The staff behind The Irregular at Magic High School ("Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei" or just "Mahōka" in Japanese) have announced a sequel anime series coming in 2024. The news was first revealed at the Dengeki Bunko 30th Anniversary event which took place in Japan over the weekend. The upcoming series was revealed with a brand-new trailer and key visual.
This upcoming sequel in The Irregular at Magic High School anime series is its third season overall and will be arriving about three years after the end of the second, which aired in Fall of 2020.
The Irregular at Magic High School is set in the late 21st century, a time in which huge technological advancements have enabled science to bring fabled concepts like magic and sorcery into reality through science. Magic is now taught as a technical skill, and at the prestigious First High School, the student body is separated into "Blooms" and "Weeds"; those who achieved high scores on their entrance exams, and those who did not.
The Blooms are allowed into the First Course, while the Weeds are reserved for the Second Course. In this configuration, the Weeds are treated as second-class citizens by their fellow students. Siblings Miyuki and Tatsuya Shiba find themselves separated by these delineations upon arrival as Tatsuya doesn't do too well on his entrance exam, condemning him to "Weed" status. Despite his low test scores and inability to use magic, Tatsuya possesses an incredible technical understanding of its uses, not to mention his abilities in combat that make him "the irregular at magic high school".
The Irregular at Magic High School anime is based on the manga based on the novel written by Tsutomu Satou. The series was originally published on the self-publishing site, Narou from October 2008 to March 2011 before being taken up by ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint from July 2011, running for 32 volumes until its end in September 2020. This print of the light novel featured illustrations by Kana Ishida. The Irregular at Magic High School manga based on the light novel was serialized in the Dengeki Daioh magazine from April 2012 to June 2020 and featured illustrations by Yu Mori.
The first season of The Irregular at Magic High School anime was produced by staff at Madhouse and aired from April to September 2014, running for 24 episodes. The second season, titled The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc arrived six years later, airing for 13 episodes from October to December 2020, with some aesthetic changes due to a change in studio from Madhouse (Death Note) to 8bit (That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime), which has been behind the production of the series' installments since, including a film set after the siblings' first year at First High released in 2017; an anime adaptation of the spin-off series centered on Miyuki released in Summer 2021 and the prequel OVA released in December 2021.
The director of the upcoming The Irregular at Magic High School is returning staff member Jimmy Stone, who has worked on previous installments in the series in various roles including animation director. Taku Iwasaki returns to compose the music, while the previous cast members are also expected to return.
The Irregular at Magic High School is available for streaming on Crunchyroll.
Source: Crunchyroll