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Grimoire of Zero Author Kakeru Kobashiri's The Dawn of the Witch Fantasy Light Novels Get TV Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Writer Mahōtsukai Reimeiki) light novel series is inspiring a television anime. Kobashiri did not reveal a premiere date for the anime.
The light novel series is set in the same fantasy world as Kobashiri's (Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahō no Sho light novel series, now at peace after having endured a conflict between the church and witches for 500 years. However, embers of war still burn in some regions of the world. The story centers on Savil, a hopeless student at the Kingdom of Wenias' College of Magic. Savil has somehow lost all memory of his time before attending the college. The school's heaster Albus sends him for special training to the southern part of the continent, where persecution against witches runs strong.
Kobashiri launched the novel with the first volume in August 2018. Kodansha will publish the third volume on May 6, and Kobashiri's Wednesday post on Twitter shows the wraparound jacket band that will promote the anime news on that volume's cover.
The novels are publishes the manga digitally, and it released the second volume on April 27.
Kobashiri's Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahō no Sho (Grimoire of Zero) light novels ran for 11 volumes from 2014 to 2017. The series inspired a manga adaptation by Takashi Iwasaki, a separate Anime Strike service streamed the series as it aired.
Source: Kakeru Kobashiri's Twitter via Ota-Suke
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