Staff for the Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei: Seisan-kei Majutsu de Na mo Nakimura o Saikyou no Jousai Toshi ni (Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City) TV anime have revealed the second promotional video, and confirmed that the anime will premiere in January 2026.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-HtoI-0p0]
Tatamitani Tetsuya is directing the anime at NAZ studios, and the anime will star Uchiyama Yumi as Van, M.A.O as Till, and Ise Mariya as Khamsin. The newly confirmed cast members are listed below:
- Hikasa Youko as Panamera
- Wakayama Shion as Arte
- Horiuchi Kenyuu as Esparda
- Kobayashi Chikahiro as Dee
The anime is based on Akaike Sou’s Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei: Seisan-kei Majutsu de Na mo Nakimura o Saikyou no Jousai Toshi ni (お気楽領主の楽しい領地防衛 ～生産系魔術で名もなき村を最強の城塞都市に～) light novel series.
Author Akaike started the story in May 2020 on the Shousetsu ni Narou website, and publisher Overlap released the first novel with illustrations by Kururi in September 2021. The series’s eighth novel was released in August 2025.
Aoiro Maro adapted the novel series into a manga in August 2021 on Overlap’s Comic Gardo website. Overlap published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in February 2022 and the seventh volume in April 2025.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes both the novel series and manga adaptation in English under the name Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City. It will release the sixth novel on January 6th, 2026 and the manga’s sixth volume on November 25th, 2025. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the novel’s story below:
“Van, fourth son of a marquis, is just a toddler when he realises he’s been reincarnated. Thanks to his literal lifetime of knowledge, he’s raised as a child prodigy—until his production magic manifests, and it’s the last thing his snooty mage family wants to see! His disappointed father banishes him to a podunk town on the verge of collapse, yet Van can only see the place’s potential. Can our hero’s bastion of battlements build a better life than battle magic ever could?!”
