The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, January TV Premiere

Kadokawa unveiled a new teaser trailer and visual for the anime of storywriter Yatsuki Wakatsu and illustrator Kikka Ohashi‘s The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai) boys-love light novel series on Friday. The trailer reveals the anime’s cast, staff, and January television premiere.

isekaisyatiku_anime_tv01-1 — Image courtesy of Kadokawa

Kazuki Irodori, the artist for the novels’ manga adaptation, also drew the below illustration.

kazukiirodori_illust — Image courtesy of Kadokawa

The cast includes:

Kent Itō as Seiichirō Kondō

Tomoaki Maeno as Aresh Indrak

Seiichirō Yamashita as Norbert

Hiroki Tōchi as Kamil

Shinji Ishihara is directing the anime at Studio DEEN, with Yoshiko Nakamura in charge of series composition. The pair have worked together before in such BL anime as Sasaki and Miyano, Super Lovers, and Tadaima, Okaeri. Akira Yamada is the assistant director. Maki Fujii, who worked with Ishihara and Nakamura on Sasaki and Miyano as character designer, is once again the character designer for this anime. Megumi Ōhashi is composing the music, and Nippon Columbia is producing the music.

Yen Press is releasing both the light novel series and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

Seiichiro’s always pulled his own weight, all day every day, for almost thirty years. Even when he gets stuck in a fantasy world because of some strange Saint-Summoning Ritual, he keeps on keeping on. It isn’t until he meets the Aresh, the Captain of the Knights, that realizes he may possibly want more out of life than his job. Can Seiichiro melt the heart of the infamous Ice Nobleman—or is he destined to be married to his work…forever?!

Yatsuki launched the light novel series in February 2019. The third volume shipped in September 2021.

The manga launched on Kadokawa‘s ComicWalker (now KadoComi) website in March 2020. Kadokawa published the manga’s sixth volume in November 2024, and will publish the seventh volume on October 31.

The manga and novels have a combined 1.4 million in circulation.

Source: Press release

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