Am I Actually the Strongest? Anime Reveals Main Cast, Staff, July Debut

The official website for the television anime of Tenichi and Suzunosuke's The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (Higeki no Genkyō to naru Saikyō Gedō Last Boss Joō wa Min no tame ni Tsukushimasu.) light novel series unveiled more cast and staff members, a new key visual, and the first promotional video on Wednesday.

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The newly announced cast members are:

Junya Enoki as Arthur

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Kikuko Inoue as Freesia's Queen Rosa

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Toshiyuki Morikawa as Freesia's Prince Albert, Pride's father

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Koji Yusa as Gilbert

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Previously announced cast members include:

• Ai Fairouz as Pride
• Maaya Uchida as Steyr
• Haruka Tomatsu as Tiara

The newly announced staff members are:

• Art Director: Teruhiko Niita
• Color Key Artist: Nao Sato
• Compositing Director of Photography: Miyabi Amada
• Editing: Yoshiki Ushiroda
• Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
• Music Production: Nichion
• Music Production Collaboration: Myrica Music/Nichion
• Animation Producer: Daisuke Yoshioka

Norio Nitta (Kami-sama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama) is directing the anime at OLM Team Yoshioka. Deko Akao (Pokémon: Journeys, Noragami) is in charge of series composition. Hitomi Kōno is designing the characters. Hanae Nakamura, Tatsuhiko Saiki, Kanade Sakuma, and Junko Nakajima are composing the music.

The anime will premiere in July on TOKYO MX, MBS, and BS11 channels. HIDIVE will stream the anime.

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing both the original light novels and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

Pride Royal Ivy is only eight years old when she realizes that she's been reincarnated, destined to become the future wicked queen and final boss of an otome game. She's got it all in this new life: razor-sharp wit, boss-tier powers, and influence over the kingdom as crown princess. Determined to sow despair and destruction across the land, she... Wait, what kind of a rotten future is that?! Princess Pride decides to drop the maniacal villainess plan and protect the male love interests instead, cheating her way to saving everyone she can! Will this final boss end up earning the adoration of her kingdom?

Tenichi began serializing the original story in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in April 2018, where it is still ongoing. Ichijinsha began publishing the story in print editions with illustrations by Suzunosuke, beginning with the first volume in June 2019. The publisher released the sixth volume in November 2022. Seven Seas will publish the fourth and fifth volumes on August 22 and December 5, respectively.

Matsuura launched the manga adaptation of the novels in the Zero-Sum Online website in March 2020. The manga was canceled due to Matsuura's poor health. Ichijinsha plans to continue the manga with a new serialization in some form, but has no concrete plans yet. Ichijinsha published the manga's third volume in January 2022. Seven Seas published the third volume on February 14.

Sources: The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior anime's website, Comic Natalie