A trailer for The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker TV anime has been released.
The show is scheduled to begin airing in July.
The World’s Strongest Rearguard is based on the light novels written by Towa and Illustrated by Huka Kazabana. Yen Press describes the light novel series’ synopsis as such:
Corporate slave Arihito Atobe’s death in a freak bus accident marks the beginning of his new life as a kind of adventurer called a Seeker. Reborn into a fantasy world, he settles into a previously unknown job class called “rearguard,” capable of providing his (all-female) party with critical attack, defense, and recovery support. And it comes with an added bonus: Simply being at the back of the party line increases his companions’ fondness for him! Freed from the shackles of corporate life, Arihito is eager to start fresh.
The World’s Strongest Rearguard was previously serialized as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel starting in 2017. The light novel series began the same year, published under the Kadokawa Books label, and has nine volumes as of September 2025. There is a manga by Rikizo.
Staff
• Director: Yuji Yanase (Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra, For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord)
• Series composer: Deko Akao (May I Ask for One Final Thing?)
• Main character designer: Eriko Yanagimoto
• Animation production: MAHO FILM.
Cast
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Arihito
• Aoi Koga as Theresia
• Sakura Nakamura as Kyoka
• Yui Ishikawa as Elitia
• Saori Hayami as Suzuna
Source: KING AMUSEMENT CREATIVE YouTube channel
