Project Anima has released a new teaser video and visual for the anime Mahou Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi (The Story of the Girl Who Couldn’t Become a Wizard), and it confirmed that the anime will premiere in October 2024. The anime is based on the light novel by Akasaka Yuzuki, which won the Grand Prize in the Another World/Fantasy category of Project Anima’s 2018 contest.
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Matsune Masato (Chaos Dragon, Chronos Ruler, Reign of the Seven Spellblades) is directing the anime at J.C Staff studio, and Watanabe Takashi (Rave Master, Shakugan no Shana, Slayers) will be acting as the chief director.
Akasaka began the story in March 2018 on the Everystar website and ended the story in September 2019. The Mahou Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi novel won the Project Anime award in October 208. At the time, it was confirmed that the novel would be developed into an anime in 2021. The project will be the second anime developed thanks to the Project Anima contest.
The novel’s description on the Everystar website reads:
Kurumi Mirai is a freshman in high school. In the Letran Magic and Magecraft School, the one institution that trains the top-class “wizards” of the International Mage Alliance, she has already secured top marks since middle school. And yet, when she reached high school and took the selection exam to get into the “Magic Group” class that trains wizards, she did not get in.
In the next class, students were taking the test to become fully-fledged wizards, and among them was a student whom Kurumi admired.
How will Kurumi adapt and grow after not being selected despite her boundless intellect? And what are the goals of the top-class wizard Minami Suzuki, Kurumi’s new homeroom teacher?
