The Unwanted Undead Adventurer anime already has a release date

The official website for the anime series adaptation of the novel The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Nozomanu Fushi no Bōkensha) by Yū Okano announced with this trailer that the premiere will take place on January 8, 2024. The opening theme is “Immortal” by YOUTH and the closing theme is performed by Mao Abe.

The animation was delivered to the studio CONNECT (Strike the Blood franchise, Armed Girl’s Machiavellism), directed by Noriaki Akitaya (Bakuman., Slow Loop), the story is of Yukie Sugawara (Overlord anime) and character design is the responsibility of Takao Sano (The Honor Student at Magic High School, Restaurant to Another World).

In the cast we have:

• Ryouta Suzuki as Rentt Faina.
• Mikako Komatsu as Lorraine Vivie.
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Sheila Ibarss.
• Sayumi Suzuhiro as Rina Rupaage.

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Nozomanu Fushi no Bōkensha) began serialization in Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2016. A manga adaptation by Haiji Nakasone began publication in November 2017.

Synopsis for The Unwanted Undead Adventurer

Rentt Faina, a 25-year-old adventurer, has been hunting monsters for a decade. However, without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting Slimes and Goblins for meager amounts of coins every day. Little does he know that all that is about to change when he comes across a seemingly unknown path in the Moon’s Reflection Labyrinth.

What awaits him at the end of the path, however, is neither treasure nor riches, but a legendary dragon that wastes no time in swallowing him whole! Waking up a short time later, Rentt finds himself not quite dead, but not quite alive either — He’s nothing more than a pile of bones! Armed only with his trusty sword, tool belt and a macabre new look, Rentt sets out on his quest as a newborn skeleton to achieve Existential Evolution, hoping to one day return to civilization in a more human form.