The Eminence in Shadow New Trailer, Visual, & Release Unveiled

AnimeJapan 2022 is heating things up for anime lovers! Today's event featured panels for several upcoming exciting series, including the anime adaptation for The Eminence in Shadow. The popular isekai series is set to make a fall debut in 2022. The staff also revealed a trailer and exciting visuals.

The original The Eminence in Shadow light novel is written by Daisuke Aizawa and illustrated by Tozai, with four volumes currently in Japanese. Fans looking to read the light novels can find it on Yen Press, which publishes the story in English. Three volumes of the novel series are currently available on the site.

The Eminence in Shadow Release, Trailer, Key Visual, and More

As per the announcement at their AnimeJapan 2022 panel, the anime adaptation for The Eminence in Shadow is set to release sometime in October 2022! Kazuya Nakanishi will be directing The Eminence in Shadow at anime studio Nexus, with Kanichi Kato providing the scripts. Makoto Iino will adapt the light novel character designs for animation.

Check out the newly released trailer for the series below:

Yen Press describes the first volume of the series as:

Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down. Well, as luck would have it, these imaginary adversaries turn out to be the real deal-and everyone knows the truth but him!

Check out a visual for The Eminence in Shadow below:

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