Funimation Streams She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man Anime's English Dub Simultaneously with Subtitled Version

Funimation announced on Tuesday that it has begun streaming an English dub for the television anime of Hirotsugu Ryusen's She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (Kenja no Deshi o Nanoru Kenja) light novel series. English-dubbed episodes will premiere on the service at the same time that the English-subtitled versions launch.

The English cast includes:

• Felecia Angelle as Mira
• Mick Wingert as Danblf
• Kristen McGuire as Amalette
• Jacob Browning as Cleos
• Brianna Roberts as Lythalia
• Xanthe Huynh as Marianna
• Stephanie Young as Narrator
• Brandon McInnis as Solomon

Tia Ballard is directing the English dub, and Matt Shipman is writing the script. Travis George is the engineer, and Gino Palencia is the mixer.

The anime premiered on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS NTV on January 11. Funimation is exclusively streaming the series and already streamed an early preview of the first episode on Friday.

Seven Seas licensed both the light novel and the manga, and it describes the story:

Sakamori Kagami was one of the top players in the VRMMO Ark Earth Online as Danblf, a veteran summoner with the gravitas to match his elite status. When he falls asleep playing one day, he's transported to a world where the game is reality—but instead of his all-powerful avatar, he's stuck in the body of a cute young girl! He can't let anyone know that this little cutie is really Danblf, so he takes the name “Mira” and claims to be Danblf's disciple. If this gets out, he'll never live it down!

Keitaro Motonaga (Jormungand both seasons, Date A Live first three seasons) is directing the anime at Studio A-Cat. Takamitsu Kouno (Utawarerumono: The False Faces, Absolute Duo) is overseeing the series scripts, Kumi Horii (LBX Girls, Infinite Stratos 2) is designing the characters, Go Sakabe (Date A Live franchise, Digimon Adventure tri. film series) is composing the music, and Yasunori Ebina is the sound director.

Scott MacDonald is the art director, while Tsukasa Ohira is credited for art setting. Miyu Yamamoto is the color key artist. Tsubasa Yokoyama is the compositing director of photography, while Yoshiaki Kimura is editing. Yuichi Goto is the 3D director.

Asaka performs the anime's opening theme song "Ready Set Go!!" Erabareshi performs the anime's ending theme song "Ambitious."

Ryusen began serializing the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website in April 2012, where it is still ongoing. Micro Magazine is publishing the story in print with illustrations by Fuzichoco (The 8th son? Are you kidding me?, R.O.D Rehabilitation art), beginning with the first print volume in June 2014.

Dicca Suemitsu launched a manga adaptation of the novels on Micro Magazine's Comic Ride manga website in July 2016.

Seven Seas published the first novel volume in print on August 12, and the first manga volume in print on July 20.

Source: Funimation (Liam Dempsey)