Staff, Cast of 'Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku: Restart' Announced

by DatRandomDude
Dec 13, 2024 10:42 PM | 29 Comments

The main staff and cast of Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku: Restart (Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart), sequel to Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku (Magical Girl Raising Project), were announced at a fan event for the anime on Friday.

Hiroyuki Hashimoto, director of the first television anime, is returning to helm the new anime. Takao Yoshioka (Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet) is also returning to handle the series composition.

Masako Itou (Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi) is replacing Yukiko Aikyou as the character designer. Satoki Iida (Sengoku Youko: Yonaoshi Kyoudai-hen) is credited as the sound director.

Cast
Pfle: Yoshino Nanjou (Senki Zesshou Symphogear)
Shadow Gale: Reina Kondou (Dorohedoro)
Masked Wonder: Fairouz Ai (Kaijuu 8-gou)
Pechka: Honoka Inoue (RPG Fudousan)
Miyokata-no-Nako: Jenya Davidyuk (Akiba Meido Sensou)
Rionetta: Mao Ichimichi (M.A.O) (Enen no Shouboutai)
Clantail: Mariya Ise (Fairy Tail)
Magical Daisy: Maaya Uchida (Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta...)
Nokko-chan: Hime Sawada (Shiro Seijo to Kuro Bokushi)
@Nyan-chan: Akari Kitou (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Yumenoshima Genopsyko: Sayumi Suzushiro (Isekai Shikkaku)
Akane: Ami Koshimizu (Ookami to Koushinryou)
Melville: Shiori Mikami (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Cherna Mouse: Maria Naganawa (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon)
Detec Bell: Miyu Tomita (Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo)
Lapis Lazuline: Aoi Yuuki (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica)
Keek: Megumi Han ("Oshi no Ko")
Snow White: Nao Touyama (Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku)

The first anime series produced by Lerche aired in 12 episodes in Fall 2016. Funimation simulcast the anime with English subtitles and dub.

Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku: Restart adapts second and third volumes of Asari Endou's action fantasy light novel, which they launched under Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko imprint in June 2012, featuring illustrations by Maruino. The 18th volume went on sale in November 2023.

Pochi Edoya serialized the first manga adaptation in two volumes Monthly Comp Ace from September 2014 to October 2015.

Senbei Nori began a manga adaptation of the second and third novel volumes covering the Restart arc in April 2016. Kadokawa published the first volume in September that year.

Yen Press licensed the light novel in English in June 2017 and released the 18th volume on August 20.

Source: Moca News

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@uncleqrow Nice catch! Fixed it! ^u^;

Since

But since the post's thankfully been fixed now, I can definitely put a spoiler tag in! The last thing I'd want is to spoil this incredible series! I was lucky enough to go into basically every arc without spoilers, and I hope everyone here gets to experience that same joy!

Dec 16, 2024 1:49 AM by Kasen-Ibara

@RobertBobert not after this arc, well the synopsis already says it so I guess you could say the subplot didn't change much from the previous arc, but from arc 3 and so on, not anymore

Dec 15, 2024 9:20 PM by Haunt88

@RobertBobert Not necessarily. Just view them as completely different stories altogether, set in the same universe, chronologically ordered one after another, with occasional cameos from prev arcs. Disclosing anymore may count as spoilers. I rly don't want to spoil it, since the genre shifts is one of the series main attraction in the first place, we never rly know what would happen next...

Dec 15, 2024 8:37 PM by uncleqrow

@Kogasa-Tatara korraaa~!!!!! use spoiler tag pls!!!! Not everyone here are LN readers.... wwwwwww

Dec 15, 2024 8:33 PM by uncleqrow

@Haunt88 But every arc still contains a death game?

Dec 15, 2024 8:29 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert raildex is a good parallel but it's still different, raildex is always someone needs saving every arc, there's no subplot that changes each arc

index arcs goes like someone running from someone, Touma goes in to save the day, rinse and repeat
railgun arcs goes like this, insert experiment, Misaka comes in to stop it, rinse and repeat

Mahoiku arcs retains the survival plot each time but the subplot is different each time

arc 1 survival + battle royale
arc 2 survival + different subplot
arc 3 survival + different subplot

11 arcs and counting and each subplot are different each time (except for the most recent three in the main LN coz it's a trilogy arc)

Dec 15, 2024 6:20 PM by Haunt88

@DatRandomDude I'm the one who requested the edit, lol. Been editing a lotta the MGRP character entries recently as I've been reading the novels, but this was definitely the first time I had to submit a VA edit. XD
I'm glad MAL's user-interface is so user-friendly! Definitely made it a lot easier for me! ^U^

Dec 15, 2024 9:21 AM by Kasen-Ibara

@Ionliosite2 my bad, was just following where db put aoi yuuki in back when I was writing it. (and I see that eventually they changed it later without my knowledge)

fixed it

Dec 15, 2024 8:34 AM by DatRandomDude

@Kogasa-Tatara To be honest, this sounds more like some kind of mahou shoujo version of Fate or Raildex than JoJo. In the sense that you essentially have one big universe where a whole bunch of different stories happen.

Dec 15, 2024 5:16 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert I'd say that's a fair assessment! A lot of the characters are defined by the own relationships with magical-girl media and how they engage with it. There were Snow White and La Pucelle in the first arc, who were both fans of magical girl anime, for example. And later arcs have characters like Magical Daisy, Weddin, Dark Cutie, Glassianne, Sally Raven and Dreamy Chelsea whose defining traits revolve around their opinions on and relationship to the mahou shoujo genre!

