The official website of the Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei: Seisankei Majutsu de Na mo Naki Mura wo Saikyou no Jousai Toshi ni (Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City) television anime revealed the main staff, additional cast, opening theme, and a second promotional video on Sunday The anime series adapting Mitsuru Inoue's isekai fantasy light novel will air in January 2026.

Cast
Khamsin: Mariya Ise (Kakegurui)
Panamera Karla Kaien: Youko Hikasa (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku)
Esparda: Kenyuu Horiuchi (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu)
Dee: Chikahiro Kobayashi (Jigokuraku)

Staff
Director: Tetsuya Tatamitani (Thermae Romae Novae)
Series Composition: Yutaka Yasunaga (Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita script)
Music: Kana Utatane (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi)
Music Production: flying DOG
Studio: NAZ

Rei Nakashima (Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?) is performing the opening theme "Okirakuzation," previewed in the promotional video below.

Inoue began penning the fantasy novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in May 2020. Overlap began publishing the series under its Overlap Novels label in September 2021, featuring illustrations by Kururi. The eighth volume shipped on August 25.

Maro Aoiro began drawing a manga adaptation on the Comic Gardo website in August 2021. Overlap published the seventh volume in April 2025.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the light novel and manga adaptation in English in March 2023. The sixth light novel volume is scheduled to be released on January 6, 2026, and the sixth manga volume will go on sale on November 25.

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Source: PR Times