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If you're on the hunt for more English dubs this season, you won't want to miss the magic and mayhem of The Witch and the Beast when it takes flight on Crunchyroll from January 25! Check out the cast and crew for Episode 1 below! The Witch and the Beast English Dub Cast Ashaf voiced by Xan Cramer Guideau voiced by Rowan Gilvie Ione voiced by Lydia Mackay Marie voiced by Kelly Greenshield Narrator voiced by Kent Williams The Witch and the Beast English Dub Crew Voice Director: Jeremy Inman Producer: Samantha Herek Adaptation: James Cheek Mixer: Gino Palencia Engineer: Zachary Davis Related: The Witch and the Beast Anime Lets Loose in Creditless Opening Theme Video Key Visual Related: Crunchyroll Winter 2024 Dubs Include Solo Leveling, Classroom of the Elite Season 3 and More Based on the manga by Kosuke Satake, Takayuki Hamana ( Sorcerous Stabber Orphen ) directs The Witch and the Beast at studio Yokohama Animation Lab,...

Progressive rock band sokoninaru make their anime debut with opening theme song "Soumonka" in this season's The Witch and the Beast anime, for which the sequence's creditless version is now available to watch below. Related: Delicious in Dungeon Anime Parties Hard in Creditless Ending Theme Video Based on the manga by Kosuke Satake, Takayuki Hamana ( Sorcerous Stabber Orphen ) directs The Witch and the Beast at studio Yokohama Animation Lab, with series composition by Yuichiro Momose and character designs by Hiroya Iijima ( Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit ). Crunchyroll is simulcasting the anime and describes the story: Guideau is a young woman who was cursed by a witch, forced to carry a dark secret. Ashaf is a tall, soft-spoken man with a coffin strapped to his back and secrets yet untold. Together they venture across the land on their quest for vengeance. Appearances can be deceiving, and each step could be their last.

Japanese e-book store Book☆Walker Global unveiled its annual eBook download ranking on Dec 12, 2023, and the year 2023 saw a dominance in the isekai genre. The ranking is based on eBook downloads from Nov 1, 2022, to Oct 31, 2023, on the global store.

Topping the charts at number one is the light novel series Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. The series experienced a surge in popularity following the release of its second season in Summer 2023. Notably, the Nanashi’s rom-com manga Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro stands out as the only manga series in the overall top ten.

Top 10 Best Selling titles on the platform (including both manga and light novel) are as follows:

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel) So I’m a Spider, So What? (Light Novel) Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel) That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Light Novel) Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro (Manga) Trapped...

Book☆Walker Global has announced its annual eBook download ranking, and isekai continues to reign supreme! First place goes to the light novel series Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, which grew more in popularity with the release of its second anime season in Summer 2023. So I’m a Spider, So What? at No. 2 and Ascendance of a Bookworm at No. 3 are following closely behind and are also light novel series that benefited from their successful anime adaptations. Standing out amidst […]

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New York, NY (11/21/21)—For the first time since the news of the Yen Audio imprint was shared with the world, Yen Press, LLC announced new audiobook series at the Yen Audio Panel at Anime NYC. Three fan-favorite Yen On series will have full audiobook adaptations in 2022—Spice & Wolf (March 2022), So I’m a Spider, So What? (April 2022), and Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (June 2022). Voice actors for the three upcoming audiobook series will be announced at a later date.

Spice and Wolf

Story by Isuna Hasekura

The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine—that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form...