Entertainment
Entertainment company Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Nazuna Miki and Tsukasa Araki‘s Tensei Goblin dakedo Shitsumon Aru? (So What’s Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?) manga on Wednesday, revealing the main cast, staff, and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime series is scheduled to premiere in October 2026.
Cast
Akira Yagami: Kikunosuke Toya (Chainsaw Man)
Karen: Youko Hikasa (High School DxD)
Chloe: Azusa Tachibana (Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai)
Staff
Director: Ryouta Kawahara (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu episode director)
Series Composition, Script: Yuuichirou Momose (Maou 2099)
Character Design: Hiroyuki Saita (Cardfight!! Vanguard: overDress)
Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita (Seirei Gensouki)
Music: Takenoko Boy (Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi ending song arrangement, composition, and lyrics)
Music Production: INCS toenter
Studio: Bakkka
Miki (Botsuraku Yotei no Kizoku dakedo, Hima Datta kara Mahou wo Kiwametemita) and Araki began serializing the fantasy isekai manga in Tonari no Young Jump in February 2020. Shueisha shipped the 13th volume in August 2025, with the 14th volume scheduled to be released on March 18. The manga has a cumulative 850,000 copies of its volumes in circulation.
Yen Press licensed the manga in English in March 2022 and released the ninth volume in November 2025. The tenth volume scheduled to be released on May 26.
Synopsis
Office worker Akira Yagami’s altruistic nature usually gets him the short end of the stick. When he dies after saving a kid from oncoming traffic…he reincarnates in another world as a goblin?! Normally, goblins only live for seven days, but Akira’s newfound powers let him defy the species’ normal life span…and are the key to his path to becoming the strongest goblin ever! (Source: Yen Press)
Official site: https://tengobu-anime.com/
Official X: @tengobu_anime
Source: PR Times
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Margarett Damron