The most "classical"-feeling arc would probably be Black, IMO, since it's almost a school slice-of-life story, and its cast only transform into magical girls when they need to.

Dec 15, 2024 5:07 AM by Kasen-Ibara

@RobertBobert it's again both, it's meta and classical at the same time

Dec 14, 2024 11:51 PM by Haunt88

@Kogasa-Tatara So you would call this show very mahou shoujo meta, but not a mahou shoujo show in the classical sense?

Dec 14, 2024 10:41 PM by RobertBobert

DatRandomDude said:
The First Lapis Lazuline: Aoi Yuuki (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica)

The one casted there isn't the first Lapis Lazuline, but the second one, and saying she isn't the only Lapis Lazuline is actually a spoiler.

Dec 14, 2024 6:54 PM by Ionliosite2

@RobertBobert
Yeah, the first arc (the one that season 1 covers in its entirety, commonly nicknamed "Unmarked" by the MGRP fandom) is the only proper battle-royale story in the series. Restart has elements of a high-stakes game, but it's less "every girl for herself" and more "Sword Art Online meets Among Us", lol. The rest of the arcs barely even touch on any death-game elements.

As for any resemblance to more classic dark mahou shoujo narratives... Well, Yuki Yuna (whose original LN released after MGRP's) borrows a lot of MGRP's elements, I'd say, so they're kinda similar in a sense.

In terms of something like Madoka Magica (which seems to be what most think of when they hear "dark mahou shoujo"), I wouldn't say MGRP ever quite veers into the cosmic-horror aspects or being betrayed by destiny, but the closest arc to Madoka, tonally speaking, would probably be Limited, IMO.

I will say, MGRP doesn't really aim to be a magical girl story, in the traditional sense, more so than it aims to be a supernatural action/survival series where the protagonists happen to (mostly) be magical girls. But, then, I suppose most dark mahou shoujo series are famous for breaking the mold of traditional magical-girl series, so maybe that's to be expected, lol.

There is this one delightfully meta exchange of dialogue from volume 5, where two characters are discussing mahou shoujo anime:
"But there are works that have ‘magical girl’ in the title, right?" - Kuru-Kuru Hime
"That’s just having magical girls as a motif. That doesn’t make it a magical-girl story." - Weddin

Dec 14, 2024 3:35 PM by Kasen-Ibara

@Kogasa-Tatara Is only the first arc is the same battle royale? The rest is more classic dark mahou shoujo?

Dec 14, 2024 3:13 PM by RobertBobert

I be honest its been so long since the announcement that I completely forgor this was even announced

They announced the cast, still no news of when its airing. Surely it has to be 2025?

"S1" also had a massive cast I recall, although this time uhh

I mean either way the cast is massive. I didnt even realize there was so many
Surprisingly almost all the names are big names too

As for the content itself I have no idea
Maaybe whenever they tell us the air date

Dec 14, 2024 3:05 PM by CocoaGalaxy

@RobertBobert
Raising Project is kinda like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in the sense that its arcs directly follow each-other but have mostly-new casts of characters each time, and each arc tackles widely differing themes and genres. The first arc, for example, is a battle-royale, the second is an isekai whodunnit, the third is a crime-thriller, the fourth is a sci-fi (and what the Doctor Who fandom would call a "base-under-siege"), etc.
Aside from some returning characters, the magical-girl theme is basically the main thing unifying the arcs, IMO. :)

Dec 14, 2024 1:09 PM by Kasen-Ibara

"@Nyan-chan"
Methinks Moca News hasn't read Restart...

On a less sarcastic note, I'm not surprised Yoshioka's back as the screenwriter. Considering Endou went on to name a pretty significant character after them in QUEENS, an' all... XD

Anyhow, I'm 17 volumes into the series and I've got the 18th ordered, and Restart is still my favorite arc. Super excited to see second-to-best girl Pfle kicking ass on the small screen!
(Tama's still my fave, though. Sorry, not sorry)

Dec 14, 2024 12:57 PM by Kasen-Ibara

@Tropisch It's Pechika for me!!!!! Tho I'm also interested abt Blue Comet's ability being adapted...

Tho I also expect animating Clantail would be a pain in the a$$ for the chara designer and animation/tweener teams. wwwww

Dec 14, 2024 9:46 AM by uncleqrow

RobertBobert said:
@uncleqrow What did you mean by different story styles? Experimentation with genres or just different narratives and storytelling styles?

Haunt88 said:
@RobertBobert basically, it's both

Well, the style of story telling never change tho... Each chapters are divided into several sections, each told from different chara POVs, alternating with each others (including the villains' POVs).
There's also the thing where each arcs, doesn't rly have any "one" MC , with each charas share almost the same amt of exposure and importance to the story (yes, in the original LN, Snow White is not the "one" MC of the 1st arc. In fact, I think La Pucelle and Top Speed has even more screen time in the LN than her).
As well as, that each POVs are told in 3rd person POV, so that the reader/audience will only ever know the details on what the story is willing to share at any given moment. Such that we never actually know even who's any of the villains/traitors, nor who's ploting what against whom, nor who's hiding what secrets, until much later in the stories. And since there's no actual "one" MC in the stories, literally anyone can become anything, and anything can happen to anyone. No plot armor whatsoever....
These formula of storytelling apply to every arcs....

But as @Haunt88 confirmed, the genres DID change throughout the different arcs. But you'll have to wait for the anime on this, otherwise it may become spoiler...

Dec 14, 2024 9:34 AM by uncleqrow

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