A website opened on Thursday to reveal the TV anime adaptation of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman light novel series by author Shigeru Sagazaki, which will air in April 2025. The website also revealed the main staff, teaser visual, and promotional video.
Promotional Video
The light novels' illustrator Tetsuhiro Nabeshima and the manga adaptation's artist Kazuki Satō also drew illustrations to celebrate the announcement:
Illustration by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima
Illustration by Kazuki Satō
Staff
- Studio: Passione
- Director: Akio Kazumi
- Series Scripts: Kunihiko Okada
- Characters Design & Chief Animation: Satsuki Hayasaka
- Music Composer: Yasuharu Takanashi
The anime will air in April 2025 on the IMAnimation programming block of 24 TV Asahi affiliate channels, and on BS Asahi.
Sagazaki launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2020. Square Enix published the novels' first volume with illustration by Nabeshima in April 2021, and the eighth volume will release on August 6.
J-Novel Club licensed the novels and describes the story:
Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days are long behind him. Out of the blue, he receives a visit from a famous former pupil who brings him world-shattering news—he's been appointed as special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order! With his life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of his former students: elite knights, an ace wizard, and even an adventurer who's attained thehighest guild rank possible. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he's concerned, they clearly don't need him anymore.
Can Beryl live up to his new position? And will he ever get a moment's peace away from his adoring students?!
Satō launched the novels' manga adaptation in Akita Shoten's Dokodemo Young Champion magazine in August 2021. Akita Shoten published the manga's first compiled book volume in February 2022, and the sixth volume will also release on August 6. Yen Press licensed the manga and will release the first volume in September.
The original novels and manga have a cumulative total of 5.5 million copies in circulation.
Sources:
ANN From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman anime's website, Comic Natalie
