skill anime will star Takuma Nagatsuka as protagonist Light, Lynn as Lena, Haruna Mikawa as Ayla, Hana Tamegai as Monica, and Akira Sekine as Dratena. Ryuichi Kimura is directing the series at Asahi Production, with Gigaemon Ichikawa overseeing the series scripts. Risa Miyadani and Yasuka Otaki are designing the characters, with Selin composing the anime’s music.

The trailer starts by introducing protagonist Light, seeing him seemingly gain power by eating a strange fruit. He’s then seen practicing swordsmanship and eating lunch with Ayla, followed by more shots of him in action. Other starring characters Lena, Monica, and Dratena are also given a focus in the trailer’s final scenes. The trailer then ends with the reveal of the aforementioned January 2025 release window.

The new key visual features all five in various poses and positions along a country road, with all of them also smiling. Ryuichi Kamura is directing the anime at Asahi Production studios. Gigaemon Ichikawa is overseeing the series scripts, with Risa Miyadani and Yasuka Otaki designing the characters. Selin is composing the music for the anime.

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The Hazure Skill anime will serve as the official television anime adaptation of author Hannyu’s original web novel series of the same name. The web novel began in May 2020 and is still ongoing. A manga adaptation illustrated by Air Matsukoto began in July 2021 and is also ongoing, as is a light novel adaptation illustrated by Yasutaka Isekawa which began in May 2022.

The fantasy story follows Light, who dreams of being known as the greatest adventurer. He and his friend Lena pursue this goal by eating skill fruits, which cause death if eaten more than once. Lena gains the Sword Saint skill and quickly rises to S-rank as an adventurer.

However, Light receives the Nut Master skill, which only proves helpful for farming nuts, which is how he makes a living. Tragedy strikes when Light absentmindedly consumes a second skill fruit one day. However, he doesn’t die and instead gains the same Sword Saint skill as Lena has, giving him a path to achieving his dreams.