The Magic Knight Rayearth World Premiere panel at Anime Expo 2026 revealed additional cast, staff, second key visual (pictured), and a promotional video for the new anime on Saturday. The anime adapting CLAMP's mahou shoujo manga is scheduled to premiere on October 7 at 11.45 p.m. on TV Asahi's "IMAnimation W" programming block.

Cast
Clef: Yuuki Kaji (Boku no Hero Academia)
Presea: Emiri Katou (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica)
Ferio: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Sword Art Online)

Staff
Assistant Director: Takayuki Sano (Bullet/Bullet episode director)
Chief Animation Director: Satomi Watanabe (Aikatsu!)
Mashin Design, Mechanical Director: Hiroki Mutaguchi (SSSS.Dynazenon mechanical animation director)
Art Director: Kazumaru Andou (Kusanagi) (Gleipnir background art)
Color Design: Chiho Nakamura (Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsu suru)
3D Supervisor: Tomohiko Suga (Undead Girl Murder Farce CG director)
Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura (Kiznaiver)
Editing: Keisuke Yanagi (ACE) (Ranma ½ (2024))
Sound Director: Shuuhei Abe (Isekai Nonbiri Nouka)
Music Production: TMS Music
Creative Producer: Seong-Hu Park (Jujutsu Kaisen director)
Production: TMS Entertainment, Kodansha, TV Asahi

Yui Umemoto (Ninja Kamui) is directing at E&H Production. Shigeru Murakoshi (Apocalypse Hotel) is handling the series composition and Satomi Watanabe (Aikatsu!) is desiigning the characters. Yuki Kajiura (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica), Takumi Ozawa (Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden), and Shiho Terada (Inazuma Eleven Go) are composing the music.

CLAMP serialized the manga in Nakayoshi magazine from November 1993 to February 1995. A sequel manga began in the same month and ended in March 1996.

Tokyopop licensed both manga in 1997, followed by Dark Horse Comics in 2009, and then Kodansha USA in 2019 with two hard-cover box sets containing three volumes each.

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Source: Comic Natalie